Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-25
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current 90 Life IN
the Metropolis.

the Metropolis.
] Like other cities with a vigilant civic
! spirit the Brooklyn division OF Greater
| New York Intends to regulate out Of bust
ness some Of the billboard evils. Follow
ing is a section Of an ordinance recently
passed which deserves consideration in
other eities: mo person shall put paste,
print. nail, maintain or display upon any
bill board. fence, building frame or strue-
turs. and in any manner expose to public
View as an advertisement OF any show
play or performance any indecent print
or picture or cut tending 10 represent the
doines OF any criminal act tending
to deprave the morals Of individuals or
shocking the sense OF decency, or tending
to incite the mind 70 acts of immortality
or crime. or to familisrize and accustom
the mind Of young persons with the same"
An apartment house that is expected by
its designers TO eclipse all others In taste
full furnishings and arrangements for the
comfort Of the tenants. is shortly to be
erected In Harlem. reports the Times. The
architects have endeavored to utilize the
latest ideas In apartment house construc-
ton and the plans for the building indicate
that IL will have several features that are
out OF the ordinary in dwellings OF the
kind.
The style Of architecture will be French
Gothic. The entrance hall Is to be finished
in CarrAra marble, with sculptures and
homework. From the salon hall a stone
staircase will lead to a large central court,
with a pergols. on the sides will be stone
settees and inches for statuary.
The building is to be four stories high,
with four apartments of six or eight
rooms on each OF the upper floors. The
dining rooms are to have oak wsinscot-
ing. surrounded by q Dutch shelf and
English tapestries. Solid oak beams will
be used in the ceilings. The drawing
rooms will be in the style OF Louis XIV,
with mirrors and silk hangings.
The bathrooms will be lined with white
marble to the ceilings, which will have
glass panels. The bedrooms will have dec
orations of white enameled wood and deli
cate wall hsngings. The kitchens are to
be provided with glass tile walls and ranges
for cooking by coal, gas and electricity
on the top floor space has been arranged
for a small ballroom for the use of the
tenants. 1t will accommodate 100 persons
The entire roof is to be devoted to a
roof garden, the floor OF which will be OF
Spanish tiles. The building will stand at
the southwest corner OF One Hundred and
Twenty-hrst street and Lenox avenue, ad-
joining the new Temple Israel.
Agitation OF the food adulteratlon ques-
ton has caused the New York authorities
to look more closely to the ctty's milk
supply Sixteen milk inspectors have been
added to the force already employed by
the department OF health. making thirty
men available for the work Of protecting
. ~ 80 tto al
termination and adulteration.
New York is an immense consumer Of
milk. About 100000 quarts are used here
each day. This great ocean OF milk is
produced by the cows of between 5000 and
1000 farmers, whose dairies are scattered
over the states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
end Vermont. Some of the milk comes
from points an far north as the Canadian
border, virtually the whole supply being
brought into the city over the lines of ten
railroads
The new inspectors will be assigned to
the large farms and creameries. The hand
ling of milk. icing, methods Of cleaning
cans and hotties, the water supply the
health OF the employees and the general
sanitary condition of the farms and definite
recommendations II corrective measures
are necessary. lnty Will dlsO witch lot
adulteration at the sources of supply and
report by wire to the department here the
shipment OF suspected milk.
Coney island among its many other mod
ern attractions is TO eventually possess an
immense board walk like that one which
has made Atlantic City famous and had
so much to do with the building up OF the
reputation of Asbury park.
The department Of public works OF |
Brooklyn is taking steps for the construc- |
ton of a board walk capable OF accommo- |
dating 10000 people, that is to be eighty |
feet in width and will extend from Manhat-
tan beach to Sea Gate, fronting that en-
tire piece of property known to everybody |
as Conev island.
No place in New York City has changed |
more than the notorious Five Points"
When first known II was a sparkling spring
in a gravel BASIN from which radiated fve
paths; then it became a center about which
were huddled squalid rookeries and low
drinking places. headquarters for the Grim
inal class of the city; and now It's center
is an inviting breathing place known az
Paradise park, surrounded by mission
schools chspels and respectable stores,
shops and great mercantile houses.
The officials OF New York are death on
fake beggars and bogus crippes. II a
stranger is found begging or soliciting aims
here he is put to the test to prove that he
is really in need of aid and unable to help
himself. The old scheme of playing deaf
and dumb has proved a Waterloo for more
than one ambitious person who has found
himself too strong 10 work. There has been
provided a powerful electric battery at each
OF the several hospitals and when mute"
is found asking for aid he is taken to the
hospital and the "julce' il turned on. II
the victim goes the limit without "holler-
ing" he is turned loose and permitted to
continue his business OF living without
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