East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-05


The most valuable garden patch on
Manhattan island consists of two beds
of lettuce and radishes. each 90 feet
square, in the rear of little one
story wooden house in West one
Hundred Twenty-fourth street. half
way between Columbus and Amster-
dam avenues. The house and garden
in the rear are flanked on three sides
by modern six-story apartment houses
which all but shut out the sun from
the garden. The house only occu-
pies half the frontage of the lot
which gives an excellent view of the
garden from the street.
The little farm house almost brings
tears to the eyes of passing real es-
tate men. who realize now much
more valuable the ground could be
made. Hundreds of real estate agents
have pleaded with the old Irishman,
who has lived in that house for 40
years, to sell the property, but he al
ways shows the would-be purchasers
his garden, and tells them that the
care of 1t is one of the joys of his old
age. He would be lonely without his
garden, he says. There is nothing
left to the real estate men than to
wait for the old mans death i'm the
hope of being able to make some deal
with his heirs.
Hearst Has Not Bought the Press.
News of the revival of an old ru-
NOR that William r. Hearst had
bought the New York Press, was car
ried to HIM the other day There is
no truth in it," he said ~ have
troubles enough of my own. Just
now 1 am busy getting my san Fran
cisco paper properly on its feet
again"
Henry l.. Einstein. who owns the
Press, denied the rumor even more
emphatically when 1t first bobbed up
several weeks ago. The rumor prob
ably resulted from the fact that the
Press has been very friendly to Hearst
since the mayoralty campaign, devot-
ing many columns to the charges that
the city ownership candidate had been
robbed of the election. Lately the
news columns of the paper have been
filled with local articles and items
from various parts of the state detail
ing the strength of the Hearst boom
for governor.
The Press is running a decidedly
free lance sort of sheet. and speaks
its mind freely on any subject, and
sometimes displays considerable
venom. 1t is especially down on SEN
ator Depew and Senator Platt COM
mencing its campaign upon them long
before the insurance investigation be-
gan. 1t would like to see a recon-
struction of the republican party, with
large number Of cuts to be filled
with "ins" and it has a full list OF
would-be latter ones.
\ Popular Thoroughfarc.
1t is estimated that the laying of a
wooden pavement on Broadway has
| increased the capacity of that thor
oughfare more than so per cent. The
tide Of travel on it is greatly increased
but the street is not as crowded as II
| used to be.
The teams travel faster, and move
along much more easily than before
that street was kept on trottine
basis, instead of the old slow and hard
way. Now trucks with heavy loads
go trotting along, without any trou.
BILE to the horses Where formerly the
teams had to pull heavily and slowly
along. they now can go on a trot. Il
Is a common sight nowadays to see
teams trOtting along with loadinl
weighing four tons, and nearly keep
ing pace with the trolley cars. A!
soon as they strike the wood pave
ment they strike trot, while. as soor
as the old block stone part Of tn,
street still remaining is touched. tn.
horses slow down TO walk, and tn,
traces are kept as taut and strainint
as If the load had suddenly beer
doubled.