Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1882-07-29

wondered that brick and mortar
should ever be piled SO high for dwell
ing places, or that any would risk
being so near heaven. Now New
York can discount the Scottish Cap.
itai, and in a few years, the lower
part OF the city will be mass of tow.
eriig structures, such as no other city
can show. Ten story buildings are
going p to be filled with offices, and
every room is rented before the walls
are completed. 1t is a serious ques-
ton IS to protection from possible
fires 10 these edifces one hundred
feet and more in height, and the only
way to solve it is by the use OF abse
lutely fire proof materials, and none
other. Unde. no other conditions
should such lofty buildings be per
mitted. The progress OF science
keeps pace with the Developments
Of our needs, aud American instita'
tions will test and experiment until
the burning to the ground of large
modern building will be an impossi-
bility.
In every part of the city, building
has been going on with wonderful
rapidity during the first half Of 1882.
In that six months, tie Building Blu
reau approved of plans for 1865 new
buildings, and for alterations Of old
ones, to cost together, more than
twenty eight million dollars. This
activity is noticed in all parts OF the
city, from the Battery to Harlem
River, many of the editices in the
upper portion bel e large. costly and
elegant apartment houses, whose oc-
cupants must pay rental OF from
81, 500 to $4,000 for suite OF eight 10
twelve rooms.
ODD "ADDs."
All the entertainment in a news
paper is not to be found in the
amusement columns, nor yet in that
fourth column on the "rimes editor
ial pages where Alden's grptesque
articles are 10 be looked for. The
ordinary advertisements (or rather
the extraordinary ones found among
the ordinary ones) are often more
curious than the reading matter. at
40 cts. a line the frugal advertiser
counts his space, and boils down his
meaning into the tewest practical
words. If your name happens to be
Gordon, you needn't get mad to fad,
under "Help Wanted" this call:
"Wanted Boy to kick Gordon, and
make himself useful" 1t is only a
printer who wants a boy to work a
Gordon press, and be ready for sny-
thing else. The spinster need not
stop her paper because it contains the
shameless announcement of "Hands
wanted to work on bosoms:" for 1t
means sewing girls in a shirt factory.
Small boys generally fill their pock'
cts even unto bursting, but here is q
man who advertises for q, "Boy in
salt store to fill small pockets" the
"poc kets" being the small bags for
table salt. Another advertisement
is for "A young girl improved" but
what he wants I am not milliner
enough to find out. Perhaps he was
the father of the 15.year old girl, who
was arrested the other day for wear
ing boys clothing, and running away
from homo to consort with news boys
and boot. blacks. There is an ample
field in New York for young girl
improyers. 1t isn't q restaurant
keeper, nor the proprietor Of hotel
in the country who says "a peerless
feeder wanted" but another printer
who wants boy to tend and feed
Peeless press. Otherwise, l know
several men out of employment, who
would fill the bill, with peerless and
Unsuitable appetites. To one who
has watched the way the modern
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