PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 371, 18 June 1903, Page 2

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Got. Orman, of Colorado, fs a natiTe ef Muscatine, la., and went to Colorado •• * poor boy in 1869, getting work as m railroad laborer. He rose in the trasiness and has bean connected with it for 30 years. Booker T. Washington, having in ttind the evils which reanlt from the burial associations which flourish among 1 the negroes of the south, says that the leaders of that people "must teach that one bathtub is worth ten coffins." The old Patterson home on Patterson street, in Lexington, Ky., is to be removed to Dayton, 0., by Thomas H. Patterson, a grandson of the founder of Lexington. The home Is one of the historic spots which make the Ken* tacky town famous. Edwin Ginn, who is to build several model tenement houses in Boston, has Bade a long study of social condition* in that city, wher« he is one of the largest real estate owners. He says that now a man with only ten dollars • month for rent cannot possibly get there a place fit to live in. Dr. George W. Heatley, a wealthy tetired dentist, of Brooklyn, wished to buy some property adjoining his handacme residence in South Elliott placeHie neighbors refused to sell and likewise refused to buy his property. No*"he has a large sign on the front of his house offering SSOO to any reel estate •gent who will sell the place "to negroes only." The street is one of the*" tnost exclusive in Brooklyn.