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TALK OF NEW YORK
Gossip of People and Events Told
In Interesting Manner.
May Nut Build Proposed Skyscraper
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NKW YORK. If tho directors of the
Kqultablo Life Assurance Society
finally decide to build the 02 story
"homo" for which plans wore filed in
tho bureau of buildings recently, cer
tain policy holdeis who regard tlio
structure not only as an architectur
al monstrosity, but as a financial tow
er of llabel, may appeal to the superin
tendent of Insurance, or, If necessary,
to the courts to prevent Investment of
their funds In such an undertaking.
Tho estlmute of $10,000,000 ns the
cost of tho building Is believed by
them to bo far tinder tho amount of
policy holders' money that eventually
would bo piled up, with no gunranteo
that It would eain reasonable Interest
in Investment.
Maintenance and operation abovo a
certain height nre recognized as even
more potent factors than cost of con
struction In limiting the profitablo
height of skyscrapers. Tho flnnnclal
success of the Singer and Metropolitan
towers Is still unknown. Tho men
who have built them, of course, do not
admit that they were built for any
purpose other than profitablo renting,
but disinterested real estate men and
architects agree that they will bo in
an experimental state for nmuy years.
Wall Street Men Will Bet on Anything
rl1 WOULD take a hundred governors
and Senator Foelkers to stop bet
ting In Wall street. Tho financial ills
ti let Is tlio one best betting place In
the city.
Wall street's betting, generally
spenklng, Is not typical gambling. It is
prompted by n spirit not unlike that
confessed to by a character in a recent
musical comedy, who, saying that ho
always placed a bet on everything, ad
mitted that he already had laid a
wager as to which way tho Singer
building would fall.
Kvory day a thousand or more bota
of every concelvnblo sort aro chroni
cled In tho street. On tho stock ex
change it Is possible to make a bet
on anything, on what "Charllo" Knob
lauch ate at that dinner to tho ttoston
brokors' baseball team or on how
Bird S. Coler Fights for Dog's Rights
rHK case of Hrinn Horu threatens to
become historic In tho legal annals
of tho country. Tho Brian Horu re
ferred to Is not tho celobrnted Irish
hero, but a terrier belonging to Hor
ough Presldont lllnl S. Coler of Brook
lyn, who was formerly comptroller of
Now York and later Democratic candi
date for governor.
In an evil moment Hrinn Horu wan
dered from home nnd fell Into the
hands of ono of the dog catchors cm
ployed by the S. P. C. A. Mr. Color
hastened to the rescue of his pet only
to bo Informed that he must pay a flue
of three dollars and a tax of two dol
lars or see the redoubtful Brian go tho
Mrs. Leeds Another
MIIS. WILLIAM II. LEEDS suddenly
finds herself In n class with Mrs.
Herman Oolrlchs, Mrs. Hob and Mrs.
Ogden Goclet, Mrs. Georgo Law, Mrs.
Dick Gambrlll and Mrs. Belmont,
among tho very rich widows of New
York, it was a strango coincidence
that both Bho and Mrs. Belmont
should lose their husbands within so
short a time. They are lntlmnte friends
and Mrs. Leeds owes nearly ovorythlng
to Mrs. Belmont for tho social
position she was permitted to ncquiro
In this city. It was Mrs. Bolmont, as
sisted by Mrs. Sid Smith and Miss Kit
Cameron, who, somo four or five yenrs
ago, undertook tho somowhat .heroic
task of making a Roclety woman of
Mrs. Leeds. Snrntoga was wisely se
lected ns tho first battleground In tho
Leeds social campaign, it was there
that thoy first mot tho Whltneyi, Mac
kays and others Idontiflcd with tho
smart Long Island racing crowd.
Lueda was always lavish with his
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Ono of tho moat colebrntod )f tho
early Bkyscrapers remains to this day
unpiolUnblo becauso It wuh erected on
such a sninll piece of ground that the
elevator shafts? consume ao groat a
proportion of tlio floor space that the
rentable area can earn Ichh than four
per cent.
With the tendency of downtown
New York to be always on the move
Into the very latent and most modern
building, the work of the architect nnd
the builder comes almoBt to the level
of the tailor or the milliner. The
onco magnificent Kquitnhlo building,
flnt'Ht in Now York, Hank to a two per
cent. Investment under tho old man
agement Paul Morton has, by econo
mies of the new regime, made It ro
turn four per cent, to the policy hold
ors.
A modern building on the Kquitnblo
site, which Is considered the moat val
uable In New York, should earn, ac
cording to eminent real estate nuthorl
ties, 10 to 15 per cent. Ono of tho
more recently constructed Bkyscrapers
of the financial district, although part
ly vacant, ns are practically all of tho
buildings completed within tho last
two years, Is earning eight por cent.,
and will earn 12 per cent. If tilled at
the prevailing rato of rental.
Just when tho glut of office space
will bo relieved no two renl estato ex
perts predict alike. Hundreds of ten
ants are moving from 16-story build
ings in Nassau street, that were tho
highest type of construction ten yenrs
ago to take spaco In tho more modern
skyscrapers west of Ilroadway.
Georgo Iluchnnnn would spell Missis
sippi. What Hugh Murray will wear
on tho morrow is also ono of the favor
ite opportunities for betting on tho
floor of tho exchange.
On the produce exchange bets can
be nindo all the way from whether
"Tom" O'Noll will continue to wear
his white felt hat all summer to how
much Charles Georgo really does
weigh. Whore C. P. Stoppanl gets his
Woodruff waistcoats Is tho cl.olco of
the betting brokers on tho floor of tho
consolidated stock exchange. On tho
cotton exchange wagers aro mado on
ovorythlng from tho rnngo of William
Yohr's volco to tho length of the vaca
tion Norrls Sellar takes. "Is C. 11.
Stroud the grouchlest man in tho finan
cial district?" Is ono of the subJecjB on
which tho coffeo oxchango brokors
like best to wnger tho prlco of a lunch
eon or a now straw hat.
Those llghtor Instances aro fair crl
torlons of tho wllllngnoss of Wall
street to bet on anything. Tho num
ber of shares dealt in during tho day,
the trend of a certain stock and such
I questions arc bet on, to bo sure, with
greater frequency.
way of mnuy a less highly pedigreed
canine, Into tho. gas tank.
Mr. Color, who loves a fight as well
ns his terrier does, had no other battle
on his hands nt tho moment. Ho did
not so much mind parting with flvo
dollars of his hard-earned salary, Inas
much us ho Is a man of considerable
wealth, but ho decided that it -was un
constitutional for the state to delegate
police powers to a prlvato organiza
tion Mich ns tho "cruolty society." Ho
thereupon becamo tho champion of op
pressed dogdom and set out to obtain
a legal decision as to their rights.
Tho case lias gono as far as the su
prome court of tho state, but it is like
ly to be carried through higher tri
bunals to the supreme court In Wash
ington. Meanwhllo tho fate of Brian
Horu hangs In tho balanco. If he final
ly goes tho chloioform path ho will
have tho questionable satisfaction of
knowing that tils nnme figures in vol
uminous court reports and may bo
cltod In precedents centuries hence.
Very Rich Widow
money, and money is ovorythlng
at Saratoga. At Newport, later
on, llttlo Mrs. Leeds learned for
the first time In her meteoric
career that great wealth nt her
command did not bring ovorythlng to
her door.
Mrs. Leeds, all things considered,
Is exceedingly tactful, and Bho really
dresses as well as any woman In that
set. Nevor onco did sho nttompt to
ovetdo things, and that has been the
secret of her remarkable success. Per
haps these, too, wero lessons learned
from hor social promoters, fot pre
viously tho Leedses had rathor amused
people by cnrrylng with them to such
first-class resorts at Palm Beach and
the Virginia Hot Spilngs such items
of comfort as brass beds and making
such u splabh as did Hobart Moore
when ho raced around the south ac
companied by a brass baud.
The leasing of Pnlrlawn, tho Town
send Burden place at Newport, was
a groat stroke, and the Leeds pur
chase of splendid Rough Point, tho
mansion Fred Vnndorbllt declared ho
wanted to sell, but would not dlsposo
of to any ono whoso position tn llfo
did not warrant their bocomlng neigh
bors of Ogden Mills und Commodore
Gerry (or words to that effect), Hlmply
mado Newport notice tho Leudsos.
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KERM1T ROOSEVELT
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Uupj rlK'i t by WolUon V wcctt. ,
Son of the president who will accompany the latter on his hunting trip
to Africa on the expiration of his term of office.
SECRECY OVER A SHIP.
BIG SEA FIGHTER TO BE BUILT
AT NEW YORK NAVY YARD.
Order Forbldo Men Telling Anything
About New 20,000-Ton Vessel
Keel to Be Lnld Within a
Few Weeks.
Now York. In an order which Is
ono of tho most sweeping over Issued
nt tho Now York navy yard all oillcers
nnd men omployod In tho construction
of tho new 20,000-ton battleship, whoso
keel will bo laid within a Tew weoks,
aro forbidden to give out nny Informa
tion whatsoever to tho newspapers or
the public. So strict is the wording
of tho order that the officers In charge
of tho department of construction und
repair, to whom It Is partlculnily ad
dressed, will not oven give the name
of the author.
Hear Admiral Caspar P. Goodrich,
commandant of the yard, is In Wash
ington, and It is believed that the ordor
had Its origin there. Ono officer did
venture tho Information that tho con
tents of tho document would probably
bo mndo public within n few dnys.
William J. Baxter, naval construc
tor, who will have charge of the build
ing of the ship, refused to talk about
anything connected with his depart
ment. "I am shut up tighter than n clam,"
ho said. "Under this order we cannot
glvo out any Information. I cannot tell
you when tho keel of the now vessel Is
to bo laid. Tho order won't let mo say
how many men are to be taken on or
laid off."
All other officers connected with the
department of construction and re
pair wero us reticent ns their chief. At
the office of tho labor board in tho
ynrd it was found that tho ordor had
produced an effect similar to that in
tho department of construction and re
pair. While Borne of the officers and men
aro of tho opinion that the doslro of
tho navy department is to provent for
eign nntlons from learning of tho Im
provements in tho battleship, others
seo in it tho result of tho strugglo that
has been going on between tho officers
favoring tho consolidation of the vari
ous departments of the yard and the
antl-consolldatlonlst8.
Tho workmen at tho yard nre op
posed to consolidation and innny offi
MEXICO'S INLAND WATERWAY
Canal 104 Miles Long Between Tamplco
and Tuxpam Built by an American.
Tuxpnm, Mex. Tho Moxlcau gov
ernment Is building nn inland water
way 104 miles long to connect tho
ports of Tamplco and Tuxpnm. It Is
now about one-half finished nnd will
cost nbout 15,000,000 Mexican money,
which is equivalent to $2,500,000 gold.
It is 75 feet wldo nnd Iuib a uniform
depth of 10 feet. Tho first division
of 60 miles is now practically finished
and is opon for traffic. It Is oxpected
that tho waterway will bo opened nil
tho way through for small boats with
in two yoars.
This waterway runs within from two
to flvo miles of tho gulf along its
Wholo length. Its construction grew
out of tho fact that thoro aro frequent
ly days nt a time when small boats
ocgaged In constwlso trade aro unable
to weather tho rough water of tho
gulf nnd that there Is Insufficient wa
ter over tho bar nt tho mouth of tho
Tuxpam river nt times to enable tho
boats to reach tho harbor at Tuxpam.
Another great Incontlvo that led to
tho building of tho canal was that It
would bo tho means of developing a
broad agricultural region that lias
horetoforo been badly lacking In trans
portation facilities for Its various
products.
Tho Tamplco-Tuxpam cnnol follows
tho routo of an inland wntorwny which
has boon in uso for mote than three
quarters of a century.
Capt. Charles Shlllaber or Chicago
Is constructing tho canal for tho Mex
ican government on n percentage
basis.
Ho had mado n comfortable fortune,
had Just reached his sixtieth year and
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cers are In sympathy with them, for
under the new order or things It will
bo ptaetlcally impossible for a work
man to obtain promotion except by a
competitive examination.
OFFICE CAT PETRIFIED.
Found Between Walls Thirty Yenrs
After Disappearance.
(ireensburg. Pa. The olllce cat hns
turned up at last, nnd n piank of the
printer's devil of 110 yenrs ago has
come to light. In tearing out u por
tion of the Mltlnger building lecently
workmen found the petrified body of
pussy, encased between floors. Every
featuie except the whiskers Is well
preserved nnd the cuilo has caused
much comment.
Old time printers and veteiun news
paper men aie racking their memories
to lecnll the disappearance of the cat,
but none has been found who lomcm
hers Ihe circumstance. Thirty years
ago the Gieensburg Herald was pub
lished In the Mltlnger building, nnd it
is presumed the "devil," finding the
hand set galleys scarce and little woik
to do, caught the cut, cunningly con
cealed her between tho floors, nnd
nailed shut the opening.
Tho piece of petrification Is henvler
than stone, of a grayish hue, and even
the eyes of the feline retnln a luster.
TOO MUCH MUD IN OMAHA.
Citizens Imbibed 11,315 Tons or Sedi
ment in a Year.
Omaha Neb. Omaha people liavo
been drinking Si tons of mud every
day, according to the testimony of tho
city chemist, given In a suit wherein
tho city Is protesting the bills of tho
Omnha Water company because of the
Impure water furnished. During the
year Omnha people drank 11,315 tons
of sediment, the chemist said.
Tho Omnha water supply is taken
from tho Missouil river, tho muddiest
stream In tho country. Although nlum
Is used In settling tho wnter, and flvo
different settling basins aro contained
in tho battery' of rcscrvolni, yet the
wnter ns It conies from tho mains is
murky.
Tho water commlBsloncrH aro refus
ing payment of the water bills for tho
last four years.
had planned to spend tho remainder
of his llfo In comfort nnd enjoyment.
Chnncing to visit Mexico on a pleas
nro trip ho conceived tho possibilities
of Improving the old wntorwny,
brought tho matter to tho attention of
tho government nnd undertook to do
tho work.
WED BY SIGN LANGUAGE.
Unique Marriage Ceremony Is Per
formed In Iowa.
Fertile, In. A unlquo wedding cere
mony occurred heio In tho mnrrlago
of Miss Purdy Smith to Prank Thomp
son, O. J. OJerdlund officiating, which
wno solemnized by use of tho deaf
muto language,
Tho brldo Ib tho daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Smith, promlnont residents
hero, Is a gradunto or tho deaf-muto
school nt Council Bluffs, and n most
talontod nnd charming young woman.
Tho groom is a resident of Owatona
Minn., is a printer by trade, nnd se
cured his educntlon at Faribault
Minn., in an institution ror ratfes of
that Btnte. Tho officiating clergyman
la also a mute. Tho young people will
resldo In Owatona.
Women Oil the Streets.
Stouchsburg, Pa. Fully 200 of tho
800 people or this town Joined the
other day In a Btreet Bprlnkllng cru
sade. Scores or women and children
turned out with gardon sprlnklors, nnd
these wero used to sprlnklo tho streets
with oil. By subscription seven bar
rolB of oil wero bought, nnd ull of it
was sprinkled on tho streets to keep
down tho dust that has beconio so
troublesomo olnco automobiles) aro
constantly passing through tho town.
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MANAGES ESTATE WHILE HER
FATHER IS IN JAIL.
Daughter of Unfrocked Rector H.n
Trouble, but Sticks to Hard Task
with Success llncldentally
Wears "Merry Widow."
Hlchmond. Vu. -Miss Ellniboth Hnr
grave, since the Inraicerntlon of het
father, How James T. Hargravo, the
unfrocked Episcopal clergyman, who
was recently convicted In tho federal
court b for using the mails for purposes
of fraud, has become sole manager oi
tho estate, Cedarhurst lodge. In Hano
er county.
Tho evidences are that the pretty
19-year-old girl Is u genlim In tho busl
ness of operating furnis. She nppeaia
also to know u thing or two about tho
law, which information she Is studying
to advantage In her trials with tho
county officers
Miss Hnrgiave enme to the city for
tho purpoKo of petitioning for an In
junction to piovent the olllceni from
.seizing the pioporty of her father
whllo he Is u prisoner. 'Xln law Is to
tho effect that a prisoner In tho peni
tentiary shall not he liable to civil
suits. The question Is whether or not
tho county otllcers nre Justified In the
selauro, hlnce Hargravo Is serving a
term In tho county Jail.
"There's nothing In It. I can't run
n farm on air and wnter," wild Miss
Hargravo. "When they seize every
thing that comes to me I can't got on.
Why, they even dare to take my own
things my mall, freight and express
pnekngos, and everything. They've
levied on everything but tho place
and that Is so lived (hat they can't gel
nt It. If they keep pushing me I am
going to take out tho 'homestead ex
emption.' I don't suppose thoy can get
around that.
"The hardest luck of all," sho con
tinued, slightly blushing, "Is Hint 1
have to rake tho hay. Several days
ago 1 had a field all plowed up toady
for planting. The Heeds wero nt the
station, but when 1 sent for them tho
Information eamo back to mo that
they had all been levied on."
Miss Hargravo was nently nttlrod In
a princess gown of striped gray. She
wore a "Merry Widow" hat, trimmed
tn pink feathers and ilVbon, with a
big-headed hat-pin stuck tin ough the
middle of it. Hor long brown gloves
swung limply across her right arm.
Her appearance was that of a care
free maiden, who had never known the
meaning of trouble.
"I'll run that farm or dlo," sho ex
claimed, as she left to catch her train,
having fulled In her mission because
of tho nbseneo of Judgo Edmund Wad
dill from tho city. "I'm tho girl they
can't fool. I'm going back to Hanover
to rnko hay. U'b tho 'Maud Mullor'
game for me, all right. There nro flvo
men on tho place at work today. I
guess If thoy were girls, tho county
ofllcerB would try to bcIzo them. It's
all very awful, but I am not starving."
PAIR WEDS AFTER 47 YEARS.
Outbreak of Civil War Cause of Post
poning Marriage.
Lewlsburg, Tenn. After a postpono
mont of their wedding for 47 years,
O. P. Starnes of Johnson county,
Texas, and Mrs. Woolavor or Archor,
Tonn., havo been mnrrlod here. Thoy
have gouu to Oklahoma on their hon
eymoon. Tho bride wns formerly Miss Mnry
Foley and lived in Greonc county,
which was also tho bridegroom's
home. Thoy wero to havo been mnr
rled In the Bumihcr or 18G1, but at tho
outbreak or tho civil war Mr. Starnes
enlisted In the conredcrato nrmy and
tho mnrrluge was postponed. At tho
battlo of Missionary Rldgo tho pros
pective bridegroom wns critically
wounded and left for dend on tho
field. i
Reports that ho had been killed
reached MIsb Faley, and In tlmo sho
became tho bride of Robert Woolaver.
Stnrncs saw Mrs. Woolaver but onco
nfter his recovery and loft for Georgia,
whore ho was married. Ho subse
quently moved to Texas.
Eighteen months ngo Mrs. Starnes
died and tho husband recently ascer
tained that his former sweetheart in
Tenncsseo wns n widow. A corro.
spondcuco was begun which resulted
In tho consummation of tho ple.dgea
mndo many years ago.
RIDES IN LOCOMOTIVE TANK.
Machinist Beats Way 260 Miles and
Nearly Drowns.
Wllkesbnrro, Pa. Having rlddon
from Buffalo to this city, 2G0 miles, In
tho tnnk of a Lehigh Valley railroad
passenger locomotive, considered nn
Impossible rent in rido stealing, Wil
liam Bahmlllor or Mnuch Chunfc, wns
nrrested hero when tho 2:40 express
nrrived.
Being a machinist by trado, and
hnvlng worked on locomotive tanks,
ho know enough nbout their Bteel brac
ing to risk hanging on, and crawled
In at Buffalo. Ho was In wator up to
his neck most of tho time, nnd when
tho locomotive dashed around curves
ho had hard work to savo himself
from drowning aH tho water dashed
nil over him.
Ho wns also In dnngor each tlmo
tho tank was (Hied, hut escape! until
it was being filled hero, when tho
nroman allowed It to run ovor, and
Bahmlllor had to pop his bond out to
got air and ws discovered.
After hearing his Htory, Mayor Knlf
fen fined him only ono dollar.
AN HONEST DOCTOR
ADVISED PE-RU-NA.
MR. SYLVESTER E. SMITH, Room
218, Oraulto Block, St. 1-ouln, Mo.,
writes: "I'oruna in tho best frlond
sick man can havo.
"A few months ago I camo horo In
wretched condition. Exposure anil
dampness had ruined my onco robust
health. I hud catarrhal nfTcctlons of
tho bronchial tubes, and for n tlmo thoro
wan n doubt a to my recovery.
"My good honest old doctor advlsod
mo to tnko Puruua, which I did nnd in
n short tlmo my health began to Im
provo very rapidly, tho bronchial
troublo gradually disappeared, nnd In
three months my health was fully ro
Htorcd, "Accept a grateful man's thanks for
bis rostorntlou to perfect health."
Pc-ru-im for Ills Patients.
A. W. I'orrln, M. 1). H., U80 llalsoy
St., Brooklyn, N, Y., says t
"I am using your Peruna myself, and.
am recommending It to my palluntd In
nil cases of catarrh, and find It to bo
more than you represent. 1'orunn can
bo had now of all druggists In this soo
tlon. At tho tlmo I begun using It, It
was unknown."
Food
products
Libby's
Vienna Sausage
You've never tasted
the best sausage until
you've eaten Libby's
Vienna Sausage.
It's asausage product
of high food value!
Made different! Gooh
ed different! Tastes
differentand is different
than other sausage!
Libby's Vienna
Siosage, like all of the
Libby Food Products;
is carefully prepared
and cooked in Libby's
Great White Kitchen.
It can be quickly
served for any meal at
any time! It is pleas
ing; not overflavored
and has that satisfying
taste! Try it!
Libby, McNeill ft Libby,
Cbicarjo.
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A Favored Fowl.
"I has been told," said Miss Miami
Brown, "dat do parrot is ono of the
longcs'-livcd birds dnt is."
"Do Btatomcnt," ropllcd Mr. Ernstus
Plnklcy, "la Btrlctiy ornithological."
"I wonder why?"
"I 'specks dnt ono reason why da
parrot lives bo long Is dat ho aln' good
to cat." Washington 8tar.
That an nrtlclo may bo good as weO
ns cheap, and glvo ontlro satisfaction.
1b proven by tho extraordinary salo ot
Deflnnco Starch, each package con
taining one-third moro Starch than
can bo had of any other brand for th
Bamo money.
Slelghlno All tho Year.
Bccauso ot tho lichens which grow
abundantly on tho Btono-pavcd street
in Madoira, making thorn slippery, it
is possible to uso sleighs tho yeu
around.
IjCwiV (single Hinder costs moro than
other 6c cigars. Smokers know why.
Your dealer or Lew in' Factory, l'corio, 11L
Sufficient unto tho day aro tho 24
hours thoreof.
Mr. Wlnilotr's Soothing-
low's Soothing- fljrrap.
dc, inflect tho sum, redue
In, curt wliul colli). SscsbotUa.
rorcmiaren wemio,
Ounmitloa, .11 pi
Tho placo should not honor tho mas, ,
but tho man tho place. AgesllauB.
I'mI Arho Vnn Allen' FooUKaia
OTor:D,U)UiUmonlul. lU'fuwi Imitation. Hxndfo
froo trial packugo. A. H. Oluutwi, 1m Ilujr. N. Y.
Dlunt languago is often used In mak
ing sharp retorts.
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