The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-12
the HAPPENINGS IN new YORK CITY
Miss Lazarus Sends Her Usual Newsy Budget of the
Affairs of the Metropolis.

Special Correspondence TO the Herald.
The clerk of the weather bureau
certainly played a shabby April fool
Joke upon New Workers. After deal
ing out sunshine and balmy air for
enough consecutive days to induce
people to don spring clothing, he yes
terday sent them, shiveringly back TO
their furs and other winter parapher
naiia. for when they awOke they
found snow descending, and later had
to face winds as raw as those OF NO
vember. This meteorological condition
is likely to prevail for several days.
II produces the paradox of Easter
plumes and flowers nodding over coats
of sable and mink.
All the churches were crowded sun
day. and there was the usual jam OF
strollers on Fifth avenue after the
morning service. The Easter offer
ing at Dr. Parkhursts church was the
largest in the city. amounting to
$50, 900.
The patients of Bellevue Hospital,
enjoyed a novel treat on Easter Mon
day. which has had such good effects
upon them that soRe one suggests
that it be a frequent substitute Tor
medicine. In the operating room a
vaudeville performance was given,
which was Witnessed by 500 people.
Many of them walked unaided from
their various wards but the majority
Of them were carried thither on cots
or rolled there in chairs. The enter
J eminent was under the direction OF
the Rev. H. c. Dyer, chaplain of the
! hospital.
E. H. Hartman has been much OF
| late in the public eye. His latest act
of especial interest to New Workers
| is the purchase of lot on Fifth ave
nue. opposite the residence of William
X. Vanderbilt, for which he paid $500
600 and upon which he will erect a
$4,000, 900 mansion.
II has been reported to the CITY
authorities that the beautiful Soldiers
and Sailors Monument on RIVERSIDE
Drive and seth street is rapidly dis
intergrating owing to the sweating
of the stones displacing the cement
Unless prompt measures are taken II
may totally collapse.
AT the monthly social meeting o.
the Womans Press Club OF New 1orF
City held at the Waldorf-kstoria las
Saturday afternoon, there was a sym
nosium on Education for Citizen
shin" William M. WINS, late Repub
lican candidate for mayor, spoke
rather pessimistically, on THE Gu
zen as He Is" He seemed to thinl
the many foreign elements coming IN
to this country were lowering th'
standard of citizenship. Marcus NJ
Marks, prominent in local philanthropy
ic and educational circles, TOOK 10
his theme 1.-The Foreign Born Citizen
and showed how quickly and entnus
iastically the new conner to our shore
assimilated American ideas. Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait, who since tn
death OF Susan B. Anthony is regaro
cd as the head of the woman's SUI
frage movement in this country
spoke upon The Woman Citizen
and made some telling arguments II
favor of our sex being granted III
right to vote. She is a pleasing looh
ing woman and contrary to the aC
canted idea that a woman with ne
views must be a dowdy she dresse
in excellent taste. She has ricl
voice. fiuency of language, and a qule
cort Of sarcasm which is very enec'
i've Among the many interesting pee
nile met at this gathesing was Tn
Rev. Phoebe Hanaford, whose chai
acter is stamped on her lovely OH
face. Another was Mrs. Florenc'
MAVERICK. / had never beleVeu ne
eu,ltv of the crime forv when sh