The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-22

day in the year, Sundays and holidays
included. In view of this condition,
the suggestion of the Charity Organi-
zaticn society is rot so unreasonable
as 1t would appear at first glance.
The uptown tide which has carried
the great hotels. restaurants, amuse-
ment and business sections farther
and farther up Broadway every yca.,
Is about to effect another striking
change in the city's life The seat of
justice, which for so many years, re-
posed peacefully in that iingy, fore.
boding section of the city scarcely
more than a stones throw north OF
Brooklyn bridge, is to be transferred
to Union square in the block bounded
by Fourth avenue, Irving place and
Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets.
1t is proposed to expend nearly So
100000 in acquiring the site upon
which the new county court house is
to be erected. If the present plan is
carried out several famous buildings
in the quaint Union square section
will have to give way to the march of
progress. These will include the
Hotel America, the Hotel Westmin-
ster, the Union square hotel, the Irv-
ing Palace theatre, the old Figaro, the
Swannanoa apartment house and many
others. The new Union Square Saw
1ngs bank building also will have to
go. II this site is finally approved
as now seems quite probable, 1t may
result in the transfer of practically
the entire legal district to the vicini y
of Union square and the building CT
many sky-scrapers to house the law
yers.
Much attention has been attracted
by the assertion of the Rev. DR.. Greer
vicar of st. Paul's chapel that young
girls employed in the big office build
ings in this city are in the gravest
peril; and his suggestion that guild
hall be established in which lunch
and recreation could be provided for
them. ''You girls to whom under the
old order of things no man could have
spoken without formal introduction
or without. the approval of their par
ents,' said DR.. Greer in explanation
of his proposal, "afe now obliged to
sustain relations of business intimacy
for eight hours every working day
with men wholly unworthy of the con-
fidence reposed in them. We OF the
clergy and many lay workers could
wiring your hearts with cases in which
foul advantage has been taken of
young girls by men deeply experienced
in evil ways, and the lighter standings
of this distressing subject tell us of
the wearing away of the bloom of
modesty and the involuntary sub-nis-
sion for the sake of living to ag-
gressive familiarity on the part of the
unprincipled and irresponsible Wills
who are entirely capable of taking
every possible advantage of the girls
and young women entrusted to their
charge. All sense of chivalry and
honor is dead in the hearts of many
employers and their Clerks"
DR.. Greer says he believes that the
strongest possible counter influence
would be provided by guil,l such as
he suggests. He thinks the time will
come when such guild will be
housed in big new building in the
downtown district. He proposes that
it be under the spiritual care of the
vicar and other clergy of st. Paul
chapel, but that it be entirely non
sectarian in it's large membership. In
the building it is proposed to have
large tastefully appointed rooms where
luncheons will be served at the lowest
possible rate, or where the members
may eat the luncheons prepared at
their own homes with the addition of
coffee, tea and the like provided as
cheaply as possible by the guild and
every opportunity will be given to
the members to provide their own
music and entertainment. Lawyers
OF high standing will be employed By
the guild with instructions to redress
all wrongs to give all possible protec-
ton to those who need it, to investi-
gate carefully all cases laid before
them, and to serve as a warming TO
employers and clerks that they will
be exposed if they transgress, and if
possible brought to the bar of Justice
for their misdeeds.
Probably never before has New
York witnessed such a spectacle as
was seen in the supreme court here
this week. It was that of an alleged
insane criminal acting as his own at
torney and, in his fight for liberty,
causing to appear before him for the
most searching examination some of
the most prominent and influential