PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 351, 29 January 1903, Page 6

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Gov. Ormsn, of' Colorado, is a native of Muscatine, Is., snd went to Colorsdo %a s poor boy in 1868, getting work as » railroad laborer. Ha rose in th« basiness snd has been sonnscted with it for 30 years. Booker T. Washington, having » mind the evils which result from th? burial associations which flourish among the negroes of the south, says that the leaders of that people "must teach that one bathtub it worth ten coffins." The old Patterson home on Patterion 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 thi hjstoric spots which make the Kentucky town famous. Edwin Gfnn, who Is to build several model tenement houses in Boston, has made a long study of social conditions In that city, where he is ons of the largest real estate owners. He says that now s man with only ten dollars s month for rent cannot possibly get there a place fit to live in. Dr. George W. Heatley, a wealthy retired dentist, of Brooklyn, wished to buy some property adjoining his handsome residence in South Elliott place. His neighbors refused to sell and likewise refused to buy his property. Now he has a large sign on the front of his house offering SSOO to any real estate agent who will sell the place "to negroes only." The street is one of the most sxclusive in Brooklyn.