The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-23
TOPICS FROM OLD NEW YORK.
How the Committee Kept the Rail-
road From Being Stretched.

New York, June, 19.-"Dignity of
pressive and is often used in connec-
ton with some professions considered
particularly honorable, like those of
ministers, judges, doctors, members of
the Cabinet, etc. There was time
when the term was also applied to
members of the political profession,
but in that sense it has become OBJ
solete. A rather new application of
the expression was made the other
day, however, when the dog catcher
of the Hackensack Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent
his resignation to the society. In this
remarkable document the writer ex-
planned that the profession of a dog
catcher was an honorable profession
and he would rather resign than sully
the dignity of his profession by wash
ing the automobile of the company
which is used by the dog catcher of
his rounds.
The numerous commuters who have
the misfortune of being compelled to
use the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railway daily to go from
their homes to the city and back
again, were greatly astonished when
they awoke the other morning to find
that their villages or towns had been
moved several miles away from New
York city. They could not believe
their eyes, although the new time ia
bles of the railroad clearly showed
vigorous protest through their law
yer. When the railroad officials found
that the commuters refused to be
that the distance between their viii
lagos and the city had increased over
night. Some cynics expressed the be-
lief that this apparent stretching of
railroad company for the purpose OF
extorting higher rates from the com
muters and they promptly entered a
convinced that the distances be-
ween their towns and New York
had actually stretched. they prompt
lily backed down and the president OF
the company explained ii was all a
stupid blunder. No doubt it was, but
there was method in that madness
and had it not been for the watch
fulness and energetic action of the
fl1
would have maintained the decep-
ton which would have enabled it to
extort handsome sum from the
, poor commuters.
{ New York is to nave another big
hotel 1t is to be erected on the East
side of Broadway, extending from
> Thirty-third to Thirty-fourth streets
by a syndicate headed by Charles P.
Taft of Cincinnati, brother of Pres
= ident Taft The hotel will be built
: upon leased ground, for which a
yearly rental of 100000 has to be
paid. 1t will be modelled somewhat
on the AN of the Hotel Belmont
and will cost more than $5,OO0,O00.
According to present plans the hotel
: will be % stories high. The syndi-
cate will be incorporated as the
Greeley Square Hotel Company.
The authorities are greatly puz-
zled by a somewhat unusual case just
now. On April IA of this year wo-
man was seriously injured in a street
railway accident at Sixth avenue
and Twenty-fourth street. The wo-
man, who gave her name as Mrs,
Mary McGonigle and her address as
SIT Tenth avenue. was taken to the
Bellevue Hospital, where she died
six days later. Her body was iden-
, tilted by the brother, the sisters, the
son and other relatives OF Mrs. Nc
Gonigle and was buried under that
name in the McGonigle lot. The life
insurance of Mrs. McGonigle was
collected and the Metropolitan Street
: Railway Company paid the funeral
expenses and an allowance for dam
lagos. The other day, however, Mrs.
. McGonigle, the woman supposed to
, be dead and buried, returned TO her