Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-26

Omaha's Ginger club, boosters Of the
block 500, can get several gingery tlps on
how to illuminate and decorate by looking
up the plans for the transformation of
Fifth avenue, New York. The widenina
OF the famous highway OF wealth and
fashion comes first and then the i'm
proved lighting facilities. with a few ex-
ceptions all Of the structures from Twen-
ty-sixth to Forty-seventh street have un-
dergone the necessary pairing processes.
Old-fashioned stoops have been lifted
gently apart by derricks, the pavements
have been extended back to the building
line and had seven and a half feet been
shorn away so as to give a net increase
of fifteen feet to the width Of the road
way.
The present lamposts are to be height
ened three feet and so per cent more OF
these light bearers are to be added. Each
of the posts will bear two arc lights.
equivalent to about two thousand candles,
as contrasted with the present 9O0-candle
power lights. The posts are Of that grace
full and artistic design which have come
to be known all over the world as the
Fifth Avenue style"
The Illumination to be obtained from
the lights suspended from them will be
sufficient to make the avenue as light as
day long after the sun has disappeared.
The posts are to be twenty-five feet in
height and the bottoms of the globes will
be eighteen feet above the level of the
street. The city will do its part we'll.
but the effect Is to be heightened by the
lighting of the stores.
1t has been the custom, as a survival OF
the old days when the avenue was scarcely
used for business purposes, for the mer-
chants to close down their shades at night.
window displays may now be seen in parts
of the avenue. 1t is now proposed. and
many of the members of the association
have already approved the plan, that all
stores and art galleries and such places
be brilliantly Illuminated until ii 80 o'clock
or midnight.
In that section known as Picture Lane
on account of the display of many paint
ings and works Of art, 1t has been sug-
gested that the galleries be not only Hum
mated but even kept open at night, so
that the public may have an opportunity
at leisure to examine the artistic interiors.
Police Lieutenant Bull" Mccarthy, peer
OF Big BIZ Devery in the handling OF
"Manhattanisms," has at last explained the
NNSNA AA NhC AlNIlCdlt HldL6 OF streets
and alleys which makes up New York be-
low Grand street. ITS an exciting thing
to try to find ones way downtown here"
said a visitor to the Oak street station,
where Lieutenant Mccarthy is on duty, the
other night. "Well, you see, it's this wav."
answered the lieutenant. This town was
first settled by the Dutch, according to
what l hear. All them fellows, as you
Know are natural born grocerymen. Well.
when they landed each one of them wanted
to have a store on a corner, and for bust
ness reasons they made streets wherever
they needed them for a corner store. OF
course, It's all built up around here now,
but that's how it was"
Lawyer Moses II. Grossman was a foot
taller when he emerged from the Far
FockaWay police court one day last week.
Eva Tanguay, the irrepressible, had kissed
Moses right upon the mouth, right in the
presence OF the court and right under the
nose Of Magistrate Gilroy, who had
adJudged her innocent OF violating the sun
day theatrical law, at Morrison's music
hall, Sunday night,
Miss Tanguay played to a full court
ROOM, for 1t had been heralded far and
wide that she was to tell a few things
about prudes and the like when put on
trial.
Mr.. Grossman had an easy time of It
convincing the magistrate that Miss Tan
quay really did nothing to shock the re-
Hgious sentiments Of Far Rockaway when
she appeared in tights. When the courts
judgment was announced the fair Eva
stopped, turned Moses face up and gave
him a smack that sounded like the report
Of a rocket.
When asked II that were part Of the fee,
Moses blushed and retorted:
mo, a gratuity."