Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-03
uouND ABour NEW YonK.
Ripples on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis

Ripple on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.
New York points with pride" to two
giddy young centenarians whose capers
promise to give the man with the scythe
a run for his job for some years to come.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Of Brooklyn borough
observed the 10Sth anniversary Of her bir,h
on Monday last by skipping up and down
three flights of stairs, walking a mile Tor
the exercise and putting away three square
meals. To further prove the suppleness
Of yCung-old age she seized her left toe
with her right hand and hoped nimbly
back and forth through the loop. Wasn't
that awful, Mabel" Mrs. Hunt accounts
for her remarkable age and activity by
the fact that she takes a cold plunge every
morning and never wore corsets.
Cold water and no corsets will keep
anyone alive for a century" declared Mrs.
Hunt. 81 always sleep with my window
open at night in the coolest days in win
ter and no matter how cold 1t is l sleep
with light bed clothing.
"Corsets arc an sbomination. Young
women ruin themselves by wearing such
devices. l dare say corsets cut twenty
years from every woman's life"
Two laps behind Mrs. Hunt is Rabbi
Barnet wolinsky, aged los. who took to his
bosom a bride of 70 years last Saturday.
much to the surprise and indignation Of
five generations OF descendants. The rab-
bis latest wife was Mrs. shinney r. Shin
sky, widow of a former friend of the old
gentleman. About one year ago Mr.. Shin
sky died and his widow went TO the rabbits
home to keep house for him. She was 20
years old, but in the eyes Of the rabbi she
looked to be only a girl and after a short
courtship he won her for his bride.
AS soon as his proposal Of marriage was
accepted Wolinsky and the bride-to-be hur-
ried to the marriage license bureau and
procured the necessary papers.
1t is asserted by some of The rabbits
closest friends that he had given his age
as SO when obtaining the license. but he
says that he never was ashamed of his
age.
The old gentleman has somewhere in the
neighborhood of l5 living descendants in
Russia and the United States.
After having forced a rear window and
entered the home of James witzcll, 1877
Van Horne street, Jersey City, a burglar
was frightened away without his swag by
an impromptu performance of a cat on a
piano in the parlor.
Mr.. Witzell was awakened from a sound
sleep at 3 o'clock by discordant sounds
from his piano. He went into the parlor,
struck a light and saw his pet cat walk
ing excitedly up and down the keyboard
of the plano. He drove the cat off, closed
the piano and went back to bed.
In the morning he found a bundle con-
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floor. A gold pencil had been taken from
a writing desk that had been pried open.
The cat, by jumping on the keyboard of
the piano? had scared the intruder away.
Five insurance adjusters, after arguing
for nearly three months the question of
fixing a basis for the adjustment of the
loss occasioned by the disastrous fire on
June . in the fur storage plant Of Abraham
& Straus' department store, Brooklyn, an
nounced that they had agreed to adjust
the loss of stored furs at $3.50, 6es. 90, al
though the actual damage to stored furs
amounts to 1925, a0.95. The firms loss by
the fire amounts to $1,000. 1t will be fully
paid.
More than 5000 Brooklyn women owned
furs which were damaged by the fire. All
will receive the full amount of the value
they had placed upon their furs when they
placed them in storage. but they will sus-
tain a loss of $2Ss, 562.0S, because of having
placed a lower value than the actual upon
their garments in order to save a portion
of the fee.
The friends of a young Irish policeman
who is a champion athlete are much
amused at a story that is being told about
him. A short time ago he was assigned to
look after peddlers in an East Side stree.
One peddler was very troublesome. He l.
fused to keep in line, although warned In
a gentle way. The policeman, who is noted
for his cheerful and genial disposition,
finally had his good nature ruined, and
said:
Go to the station"
The peddler went, and the policeman with
him. When he was arraigned the lieuten-
ant and detectives who lounged around no.
ticed that the big policeman, whom they
all knew, could not control his mirth.
Whats the joker asked the lieutenant.
II told this fellow to go to the station,
and he went. Sure, | never saw the place
before myself and didn't know how to get
here"
How Russell Sage made his money, at
least the later accumulations, is shown by
the fact just brought out that when the
executors took hold Of the estate after his
death they found that no less than $4,000
600 was due it from loans made to stock
exchange houses on call. This was a
branch of the money market of which he
made a speciality and for which he carried
a huge amount OF cash. In times of severe
money stress, when call rates would rise
to 20. 50 and even 100 per cent. it would be
possible for him to reap a fortune in a brief
time. and 1t was noticeable that he would