The age-herald., 1901-11-26
EzgAt- StO2y Building, Wetghsng r.
 100000 Dead WetgAt t0 be Shz19ed
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 To shift a dead weight of 100000 pounds Is not an easy matter even in these days of improved mechanical ap- plications, as the contractors who are doing the lifting of that much steel at s East Eighteenth street will testify. Few people who pass the above address see anything extraordinary about the half-finished. eight-story steel building there or imagine that one side of it is being shifted bodily.
 Yet that is what the score or more of workmen are doing. The actual shift ing has not been begun yet. but they were beginning to put a row of enor- nous jackscrews in position yesterday afternoon. and the whole job will be finished within ten days.
 After the building which Is erected for George A. Heisler. had been nearly completed. the westerly wall was found to be out of plumb seventeen inches At first the builders didn't know how the mistake had come about, but investiga- tion brought out the following facts: Foundations for the columns of the big Corn building, at Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street, just west of MT. Heis- ler's structure, had been laid by means of open caissons In taking the material out of these caissons the material un- der the Heisler building was caused to sink by suction, and by the time the caissons were emptied the wall of the latter structure was leaning we'll to- ward the avenue.
 This was about two months ago. Opera tions on the Heisler building were stopped as soon as the fault was discov- s~-<%-<%><~<<<~-% regulations of composers and the success of their works. No man in the great world of music was better known. None had greater influence or power While generally insolvent himself he command ed money to such an extent that for more than a quarter of a century he was the leading impresario of the world. He en- tertained regally, spent money like wa ter and was an operatic autocrat.
 A few days ago he died. The newspa-
 
 glories and pictures of the impresario, radically differing from each other, but all of them stately and impressive, for Colonel Mapleson was not a man to be forgotten. And yet he was. When he was buried in London his funeral cortege was a hearse and a sinble carriage con taining his brother and brother-in-law No mutes, no funeral decorations, no artists whose fame he had helped to make, no flowers or wreaths, not even a member of his great crowd of chorus people and ballet, to remember him.
 And yet it was but yesterday that the stately colonel was in all his glory colonel in her majestys army, director of her majestys theater, arbiter of all singing men and women in the operatic world; autocrat of the fashionable world, and lord of the stalls. ''So passes the glory of the world" But the colonel is not an exception in the forgetfulness and unkindness of the world of music. Great CT men than he was have experienced its indifference Mozart was buried in the potters field and no one knows his grave. When the great Bach oied he was buried no one now knows where, only the town register records that "a man named Bach was taken this day to the cemetery in the hearse." Art is not always an alma mater.