The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17

Fo@f VIII <4ee W49 fariousY esumhteo
 earned ssS.soo igs dsfendins the ' sprscK-
 s's me I san ~ 1raneisco }, sarthqaak. changed the course of Mir. Deimas.s iife- Before the disaster he had no | thought of coming to New York. Part
 of his fortpns. however. was shaken | down by the quake. and burned fin the fire that followed. Life In San Francisco was so chaotic that he de- cided to travel in the East TripIe Decked Streets. John Hrisben Walker the former magazine writer editor. has been studying New rofk's transportation problem. He has decided that the only
 solution is to triple deck the streets.
 Here Is MT Walkers plan in his own words
 First--An open subway excavated only twelve feet below Seventh Ave noe's present street level This sub way lighted from above open to al, most as perfect ventilation as the ele- vated roads. healthfrl, inexpensive and | comfortable in every way would have sufficient width, for quadrurie car I tracks. for gaspipes. for electric light | and power cables. for lines of steam
 heating pipes. for mail tubes, for water | pipes 'Tn a word, for every one of |
 by a modern city and which in the ill.,
 judged. confused. costly tangle be- meath our streets are an everlasting | source of cost and annoranre, 'The entire system would be open at all times without tearing up for con- nections. inspections. repairs and fu- | ture additions in the ample width ad- joining the railroad tracks With such constructions the day of tearing up streets, mutflating the asphalt and ob- structing trade would be gone for ever. It Is even possible that with its ] four tracks the subway could remove
 all ashes and garbage in the early morning hours.
 'Second--A street sixteen feet above
 the original street surface. leaving head room for cross treets- to pass over I the subway. This first street deck ! strongly built. to be used for heavy freight and all forms of slow motion.
 "Third--A second street deck of lighter structure for omnibuses car | riages. motor cars and rapid move- ment. This deck would be divided into | two sidewalks of ten feet each, then | two ventilating and light shafts of | three feet each. and in the center l light well of four feet separating the north and south driveways having width of thirty-three and a half feet No travel north would be permit
 
 bound ears being required to turn in I from the south and go north In order I to reach the center of block on ths l east side of the road"
 4 Flat Without Heat. Most refcrmers in these piping times l of reforms, when they want something remedied, pack up their grievances and buy a ticket for the White House to get Federal regulation. Charles H. Ayrss "a professor in Columbia Uni- versity, is made of sterner stun. He wanted a reform-he yearned for it- he wanted heat in his fiat. The man who | stood between- the professor and the
 heat while the temperature played tag around zero, was the landlord. MT. Ayers. instead Of seeking Federal reg ulation, went to the Supreme Court and asked fer writ to compel the landlord | to heat his apartment on Morningside Heights.
 The professor declares that 1t Is ra- ther embarrassing to have your friends drop of enc by one because they ind | 1t necessary to keer on their furs when | they enter your apartment. He says | he intenda to. teach the whole tribe of l landlords lesson In the legal rights of 1 fatdwellers, and all persons who have lived in flats will cheer on this brave
 soldier in his efforts for the common good. when he gets through with the I see him take up the ease of the jani-
 tors. After all. the landlord is mere
 nobody. It's the Janitcr who rules
 New York.
 Give us more heat, if you please"
 pleads the shivering tenant to the chill | ly Czar
 ''G'wan wid you" courteousiy re-
 spends the czar. sYense blood aust,be
 , verity, life in a New York flat. &C., cordine to some victims, is what Gen.
 Sherman said of war.
 l Edison's Holiday.
 Thomas Ava Edison. the inventor. l is now enjoying his play spell. He 1 says when a man gets to be fifty-nine | years old 1t is time to knock off l work. On the eve of his sixtieth birth day he said.
 ''For forty-hve years I have been 1 making experiments with electricity, but all those years have been turn 1 ing these experiments to commercial | value so fast thatI have had no chance l to play with electricity for the fun of the thing just to see how much l can find out about 1t. But from to-
 morrow on am going to give up the commercial end of 1t and work In l my laboratory purely as a scientist. l That will be the pleasure have long
 been promising myself" 1 As his opening frolic Mir. Edison | says that he will perfect the phono- 1 graph,
 1 Tt may not be long before my hear | ing leaves me entirely" said he, T | have been deaf since was q boy but l 1t is getting worse as I grow older. want to tinker with my photograph | while I can still hear 1t. I believe | that can make the records more | clear and the machine far better
 reproducer of tone qualities than 1t /! Is now"
 Put your trust fin heaven and your