The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-08
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with more or less efficacious results
One theatre located on a corner
with an entrance on each of two
sides, lately adopted the following
method of fighting the evil. 1t has
| been common practice among tick
ct spectators about theatres not
friendly to them to request any
stranger who happened to be passing
by and looked good natured to take
the money which they would advance
and purchase tickets for them at the,
box office. a practice necessitated by
| the fact that the unfriendly theatres
knew most of the spectators and
refused to sell to them. At the the
atre in question a young man to
| whom speculator advanced $40
walked in at one door and out at
| the other with the money still in his
pocket. AS a result of the speculat-
or's howl the theatre posted a notice
advising other persons to do like
wise whenever opportunity offered,
and explaining how it might be done.
The coming of the new year, how
ever, brings promise of cessation of
such conditions, and the hope that
| the theatre going public may pur-
chase tickets on short notice with
out paying three or four profits.
Another of the periodical attempts
| that are made to introduce changes
| into the evening dress of men of
fashion has ended in failure. Almost
every year some ambitious person
conceives the idea that the full
dress suit is too somber and fathers
an attempt to relieve this by intro
] of waistcoats deviating more or
| less sharply from the white which is
accepted as de rigeur. In Europe
( this movement has made some head
way with the favor of royalty, but
| on this side of the Atlantic it always
has ended in fiat failure. The rea-
son for this, according to a fashion
able Fifth avenue tailor, is that
Americans are more conservative
than Europeans in the matter. of
dress, though far less conventional
Likewise American tailors base their
vi af hoi
mers rather than upon the standard
of single ruler or the members of
court, as is the case in a monarchi-
cal country. At the present time the
Merchant Tailor's association, which
| is made up of the leading members
! of this craft, are preparing for their
annual convention which is to meet
[ in Chicago during the first week in
| February, and which will serve to
define the correct mode of dress for
American men during the coming
year. Every year this gathering Of
the men who make the styles rejects
hundreds of garments which are dis
played at it's exhibit because they are
held to be too radical for American
tastes. The only innovations which
are likely to gain favor this year,
according to the New York tailorS
which have the most fashionable pa
| tronage, are those that add to the
comfort or good appearance of mems
costumes without making them con-
spicuous
Some time within the next tour
years New Workers, it is now assured,
will see the beginning Of the most
remarkable and the biggest bridge
in the world With it's approaches
it will be more than three miles long,
bridging from Long Island to New
York, the most dangerous pieces of
water on this side of the coast, that
is the ripping tideway known as Hell
Gate, which remains today, in spite
of all engineering efforts, constant
menace to shipping. AS compared to
the Brooklyns bridge, probably the
most famous structure of it's kind in
the country, the new one will be
monster. The Brooklyn bridge, it is
true, is very slightly smaller than its
successor, the Manhattan bridge, and
the Blackwell's Island bridge, not yet
completed. In length, the Brooklyn
bridge, which took thirteen years to
build. and cost $21,000,000, meas
ures 1880 feet from end to end. As
compared to this the new bridge,
which incidentally may not be An
ished before 1915, will have a total
length Of nearly $4,000 feet. The
height of its roadway across the riv-
er will be 40 feet, it's central arch
200 feet in the clear, and it's weight