Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-26

Metropolis from nay 10 UeSs
A group Of enterprisinR women under the
leadership OF Miss Annie Morgan, daugh-
ter OF J. Pierpont Morgan, nave secured
permission 20 install and operate a res
taurant for men in the Brooklyn navy
yard. II will accommodate 1000 men and
will provide better food at less cost and
more pleasant surroundings than the civil
ian employees have now. II is planned to
make this restaurant the first one in q
chain to be established throughout the diff.
ferent branches Of the government service.
1t will not be for the sailors, who are
fully provided for when at the yard, but
for the civilian employees. such as carpen-
ters, machinists. ironworkers. etc, who
have no other recourse now but the lunch
wagons or the saloons outside.
Charity is not the object said Miss
Morgan in discussing the project. "The
restaurant is only one OF many things
that should be introduced to improve the
conditions surrounding government en-
ployes, but It is especially needed there at
this time. What we hope to do by pro-
viding the restaurant in one of the build
ings right in the yard is to prove to the
government authorities that such a plan
can be carried out on a self-paylng basis
II will then be up to the government to
take It off our hands and start branches
In other departments Of the service"
The officers Of the Hudson-Fulton Cele-
bration commission have let the contract
for building the replica OF Robert Fulton's
Clermont to the Staten Island Ship Build
ing company. Work has already begun on
the fac-simile Of the first boat to steam up
the Hudson, and the contract calls for its
completion by August 1. The Clermont will
have the same uncovered side paddle
wheels which splashed water on Its first
passengers, the same little square cabin
forward, and the same awkward engine and
machinery. which, however, made practical
the navigation of the Hudson without the
necessity OF waiting for a favorable wind.
The original Clermont was $50 feet long
and 10 feet wide, I feet depth Of hold. 1t
drew two feet OF water. Tit Clermont,
with the replica of Hudson's Half Moon"
which is being built by the Dutch In Hol-
land, will be the center of the great naval
parade, which will start from New York
and steam to Newburgh on Friday, Octo-
Der /. To convoy, these two little vessels
there will be fleets of American and foreign
warships, great river craft and ocean
steamships that have evolved from Full
toms awkward little steamboat.
"Nerve?" said the sewing machine agent,
quoted by the Sun. 1T takes people who
buy sewing machines to give a first-class
illustration of nerve. The things they wan
to practice on when learning to sew is
what floors me. There was a time when
the agent who was giving instruction in
the management of a sewing machine did
stunts with little squares and diamonds
of silks to show the possibilities of the ma
chine. But the modern customer objects
to such a waste OF time. She hunts Up
something useful to seam and tuck-babies'
dresses, aprons, shirtwaists' and as an ex-
treme example a patch on a pair of over
alls.
b" 1t won't take any longer to teach us
with these things than with those absurd
little gimcracks,' says the practical woman,
and then there will be something to snow
for your work
1'And what can the poor agent do?
In a sense the woman is right. 1t won't
take any longer, 80 In order to make a
sale the agent turns himself into a kind of
dressmaker's and tailor's apprentice"
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Despite the watchfulness Of the author
tiles the lottery business is still flourish
ing in some quarters OF the East Side of
New York. At the wedding which took place
in one of the public halls in that part of
New York a short time ago the old trick
was resorted to OF advertising one OF these
| get-rich-quick enterprises by starting the
rumor that some one in the company had
4,st -oaaN,,ad n0tica that ha hod nnada a
big winning. The guests flocked about the
lucky man, but the lottery people had, I'M
fortunately for them. picked an Individual
who had not bought a chance for that
drawing. To save himself the trouble OF
explaining and to escape the possible de-
tective who IL on the lookout for just such
cases, the man wrote this notice in Yld-
dish and printed 1t on his coat: THE only
luck / have had lately was that twins
boys came to my home, and they are we'll,
thank God" But the lottery mans pur-
pose was accomplished, however, for his
clandestine business had received a good
advertisement.
Gray, homeless and without a friend in
the world. John Reilly, n years old, tot
tered into Bellevue hospital and asked for
some medicine. saying he was feeling sick.
DR. Drury sent him to ward A in the new
wing. Mrs. Scott. the supervising nurse,
gave him some hot milk, as he said not a
morsel Of food had passed his lips for sew
eral days.
Reilly was being prepared for bed when
little packages began to fall from his pock-
cts. On opening the newspaper wrappers
they were found to contain from three to
five pennies each. The old mans vest and
f~n,,.A-a vAaIyaNe ga n"nz Ag. 49,. --z..
filled with packages Of pennies.
When the count was taken by the nurses
the old man was found to have s5.6 in
pennies. weighing about twenty pounds.
His hoard being under the $50 limit, Reilly
will be treated free
Benjamin c. Miller, who recently died in
Brooklyn had for half a century been en-
gagged In moving large buildings. His most