The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-06-27


long felt want another gigantic hotel
is to be bailtin the vicinity of Times
square. The structure which VIII
be erected on the northeast corncr
of Seventeenth avenue and Thirty
seventh street Is to be twenty-four
stories high end will cost more thar
$4,000.000. The ground, to be cc-
cupied by the hotel was recently
purchased by syndicate for $3.50
900 and, adding to this sum the cost
of the structure the total will reach
the respectable sum Of about S5,-
100000. II is scarcely necessary to
state that the hotel will be strictly
ur-to-date in it's arrangement nd
equipment. According to the plans
mapped out the hotel will contain
1,200 rooms. about 200 more t;.ar
the Waldorf-Astoria, and every room
will be provided with a bath. rhe
hotel has already been leased 20 a
prominent hotel man for $500 a
year. the lease to take effect wben
the building e ready for occupancy,
which is expected to be some time 4,
the fall of next year.
During the coming month there
will be wholesale naturalization Of
aliens in this city, in preparation FOR
the coming fall election. There are
nearly three thousand OF these aliens
who have taken out their first pa
pers" some time ago, to be made In
to full fedged citizens and, to accom-
modate them a special term of the
supreme court will be held during
the month Of July. which will ie-
vote practically its entire time to the
naturalization of aliens.
A great weight is about TO be talk
en- off the police force ir Brooklyn.
Patrolman Frank j. Link. of the
Ralph avenue tprecinct In that bor-
ough, who is built somewhat on the
lines of a railroad roundhouse, mas
Put in an application for retirement
He weighs So pounds. and is said
to be one of the heaviest policemen
in the department. Link has been On
the force tweDty-three years. Some
time ago he disputed the right OF
way with Brooklyn trolley car and
bis left leg vas injured. It nas
troubled him ever since and this
fact finally induced him to seek TO-
\ tirement. There is no record of what
happened TO the trolley car in the
collision with Link.
The suffragettes OF the nineteenth
assembly district have settled down
to business. The other day they
!, held their i-st Suffrage Darnine
Bee which, according to corrohora.
ting testimony proved grand sue.
cess. About twelve OF the suffrage
aspiring ladisS assembled at the
] headquarters OF their organization
and spent ne afternoon intending
stockings, bathing suits and other
feminine things, while. at the same
time. they talked politics and other
subjects dear to the feminine mind.
Between darning stockings and other
things time passed quickly and soon
IL was time Ter tea and then came
adjournment.
For the first time In many years a
supreme court jury took the testi-
mony of several deaf mutes In a salt
which was heard the other day.
Walter Hartman, deaf mute sued
tie Francis H. Leggett company for
$4,000 for the loss OF his RICH.
hand Hartman claims that he not
only lost his means OF earning mis-
livelihood az printer by the acct
dent, but he also had TO learn to
talk in new way. The company
claimed that Hartman lost his hand
BY his own negligence.
Notwithstanding the strict pure
food Laws upon the statute books and
the fitful efforts OF the authorities 10
enforce these laws. there are msnv
cases of the most fragrant violation
Of these laws. The three children of
poor widow on second avenue IN.
vested a few pennies in so-ealled
Jelly Beans cheap kind Of candy
sold In large quantities IN the poorer
districts OF the city, and all three
were so severely poisoned that the
doctors at the hospital held out NJ
hope for their recovery. Their
diagnose was ptomaine poison and
rigid investigation OF the nature
OF the Jelly beans will now be
made.
An unusually rare and interesting
Indian relic was unearthed the otscr
day on farm near White Horse. "
y. The relic. evidently the work Ct
some Indian sculptor Il % baker
clay and represents the head % an
Indian. The head Is two and orc
half inches long and an inch and
half wide. Shell ornaments. known
70 have been used by the Deiawqrs
Indians are attached TO the ears.
while the lins and nose have been
slightly abradad. The artistic ability
shown In this relic Is said 10 be IN.
usually high. for an Indian.
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