The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-04
NOTES FROM GOTHAM
Stray Bits Picked Up In the Land Of
the Great White Way and Stories
From Little Old New York.

from Llttie Ulu new lOrks
New York, Oct. 2S.-Ninety-one
men, women and children have just
been added to the large collection of
heroes and heroines of Greater New
Yorw. The United States Life Saving
Service had it's customary annual
distribution of medals and diplomas
the other day and the new crop of
heroes was unusually large. Judging
from the enormous number of per-
sons who have been labeled heroes
by the various hero-fund commissions
during the past ten years 1t
seems as if Gotham had a corner in
heroism. Were it not for the fact that
Implications are permissible, the
committees making the awards would
be seriously handicapped in their
task, as it is becoming quite difficult
to find persons who have not already
been decorated for some deed of hero
ism.
Miss Purity, the mysterious figure
erected by a bunch of deluded optim-
lists, still stands on Times Square,
looking with surprise upon her sur
%roundings and drawing together her
garments to keep them from coming
in contact with the city's politics and
politicians and other unclean things.
In the Civic Museum of the commit
tee of one hundred, on Sixteenth
street another view of Miss Purity
may be had, less idealistic but a great
deal more expressive. The sculpture,
a work of a New York sculptor, rep
resents Miss Purity PROSTATE, with a
fine piece of work and it has been
suggested to have an enlarged copy
in marble or bronze made of the
group and place it in Central Park
or somewhere on Riverside Drive.
Brooklyn too has its Chamber of
Horrors" where the Committee of
One Hundred is making every effort
by pictures, sculptures and graphic
means of every description to dem
ness of the political machine which
holds the city enslaved and system
atically robs it. The Tammany Tig-
er plays an important part in the
exhibit and is shown in various sizes,
attitudes and environments. There is
a great deal of pathos in the exhibit,
but it is extremely doubtful whether
it is properly grasped and appreci-
ated by the thousands of WIS.,
itors who daily visit the Cham
Der of Horrors on Mon
tague street. U~nintentional humor is
mot lacking in the exhibit, which is
not surprising considering the short
step which separates Pathos from
Bathos. The other day a new group
was to be shown, demonstrating how
the Getty COW" was MIXED by the
"Gang." The member of the commit
tee entrusted with the preparation of
the group went to a toy shop to pur-
chase a toy COW. But, knowing cows
from hearsay only, he selected a calf
instead of a cow and, unconscious of
the humor of the thing, set up his
group.
The presence of ex-President
Roosevelt in New York is urgently
required to decide a matter of the
greatest Importance. He is wanted
as a witness and referee to decide the
disputed question whether a certain
dog now in the custody of the court
rs BILLY" or Rex" If the canine is
Rex, he belongs to a man on Sixty
fifth street if he is Billy he is the
rightful property of a physician on
-Fifty-sixth street According to the
story of the doctor his Billy was stol-