Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-27

Rtppies on the Current OF Life in
the MetrOpOIfs

hARhlea on the Current OF Life II
the Metropolis.
| Philanthropy Of the practical sort a
brought into a favorable light by the sue
cess OF the Mills hotels in the metropolis
The Mills hotels Nos. and provide clean
decent and cheap lodgings and food a
moderate cost Both institutions pay abou
per cent on the investment. Mr.. Mill
has projected hotel No. 3, which will b,
similar to the others, and will be conducted
on the same plan. but will be much larger
It will be in the heart Of the theater dis
trict at the northeast corner of Thirty
sixth street and Seventh avenue
The new hotel will have 1880 rooms and
be fifteen stories high, absolutely fir,
| proof The rooms, with the exception OF
the corner ones, will be six feet by eiEht
feet six inches. The corner rooms will b.
larger, and the prices will run between Y
and 80 cents a night, with a slight extra
charge for corner rooms
The prices Of the meals TO be served will
be the same as in Nos. and 2 There will
De the regular dinner at Is cents and thS
meals la carte Coffee and two rolls will
| De served for cents. The dining room
! will have a seating capacity OF 400. There
Will be a private laundry. where guests
may do their own washing. The site OF
the hotel is 100 by 175 feet and the price
| paid for the ground was $4,000 The
hotel building is to cost 100000
| Ihe condition Of the air in the subway a
the subject Of a special report by George
A. soper consulting sanitary engineer. Mr..
| Soper admits that there is an odor at all
times in the subway. This is due, he SAYS.
TO the newness OF the subway, and arises
from paint cement, lubricating oil, hot
boxes and chemical deodorants
Mr.. Soper dwelled at length upon the
question OF dust and showed plainly that
there was large amount OF it present and
that 1t was matter of grave importance
This dust, when analysed shows 62 rs per
cent OF metallic Iron. microscopical ex-
animation shows that the fragments range
in size from those that can almost he
seen by the naked eye to those one twenty
five thousandth OF an inch in diameter. This
puiVerized iron is mostly due to the grind
Ing of brake shoes. The amount of iron
consumed in the wearing of brake shoes
amounted to one ton per mile per month.
MI Soper points out the Importance of
this, because this dust affects the health OF
the people. 1t contains l per cent of oil
and Is, therefore, very adhesive.
In the foreign quarters OF New York's
great East Side IL is no uncommon thing
to see crowd of excited men and women
huddled in front of building, clamoring
IN a Jargon Of harsh dialects for their
money Women are wringing their hands.
men, with distorted faces and hysterical
gesture, are pressing against the closed
door and impotently shaking their fists at
the window where a sign in foreign Ian
guage proclaims the place to be a bank. It
is "A aaic
pathy of the onlooker. but it is soon over.
The police clear the sidewalk. the crowd
OF distressed depositors melts away and
the episode is forgotten
one could scarcely call it a run on the
bank, for bank and banker are gone. Com
sluered as an affair of modern banking
business, 1t is of no consequence Possibly
not more than $4,000 is involved altogether
ana II has no significance in the great
game OF high finance. 1t is simply one of
the petty crimes of low finance, repeated
frequently in every city of the United
states, where there is a large foreign non.
ulation.
In New York City these petty crimes of
finance have been going on and increasing
steadily ever since the great steamship
companies began to land muItitudes of
hungarians and Italians at Ellis Island
lhese crimes concern only the simple i'm
migrants who have been duped and MUM
dered by their own countrymen, and evil
dence necessary for convection is so dta1
cult to obtain that investigation usuaIIv
goes no further than II mere record of the
fact on the police blotter in the precinct
where the crime occurs
Yet so persistently is the work Of a hand
or conspirators carried on that the lmmi-
grants of the great East Side are swindIed
out OF more than 81, 900 600 every year There
are, all told, between 700 and 500 banking
places in New York conducted i'm the for
eign language and patronized largely by
the immigrant class. few of them are
operated along legitimate lines. but more
than 800 exist in open violation of all state
and national laws governing the banking
business, and without the first principle of
method or law to justify their existence.
1t is hard for ayman to realize says
Leslle's Weekly, the vast extent Of the
improvements now being made by the
New York Central company in the heart
Of New York City, which will enlarge the
terminal facilities and replace the present
fine station with a magnificent structure
to cost I'm the neighborhood of S17 600 COO
The total cost of the terminal improve
ments, including excavations for yards and
practical reconstruction and electrical
equipment Of the tracks to Croton and
North White Plains, will approximate S4O,-
100000. Over 100000 cubic yards OF ma
terial, most of it rock, must be removed.
This immense quantity is being conveyed
on fiat cars through the four-track tunnel
beneath Park avenue (which is, and will
be, the only means of entrance and exit
to the terminaD, and used to fill marsh
ground for storage yards at Highbridge
and TO widen the roadbeds to the north |
The capacity of the Park avenue tunnel
VIII be greatly increased, because the
new TERMINAL plans include train yards |
below the surface; so that it will not be
necessary to take the "empties' through |
the tunnel to the Mott Haven yards to |
be overhauled. The installation of cleo |
tricity as motive power will also enable |
trains to be run under closer headway. /,
The average depth Of the excavation will |
be thirty-tive feet below the street. This |
huge hole is necessary because the tracks |
Will be carried on two levels one above
the other, the whole to be below street |
grade. The upper level will handle ex- |
press and the lower suburban traffic