Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-11
Gossip Of Gotham
By GLENN GUERNSEY.

New York, Sept. 9.-lf You believe
lin the materalistic Interpretation OF
events, or, to put it more clearly, II
YOU accept as true the MARKHAM the
DRY of economic determinism tcries OF
Help, Help" from the gallery, you
may deny that it was the tiny toe OF
Mile. Gaby Deslys that kicked Manuel
of Portugal from his throne and sent
him into exile. You may heatedly as
sert that il was more a matter OF in
ltolerable taxes, of empty bellies, OF
workmen treated as slaves and forced
Ito labor for the merest pittance, OF
women forced into lives of shame, OF
graft and disagreement thai led the
Portuguese to rise in their might and
fire Manuel out of the kings union,
l placing the reins of government in
the hands of the practical politicians
OF a republican regime For our part,
We prefer to believe that II was Gaby
who put Nanny out of the king bust
ness. because Gaby is coming over to
/ New York. and if one is properly cred
ulous in this regard the gentlemanly
press agent may give one free pass
to the show.
According to messages from over
seas. Mile. Deslys sails today on the
steamship La Lorraine from Havre TO
fill an engagement at the Winter Car
den. Also. says her American man.
lager. she has slowed away in her Dag-
gage the finest collection of real pearls
ever owned by any lady of the stage
The fifty.five story Woolworth build
inc in course of erection is more OF
marvel than any of its predecessors
II will be the highest building in the
world and no other edifice Quilt by
human hands, with the single excep-
tion of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. can
approach it. The height above curb
will be 755 feet and the foundation
will be 10 feet in depth, giving the
steel framework a total height OF 500
feet
The exterior will be OF granite up
to the fifth floor and terra-cotta above
land the partitions will be constructed
of hollow brick. There, will be twenty
six elevators and four fire escape stair
WAYS. each enclosed in fireprooi
shaft. Absolutely no wood or other
inflammable substance will tie used
anywhere in the edifice. Doors. win
dow frames and trimmings will be Of
pressed steel, finished to resemble
wood. and the floors will be of mosaic.
And II | told you what the building
will cost you wouldn't believe me.
Doctors disagree. whether the afore-
said doctors be of medicine or divin-
ity. There is the Rev. DR.. Dodd OF
Louisville, who points out That the
dimensions of heaven, as mentioned
in Revelations, will accommodate a
building $4,000 stories high, and,
counting rooms of ten cubic feet. the
first floor of the structure would nave
627, 1854, 900 such rooms. Multiplying
this by $4,000, it is easy to demon
strate that such a building would In
deed accommodate an innumerable
multitude"
DIR. Dodd's statement has not met
with approval among New forR
clergymen, who shudder to think what
would happen in New York If the i'm
: preston got abroad that heaven Is
, only a sort of an elongated apartment
house When janitors find 1t difficult
in winter to get enough steam up to
the tenth floor to keep the tenants
warm. there would be nothing attract
tive in a fiat building $4,000 stories
o high. New York clergymen who Aav'
:. lbeen interviewed on the subject gen
i orally agree that DR.. Dodd has Deei
i too literal But" says the Rev. Ever
!. Iof the Church of st. Andrew, HEAVIER
8 is not a place at all, and therefore
+ can not be measured in terms o
o inches and feet. 1t is a thing OF tn
n spirit and mortal intelligence has nj
= way of computing it. Heaven is any
p where and everywhere. 1t is a stat
J. of mind"
s When the public schools OF NeV
s York open on Monday there Will be
n great weeping wailing. Owing to tn
o lack of sufficient buildings, about 10
r 900 children will be admitted only OF
r ihalf-time One may well imagine tn
s grief with which the fortunate-tna