PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 13 January 1906, Page 4

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Gov. Orman, of Colorado, is a native of Muscatine, la., and went to Colorado as a poor boy in 180'J, getting- work as B railroad laborer. He rose m Hit business and has been connected with it for 30 years.

Booker T. Washington, having in mind the evils which result from the burial associations which -flourish Biltong 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 Patter- . r>, mi Lexington, Ky.. is to be j. , ,'.((1 to Hay ton, 0., by ihomasH. Pauerson, 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 mouth for rent cannot possibly get there a place fit to live in. Dr. George \V. Kcatley, a wealthy retired dentist, of Brooklyn, wished to buy some property adjoin!ng his handsome residence in South EMiotr p.ace. 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.