Tensas gazette., 1911-04-28

to marry the black
eyed typewriter on the
eleventh Just after Easter. She's the
second one In her family to make
match In the Fifteenth?
Yes. strand her sister is going to
step into her shoes-Twenty-five. All
out-and I'll bet she'll be lucky. too"
Skyscraper gossip at the rate OF
$50 feet a minute as the elevator
runs. And In a social settlement of
1000. A thousand typewriters under
one roof A thousand. so they say.
Who could count them? battalion
Of cashiers, secretaries. clerks. tel
ephone operators, manicures. A hive
in which there are more women and
girls than there are in Vassar or Bar
nard college, for the average Of four
women 20 six men holds good In all
the big ONCE buildings. An establish
ment where ambition and romance
and integrity and cunning have office
and telephone numbers and energy
and brains look out across the long
corridors, where trickery In over
haste FOR the nimble dollar may be
dodgfng Shadows business commu-
nifty screened behind it's own individ-
ual doors and with its name in the
towering hotels with their rooms, en-
suite and single, peopled< by those
whose names appear on the register.
Several regiments of alert human
beings matching wits for money-big
wits and little wits-and watching
for great stakes or small-control of
railroads and corporations and for
fortunes and civic honors and for
words of praise and favors and high
er rungs IN the long ladder Of pro
motion.
While law and brokerage and pro-
moting predominant, the industries of
the skyscraper are diversified widely.
One may buy a machine for taking
the temperature of the water at the
bottom Of the sea or wings for flying
machines. -four for health bread, or
blades for saving walrus teeth. Fruits
from Brazil are sold direct and rub.
Der from the Orinoco is purveyed
from lump samples A doctor has a
consultation room and a dentist waits
at his tip-back chair. Agents of for
eign governments drop In to order 10
comotives or contract for crops OF al
falfa or outputs of shoe factories. Be-
tween basement and sky one may ne
gotiate for almost everything.
And, by the authority of the super
intendent, never week without a TO.
nance.
They dig a hole in ground that is
worth more q square foot than a farm
and more for any odd inch than It
costs to buy a horse and COW, and
three normal cellars down they bolt a
foundation to natures very backbone
and build IN steel toward the clouds
two feet a day until the plans say
stop. BY and by. when a hundred
thousand dollars have been multiplied
by the number of stories. the doors
are opened. Straightway and strange
ly, too, without creating a gap any.
where In the city, multi-commercial
financial. legal and what-not, ETC., fam.
fly moves In with thousands of bust
ness children, and they call 1t "our
building"
AS many people under one roof as
there are in some cities, more thar
there are In some townships, as many
as there are in some counties, living
along miles Of walled-in streets and
avenues. At eight in the morning
they are avenues of silence and there
are 2.222 unlocked doors. At S:4I
the family comes marching In. hun
dred to the minute, and the elevators
forty horsepower to the car. are run
ming floor second. Elevator mer
ride further every day than motormeT
on trolieys. They beat the guards In
the elevated. The total daily runs o.
all the elevators in New York exceeds
a transcontinental trip. There maj
be some veteran in the business WHIT