The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-01-04
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Especial Correspondence
AS reward for faithful service,
every employe Of the Corn Exchange
Bank not receiving more than s25OO
year will. at the beginning OF 1907.
receive an increase in pay OF 80 per-
cent In all 400 men will benefit by
this increase. This was the result OF
a meeting OF the board OF directors
held recently, at which the question
Of rewarding faithful service and
sharing the profits of the year with
the employees was discussed. The
old plan OF giving substantial pres
! ents at Christmas was objected 10 by
| several OF the directors, who declared
that IL encouraged extravaganza dur
ing the holiday season and was Of
little real benefit to the men. These
directors make the point that the cost
J Of living has increased during the
last five years, and that salaries fixed
then are no longer adequate.
What will become OF the swell
end" Of Coney Island? In the gay
summer time it has appeared TO be a
| highly prosperous enterprise; but the
other day the whole plant Of the Man
haitian Beach Company, with its fine
hotel, was sold at auction for the
benefit uf the holders OF mortgage
! Of 81 100000. II was disposed Of for
$500. 600 less than this debt. What
will become OF it is not yet definitely
! known. There are rumOrs that il
will be divided into small holdings
for cottages, but more likely another
! syndicate will attempt to make the
resort profitable.
The little enclosure in the new
! Bowery is all that is left OF the old
! Hebrew cemetery, which has been
| diminished by the opening of streets
! and other improvements until ii is
reduced 70 it's present narrow limits.
The Jews first appeared in this city
about 200 years ago, and have been in
Creasing in numbers and wealth (and,
Of course, in pOwer) ever since. They
have always been noted as an orderly
people, rarely requiring public charity
/
aforementioned cemetery IS the only
one on the East side. this locality be-
ing selected because the early Hebrew
! settlement was in that vicinity and
! his tendency has continued until the
Jews are the heaviest population on
! the East side Most of this class is
| composed OF the orthodox Jews Gas
! nh
| side one finds the reformed Jews, who
| are more progressive I'm their views.
! Joseph Pulitzer and Adolph 5. Ochs,
! both prominent newspaper men. are
! Of this class, and so as~ the great
| bankers who so often control Wall
! street.
Wearing her husbands rubber
! boots. an old rainy-day skirt,
| sweater and a mans hat. Mrs Ogden
! Merrill won the distinction of being
| the first woman to travel from New
! York 10 Brooklyn under the East
! river She made the trip with her
! husband through the subway tunnel
! from the battery the ends of which
were Joined few days ago. Mr..
Merrill is one OF the engineers en-
pIoved on this work. Mrs Merrill is
a bride Mr.. Merrill. in speaking of
the trip, said: 1T took us an hour
TO cross We walked slowly. eXamin-
ing the work, while ! explained how
il was done. The shields are head
to head. and | showed her how they
would be moved The floor is a plank
walk a foot or two above the lower
curve OF the tube, and in a good many
places there was much muddy water.
| Finally we passed slowly through the
air lock at the Brooklyn end. where
the air pressure was reduced gradual
ly. She felt no i'll effects and We
came home" II will he some months
before the tunnel will be open for the
public.
The purchase OF the Lenox library
| hy Henry G. Frick is the latest sem
sation In real estate. and IL is really
the greatest that ever occurred in
uptown property. The plat is 200 feet
by 1915. forming square fronting on
| Fifth avenue, the area being five
eights OF an acre. for which Frick
pays s2.5O0,0O0. This is at the rate
ot s4.O0o.000 an acre for land which
1 Robert Lenox bought in 1917 for
S1O0 the acre. Yes, IL really was
sensation. And how many sol
emn thoughts are thus suggested.
for IL necessitates the demolition Of
| that grand library which James
Lenox built TO last forever. He was
for years planning and building. and
II was done without regard TO cost.
hut II must now pass away. and its
| precious treasures od literature and
art must be absorbed by the grand
public library on Murray Hill-thus
forming a great literary merger. And
this is just what James Lenox detest-
cd He dwelt apart and in his soli-