The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-04
Some Gossip GQtherd From
The GAY American Metropolis

New York. June 3.-The fate of
Madison Square Garden, that famous
exhibition and amusement place, is
hanging in the balance just now. For
some time the stockholders of the
company which owns the property,
have been agitating the proposition to
sell the property because they found
it Improbable. 1t is true that during
the autumn and winter months the
horse show. the dog show, the auto
mobile show and other sporting or
commercial exhibitions made the Gar
den a source of profit but, after the
circus season in the spring was closed
the large building remained idle for
about four months or more.
The problem as to how to make
Madison Square Garden profitable
during the summer season was freely
discussed and numerous suggestions
were made which, however, were
more or less impracticable. Finally
one of the stockholders, Impressed by
the fact that just now the country
seems to have gone mad over moving
picture shows, suggested to trans
form Madison Square Garden into an
enormous Moving Picture House." 1t
was decided to try the experiment and
the large ampitheatre was equipped
with chairs, tables and everything else
necessary. The house has seating &C
comodations for 5000 persons and, ii
the experiment succeeds, it is proba-
BILE that the Garden property will be
withdrawn from the market, at least
for the present
If the proverbial guardian angei
had not been strictly on his job the
other day there would have been d
white funeral in the Kloss family on
Eighth avenue. A young woman, &C
companied by her 3-year-old nephew,
Paul kloss, was riding in a Sixth av-
enue elevated train. She was SO busy
chatting with another woman, that
she did not notice that her little
nephew, who was standing on the seat
looking out of the open window of the
car, lost his balance and fell out. A
policeman, who happened to be in the
car saw the youngster fall and stop
ped the train. The child had fallen
on the boardwalk between the elevat-
ed tracks and escaped with a few
slight bruises.
The festive suburban newspaper
correspondent is far greater wonder
than Foxy Grandpa. When he breaks
loose and grasps the inspired pen,
something is sure to happen in the
field of literature. Bloomfield. n. j.,
where many New York business men
have their suburban homes, is unus-
ually fortunate in having among it's
residents man OF abnormally fertile
imagination, who as correspondent of
New York daily paper is in a posi-
ton to advertise the products of his
literary genius. He is evidently a
breeder of chickens. for chicken stor-
les, especially yarns about the Leg
horn variety, are his, specially.
According to his latest story Mr.. De
of suburbanites, kept a few chickens
in their back yard which kept them
supplied with eggs for breakfast all
through the winter. Early in the
spring, however, the chickens stopped
laying and showed signs of indisposi-
ton. Mrs. De Camp. who is running
the chicken end of the establishment,
tried several remedies, but the hens
did not improve. One day it occurred
to her to give the hens some of the
quinine pills which her husband was
in the habit of taking for his malaria
She tried the experiment and the re-