Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-17
ROUND ABOUT NEW YoRK.
RIppIes on the Current OF Life In n
M~etron6lIs.

nipples m the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
The growing value Of the tip as a factor
In the prosperity OF the tipped was strik-
inglY shown in one Of the well New York
hotels recently. The doorman Of the hotel alb
sorbed a strean Of coin with the avidlty OF
a slot machine, so that at the end Of eight
months Of regular and overtime service he
had a stake OF Sl2,0oO This fact became
known when the doorman knocked the
management Of the hotel speeches. by
buying $4,000 worth Of the hotel company's
bonds. It's part Of the doorman's duty to
stand in front of the hotel and open car
risge doors. He bows and smiles and
smiles and bows until the tip elusive rs
shared and tucked away in his pocket.
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One Of the curious sights Of the italian
quarter uptown. known as Little italy"
Is the macaronl hanging outside stores
where It Is sold right over the dewal
There are dozens Of these places in that
part OF town with groves of macaroni on
wooden frames which are fastened to the
upper part of windows and extend the
whole width OF the shop front. The maca-
roni Is fresh every day. AS soon as It is
turned out in the close cellar. where ex-
perts from Italy manufacture II In sym
metrical narrow cylinders which are never
approached for artistic evenness by ordi-
nary Americans, Il is carried out and hung
over the poles In the air to dry. One Of
the new ideas in serving mscaroni, accord
ing to one of the vendors. is that Parmesan
cheese is not regarded as Indispensable. as
used to be the case. Your italian has an
other kind of cheese. which looks like
soap and smells like tallow, but Is pleas
ant to the palate. which he CRATES over
his steamed macaroni. just as he used to
crate the Parmesan, and with the most
satisfactory results, For good maoaroni
there is only one place to get It and that
is the italian quarter Of New York.
Thomas F. Ryan, the alleged donor OF
the Nebraska DOODLE fund Of four years
ago, recently offered 500. 900 to the First
Presbyterian church OF New York as an
endowment fund provided the trustees
would agree not TO sell the church prop.
erty, which ad1oins his home on Fifth
avenue. He feared the church might be
sold and an apartment house or business
block erected on the site. He was willing
to give 100000 to have the church stay
where It is and for the assurance that no
one Objectionable to him would come into
the neighborhood.
After the name of William Travers
Jerome, on one of the ballots r~ecounted in
New York the other day, the voter had
written the words "A Gas Meter" Justice
lambert admitted the vote as valid, be-
cause the voter was privileged to write
the name OF any person for whom he
desired to cast his ballot. His honor de-
cided that It was not within his province
to decide whether or not there was a man
in Greater New York named "A Gas
Meter" District Attorney Jerome might
employ one OF his detectives to settle the
interesting question.
The Sun records these oddities OF Met
ropolitan life:/
Sign In Stone street: Panama Hats,
Bay Rum. and shovels."
An old fashioned plough on the sidewalk
in front Of a store in Dey street attracted
a crowd. One man asked how It was used.
An immigrant hotel In a narrow street
between Church and Greenwich streets has
a veranda in front, where immigrants sit
In the evening, smoke German pipes, wear
wooden shoes and drink beer. In the base
ment are a bank. a billiard table and an
intelligence office. Open ali night.
In one OF the old buildings in John
street, on the top floor, reached by an an
tiquated stairway, the first steps Of which
start from the pavement, is an office. on
the door of which Is a sign. Under the
tenants name are these words: "office
hours. twice a week, from II to II"
Sign on the window of an East Side
bakery: Look out for the dog" Under
meath, which a wag wrote in chalk: And
don't get the rabbis.'
On the wall OF an entrance to an old
tenement house in Washington street are
written these words in charcoal: But
tonholes made and floors srubbed, upstairs
to you're right"
A seed store in Cortlandt street has
grass plots shipped daily from Jersey City.
The plots consist of shallow boxes filled
with earth In which the grass is grown.
Tho plots are sold by the foot.
A marble bas-relief commemorative the
great fire in New York in 1885 forms a
part of a building In one of the old streets
Of the city not far from East River
water front, but 1t is seldom seen. as It
stands in the shadow of the Third avenue
elevated line just below the track.
]. Madison, tailor, has a shop IN Thames
street. Just around the corner James Mon
roe sells bird cages and cansries.
An exploding automobile tire gave Broad
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noon. During the excitement calls were
sent for ambulances, and rumors flew
about the neAghborhood that at least three
persons had been killed and an untold
number injured, When the police reserves
got there painting and sore footed they
found that the facts were these: An
auto tire ''flattened" close to the corner
Of Thirty-fourth street. and the owner
promptly got his little pump and began to
blow It up again. A pedestrian got so In
terested in the operation that he had his
face close to the wheel. Then the tire
exploded and hit the man on the nose.
A man entered a Tenderloin drug store
the other day and asked for a telephone
He was evidently from out of town. II Is
therefore probable that he still supposed
Gothamites were in the throes Of the late
financial panic:
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