The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-30
new YORK PLANS
4 CIVIC CENTER
Greatest Group Of Dui lin-s Will
Ccst $lCo,OOOo, OOo-- New
Ycrkers Disappear

New York, Jan. a9.-The creation
of the worlds finest c;Fic center
with public buildings representing
an outlay Of over $50,o00,0Go and
occupying land valued at an equal
ssn il likely to BE brought abogt In
This city as result Of the ling and
bitter controversy over the i2cation
of d new court house.
The building in which the highest
judicial Officers hold court is an un-
slightly monument to the unbridlad
graft Of Tweed days. F1r years II
has been den0anced rs disgrace to
civilization on account Of it's Unsani-
tary condition and it has been held
responsible for the deaths Of several
distinguished jarists.
Judges Won't Hold Court.
Controversy ever the location Of a
new court house, however, has been
70 violent that no decision has been
cached although several times the
question has seer1ed to be cn the
verge OF settlement. Since the be-.
ginning of winter, however, the mat
ter has been brought to head by the
refusal of some of the judges To risk
the lives OF lawyers, witnesses and
attendants, as well rs their own, by
holding court in tho old buiming.
Now d committee OF city officials
has brought forward plan to locate
a new court house at point short
distance north of City Hall Pafk In
an area where several streets inter-
sect and to make this the nucleus of
a civic center which shall excel iii
the number and, cost of its public
structures anything heretofore at
tempted by any city in the country.
Two Buildings Erected
Two magnificent structures al
ready erected by the city will be in
cluded within the new center as II
has been designed. One of these Is
the $12,000,000 Hall of Records and
the other is the new Municipal
Building, twenty-five stories high
and costing 100000 which is the
largest public building Of its kind In
the world. The site for the new
court house will involve the ex-
penditure OF $G,500,000 additional
aud the area to be included within
the civic center will be extended
gradually as the necessity for addi-
tional public structures arises. Al
together it is estimated that the
carrying out Of the plan will give
New York ultimately municipal
center representing an outlay ol
00,000,000 and containing some
Of the finest buildings in the world
New Workers Disappear.
That New Workers are acquiring
the disappearing habit with alarm
ing rapidlty is indicated by figures
compiled by the Police Department
which show that during the past
year no less than 1892 persons dis
appeared from their homes in this
city More surprising still Is the
fact that only $40 of those reported
as missing" were found. So far as
any official records go the other q
662 have vanished into thin air.
Occasionally, of course, disap.
| pearance of particular note attracts
| the attention of the whole country
| as in the case of Miss Dorothy Ar
mold. The records show, however
many more surprising cases o.
which the public rarely ever hears
One of the most remarkable OF these
Is the case of an Italian woman
with her four small children walked
out Of her home last April to pur
chase some small supplies and ha
never been heard from since. Tit
fact that all 1--WE should have disap
peared so completely is considered
particularly remarkable by the 20
lice who point out that 1T is abou
ten time more difficult for even tw'
persons to disappear together thar
| for each to vanish alone, and tina
for five to disappear at once is al
most an impossibility with al
average of nearly nine persons dlsap
pearing every day New York has un