The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-13
UNION SQUARE
FAMOUS PLACE
NOTED FOR MANY DEATHS,
MURDERS AND OTHER
CRIMES.
BOMB THROWER EPISODE
Two Weeks Ago Capped the Climax
New Thcater in Gotham-Curious
Injunction Case--News From
New York.

New York, April l2.-Ilnion Square
which extends from Fourteenth to
! Seventeenth streets, is one of the
most attractive spots in the business
section Cf Manhattan, and at the sam
time has a most unsavory reputation.
| The throwing of the bomb which was
| directed at the police who attempted
| to break up a meeting of Socialists
! two weeks ago capped the climax. At
| that time two men We're killed. Only
last summer, on the northern side of
the Square, a wealthy Persian rug i'm
porter was murdered in broad daylight
by member Cf the Armenian BLACK
Hand For years Fourteenth street,
which bounds the Square on the south
has been known as dead mans
curve, and many people met their
death there The name was derived
from the fact that the old cable cars
We're Obliged to get flying start as
they came up Broadway and get sufti
Cient momentum to carry them around
the curve on Fourteenth street till
they got onto Broadway again, which
turns at that point and runs up on the
west side of the square.
In those days the clutch in the
cable was released just before the
car turned onto Fourteenth street
NJ t,ut In nt
onto Boardway, with The result that
it was impossible to step the car quick
ly, so that many people were killed or
seriously injured at this point.
Carnegie's Daughter Recovered.
Margaret Carnegie, only daughter Of
the steel magnate and heiress to his
rniitioHs, rs again able toromp and
play about like other children. Two
years ago the little heiress, who was
then nine years old, was playing on
the lawns of Skibo Sastlc, her faith
ers summer residence in the high
lands of Scotland, when she caught
her right fot in small hole and fell
to the ground spraining her ankle.
serious at the time it was soon found
necessary to place the leg in steel
brace which has had to be worn over
since. 1t was feared at first that the
lameness, but New York's leading doe
tors were consulted and after the most
careful treatment, during which the
young heiress was obliged to give vi
all play for "a year, she has recovered
and is strcng and as well as ever.
A Curious Case.
A curious case was presented in
the Supreme court the other day,
when an injunction was asked to re-
strain a man from tearing out one of
the walls of a small hotel in the city
in order to get a twenty-five foot
launch which had been built during
the winter on the second floor of the
house. The builder claimed that after
he constructed the boat he found that
it was impossible to remove it in any
way except by tearing a hole in one
of the walls. On the other hand, the
hotel keeper holds that the boat shoull
be taken apart and removed by pieces.
The launch bids fair to become fa
nous, like Robinson Crusoe's boat that
he built and could not launch The
injunction was obtained but the
builder of the boat does not intend to
undo his winters work so has proceed
ed to fight the case out in the courts.
The New Theater.
New York is to have a new theater
although ii has already nearly hun.
dred, aud it is to be called the New
Theater. The enterprise is to cost 81,
100000 and is built in the interest Of
art and legitimate drama. The money
was raised by forty wealthy New York
ers each of whom subscribed S25 900
each. 1t is firmly believed by the pro-
moters that the influence of the New
Theater will be far reaching and will
be great success. 1t Is designed to
revive the Greek and Old English
dramas as well as to represent the
best from an artistic standpoint of the
modern drama.