The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-05

maSnlncent Sky-Scraper erected
on Broadway and Forty-second streets.
Sunday morning the paper was printed
and distributed from Park Row; Mon
day morning 1t was printed and distri-
buted from the new building, three miles
uptown" To accomplish this, stupen-
dous task which would have proven well
worthy of the genii called up by Aladdin's
lamp, demanded enterprise and general
ship that is a credit to the progressive
pess of the American people and espec-
tally the American newspaper. The mas
sive structure of steel occupied by The
Times is a most remarkable achieve
ment Of latter day architecture and
review Of its proportions Is interesting.
There are twenty-five stories above
ground, three stories below ground, two
galleries and a pumping station sixty
one feet below the level of the street,
making thirty-one stories in all. 1t is 1921
feet from the curb to the top of the OBJ
servatory rail and 476 feet from base to
top of flag pole. The structure is the
tallest building in New York and is
the highest point above tide-water with
in a radius OF twelve miles. There are
Al, 1852 tons of steel in the building, 61S
steps in the stairway, the highest ele
vator rise in the world, the highest water
lift in the world and the highest smoke
stack in the world. To cap the climax.
the subway basement passes obliquely
through the basement. The development
of the sky-scraper is one of the most
fascinating studies of the century. APP
parently, nothing is too stupendous for
the modern architect to undertake and it
remains to be seen what new monster of
steel and stone, as perfectly constructed
as a watch and vastly more complex,
will rise in the future to eclipse the
Times building.
A rich Hungarian has solved the do
nestle problem by keeping his wife in
a cage. Thus he was assured of her good
conduct during his absence, was in no
fear of being interrupted by her at an
inopportune time and was always sure OF
finding her at home when he got there,
to say nothing of the immunity he en-
joyed from physical violence at her
hands. The only possible objection phil
osophers could make to the scheme is
that the Hungarian genius did not apply
1t to all his wife's relatives.
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia struck a
popular note when he said that the idea
that a woman shall be sent to the chain
gang for six months on a charge of loiter-
ing is contrary to every teaching of civil
lization and humanity. In the United
States court at Macon, in the case of
Annie Wheeler against the superintend-
ent of the Bibb county chain gang Judge
Speer ordered the woman released on
500 bond. No matter how low woman
may fall and how much she may deserve
punishment she Is out of place in a chain
gang.
The distressing story of a young man
in Cincinnati who has just worried him
self to death because he borrowed an
umbrella from a friend and then lost it
will be something of surprise to joke
smiths who have heretofore fiattered
themselves that they knew all the char
acteristics of the umbrella borrower.
From the time that man first began to
carry umbrellas on clear days and leave
them at home when 1t rained individuals
have borrowed umbrellas from other in
dlviduais-some times with their permits
sion and some times without-and have
forgotten to return the property to the
original owners. But a new epoch In the
history of umbrella lenders and borrow
ers has been opened by the Cincinnati
youth. He was entirely too sensitive for
this world, and 1t is fortunate that he
passed away early. If he was capable