Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-12
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
nipples on the Current of Lite IN the
Metropolis.

copper king, the Maj Clarh VI ehG
NeZ Perces campaign of 1913. oeiia'or
Clark's income is over $1,5oo,ooo
month. The mansard roof of the clark
palace on the highlands Of flith
avenue is being sheathed i'll copper
from the owners mines. The walls
are constructed of marble from his own
quarries. In the basement are Russian
and Turkish baths, etc. and ON the
second floor are the art gallery ana
dining room. The gallery will contain
many Of the Gel hrated paintings OF
the world, and til house and its con-
tents will represent an outlay of $S,oOo,-
900. So much for copper.
So much abuse has been hurled at
the heads of landlords recently because
they refused to rent their miserable
little flats to persons who have chill
dren that one of the breed made the
announcement the other day that he
was going to build an apartment house
and that only those who had children
would he admitted. To prove that he
was not joking he filed plans with the
building department providing large
room for the storage of baby carriages,
and he made ella borate arrangements
for preventing the children from
falling down the stair wells and out of
the windows. The room for the stor-
age of baby carriages will probably
not appeal very strongly to the women.
They like to have these things stand
ing around in dark Railways, where
the neighbOrs can break their necks
over them, and the idea of putting
wire screen over the fences, protecting
the stair wells will not appeal. because
it will make the house look too much
like a prison. At any rate, the build
ing of this house will put an effective
gag on the howlers. if it does not
satisfy them.
Public school teachers legal rights
are further strengthened by decision
given by Justice Gaynor in the case of
Frank NJ. Bogert, who is rcinstated
and gets back salary since 1898
amounting to s4,27O.S3. City Superin-
tcndent Maxwell dispensed with
Bogert's services at the close of the
school term in 1898. that being the date
of the end of his contract with the
school board of the old town of New
Utrecht. Demand for reinstatement was
ignored by DIR. Maxwell. although
Bogcrt held a certificate which entitled
to appointment in any grammar school
in the state. Employment as substi-
tute teacher when regular teachers
were i'll or absent from duty was given
him.
Justice Gaynor heard the evidence
last week and in his decision he rules
that BOgertS term of employment did
not end on June 80, 1898. but that. under
the consolidation act it became an
indefinite term until the plaintiff was
removed for cause after trial. The city
Superintendent had no power to re-
move him, and he Is entitled to rein
statement with damages measured by
the salary of $3.50 he would have re-
ccived, less anything he had earned as
a substitute teacher.
The court computed the amount due
Bogcrt to be sf.27O.23, and issued judg-
mcnt. together with an order for his
reinstatement.
New York will have the finest hotel
I'm the world when the Hotel Astor, in
the vicinity of Times Square, opens its
doors, carly in the fall. Nearly $1,000
900 has been spent by William Waldorf
Astor for the land. the construction
and furnishings. The building alone
will represent a cost of about $1,000 600.
The land is valued at more than $1,000.
600. The nova BILE furniture will cost
nearly 100000. In it's construction
nothing in the way Of modern inven-
ton for safety against fire has been
overlooked. From basement to roof
garden. every corridor. stair. hall and
room is to be finished with lavish
elegance and with little regard to cX-
pcnse. Artists Of worldwide renown
have contributed to the mural decor
atoms. Experts in all phases of in
terror adornment have spent months
| working out schemes of color. determ-
| lining architectural details. selecting
| expensive tapestries and arranging the
| thousand and one up-tO-date comforts
| of this huge pile.
New York's small-shop architecture
| is adapting itself picturcsquely to its
purposes. A low building of the kind
known as taxpayer has been built on
an uptown corner in the style of an
old Dutch edifice. and it's unusual ar
chitectural features are not only an
| ornament to the neighborhocd. but have
| proved attractive enough to rent all
the shops and Offices Before the build
ing is finished.
Another new shop intended for a
special kind of business is built in imi-
tation of an old English house, with
the white woodwork of. it's dormer VIM
| dows facing the street. A house de-
| voted to TIE sale of articles in the style
of the Colonial period is an admirable
| reproduction of a building of that era.
All these unusual edifiees are in the
| same region, to which they add un-
| usual Dicturesqueness. ~
Along Fifth avenue between Thirty
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