The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-23

ed with him several well-knoWn ex-
perts.
Engineers and consulting electrical
experts of the interborough Rapid
Transit company are working upon a
solution of the third rail- problem and
it is expected that Il report will be
made within a few weeks, proposing a
number of plans which would be fea-
sible by which the dangers of an eX-
posed contact rail may be obvated or
greatly lessened. 1t is said that the en-
gineers favor plan by which the con-
tact rail Will be cut off in short sec
tons. which can either be cut out
altogether in case of a fire or an ac-
cident on the structure and thus rem
der it harmless, or may be automatical-
~ rendered alive" as the trains pass
along and idead' at all other ines.
Leader Charles r. Murphy is SO
pleased with the success of his candi-
date Mayor Mcclellan that he is said
to be grooming the young mayor for
still higher honOrs-possibly the presi-
dency in 190S-and will see that Tam
manyites who would bring Mr.. McClel-
lan's rule into disrepute and thus blight
these high ambitions, are restrained.
If Mr.. Murphy can be a Warwick or a
Hanna a few years hence, with New
Yorils young executive as the plastic
material. it is said that his ambition
will then be satisfied.
Comptroller GrOut is still up in arms
against an increase in the s21,000.000
appropriation for schools. claiming
that if certain useless eXtravagances
are cut off, it will not be necessary to
curtail the educational system. The
school authorities insist that they must
have more money and there is talk of
appealing to the legislature for the
funds necessary for the vacation
=
creation centres.
New York society never tires of fads
and everything that smacks of novelty
is taken up with an eagernesS that is
sometimes amusing to say nothing of
the gross extravaganza of many of the
ideas. Just now the rage is for flat
dwelling. Many smart multi million
aires, following the example of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred G.. Vanderbilt, have given
up their homes for the winter and
taken flats for the season. Needless
to say that these flats are situated in
the more exclusive apartment hotels
and require as much furniture and eX-
pense of keeping up as an entire house.
Many of them consist of as many as
eighteen rooms and occupy entire
floors.
In striking contrast to the New
York fad are the modest rooms in Ho-
boken of Mrs. Hetty Green. the richest
woman in Arizona, and probably one
domiciIed herself. her dog Dewey" and
maid in six rooms in the famous New
Jersey town for which she pays $40
The apartment is rented in
the name Of NASH" Mrs. Green's maid,
and unless one knows just where she is
situated, il would be Impossible to 10
cate her.
The most extraordinary fashion in
evening dress in years is the return to
favor of the pointed Waistciat. For a
decade or more the round cut dress
Waistcoat has been considered indis-
penSable to style in the evenings. But
the London tailors have changed that
and are sending here this winter eve
ming suits with both the white and
black Waistcoats, cut to the point,
Absolutely no work has been done
on the footpaths of the Williamsburg
as no arrangements for railway trans
portatiOn have been made and it is
evident that the opening was prema-
ture. 1t has developed that the last
administration in its efforts to obtain
the credit for opening the bridge made
the affair a costly farce.