El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-14
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Investigation in New York
Shows Three Year Olds
Working Long Hours.
WOMEN'S TOENAILS
ARE WORTH 1888

New York, n Y, Dec 14-ReTe-
latiOns about baby factory workers in
tenements in the metropolis, brought
out at the hearings of the state fac
tory Investigating commission, have
shocked New York and cast a damper
over much of the Joyousness Of his
holiday season. One investigator, a
woman physician. actually found an
infant IS months old, working at the
manufacture of artificial flowers. A
child Of three was found working on
corset covers Four year old workers
apparently are not uncommon.
The work is done in the tenement
homes and frequently the children are
compelled to get up at o'clock In
the morning and toll until far into
the night. One family OF such toll
ers. consisting of a mother and four
children, secured a combined income
of between IS and IS a week Many
of the child workers are diseased.
tuberculosis was found by one In
vestigator in about a third of the fam
lilies.
When h4-aI.c - CS--s,~sted.
The transition OF lower Fifth avenue
from a residence to a business street
has made the stretch of ten blocks be-
tween the Waldorf and Delmonico's
the most crowded thoroughfare in the
world for vehicle traffic. In spite Of
the fact that all business carriage has
been banished from the avenue and the
traffic regulations are admirable, the
congestion has become so acute that it
takes one Of the Omnibuses over half
an hour to journey one mile during the
crowded hours of the day, and even
private motor car consumes about IS
minutes. The Fifth avenue associa-
ton, an organization of property own
ers and merchants along the thorough
fare, has been keeping tabs on the
traffic with the idea Of finding some
solution for the problem, but no salts
factory plan has been evolved.
Value On Wcmen's TOenails.
A toenan that is, a New York
woman's tOenal, is worth 1888 Is,
or three for $3.50, according to
the New York courts Mrs.
Anna Elliott was tipped over in
taxicab, lost a shoe, damaged a stock
ing and was parted from three toe
nails for the term of her life on this
earth So she sued for S2,500 damages
The jury cut down the bill by 80 per-
cent. As a result a list of whats
worth what" has been compiled from
recent court decisions It runs: Toes,
Woman's, S4,4S0; mans three for $4,000;
arms, WOman's, disfigured, pair, $500;
squeezed. $1,000; legs mans, pair, $685.
900; scalp. wOman's lost $4,000; ankles,
Woman's $1,000 to $4,000 each; fling
ers, mans, $4,000 for four; hands,
mans right 1855; shoulders. woman's'
right injured $1,000.
WOmen's SIzyseraper.
Woman's sphere may be in the home,
as has been some times reported in
the papers, or, Of course, ii may not
In any case, WOman's sphere has just
had an awful bulge put into it at the
point in New York where some II
stories of modern steel architecture go
up $50 feet nearer TO Heaven than the
neighboring sidewalk. For the new
national home of the Young Women'S
Christian association is surely safely
inside of woman's sphere and the
building is said to be with one excep-
ton the biggest structure in America
that IS devoted to Women's organiza-
tions. Already the association-the
Y Vas its friends Familiarity know
it has a local home as big as an
opera house in the block between Fiji
teenth and Sixteenth streets. But the
new building at Lexington avenue and
Fifty second street is first 8 national
headquarters, sheltering the officers OF
the national organization, the foreign
bureaus, the training school for future
secretaries, the publication rooms OF
the Association Monthly" the organ
Of the association, and provisions for
instructing and welcoming miscellan-
eous callers from out OF town.
PaWns Live AliEatOrs.
Something very much like disturb
ance broke out just across Longacre
square when a man wand cred into a
pawnshcp about o'clock in the after
noon and pulled live alligator out of
his oYercoat pocket To the pawnShOp
mans natural question the visitor re-
piled with a rich English accent that
he wished to pledge the blawsted |
beasties," and then produced a basket |
with two more There was a crowd /
by this time; a respectful
crowd, a before breakfast crowd of |
Tenderloiners; in which no man opened |
his mouth to ask if what he saw there /
was what there was there to see.
It was only a few weeks ago that /
a dog ran through the Waldorf bar /
with an eel wound three times around 4
him. and the water wagon is still l
groaning under the increased load. At 4
any rate the Englishman laid out his \
three young a1ligators on the counter (
and demanded the right to put them
in hook" I
The pawnbroker hesitated. saw the
crowd, judged that his reputation was /
at stake, and called up the Central l
Park zoo. He was told that the rep
tiles were worth about SO apiece and /
he thereupon loaned the Englishman 4
s15 and slowed the gators' away
among the stock. In response to his
appeal, BIZ Snyder, the head keeper at
he zoo, sent down a man who brought /
the "blaWsted beasties'' up to the city's +
reptile house to board for a while. 1t /
Is said that they are the first live
alligators known to have been pawned {
since the Roman amphitheatres went
7ut of business.
New Park Project.
The latest project for a New York
bark is the rather staggering propo- ]
,ition that the city take over the Site
II the Equitable building which burn
ID last winter and make it into an I
open square. The land is valued at I
'15,OO0,000 and is hardly big enough for
Joys to play five old cat in without /
breaking somebody's windows. But it
S in the heart of downtown New York.
me block from Wall street, and the
lole where the old Equitable build
ng stood has proved a welcome source
# light to MANY offices where the
unIight had not fallen since long be-
ore the Spanish war.
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