The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-20
GOTHAM NEWS AND GOSSIP
The Very Latest.

II The VI
NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-At this sea-
son employees of the big corporations
begin to figure on the gifts they will
receive for Christmas, but this year
pickins.' The passing of the New
Haven dividend has been blow to
many people who give literally at
Christmas time and there are the gen
consideration. The year has been a
poor one for Wall street. Stock ex-
change firms, except in the case of a
few, have suffered heavily. Those
with big establishments have lost
much money. The trust companies,
banks and big financial institutions
have also felt the effect of the slim
market
There is one class of dealers whose
employees, however, are looking for
ward to something good in the way
of Christmas gifts. These are the
firms that handle Standard Oil. They
have been doing a rushing business
and their employees have been com
planning of being overworked.
The usual practice in the big trust
companies is to give employees per-
centage of yearly salary, varying from
5 per cent, to 25 per cent, the latter
mark of very good year. The pri-
vate banking houses have given big
bonuses, in some cases during the
most prosperous years employees hay
ing received their full years salary.
Stock exchange firms in the big
years of the past have distributed
bounties with a lavish hand, but the
present year promises to be a moderate
one all around.
Tammany Gets Nothing.
1t is said upon very high authority
that Mayor-elect John Purroy Nit
chell has decided upon the appoint
ments he will make to the most i'm
portant departments under his admin
istration and that in selecting men to
head these departments he has taken
into consideration the organizations
that took part in his election One
thing is certain, and that is no plum
shall go to Tammany Mr.. Mitchell
denies, however, that he will take part
in an open fight against the Fourteenth
street organization. He does make it
plain, though, that he will ignore
Charles F. Murphy as leader and in
dividual. No announcements will be
made regarding appointments for the
next fortnight, and in the meantime
are on the anxious seat.
Sing Old Time Carols.
If the plan of Jacob A.Riis, Bishop !
David ID. Greer and their associates |
on the New Years Eve committee don't |
go astray the city will hear the singing |
of oldtime hymns and songs by the
members of many singing societies in
Madison square and Union square /
parks on New Years eve this year.
The committee opposes the city's
present manner of celebrating the new
year with "hideous noises"
After the multitudes have finished
their singing and after the military
bands have finished their music says
Mr. Riis, 1--WE shall have bugler in
Madison square play taps" during
he hush before the end of the old
year.
Mr. Riis and his committee had plan
Jed for parade of about five thousand
high school boys, singing their songs,
)ut certain authorities declared that
t would be bad for the boys to sing
,ut in the open.
anxious to have sung. This is the
irst stanza:
Our Island City fair doth lie
Her towers rise white against the sky,
Make us, her guardians true,
That we may uproot all that mars
And blurs her vision of the stars
And hides her heaven blue.
The poem is called New Years
yymn," and was written by Jean
Dwight Franklin of New York city. {
1t is expected that the committee
will try to amuse it's vast audiences in
he parks by having stereoptican views
displayed.
Fight White Plague.
Many of the big corporations of the
ity are participating in the fight
heir employees. The tuberculosis san
Larium erected by the Metropolitan