The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-02
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CONSOLIDATED GAS COMPANY
TO BUILD BIG CENTRAL PLANT
Little Japanese Garden About Tw,
Hundred Feet Square Will Cos.
$25,ooo-Gypsies' Trick of Assum.
ing Poverty Causes Much TrouhI.

nine gas-making plants in the borough.
of Manhattan and transfer its entiro
business OF production to Lawrence
Point, l.. l.. where there viii be erect
ed the largest plant In the world.
Henry c. Macedonia, of counsel for the
company, and William H. Bradley
chief engineer, have promised the
board Of health that the works at tbe
foot OF Fourteenth street, near the
East river, which have been COM
piained or as nuisance, will be re-
moved within two years, the time re-
CURED to erect the new plant. and
put down the piping under the East
river. The other plants will be aban-
ooned after that one by one.
Ihere are nine gas-making plants
aitogether In the borough. They are
scattered along the North and East
rivers. - Last
All the plants are on land owned bv
the company. This land is very val
uapie. Brokers have estimated that
1t would sell for $4,000. 900. and n 10
believed that most of this sum. after
the sales are completed, will be paid
out TO the stockholders In the form of
an extra dividend.
Land for new plant above Astoria
company more than five years ago. hut
the project OF utilizing it has been de-
iayed by long and serious disputes
with the state and municipal an
tnorlties over riparian rights and the
cioslng or streets that had been laid
out on maps only. Three years ago
there was bitter fight in the legis-
nature over an attempt by the com
pany to obtain about sixteen acres
OF riparian land, said to be worth
$l,0O0,OO0, for about $4,000. The bill
authorizing this purchase and sale was
known as the Astoria grab" 1t did
not become law.
Plans Japanese Garden.
A $4,000 Japanese garden will soon
Deautify the estate of William Could
Brokaw near Great Neck. L. /. Seventv
Skilled men, under the direction of an
expert French gardener, are now at
work on It,
Inc entire garden will be only 200
1eet square, but 1T will contain all the
rare trees, shrubs, plants and flowers
native to Japan and arranged after
Japanese designs. There will be little
summer houses and tea pagodas.
The garden will be completed early
in the fall.
Gypsies Conceal Wealth.
Commissioner Williams has a prob
lem before him, growing out of the
haplt gypsies have of concealing their
wealth from the authorities. Antonio
Esteila, VINO came on the Havana from
Columbia, was hobnobbing with one
of the gypsies, and a little later the
gypsy set up a hue and cry that he
had been robbed of seven 20-franc gold
pieces. The case was reported to one
or the inspectors and Estella was
taken into room and searched In
his stocking the gold was found. Es-
tella already had been ordered deport-
ed, and now the commissioner Is in
quandry whether 1t Is his duty to
send him back whence he came or
to turn him over to the authorities for
punishment for grand larceny. The
case will be referred to Washington
for disposition.
When the Hamburg-American
steamship Karthage arrived here from
Brazilian ports she had in her steerage
several gypsies, who were to have left
the ship at Barbados, but owing to
the fact that that port Is quarantined
the vessel could not stop there. The
gypsies were brought here and sent
to Ellis Island for safe keeping until
the steamship company could send
them back to Barbados.
Juan Thomas, who had his wife and
six children in the party, finally decid-
ed that he didn't care to go to Barba-
does, and asked to be allowed to land
here, saying he thought he would look
around a little and then go to the
Philippines. He was sent before the
special inquiry board for examination
and was ordered excluded. He was told
later that this was because he had
only go In English money. as he testl-
n6 h.
learned this he broke into a tin kettle,
which he had among lot of kitchen
utensils, and produced handful after
handful Of gold sovereigns until he
had e 400 In English gold heaped
on the table before the officials. An
appeal will in all probability be taken
from the decision of the board.
Police Want Three Piatoons.
The question of the two or three
platoons system Is agitating both the
police and the general public and late
ly Commissioner has had many con-
ferences with the force and numerous
policemen have told him that If there
were fewer unnecessary details enough
men are on the pay rolls to furnish
a three-platoon system, give the citi-
Zens better protection, and secure to
the members of the force time needed
figures were given at the session Of the
commission appointed by Mayor Low
to report to him desirable changes In
the police law.
Little italy Honors Saint.
Italy, the genuine Italy of bright
colors and gay dresses, of flags and
festivals, OF trinkets and tambourines.
has been translated to the center of
New York city for time. Several
days this week any one who walked
down Elizabeth street for a few blocks
south OF Houston, could find faithful
living picture OF holiday in an Italian
town.
1t was the feast Of st. Giro. Many
or those celebrating it never have seen
italian skies. Others long since have
renowned their allegiance to the sun
ny peninsula and have learned to
boast of their American citizenship.
But every year when certain days
come round they become Italians once
more, and pay their tribute to the saint
with the same picturesque ceremonies
that their half-forgotten relatives are
observing across the sea.
1t is the heart of the tenement house
district, but rows of flags transformed
the dingy houses into fiuttering color.
The fire escapes were hidden in red,
white and blue bunting and from
every window flags We're flying. Long
strips of richly colored cloths, green
and crimson and yellow, raD from
house to house across the street, and
the air was alive with the tinkling Of
the metal pendants that fringe them
like the glass prisms on an old-fash-
Toned chandelier.
In the middle of block, opposite a
stand where band played, Is the
shrine OF St Giro, small altar, all red
and white, with huge painted candles
that sputter strangely in the daylight.
This was the center of the celebration,
which began with a procession of
italian societies. Headed by a band,
200 little girls, all In white. but wear