Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-20

under the persistent explorations OF
Mayor Gaynor. The other day he
went out on tour OF discovery and
bumped into a nest of grafters admins
tering the naturalization In the post
office building There the mayor and his
detective uncovered an extensive practice
Of blackmail upon foreigners applying for
certificates of naturalization. Applicants
for naturalization who could afford to
pay the officials levying blackmail rang
ing from SO to S25 head were taken out
of the line and received their certificates.
while others after waiting for hours were
turned off without them When the
mayor complained of this to the federal
judge administering the naturalization
laws he was told that the fault was in
the failure of the government to supply
sufficient official force. But this did
not satisfy the mayor. He could not see
connection between the pressure upon
the courts administering the naturaliza-
ton laws and the levy of blackmail upon
applicants for citizenship. Accordingly
he has made his complaint to Attorney
General Wickersham, who promises to in.
vestigate the scandal.
The tragic history of the famous Greedy
again one afternoon last week in a German
restaurant along the water front in Ho-
boken, when three out of the original seven
survivors met for the first time In twenty
five years and recalled their experiences
The men were Henry H. Biederbick, Maur-
ice Cornell and Francis Long, reports the
New York Times.
Mr.. Biederbick, who is secretary of the
Arctic Club of America, is United States
customs inspector, with offices on Pier
of the Bremen line at Hoboken
Mr.. Connell is chief Of the United States
weather bureau at San Jose, Cal, and Mr..
Long is in the same service in New York
City. There are two other survivors of
the expedition, General A. w. Greedy, who
commanded 1t, and D. L. Brainard, now
colonel in the Philippines, where he has
charge of the commssary department Cen
eral Greedy is with his family in Florence,
Italy.
Mr.. Biederbick and Mr.. Long meet fire.
quently, as both are living In New York,
but neither has met Connell since the ex-
petition, or what was left OF II, was
brought back to the United States by Ad-
miral schley, who commanded one Of the
three relief expeditions sent in search of
the Greedy party in 1854.
Connell coming to New York involves a
romantic Incident in itself, for he came to
meet a sister whom he hadn't seen for
forty years. Mr.. Cornell left Ireland when
he was boy, and his family few years
later lost all trace of him. His sister did
not know he was alive until she read an
account of the Greedy expedition q short
time ago in newspaper.
This account Of the expedition mentioned
H.
and she at once communicated with him.
He sent her Connelrs address and she
came to New York. From here she sent
word to the Pacific coast and Mr. Connel
at once came to New York. When he ar
rived yesterday he went first to the
weather bureau office in Broadway and
greeted Mr.. Long. Neither had seen the
other for a quarter of century and there
was considerable handshaking. Finally
Long suggested that both go over to Ho-
boken and call upon Biederbck.
They found the customs man busy among
a pile of books, and Cornell waited outside
the little office as his part in the surprise
the two had prepared, while Long and
Biederbick chatted.
There's somebody outside who wants to
see you," said Long, finally
Let's have a look at him." replied
Biederbick reaching for his hat.
A minute later Cornell and Biederbick
met face to face. They looked at each
other full minute and then both hands
shot out.
"Morry," said Biederbick.
Harry" replied Cornell, while tears
started in the eyes of both and their hands
went up and down like pump handles.
where a towering Twenty-Five story sky
soraper stood six weeks ago, there is now
a vacant lot AS the ground Is worth 1915
a square foot, or $29, 4Q3, 900 an acre, the
lot will not remain vaoaat very long. Within
a few months the new thirty-two-story
Bankers Trust company building will have
risen in it's place,
Twelve years ago the Gilinder building
occupying one of the most desirable cor
ners in the Wall street district, diagonally
across from ]. p Morgan s. Co.'S offices,
was the tallest office building In the world. |
1t was occupied by such prominent firms
as A. Nj. Kidder 81 Co. and the Manhattan
Trust company.
This is the first time that such a high
class office building, representing the best
type Of modern fireproof construction, has
been torn down to make way for a still
more elaborate structure. The Gillinder
building cost about $4,000 to build, and
900 to remove. 1t was the Hottest struc-
ture in the world that was ever deliberately
demolished rising, with the tower sur
mounting It 800 feet above the street
IT'S the biggest job OF its kind ever
undertaken" said A. Volk, the contra ctor,
who is doing the work. THE structure was
SO solidly built-some of the stones taken
out Weighing nearly 1000 pounds-that
would have lasted 100 years. Like most of
our skyscrapers, it was a steel frame struc-
ture, with floors and partitions OF hollow
tile blocks and walls OF stone and brick
a type Of construction which even the
San Francisco earthquake and conflasra-
ton could not destroy. The steel beams
and girders, which were protected from rust
and corrosion by tile blocks, show no sign
OF wear after doing twelve years duty, and
can be used again. 1t was impossible 10
save the floors and partitions; they were so
firm that the only way to get them out was
to knock them 10 pieces"
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Westminster Gazette.
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