Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-03

the two Geolets. are tearing down old
buildings and erecting now ones, as
matter of necessity and not from
choice. for tenanats are becoming fas-
tidious and demand the greatest lux
ures and most modern innovations.
aud are willing to pay for them. Nov
el features justify high rents. The
| rentals paid for office rooms and liv.
ing apartments in some of the new
buildings are almost Incredible. and
| the more fine buildings there are
erected the greater. the demand for
| the facilities they furnish and the
higher the rents
No city in the world can compare
with New York for hotels either in
| number size or splendor. They have
been increasing very rapidly during
the last few years. but the larger
they grow and the more numerous
they become the higher the rates and
the greater the number of patrons.
The big hotels are always crowded.
You have to telegraph ahead for
room at the Waldorf. the Manhattan
and the other large ones, and it seems
more difficult to get accommodations
than before they were built.
New York now has the biggest of
flee building in the world with TWEEN
ty stories and over 1.500 rooms.
There are more than 5000 occupants.
The exact number is not known. but
a census is to be taken soon, and the
janitor thinks IL will show at least
,O0O-a city in four walls. 1t is the
building at the corner of Broadway
and Exchange place. The tallest
building in the world is in Park Row,
and is known as the Syndicate build
ing, 1t is BAG feet high from the curb
to the cornice, with twenty-six stories
above ground and one below.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is about to erect the largest station
in the world. for which 1t has pur-
chased four blocks of ground in the
busiest portion of New York between
Senventh and Ninth avenues and Thir-
| ty-frst and Thirty-third streets. It's
trains will come in by tunnels from
New Jersey and Long Island. upon
| twenty-three tracks forty feet below
the street level McKim. Mead &
White are making the plans The en-
| tire improvements, the station, the
tunnels. etc. will cost between $685.
| 600, 900 and Si0.000,000.
The firm of Macy e. Co., which is
| owned by the Strauss brothers-lsa-
| dor who was a member of congress
| for several years. and Oscar. who was
| minister to Turkey during the last
| Cleveland administration-are build
| ing what is claimed to be the largest
mercantile establishment in the world
in Broadway. between Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fitth streets. 1t covers S0.-
900 square feet of ground. and will
cost. without fixtures, $4,000
MARLBORO. Mass, June 26.-John
Culinane middle-aged laborer, went
to the parochial residence of the I'M
maculate Conception parish this morn
Ing and informed Rev. Fathers Fin
nick and Sullivan that he had. Just be-
| fore coming to the house, placed his
| 7-year-old son Charles, in the kitchen
| stove oven to burn.
| To the police Culinane said that he
heard his wife. who has been dead for
two years, tapping on the headboard
of his bed. When he placed his ear
beside it to listen, he heard her re-
peat many times: Charley Is dead.
burn him." which he proceeded to do.
| The boys screams so alarmed his
brother. two years older. that the lat
ter came downstairs. despite his faith
er's orders, and after trying for some
time to locate his brother, took him
from the stove, The boy was in the
oven about half an hour. He will
probably die.