Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21

NEW YORK, May 2O.-The sky line Of lower Manhattan will show an important change after the com pletion of the gigantic skyscraper which Woolworth, of Five and Ten Cent Store" fame, is now building on Broadway, opposite the postoffice. The building will be the highest in 1 the city, towering fifty feet above the record-holding Metropolitan Life structure. The famous Singer building, only few years ago the highest building in the country, will be dwarfed to the extent of more than 15O feet. The new building, which will, of course, be devoted to office purposes, will have fifty-five stories, including the tower sur mounting the structure.
 In many respects the new building will be the most perfectly equipped office building in the city. It will DC a steel and concrete structure, as nearly fireproof as it is possible 10 make any building. The elevator shafts and the stairways will be cohl- pletely equipped
 pletely insulated by fireproof walls and the doors to the shafts will De of metal with wired glass and so fitted as make the shafts smoke proof.
 To insure the safety of the struc- ture it's foundation will rest upon the solid rock underlying Manhattan Island. Although the work on the foundation has been barely com menced. applications for offices in the building have already begun to COG in. It is characteristic that ore Of the first applications was for an office on the top floor of the tower. There will, undoubtedly, be a ane view from the windows of the top floor. but the top floor has its dis advantages-should anything hap pen to the elevators.
 Gaynor Is Criticised.
 Mayor Gaynor may have gained nouularitv in certain circles by play ing to the gallery. but his peculiar attitude in regard to the police force of the city has undoubtedly led 70 a rather unfortunate state of affairs. There were, without doubt, occasioh- al instances of brutal conduct ny men Of the police force, but to re- nrive the whole force of their night sticks. their only weapon oi defence aside from the revolvers which may 10 ,rsed in extreme cases only, May or Gaynor made a serious mistake. Such Is the opinion of an over"helhl- ing majority of good citizens.
 Maoyr .Gaynor's policy has great Iy increased the difficulty of the TO Iicemen's task to maintain peace and order in cases of riots. There vas an example the other day. Eighteen po- licemen escorted a machinist to his work to protect him from being mop- he'd by the strikers in that factory. A mob Of about five hundred strtk- CTS attacked the little party and Tor many blocks kept up a continuous fusilade of bottles, rocks, bricks, ctc- The policemen, deprived of their clubs. were utterly helpless ana many of them were injured by the missiles hurled at them.
 The recent elamor against the pO- lice and the attempts to distredit the truthfulness of the individual
 members is beginning to bear lis logical fruit. The other day three young men, who had been caugnJ iR the act of breaking into a grocery store, were tried on the charge of burglary. Although the testimony of the policemen, who had male the | arrest, was fully corroborated by sev- eral reputable citizens. among them | the owners of the store, who had | discovered the burglars at wo-<, tis | jury failed to agree. standing eIeyeI
 to one for acquittal. In dlInsissinl
 the jury the judge sverely lecture
 them on allowing themselves to b l influenced by the recent claiLo
 against the police to such an sxren that eleven of the jurors accepte the unsupported statement of the al ! fendapts in reference to the test