Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-05-09
NEW YORK LETTER
The Panama to he Revived for Ladies'
wear--Hetty Objects to Decora-
lions ON Chemical Dank.

weHT--bety OUJeVtS DSsOA"
tions on Chemical Bank.
New York May 7.-Folowing the FASH
| ion in Washington, New York women are
showing q strong inclination to revive the
craze for Panama hats, and the Fifth
avenue millners are sending orders for
big supplies of the fine weave. Mrs.
Roosevelt was responsible for the first
move. When she returned from the
isthmus last summer. she brought a gem
| uine Panama, and her first appearance
in it was signal to the do-likewise clan.
| Hers Is trimmed with sash of yellow
and brown silk, with fringed edges and
c..G ajRrette OF grass ends Mrs. Long
worth Is wearing one that carries a band
| of plaid ribbon and a quill, while Miss
. Ethel Roosevelt may be seen almost any
day riding in n Panama quilted like her
sisters and held in place with a long
winding veil. For morning wear the
hats are simple and comfortable.
Hetty Green was so opposed to the ex-
travagance that marks the new decora-
zion Of the Chemical National bank, on
| its reopening from partial rebuilding and
| refltting, that she absented herself from
the opening and no longer has n separate
| desk to herself The officers secretly. and
| many of the customers openly rejoice at
this state of affairs, as fIetty Gren Is not
! liked. and is held in contempt by the
| great mass of her fellow citizens, for her
| RIGHTEOUSNESS. her misery ways, and her
consumate meaness. The Chemical Ma
! tional bank is bank with a peculiar his
tory. as It has carried a surplus OF seven
millions. while having a capital of only
100000 The surplus was piled up at the
start by the decision to declare no dvi-
dends for several years letting the prof IS
pile up into hugh surplus, so that tho
stock is worth over $4,000 Miss Hetty
Green grew to be a fixture. because sh
had some considerable money invested IN
the bank. and was generally considered a
great nuisance, and the coupling of her
name with that of the bank serious re-
| Election on the institution. The new
building Is one of the finest banking in
stitutions in the country. Besides splea-
did mural paintings, and interesting fea-
lures is the vault, whch is unlike any
other in the city. 1t is built on a small
gore of land. % feet square. extendinl
south from the banking room. On this 4
masonry structure has been built up y
the level of the first window of the bank
ing room. Here the Cotton safe stands
suspended in mid-air. 1t is two storie:
it allows room for the Waterman topas
underneath. There is an equal space be
tween it and the ceiling. A similar spa
has been left at the sides. At each cor
ner large mirror Is arranged whicl
gives the Waterman passing in front
clear view of the entire space by whiSl
the safe is surrounded.
Engels chop house, at 35th street am
Sixth avenue. famous resort of oil
New York and a landmark is soon t
pass away. Plans have been filed for
six-story office building to be erected b.
Adam Engel, as owner. for the Green
wich bank of Hudson street. as lessee, NJ
the site of the old restaurant Engel'
chop house in years past was the con
gregating place of men Of note from a
parts of tho country. Its passing will b
regretted by hundreds of persons VIII
have dined and wined within its walls.
Old forty-niners would have suppose
themselves transported to the rich sol
fields of California had they happene
on the East Side of New York city las
week A Polish laborer passed throug
the streets carrying hat full of grave
and shount: Gold. gold. it's a gol
mine" Work stopped instantly. Labor
ers poured out of the pit. pockets bulg
Overlooking. Tom White and Daniel Hus
scy who boss the Job of excavating 10
| the National Biscuit companys ne'
building, tried to check the rush Ne
pne Of you take out another spoonful
that stuff shouted White, get bac
there with the shovels and go to work
but the command was unheeded. and IL
excited men, casting picks and shove
aside. gathered handful after handful
gravel in which they saw CLINT Of shinir
Particles, and came to the street surfac
Work was abandoned for the day, VIII
and Hussey took four or five pounds
the stuff to the United States assay Off
In Wall street, where, they We're pror
lsed report in three days. Meanwhi
the gold fever on the lower East ST.
spread. and there was a rush of prospe
tors with buckets, tin pals and wa
boilers all fighting for gravel. The di
covery was made by Pavel Parufsk
whose spade turned up a shining mas
He examined it. The glitter fascinat
him. He took up a handful and held
where the sun shone. He saw hundre
of minerals. The rays of the sun ga
them yelowish tinge. He took
another handful. and it looked to be rio
err in metal than the first. Parufsky /
gan to fill his pockets. The discove
was too much for him, and he began
cry, Gold, Cold" in two minutes
other diggers were into the aurifero
rock with their picks, breaking down I
rock formation and slowing away
much of the gravel as their over
pouches and trousers pocket would no
Forty-two feet below the surface is
stratum of soft rock and gravel, in viii
there is an abundance of iron pyrites a