Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-03


 Great White Way, famous the world over, may soon be a thing of tne past, and as a result the frequenters of the Tenderloin, as the district is called, find their cups overflowing with sorrow instead of with the us- ual beverage. Indeed the Great White Way is great no longer, for as the result of an ediet which came like thunder clap from the City Hall there remain within it's confines only two of its many glittering restaur- ants which may remain open after l o'clock in the morning. Just what this means may not be realized by those unfamiliar with the customs along Broadway, or the habits of the Broadwayite, who seldom appears be- fore the electric signs which have given the thoroughfare its title be- gin to twinkle, or retires before dawn mas begun to dim their brillianee. Life along the Great White Way does not really begin until the the atres are out, for it is then that the rush for the restaurants and cafes which cluster about the street starts Supper hardly begins before midnight and in this section where it is said more than $2,OOO,OOO is spent every night for food and drink, may not begin until two o'clock or later. At any rate the feasting continues until dawn night after night in the gilded lobster palaces. Now, however, with the two exceptions, every one of these centres of entertainment will have to close at one o'clock, since their all-night licenses have been withdrawn. One o'clock on Broad way is merely the beginning of the evening and the restaurant owners and would-be diners alike are filled with gloom. However, little con sideration has been shown them, the two exceptions to the general rule having been made in favor of night workers. So apparently Broadway will have to go to bed at l o'clock and the Great White Way will pass, for if there are no people to see them the lights will no longer twinkle.
 From a legal standpoint, babies have an inalinenable right to howl which cannot be taken from them by any process of the law. That in brief is the substance of a decision | just handed down in Brooklyn as the result of a case which so far as can be discovered is unique in court rec ords. Even had it been decided that an injunction might be issued to stop a teething infant from crying, few people, no matter how great their re- speet for the law, would have taken | much stock in its efficiency. But | now that it has been established that a baby is within its rights, no matter how loudly it cries, or when, there can be no further room for doubt. | This peculiar decision came as the l result of a difference of opinion be- tween two neighbors. The defendant | was the father of a lusty boy who just at present is cutting a full set of teeth and is taking the only means at his command to advertise the fact, that is, by bowling nightly and con- The plaintiff in his com plaint allegel that the infant roared so wonderfully as to make sleep out of the question, and prayed for an preventing the youngster from further roaring under penalty of becoming in contempt of court. The learned magistrate, Solomon like, however, declared that there was no statute making such a step possible, and that much as he sympathized with the plaintiff, the tooth-eutting was entirely within his rights. The court, however, in an obiter dictum did suggest the pur- chase of a barrel of soothing syrup.
 Visitors to this city this fall as well as homecoming residents alike will miss one of the famous land marks of the country, for long be- fore Thanksgiving Day arrives the old Grand Central Station, through which in it's four decades of exist enee many hundreds of millions of persons have passed, will have be- come but a memory. Already the building is nearly half demolished, the well-known domes whose long familiar clocks have told the time of day and night for nearly half a cen tury having been the first to go. Within two months it is expected that the whole Forty-second street side will have disappeared. The