Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29

RlppIes ON the Current Of Life In th'
Metropolis.

What Will be the tallest and broadest
skyscraper In New York City IL to be
built on Broadway Cortlandt and Church
streets, at an estimated cost Of &i0,OOo.W0
In its central portion II will rise to a
height OF thirty stories and the roof over
this thirtleth story will be as feet above
the curb
The caissou foundations which will sup
port II will be carried down TO bedrock,
about eighty feet below the curb 80 that
the entire structure above and below
ground. will be very nearly 800 feet high
Tho Easements and sub-basements viii be
excavated to depth OF forty feet below
the curb
The building will contain 1900 tons OF
structural steel-slmost enough to furnish
the framework for three F1atiron build
ings.
The rentable space in the new skyscraper
will be 10000 square feet--or, II It we're
spread out on a single floor. an area
equivalent to about six blocks the size NJ
the Madison Square garden. The building
will inclose 100000 cubic feet OF space.
No less than twenty-one very large plunger
elevators will be installed to provide the
structures great transportation system.
These will be arranged along the southerly
side of the arcade, which win extend clear
through the building from Broadway to
Church street.
This arcade will In itself be one OF the
buildings most striking features. The
Broadway entrance will cover the whole
OF the frantaRe on that thoroughfare,
thirty-seven and one-half feet, and the
arcade will maintain this width through
out. 1t will be sl5 feet long and forty feet
high, rising through two entire stories.
Deaths in New York City during 1905.
according to health department records,
numbered ana, giving death rate of
1881 per 1000 on an estimated population
Of 4024,7s AS there were 1OS,ssl births
during 1905, the net gain over deaths was
80,167 There were 42,6B marriages re-
ported last year.
Almost exactly one-third of all the
deaths we're Of children under years of
age, A,539. tuberculosis Of the lungs
caused the most Deaths $685.. and there
were also 1,12S deaths from other forms of
tuberculosis. There were 4,476 so-called
violent deaths. the total including $50
cases of suicide and many OF accident as
well as murder cases.
During the year the large total of 20,S31
cases of tuberculosis were reported-al-
most one-third of all of the cases Of conta-
gious diseases.
The New York Central railroad, which
contemplated the erection OF an enormous
skyscraper on the site of its present sta
ton in New York, which was to serve as
hotel and ONCE building. has abandoned
it's original purpose and will now erect
massive structure, which promises to be
genuine ornament to the locality In
which It will be situated. In appearance
/ . a natblfc htfld-
ing rather than a railroad station. There
is no information respecting the causes
which influenced the change Of plan, but
there is some reason for believing that
the attention paid to esthetic considera-
tons in laying out the new union depot I'm
washington had something to do with 1t.
For small folks the law as administered
in New York shows small consideration. A
lawyer convicted of forgery was given
twenty years in prison by a judge Of the
court of general sessions last week, and the
same Judge sentenced a street car conduc-
| tor to ten years, the latter's offense being
that he took the place Of the motorman
| for a moment to accommodate him, and
ran into wagon, the driver OF which was
thrown to the ground and killed Judge
o'Sullivan OF the same court has ruled that
insurance officials who falsifed the ac-
counts are guilty of forgery under the law
but the question is not whether they are
TO get twenty years for the offense, but
whether they are to be prosecuted at all.
Tony Pastors Fourteenth street, theater
TO a passerby looked like a florists and
gave forth sounds like those from the Polo
| grounds one night last week when Tony
celebrated the forty-hrst anniversary OF his
start as a manager. Breathing room was
at a premium. In the boxes and front
rows OF seats were many old-time actors
and politicians
After the audience had cheered itself
hoarse Mr.. Pastor said:
I'm going to sing you a song sang
| just forty-one years ago tonight. 'Sarah's
Young Man Just forty-one years ago to-
night 1 embarked with nothing but this
song for Paterson, and I've been at 1t ever
since. I'll sing one verse and maybe more.
All right. professor"
Mr. Pastor, although more than 10 years
old, showed the audience that he still re-
tains a singing voice better than some
heard on the vaudeville stage Of today.
When he finished the house again let go,
and when Tony came on for his encore
with few old-time dancing steps II let go
| a Tune.
'T'll sing an old song used to sing down
on the Bowery that some OF you may re-
member" he announced. I'm pleased to
see many here who used TO sit up in my
old Bowery gallery and sing it with mo.
They're gone higher still, some of them.
There's Senator Grady out there and-well.
1 won't name more, but see IL you remem-
Der the old chorus to Down in the Coal
Mine.
The audience caught on and fairly
! shrieked the chorus.
After the song was finished down the
aisles came the ushers carrying wreaths,
horseshoes and baskets of flowers. until
when they were placed on the stage Mr..
Pastor was surrounded by wall OF flowers.
Hundreds of members of the New York
state jurisdiction OF the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen. one OF the oldest fra
| ternal organizations In the country, are
likely TO leave IL because OF the increase in
insurance rates The new rates are nearly
twice as high as the old. The change,
which will cause the falling OF OF not
inconsiderable part OF the membership is