Show NEW YORK LETTER bits of information gathered in ramble through the metropolis it Is the marvel of foreigners that americans visit the old country jhc have never seen the wonders of theli own the mammoth cave the natural bridge the yosemite valley and othel places but bow many new really know new york the trip of forty around manhattan in a seeing new york yacht Is a liberal education the man jhc makes the talk through the mega phone can tell the natives a lot about his own city that he never dreamed oi as the truth for example new york was bought by the dutch from the in deans tor the sum of 24 paid in beads and blankets that was some time ago it has grown since ac cording to the megaphone man it Is at the present time worth about 3 all told A square toot therefore the size of a pocket chandker chief Is worth 1000 it not more full and sufficient reason this for erecting buildings in the atmosphere which costs nothing and as for the bigness and richness of new yorki who would have known that one of her steamships the baltic Is the length of two gigantic skyscrapers torn up by the roots laid flat and pasted together lengthwise it it had not been for the mega hustlers flocking in the big hotels ot this city are crowded these days with men from the west the south and n e t g h b oring countries on the I 1 continent they are here mostly to float stock in new e n t e r p r aises and most of them seem to know how to do it they are all provided with the proper credentials and they talk of millions as though money in that bulk was the only thing they handled many of their scheme will fall through but many more will be launched it Is always important for a western promoter to look his part and therefore the wide soft hat and untrimmed mustache Is part of the regular makeup getting to morgan td get into the banking house of J P morgan Is a great del more dit than it looks the two thoroughfares in the world wall and broad streets cross before the door the corner has been nipped off the building so as to form a narrow facade facing northwesterly and here a flight of steps leads invitingly up to the open door nothing could seem simpler than to enter yet nothing la harder than tor a stranger to get past that open door for just beyond the threshold a big man Is lounging in great comfort his thick right arm lying loosely along the counter every thing about him a picture of indolent ease except his keen good natured blue eyes they begin to measure you before your toot has neared the top step it you have no legitimate business in the office you cannot pass this man he Is james mcdermott late a policeman of the broadway squad he was a tremendous fellow even among that army of giants big jim they called him he could throw the 16 pound hammer and lifted the pound 50 weight farther than any other man on the force up to the time john flanagan came over from ireland to break world s records for twenty six years mcdermott wore the uniform ot the police clothes make the woman there are a number of only fairly bright young women doing well in vaudeville these days because they have fine costumes the method of gain ing favor among managers Is to dis play a wardrobe and then make a bluff at singing or giving a monologue no matter what the genius ot a young woman she has no chance unless she has a wardrobe the cue Is taken from the success made by lillian hus sell with her 20 wardrobe have no use for farm work in three years the removal commit tee of the united hebrew charities has succeeded in removing from the city to the country an average of 4 persons per year while as many new immigrants have arrived in the city in one week the difficulty has not been a matter of funds or places for families but unwillingness on the part of the families to go it struggling sometimes starving jews of new york refuse to go to the coun try under the persuasion of their own leaders what good will it do to endeavor to effect inducements by railroad land settling advertisements on the other hand the italian depre the farmer ready made but although nine tenths ot the italians who have come to the united state have followed agricultural pursuits they are ready to do anything else tor any rate of pay rather than continue farming in southern italy from which the mass of immigrants come there Is no conald erable industry except farming and men who are naturally gifted tor other pursuits must work in the soil to live therefore each overburdened peasant has come to look on the soil as his master and he as its slave iron workers show skill it speaks well for the sobriety and skill of the 8 structural iron work ers at present edgag ed on new york sky scrapers and bridged hat during the past two months they have neither killed any one through carelessness nor has one of their own number lost his own life when it Is considered that these men work at dizzy heights and are constantly taking chances of slipping or stumbling the fatalities among them are ably few millionaires in overalls new york society experienced a sensation when the announcement came out of california that bouas charles chauncey stillman son and heir of president james stillman of the national city bank who I 1 ono of the leading ministers in the stand ard oil cabinet was earning a meager 75 a month in oakland was an or binary or extraordinary baggage simultaneously with this bit of news came a paragraph from london saying that john cecil rhodes a nephew and heir of the late south african nabob had donned averalle ove ralle and gone to work in the kimberley diamond mines other instances ot millionaire wearing the habiliment of toll have come to light in such num bers recently as to resemble an epidemic of labor a plague of which Is smiting scions of wealth throughout the social and financial world foul deed of reformers the new jersey state home tor girls has decided to try the tar tamed soothing effects of music in correct f ing the girl inmates and thus encourage discipline although cruel and unusual punishment IS pro new jersey calmly anticipates the horrible spec bacle of a wayward girl being ed for an hour to hear hiawatha tammany or in the shade of the old apple tree on a phonograph persons living near the home tear that the shrieks of the will disturb them A neighbor suggests a change of name to the new jersey state musical college schools and expense some idea ot the magnitude of tho work that the school board has been doing for new york may be gathered from the casual announcement made by an official of the board of education that during the past year has been appropriated tor school sites and this ot course Is but a traction ot what the city ot new york spends every year apon public education on the east i and west sides with their teeming population school houses dot nearly every other block brooklyn queens richmond and the bronx have not been overlooked when we consider that about 90 per cent ot the children leave school at the age of 14 years the importance of implanting in each child the groundwork ot a good deduc atlon cannot be overestimated Is spending the taxpayers money in a good cause |