East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-05-20
NEW YORK LETTER

WlnteT III StrlkeS do not interfere.
Beneath It's roof will be sheltered not
only the beggar and the tramp and
the vagrant, but also families who may
have been evicted and persons of re-
finement who have been made home
less through some evil chance.
There will be no tips In this hotel
except the general directions not to
come too often. The person without
visible means of support who is seen
in the corridor two times I'm success
sion is In danger of the workhouse
This is limitation which will make
the hotel less desirable as a perma-
nent winter home and will insure a
steady change of patrons This is the
first modern hotel of its kind ever
built. Others of the class are only
shelters and cheap lodging places.
city Caring for Children.
The Charitable Institutions Divis-
ION Of the finance department of the
city OF New York. has opened to the
public an interesting exhibition show
ing the work this city is doing in car
ing for its destitute and unfortunate
children. The city of New York an
nually spends more money for this
work than any state of the Union or
any other city in the world. The ex-
hibition now open Is the same as was
shown at the St. Louis fair last sum-
mer AT ST. Louis the exhibit was
visited by sociological students from
all over the world. and its many in
teresting and unique features attract
ed universal attention.
COrk-llned Telephone Booth.
An ordinary telephone booth gives
privacy enough for most persons, but
broker down town is not satisfied
with this arrangement. His private
telephone is in booth lined with
three inches of cork. The door Is
covered with the same device to dead
On sound. and once II is closed there
is no possibility of hearing what may
happen inside.
To Greenland for an Outing.
Ever since Greely won fame for
his farthest north, that remained for
year after year the nearest approach
20 the pole. the weather sharps have
been filled with longings for the
realms of the blue icebergs and the
long nights.
If it be indeed true that close de-
votion to the vagaries of climate an
titles man to a soJourn where he
may stand a good show of freezing to
death, then nobody has better claim
to the reward than DR.. otto Fassig.
who sailed few days ago to take
command of one OF Mr. Ziegler's polar
parties. He will direct the search
about Greenland for the missing
Fiala.
Fassig went into the signal service
years ago when General Greely made
the weather. and he went into the
service because he was a fanatic on
wather. He had not long been about
the routine work of tabulating clerk
before the chief OF his division found
out that the quiet young clerk had
the winds and the maromstric gra-
dients and all that sort of thing at his
finger tips
A man with such qualifications
could not be kept long on desk work.
Place after place was made for him,
and at last the whole library of the
weather service was put under his
care. and there never was such a IL
brarian in any of the departments at
Washington. After leaving the wealth
er bureau he rose to be chief of the
Maryland weather service. He re-
CARDS his trip to Greenland as a hol-
iday If such be weather sharp's
idea of little pleasant recreation,
there will be few to dispute his taste,
subways Are Streets.
Radical changes will be noticed In
the new subways plans and specifi-
cations for which were laid before the
rapid transit commission this week
by Chief Engineer Rice.
Subways hereafter are TO be in the
nature of underground streets, so far
as the situations are concerned. En-
trance TO thu platforms will be had by
stairways through private property,
and there will be no kiosks to block
ade the sidewalks. No stations will
be built on curves. Tiled walls and
unsightly Advertisements will be prac-
tically unknown, as the walls OF the
platforms will be the show windows
of the stores along the underground
thoroughfare.
Stumbling the MOrmons.
Denied the privilege OF holding SER
vices in the streets. and obliged
through an unsuccessful real estate
negotiation to abandon their plans OF
building temple. the outlook for the
Mormons Of Harlem is not encourag-
ing.
They have sold the house in West
123d street, which they had purchas-
ed last December. to the great scandal
of all Harlem. They have been using
the house for their Eastern district
headquarters while planning to ac-
quire the adjoining property. The
fomer owner held II at high price,
and the Later Day Saints, with the
patience of their founder said they
would wait until he died. The owner
died. but instead of the chances OF
auction giving the house to the fol-
lowers of Joseph Smith, II fell into
the hands of real estate spectators
who held II at an even higher figure.
So the Mormons have now sold their
lot, and have abandoned for the time
being at any rate. their project of