Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
ROUND ABOUT NEW YoRK.
nipples on the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis

us eAA ~ WV ~
a syndicate Of sermon makers offering to
supply them with up-to-date sermons for
g cents q week. or $40 a year. The offer
came from the "homiletic department OF
a New York publishing house, which gives
assurances that its mechanical equipment
Is equal to any demand for variety, versa
tllity, dialect or straight goods. NJ
patron" says the circular, need fear an
accusation of plagiarism. We sell the
clergyman our work, and he has a right
to use what he purchased as seems best
to him. The sermons are mailed in New
York every Friday morning in plain sealed
envelopes. They are evangelical in tone.
They enable the clergyman 20 get along
with fewer homiletic books and magazines,
and the terms put this unique service
within the reach OF the poorest ministers.
We shall not furnish our service to more
than one minister in any given city or
town.
The circular states that the sermons are
prepared by a pastor in active service,
who understands the grind Of the average
pastorate in the direction OF sermon MAX
ing and who has special ability as a writer
Of good sermon material"
Foreclosure sale Of the Hotel Gotham on
- INV hOA gage IuhbllthN lOI StoJ'Vub oE-
cured by the Knickerbocker Trust COM
pany has been set for October 10, by or
der Of the supreme court. The new man
agement, which took hold Of the twenty
one-story hotel on August I, will not be
disturbed by the foreclosure. as the per
manency of its tenure was provided for.
The foreclosure is subject to two prior
liens aggregatlng 81. $4,000, held by the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance company. The
F1fty-first street company is the owner Of
the property.
The Gotham never has been a success in
the three years of It's existence. 1t was
built by Thomas F. Ryan, James ]. Hill,
Thomas c. Plat, Henry L. Goodwin and
the estate Of Mark Hanna at the sugges-
ton Of the late Frank V. Bennett, its first
manager. AS the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain church was on the northwest corner
Of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street.
within the statutory limitation of 200 feet,
no liquor license for the hotel could be
procured and It lost money.
The happiest man in New York is Adam
Brede, chef in a lunch room. over twenty
years ago Brede deposited $50 in the SEA-
mans Bank for Savings. With a friend
he attended a festival that night, and
when he left the hall he found that both
his friend and his bank book had disap-
peared. Last Friday night he encountered
his friend, who greeted him effusively and
said:
Here is that bank book, Adam. 1t has
hurt my conscience for twenty years, but
1t was the means of saving my life. After
leaving New York l went to Albany. From
there drifted out to San Francisco,
,yhara I atartad q frtttt business prOa-
pered and at the end OF eighteen years
was worth about $4,000. I arrived here
last Sunday and have been looking for
you ever since.
He then handed over the bank book
and $1,000 for interest.
Gossip by we'll meaning, but thoughtless,
neighbors and friends is said to have
fastened the death OF Mrs. May Rose
Howe and her husband, James Howe, who
died within four days of each other from
heart disease at Corona, Long Island.
For some time Mr.. How had been
troubled with heart disease and we'll In
tentioned neighbors called on Mrs. Howe
and caused her anxiety by dwelling on
her husbands malady, Notwithstanding
the physicians reported that Mr.. Howe,
who was 6S years old, was on the road to
recovery.
Mrs. Howe was in excellent health. but
the gossip of the nelghbors wore upon her
to such an extent that she was suddenly
stricken with heart disease and died.
The news of his wife's death was kept
from Mr.. Howe for several days, when 1t
was believed he was strong enough TO
stand the shock. But within a few min
utes after hearing the news he expired.
On a Broadway car, the other afternoon,
a mite of a gamin struggled aboard the
rear platform with a heavy suitcase. Be-
hind him, all smiles, was a stout woman
whose stature and rugged build suggested
her ability to lift a trunk had she been
so minded. AS the boy deposited his bur
den on the platform, the woman opened her
purse and took therefrom not the scent
piece which might have been expected, but
a penny paper Of chewing gum, which she
handed to the urchin with much junction.
The boy alighted from the car so dazed
that he could hardly speak. and as the
car rolled away he still stood by the track
gazing at 1t.
well, what do you think of thst?" said
a male passenger audibly. And the woman
beamed on him with great complacence'
One of the queer businesses that interest
visitors TO Manhattan is the Worm trust
in West street. You can always find a
crowd around the little old man who has
been selling fishing worms for IL cents
apiece at the same stand for fifteen years
at least. White worms and sandWorms,
caught over in Jersey or up in Westminster
maybe, are shipped to him as carefully as
il they were the most fragile of jewelers.
trinkets. They are kept in big platters OF
wet grasses and taken out to be put in
small pasteboard boxes for customers, Sat
urday afternoon provides a crush at the
old mans stand invariably, the fishermen
being anxious to get bait for their Sunday
fun.
Sleeping quarters entirely out OF doors are
not confined TO invalids, mountain camps,
or hospitals. There are many OF them on
top OF private houses In New York City.
One such may be seen from Riverside
drive, not far north Of One Hundredth
street. 1t looks like a shed built on the
/ roof. with side walls only about four feet
high. That is quite enough to shut off the
view of passersby, but II one should take
a balloon ride over the house he would
see. inside the breeze-swept enclosure, q
comfortable bed, close to which is a door