PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Gov. Orman, of Colorado, is a native of Muscatine, la., and went to Colorado ns a poor hoy in 1869, getting work as a railroad laborer. He rose in the business and has been connected with it for DO years. Booker T. Washington, having in mind the evils which result from the burial associations which flourish among 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, liy.. 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 Kentucky town famous. Edwin Ginn, who is to build several model tenement houses in Boston, has made a long study of social conditions in that city, where he is one of the largest real estate owners. He says that now a man with only ten dollars a month for rent cannot possibly get there a place fit to live in. ]):*. George W. Heatley, a wealthy retired dentist, of Brooklyn, wished to buy some property ad joining 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 exclusive in Brooklyn.