Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-26

to contractors, subordinate officials and others clear down to gang foremen. Re gently the mayor appointed "Big Bill v Edwards, former college football player, street cleaning commissioner. Edwards started in to break up the grating system, and wholesale arrests have been made, with good prospects of some of the offenders going up the river to Sing Sing. So Edwards, while cleaning the streets, is also cleaning his department.
 Up to this time no one seems to have been found to take the place of society leader formerly occupied by the late Mrs, Astor. Numerous prominent social leaders have been mentioned, but MT. Frederick Townsend Martin, an aek- nowledged authority, states that New York society has grown so large, and is divided into 80 many different sets, that no one leader can ever again success. fully handle it as did Mrs. Astor. Th.s same Mir. Martin recently gave dim ner at the Plaza (which great hotel, by the way, seems to have taken away some of the glory of the Waldorf As toria) to some fifty persons, socially prominent, all of whom were seated at a single circular table. Of course table large enough around to seat fifty persons, contained great central spacc, and this was utilized for most magni- feent floral display, including as cen ter piece Japanese cherry tree in full bloom
 Referring to social leaders, Mrs. George Gould has been mentioned as possible successor to Mrs. Astor Cur late Jay Gould married actresses, and while Howard Gould is now in the ii. vorce courts trying to free himself from the former Katherine Clemmons, ex.ac- tress, Mrs. George Gould has quietly but steadily secured firm foot-ho iu New York s best sets. In England 1t is quite common for the nobility to find wives in the theaters, and place them at the top of the social ladder, but in America, Mrs. George Gould, who was formerly Edith Kingdom, member of the late A. NJ. Palmer $ Stock company, seems to be tho only eS.actress who has been able to take such conspicuous part in the highest New York society.
 Again speaking of social leaders, Mrs. Clarence Maekay, has recently come out in favor of woman s suffrage. This, added to the fact that Miss Anna Nor gan, daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan,
 is also very much interested in the question, would seem to indicate that it's leadership is not to be left altogether to those who arc commonly known as "eranks. Numerous outdoor suffra- gette meetings have been held in New York, but in nearly every instance they have been broken up or greatly disturb cd by hoodlums-men and boys, who, rather than entertaining opinions ad- verse to the movement, seem to want to initiate those who have broken up sim liar meetings in London.
 A rather sad accident was brought to light the other day when negro, a hanger-on of a Sixth avenue saloon, died, and his body was sent to the morgue. It then developed that he was an own brother of "Jack" Johnson, who recently took on the title of world s champion heavyweight. The. latter E match with Burns in Australia brought him good sum of money, and he has since been raking in the shekels in vaudeville, but his parents, who live in Texas, were unable to furnish funds to save his brother $ body from the Pot ter's field. On the same date that