Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-01
NEWS AND GOSSIP
FROM NEW YORK CITY

more eager athSitNeS uiN iOi thc ms
time filling the fields and streams OF
the outlying city In squads intent on
gaining to the full the rich rewards
Of athletic activity on diamond race
courses and golf and tennis fields.
Never since the grind of the bust
ness mill began 10 claim hour after
hour of office work in the lower city
have so many aspirants for outdoor
honors dared the rigors OF rough
training with view TO making Co
than renowned for her physical as
well as her commercial prowess. Golf
clubs, field clubs. bail teams and
crews have sprung up by the hundred
only a stones throw from the hum
OF town in the last few days, and
with the professional baseball mines
as a focus for athletic activity, II
seems certain that outdoor interests
will remain undated for months to
come.
Hunting Homes.
After tossing three millions of dol
lars across the aucti0neers desk for
the fruits OF Yerke's private art col
lection, New Workers are more exer.
clsed over the final disposition of the
Fifth avenue art temple of the Chica-
go magnate than they have ever been
over a similar sacrifice of the home
treasury of a fellow citizen. Years
ago, when the great brownstone
house and art gallery rose upon the
crest of Lenox Hill. everyone simply
stamped ii as one more luxurious res
idence for the men of millions on
Fifth avenue.
Today, however, the magic circle
OF the wealthy seems to have been bad
~ broken, as the last relics OF the
once famous menage are knocked on
on the block to the highest bidder.
while multitndes pray and peer about
the once sacred precincts of the
home that now flies the reg flag. a
hundred harpies OF the real estate
brood are intent upon making capital
from the breaking up of the dead
magnate's estate.
Suburban stretches.
Over thousands of acres OF snrbur-
ban stretches, that hitherto have been
barren of any evidence Of human
habitation, the greatest crop of homes
that ever sprang up hereabouts is to-
day growing under the spring sun
light. Following the steel rails that
the street railways are extending fur
Their and further out from the city's
centers. these waste places are bios
soming out as slightly suburban parks
with many hundreds of houses OPEN
ed up for families that can now speed
easily TO and from town. Never In
;ation been able to spread out at
suburban ease as readilp as II Is do
ing this spring.
Like every town in the state, New
York is slow to follow up the cost
ly laying of tracks upon which the
car LINES venture millions of doh
lars; but the outcome of such enter
prise is here as elsewhere proving a
sure increase to the taxable value Of
the town. as well as a limitless boon
10 hundreds of thousands OF pent up
city jewellers.
Brosdway's Ban.
Just because New Workers will not
be made to don the open face kind of
evening dress for dinner, one OF the
most magnificent restaurant palaces
ever put up in town is today shutter
ed from the curb to cornice and filed
with prospectors striving to put 1t on
the A merican pay basis once more.
There are sides and sides TO Broad
way and shades and shades of Sc
cret significance about the way its at
fractions are set out
Unfortunately this much heralded
Cafe de L'Opera seemed to strike the
wrong side and be obscured by the
deepest shades and the midnight
rounder and his lady passed II by. Go
than will dine when IL likes and as 1t
likes; and no management has yet
proved able to prescribe dress or de-
Corum for the hordes that haunt us
great white way.
Women Working
With q hundred women enumera-
tors taking census about town, New
York city is today nearer to suffrage
rule than II has ever come in all its
history. OfEcialiy primed TO ask
Questions, these female agents OF
Uncle Sam are going the ROUNDS 20
the utter discontinue Of numerous
males who have something to hide
from the lynx eye OF the federal gov
eminent With opportunities as easy
as this to learn age. income and occu-
patton swarms Of the gentler sex are
being attracted into this particularly
pleasing government service
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