PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 16 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 IsGO, getting' work as a railroad laborer. He roi.e in the business and has been connected with it for DO years. Booker T. Washington, having in mind the evils which result from th‘6 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, Ky.. is to be removed to Dayton, 0., by '1 nomas H. Patterson, a g'randson 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 h« i* 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 W. Bentley, 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 refiised to buy his property. Now he has a large sign or. 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 moat exclusive in Brooklyn.