The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-04
TOPICS FROM GOTHAM

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TOPICS FROM GOTHAM
The Rights of Teething Babies--New
York TO Have a New S3,00O,0O0 Hotel
Bridge Between New Jersey and
New Religious Services in
the Ball Room of the WaIdorf.As
rin--An Alarm Clock Story-A Story
Of the Charities Department.
(Our Special New York letter.
New York, July 3O.-One of the
most momentous judicial decisions on
record was given the other day by
Magistrate Manner in the Flatbush
Court, Brooklyn. 1t involved the all
important question whether teething
babies have the legal right to express
their feelings OF pain and discomfort
by bowling, yelling, or in any other
manner they seem to consider effec-
tive. What brought the matter before
the august tribunal of Magistrate Maui
mer and led to this decision was
quarrel between two neighbors in
Flatbush over the daily and nightly
demonstrations Of displeasure with
which the baby of one party disturbed
the peace and rest of the other. The
learned court ruled that it was well
within the old Roman, the English
common, the revised or unrevised
statutes, the city ordinances, Magma
Charta or even the plain or common
variety of law for any baby in Flat
bush or elsewhere in Brooklyn, to howl
and yowl and rip up the palpitating
silence of the night and turn it in
side cut while its-the baby too
fens" are pushing themselves out as
a protest against a continuous milk
diet. The court also ruled that this
decision applies to both boy and girl
babies. The case created considerable
interest in baby blessed Flatbush and
throughout Brooklyn and the court
room was crowded with mothers, who
were awaiting the outcome of the
trial with intense interest. They
:,Uke into enthusiastic cheers when
Magistrate Manner gave his decision
indicating beyond dispute the in
alienable right of babies to howl.
New York is to have a new hotel,
costing, with the land and building,
about 100000. The new hotel,
which is inter ded to afford &C, ommc-
dations to visiting merchants and
business men, is TO be erected on the
east side of Greenwich street. be-
tween Cedar and Liberty streets. in
the lower part of Manhattan and will
be TIE first large hotel of its kind in
that part Of the city In the syndicate
which is about to embark in this ven
ture are several English capitalists
and American fnanciers who are also
interested in the new Greeley Square
Hotel project and the proposed Penn
sylyania Terminal hotel. The house is
to be conducted after the plan of two
similar hotels which were built in
London five years ago and have been
highly successful.
The first steps toward the realiza-
ton Of the long contemplated pro-
ject of building bridge across Hud-
son River between New York City and
the New Jersey shore were taken the
other day, when test borings were be-
gun opposite West 179th Street. on
the New Jersey side, about one mile
north Of Fort Leo. The borings are
made to determine whether the ground
at that particular place is suitable to
bear the enormous weight of the land
pier OF the proposed bridge. Behring'S
viii also be made opposite 109th
street, another site considered snit
able for the proposed bridge. The site
at l79th street is said to offer the best
advantages, because at that point the
river is very narrow and the land on
both sides Of the river drops sharplv
to idewater. 1t is expected that he
bridge will cost more than $4,000, 900.
To enable the officers and men of
the army post on Governors Island to
pass from the island to Manhattan
and back again, the War Department