The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-22

hers are " NC nuu BAcliS ny. rNHOSS
who are adroit enough to show how
they can advertise the articles among
their acquaintances. / know. woman
who bears one of the best known names
in New York and who is nothing less
than the paid agent of certain brand
of champagne, nor is all her pay taken
'in trade" either She is supplied with
the wine, ad libitum and gets nice
| little amount of pin money every
month also. 1t has remained for the
ingenuity of Mrs. Sutro, however to
introduce this method into the learned
| professions and we may now expect
to set artists, architects and perhaps
lawyers, doctors and ministers ten
dering their professional services in
return for judicious exploitation by the
feminine elite.
Ordinarily Wall street cares nothing
hours. But recent book Of Wall
street stories Is an exception to this
rule. The financial district regards
this particular work of fiction with
profound interest and with equally pro-
found disapproval. 1t regards the
book as a knock" and this is not the
time when operators in stocks wish to
have attention called to the methods
Of the street It's hard enough to
catch suckers anyway without this sort
of thing stirring up suspicion" Is the
comment of one Stock Exchange MEM
Der, while another bitterly observes,
IT'S a wonder they didn't put the
text on the cover of the book: "A fool
and his money are soon parted" The
trouble is that the stories are based on
fact, and the thinly yelled characters
of the magnates of the street,-Mor-
gan, Keene, Sage, Gould, and others
are drawn sometimes in manner
more frank than fiattering. Shortly
after the book appeared Edwin Lefev-
re, the author of it, who is the financial
editor of one of the evening papers,
was accosted by a broker
1--WE just finished reading with
great deal of interest those stories OF
yours" said the broker.
I'm glad you liked them" said Mr..
Lefevre, politely.
Liked them!" said the broker.
'There's only one thing that prevented
me from buying the entire edition"
what is that?" asked the author,
much hattered.
'4,The knowledge that as soon as I'd
burned II up the publishers would get
out another" growled the hnancier, as
he turned his back.
How far-reaching the effects OF the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroads tunnel scheme
will be upon this city Is matter be-
yond estimate now, but 1t cannot be-
doubted that the entire aspect and
character of that part of the city
where the station is to be, will be al
tered and 1t would not be surprising
II the whole theater and hotel district
which is in close proximity should
undergo a radical change as the result
of establishing a great terminal sta
ton there. The Pennsylvania Compa-
ny's plan-and IL is a stupendous one
is TO tunnel under the North river for
connection with New Jersey and under
the East river for connection with
Long Island and to opeyate the trains
by electricity. One of the most inn
mediate and beneficial effects will be
felt in the immediate vicinity of the
station, which Is TO be at Seventh ave-
nue. and Thirty-thir street. At pres
ent Thirty-thrd street between Sixth
and Seventh avenues is the most
squalid and one of the most disreputa-
BILE blocks in the whole Tenderloin dis
trict. 1t will hardly be able to main
tain this character after the new sta
ton is put in, and the adjoining blocks
south of there. which are now thick
with disorderly houses are likely to
experience a Statutory cleGning-up as
the result OF the appreciation in the
value OF property that is sure to come.
Probably ninety-nine New Workers.
out of a hundred would say that the
proposed tunnel will be the first ever
carried under either of the great rivers
that bound the city There has been.
however, for several years a tunnel
connecting one OF the outlying parts
OF Long Island City and Manhattan
Island This passes under the East
river and Blackwelps Island. It is a
gas tunnel. but IL is big enough for a
small hand-c8r railroad 10 be operated
therein. There IL also a half-completed
tunnel under the North river. on which
the work was stopped several years
back because OF engineering difficulties.
But nothing on the great scale Of the
Pennsylvania project has ever been
even attempted before.
To Intimate friends OF Signor Mar
conf, Ia this city She news II bis sue