Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-11

! Two of the tallest buildings in New
YORK, the Times and the Wanamaker ar,.
being equipped with observation INV.
ana seeing New York will become :,
very simple matter when they are thrown
open To the public. 1t is ALWAYS better In
take a Dlrd s-eye view of a city before go
ING ABOUT. The map is thereby fixed i'm
the minds eye. and those who have the
pump OF location develored can get a com
pfehtnSive understanding of the city in a
lev ii atNs- New York $ map is Il good deal
IKE the backbone of a fish Broadway
runs down the center making tn, suin;l
coiohln. ana the croSS-toWn streets run
OH dt regular intervals almost the whole
instance 70 the BATTERY. The down town
sectlcn IS somewhat complicated and TIL
q',lf"S little special study. but altnst Nor
the rity's scheme of distribution is very.
SIMPLE Eighth avenue on the West Side
- " sort OF sub-Br"adway. and the Bow
cry on the SaSt Side. with its continuation
oi lhird avenue. occupies the same rela-
tion. The croSS-tOwn streets are MN
Del"d east and west from Fifth avenue
from almost any given point one may
take the right car after the key of the
map IS learned. and this is very easy
The big laugh of Bob Fitzsimmons. now
play, "A Fight for Love" was raised the
".her night by a humble supe in the form
~ morse The animal was shod on The,
stage in full view of the audience He
was peaceable horse with drooping
neck and sprung front legs, a horse that
looked as though he lived in meditation
on a stormy past. Bob was going to shoe
mat horse. but the william, in furtheranc.
vi MS own meanncSS. was stopping him.
f"u snail not shoe my horse said he
lir is a valuable animal. He cost me
$500" 80 my
At that moment the horse. who preyi
ouSiy had shown no sign of life. turned
anu looked Squarely at the villain with a
look of panied surprise
II
subway may be well drilled in their re-
Spectlve duties the heads of the different
departments have been training the men
Tor several months. The elevated switch
yards at East Ninety-ninth street and
Inlrd avenue. Manhattan. have been
Training cars have been arranged on the
tracks and every mechanical duty that
man Will encounter in his work in the
subway is daily practced there. The
miotorman. the switchman. the conductor.
tne station men, the trackmen, the men
az the entrances and on the platforms. |
the guards-in fact. every position is rep
resented at this training school So it is |
IN the clerical branches of the road in the |
offices. Every man is ready to step into |
his place fully equipped to perform his
work on the day that the subway opens.
An institution peculiar to the east side
IS the man with the platform scales. who
travels around in the evening weighing
persons at a cent weigh. There are
scores of these men. trundling their rat
ting scales over the scobbIestones, and.
although everybody who feels he must
know his exact weight can find out with |,
less trouble at aav of the au-
tomato weighing machines on almostj
every corner for the same price these
itinerant weighers all do a good business.
Some of them have also a measuring rod.
and for another cent. will tell a customer
his height.