Show GOTHAM GOSSIP municipal machinery victor illah life hotels spring styles fey my the herald correi spon gentl but few people have any conception concepti orl of f tho the vastness of the machinery employed cd in tho the government of tile city rn f and county of new york aa As the county com only the city tho the machineries of both brunside run side by side iside giving employment to a very largo large army of men tho the figures in the tile hands handi of a practiced statistician might bo be juggled with by tho tile h hour u and thrown into a thousand differ different c n ri combinations not one loss interesting than tho the other among tho the many truths lip might thus evolve ono one could be to this ef amt that those employees and their families number more people than live in somo some of the tle nourishing flourishing towns of the tile east and west for no less low than 84 persons a are r oc employed to keep tho prodigious wheels of OUR LOCAL in in motion the pay rolls roll N of the ci city y and county show that there are persons lis on the annual salary lists anil and who arc are paid cither either by tho leour Z or lie the day the week or the month tho annual salaries omitting those of 11 firemen remen who being graded receive from to 1500 each to george P I slomon who debated vigneaux the french expert at billiards in the grand hotel notel paris arrived in new york on tuesday on tho steamer servia lie ile received aver a very heart hearty welcome at the hands of IZ hs friends mr was the picture of health and received modestly the warm congratulations poured upon liim him llo was as compelled to tell the tile story of his victory over and over and waa lustily cheered at the end of carli each recital mil has nas words of high praise for 11 djin id lel blondeau llon deau who acted as referee to that gent lemans uniform courtesy courte ey and impartiality lie attributes something of the he said that he had never met so 80 splendid a 11 referee before had an any ono else held the post 11 t he be fears vigneaux would have bave ea bothered him greatly and won oon the match vigneaux leaned upon lie tile table tabie and did many little tricks of an annoying g character whit which h were checked by tho the referee ni making the teat test between them on tufi whole I a very cairone fair one mr aard that vey he lie had la d entertained no fear of losina losin except upon the second e ven ng when ho lie was left behind II 11 alt was washout out of form avin taken medicine and could not play at all ho did not riot give up lip all till hope however and upon the next e evening ay iy aa as a all I t the I i e world knows lie played ali with great brilliancy the pate gate money 20 fres was bially equally divided between rith tha players pla yora As the match was vas for received in all aasum equal tot lie gate money on alie day 01 of his departure lie was was made thy alio reci recipient i en t also of a pu purse s e given him by ilia his admirers admirer sin in paris which include the whole colony of americans ho ile ha has s no idea liow how much money changed hands on the result but has reason retson to believe it must lia a great sum TUG HOTEL MIS keeps keels on booming and several houses arc are havi having 1119 annexes captain dane has built a tremendous addition to the unla union square hotel and the morion morton house now takes in the entire front air fourteenth street between broadway anil and fourth avenue the old id standby uriah welchs st nicholas nichoas hotel ii rivaling the prosperities weri ties of the tile past and turns away guests over every night itis it is a favorite resort for cro aln nor parties being neither too far up or or too far down town the fifth avenue hotel lias has gobbled another house louse and lie the hoffman house lias has made extra accommodations that cost a mint of anon money e fr frank a alien allen of the tile astor housa j divided f ili a month with A J harn darn his ia partner aner and if the actors absurdly cut up half the hotel into offices which few caro care to hire they could double their profits so gradually and quietly havo tho tile n novel features of THE STYLES been introduced ono one by one in tile toilettes toi lettes completed since those for winter were accepted that the garment or their of this month really enU embody dv most of the tile character istia a of spring and summer rash fashions ions however in a it few short weeks tile glory of spring styles will burst upon us s and lung long before the warm siina hino and the nourishing raindrops a of may u unfold the leaves and buda buds in coee com and fields the various palaces of fashions will wil I be gorgeous in ill novel and brilliant array this pre premature maturo knowl knowledge edgo of what is to bo be ia is specially I y appreciated by ladies who d denro to begin appreciated early their I preparations reparations for spring or wish to make over half worn gorn p garments which haste would hardly bo comfortable if one ono fet that iho tile style used even for a second I best drosa dross would be obsolete a few months later each day during the past week most at exquisite fabrics have been opened in the various tho rho katins grow row more complicated in in designs aa as the season advances ad and are BO so fine t they 11 p cannot be from fa fou larda lards which are dev decorated orated after the feanie conceits and in similar colors sune are japanese but tho the hues af I lie the various figures blend instead of cl dabbing ablAng as in tho the old chinese or japanese fancies the birst rii at L of satins gatins were those ith clarnc sized flowers in single blossoms b ids and sprays but still aro those with very small dai frie wild roses dogwood flowers yellow jus jall minoa mines and other open flukers without stems sprinkled over the entire surface show ing very little of the ground these bright hued floN verS over or gou grounds rids are tire very pretty and eu octive abam NEW YORK fob feb 25 |