The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-03-22
XEsN1Nss!s!ASSAf s!s!ASS
4&SEE.
Especial Correspondence.)


Especial Correspondence)
The committee TO select a monument
for the prison ship martyrs has just
awarded the contract to Brooklyn
construction company. The contract
price will be sl72.OO0 and the monu-
ment will be erected in Fort Green
Park In the Borough OF Brooklyn. IL
was designed by Stanford White and
will be 200 feet high and constructed
OF white granite.
One OF the leading millionaires OF
this city is reported TO have said the
other day 10 a foreign visitor who
commented on the business aspect
OF Fifth avenue, THE real New York
er no longer lives in New York city.
The palaces he built here % years
ago are turned into shops and hotels.
He cannot afford TO live in land that
is worth its weight in gold. He
| doesn't receive enough pleasure out
Of il. The big mansions that former
| ~ cost half "A million originally have
| become hideously old-fashioned, and
| their owners are glad 10 be rid OF
| them. Only the million dollar house
| cuts any figure in New York's esti-
nation, and even that loses its gla-
NOR almost before il is completed.
The taste displayed by rich Ameri-
| cans for costly ceramics has been in
creasipg until the finest i'm the world
may be found In this city. A few years
! ago the peach-blow vase attracted
much attention because it was valued
at $4,000, but that figure has lost
| its ~ tinction, as Pierpont Morgan
| has one in his wonderful collection
valued at 100000 This is certainly
4 large price for "a piece Of crockery
! but il would require more TO match
! IT, The Morgan collection is probably
| he most valuable in the world (that is,
Of private ownership but Marsden
Perry is a close rival, and both these
| opulent amateurs have contributed TO
! the present rare exhibition, which has
been opened for charity. The Perry
! collection alone fills one room, while
Pierpont Morgan has not only contrib
uted from his private treasures, but
has also included some gems which he
had given to the Metropolitan Art
| Museum.
At recent meeting of the board OF
,ity magistrates a resolution prOyiding
for an all-night police court was adopt
| ed The fourteen magistrates viii take
turns on the night tricks The move
is intended for the benefit Of accused
persons. who will have a chance to
state their case before a court at once,
and so perhaps escape being locked up
for the night 1t is also directed
against the professional bondsmen
who, for fee, make a practice of go
ing bail for prisoners. The latter are
frequently discharged when arraigned
on the morning following the arrest.
The last auto show seems TO have
reached a higher success than any OF
it's forerunners and the sales during
its memorable week amounted to three
millions of dollars. The attendance
was $4,000, creating such pressure
than in future the admission fee will
be raised from 81 TO s. as a check on
the remorseless flood of humanity. The
value of the auto has been again de-
monstrated by its usefulness in assist
ing overloaded teams stalled during the
| 81 HOY h,V
been frequently required for that pur'
pose. Speaking OF the auto, calls 10
mind the advance in rubber occasioneo
by the demand for tires (including the
bicyCle) the above mentioned advance
being more than 20 percent during the
last ten years. Few, indeed. have any
idea of the amount which recent i'm
portations have reached, but last year
they averaged about a million of dol
lars a week. against million year III
1856. The United States indeed uses
ut least one-half of the total rubber
supply with prospect of rapid increase
IL Is considered great thing tC
own real estate in the Metropolis bu
on the other hand IL is liable To pc
culiar and often distressing difficulties
One may be suddenly and seriously dis
gruntled by learning that a stable o
some other nuisance is 10 be located
next door, or that your cellar is TO b,
undermined by the erection OF an ad
jacent building. A far worse under
mining, however. now threatens 33'
street (the full length) and the con
sternation among owners far exceeds
description. Reference is made. q
course. to the project of ditching 10
; the Pennsylvania tunnel thu
threatening damage almost equal I,
the whole value of the street. which i
one of the finest in the city.
The tunnel. which is six feet below
a