Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-24

Nipples on the Current Of Lite In the
Metropolis

hippleH on the Current of Lite In the
Metropolis.
-Four items in New York's bill Of fare
take on imposing proportions in figures.
During the month OF June the World com
putes that the city received and disposed
Of $500 tubs Of butter, lS,sSs,sSO dozen
eggs, 6lS,e25 barrels OF potatoes and 8,lsi
tons Of hay, almost all of which went into
the internal economy Of 100000 people
and 10000 horses. A tub OF butter weighs
tfty-eight to sixty-three pounds, the stan
dard tub being sixty pounds. That would
make the total months butter 2.eO5. 800
pounds, or a little over five pounds apiece
for every man, woman and child in New
YORK a butter consumption Of three ounces
each a day. The eggs were 235, Ss7. 100. or
W eggs a day apiece for everybody. Mos
OF these eggs were eaten in the form of
cake, pie, rolls and with other ingredients,
rather than boiled. scrambled or fried. A
barrel of potatoes weighs i6S pounds;
6S'626 barrels would weigh 1903, p9, 16S
pounds. or 5000 tons. This means a po-
tato consumption by everybody Of almost
a pound a day. As for the hay. S6,164 tors
means 7z,32S,OOO pounds, enough to give
100000 horses a little over twenty pounds
a day for thirty days.
Next time you pass by Fleischmann's
bakery about midnight, says a New York
letter, stop and look at the men in the
oread line. These men stand patiently in
line Tor hours on the chance of getting a
loat OF bread. Those who are at the tail
OF the line know that the loaves will likely
be gone by the time they get there. but still
they stand. Tempted by the offer OF n
glass OF beer and a sandwich, one dropped
out Of line the other night. He had been
selected because his face gave more prom-
ise OF intelligence than did the others "Whv
do you do it?' he was asked. why don't
you 60 to work2 Listless, ifeless, hone
less, he drawled his words and muttered
unintelligibly at first. Then he frightened
up a little. You don't work after you've
had this for awhile" he said. I'm honest
with you. l don't want to work. 1
couldn't hold a job IL l had one. I'm
down and out; I'd rather beg"
Then why don't you beg? Surely. in the
hours you stand here waiting, you could
beg at least a nickel?"
"Aw," he said, ut passes the time, see?
A Teller can't be beggin' all the time, and
the cops won't let you sleep in the parks
this time of night. So we stand here in
line and talk. It's kind O. amusin,' guessin'
N Z SCI the DTeau OF not. II amt
so bad"
Chicago papers told the other day in pic
ture and story of a policeman's horse that
followed his master into a barber shop,
relates the New York Tribune. A Phila-
delphia police horse, not long ago. caused
some excitement by trudging along behind
his rider right into the city hall. But for
every yarn about intelligent police mounts
In other cities, the average New York
traffic cop has one to match. As a
Park Row city cavalryman remarked. pat
ting the glossy brown neck of his aid and
companion, HE knows a heap MORN \
whole lot of nuts that we protect. and II
ne didn't he wouldn't be fit for his Job" |
one day recently a patrolman had dis
mounted at a congested spot to straighten
out a tangie of vehicles, leaving his horse. |
united ard unguarded, near the curb. The
animal stayed right there, as still as a
soldier at attention, until the odor of a
line basket of peaches, just out OF reach
across the sidewalk, struck his ~nostrils.
Inc bait was too tempting even for that
well trained horse, and inch by inch he
edged up toward the luscious meal. Just
then his rider. busy 100 feet I'D the street,
saw him and yelled, Hey, you, Bob. turn
around there!' And Bob turned around
obediently and put temptation behind him.
An unexpected incidental result of the
supply of a tremendous water pressure in
New York city for fighting fire in high
buildings has been a difficulty in handling
the stream. In a six-story fire the other
day the big six inch feed-pipe was burst
by the l2O-pound pressure, and the result
ing delay made the fire rather threatening.
When the stream was finally turned on It
ripped off big sections of the mansard roof
a hydraulic nozzle tears down a gravel
bank, and the slate was sent rafting into
The street. Three more lines burst before the
was put out. Evidently the whole APP
must be readjusted to fit the con-
ditiors forced upon the city by skyscrapers.
In order that Miss Catherine German.
cashier in a department store in Brooklyn,
head of hair, more than 100 department
store girls each will sacrifice from a quar-
ter to one inch of scalp with long. flowing
locks attached.
On May Is Miss Germans hair caught in
a cash register and most of it was pulled
out by the roots. Physicians at the hospital
at first suggested a wig as the best means
to cover the bare spot on Miss
head, but she objected to this and IT was
finally decided that the grating process
should be tried. Her friends in the store
readily consented to supply the necessary
pieces Of scalp.
Girls with hair as nearly the color OF Mics
Germans will be the first to sacrifice, but
the physicians say It will be impossible to
get all the hair alike. So far as the new
scalp has healed they will dye the hair any
color that Miss German may desire. II is
that it will take practically a year
TO complete the operation, as only small
Of the new scalp will be put on at
a time. As soon as one piece begins TO
grow another Of the same size will be taken
from another volunteer and so on until the
is completed.
There are more curious folk to the square
inch in New York than any other city in
the world. You can get a bigger crowd In
New York to gaze at nothing than you can