Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-06-13
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Especial Correspondsnt.).

Mayor Low has received the Munici-
pal Art Society's plan for the perma-
nent Identification Of the city. In Its
report the society states that q funda-
mental scheme Is essential. 1t points
out that the commercial supremacy OF
New York demands that general
scheme be adopted. even though little
be done at present Some Of the prin-
cipal points of the report follow:
All important streets should have
underground roadways for pedestrians.
arcades at convenient points, parks
along the water front, at the Battery o
water gate and triumphal arch, pub
lie forum in Union square, a monument
to the prison ship martyrs at Fort
Greene, Brooklyn, and O civil war mon
ument at Twenty-third street and Fifth
avenue. Numerous historical tablets
and memorial fountains, the report
says. would be contributed by public
spirited persons.
This city has seen its important
building operations paralyzed over q
little dispute as to whether teamsters
in the lumber and building material
yards shall be union or nonunion--a
dispute that, thanks to the wheels
within-wheels organization Of the
building trades here, has got every
thing into tangle and I'D costing the
,,,o,, ,norIy "a Onn Onn IN 1yo oou oyorv
week. The matter at issue was SO min
ute in comparison with the mischief
done, and SO far removed from the
foreground, that the public never
thought 1t worth while to take sides ON
1t at all. It's mood was compounded
things Strengthened out, and work re-
sumed on. the hundreds Of unfinished
buildings SO urgently needed to house
the city's overgrown population.
There is a great deal of savage.
though discreet, criticism from.
men Of the city against the custom Of
removing their hats in the elevators OF
public buildings when ladies are in or
enter the cars. Some months ago the
Washington Post" took up this ques-
taon in the national capital and the let
ters 1t received from men and women
both almost unanimously condemned
the practice and today that. city en-
joys substantial relief through q gen.
eral ignoring of the senseless custom.
Atlanta equally needs such a%reforma-
tion. The practice is not followed In
public conveyances of any kind. In
steam and trolley cars, In buses and
carriages, men retain their hats on
their heads when in transit: They do
this even when, escorting family,
friends or sweethearts. There Is no
rule of sane logic by which obligations
should be put upon busy men, In public
elevators to doff their hats in "one
time and three motions fashion every
time a migratory woman enters the
car. In case Of mutual acquaintances
the man may be expected to uncover
while saluting a lady in the elevator.
but otherwise sense and comfort de-
mand the. abolition Of the uncovering
custom. Preachers are discouraging un-
covering Of heads in cemeteries DUR
ing funerals. 1t Is q good time. there-
fore, for business men to- discourage
the bare-headed nuisance in public ele-
vators. Any one who has witnessed
the wiggling and twisting Of an eleva-
tor; car full Of men to adjust their
books, papers, umbrellas, etc, and get
elbow room with which to take OF
their hats when some female enters
the, car can appreciate how great Will
be. the relief when the custom shall
have. been abolished. -
John D. Rockefeller has taken q new
big vault in the quarters Of the Stand
ard Safe Deposit Company, under the
Broad Exchange buildings, Broad
street. It.is understood that Mr..
Rockefeller pays for the accommoda-
ton about $4,000 a. year., 1t really COM
sists Of half OF a large private vault
which has been subdivided by the safe
deposit company into two vaults by
means OF strong steel grating. Each
half vault is about as big as q good
sized room. Mr.. Rockefeller has the
inner one. The other has not been
rented. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., rent
ed the Rockefeller vault for his father
and has access to it. There are vaults
under the Standard Oil Company's
building which the, important men in
that company have used for years, and
it is presumed that Mr.. Rockefeller
will also continue to make use OF his
quarters there.
Daniel Frohman, who 10 now report
ed to be engaged to a young actress,
Is the most domestic Of all the New
York theatrical managers, thought he
is bachelor. He owns q handsome
house in West Seventy-ninth street
and lives there with his three unmar.
ried sisters. He has filled his home
with interesting souvenirs Of his -trav-
els in Europe and of the musical and
theatrical notables he has known. He
is never SO happy as when entertain-
ing others, and scarcely week passes
during the season without q dinner
at which Mr.. Frohman gathers! an In
teresting company. He is the only New
York manager who lives and enter
tains in this fashion in his own home.
Next to his entertainments at home
Mr.. Frohman has always found most
pleasure in the sessions of a small but
carefully selected poker club that has
not missed a single Saturday night In
years. =. .~
The Commuters Garden.