Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-24
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NEW YORK, August 2A.-The re.
cent completion Of the first half Of
Unit No. 2 Of the Consolidated Gas
Company's plant at Astoria, l.. l.,
marks another milestone in providing
for New York the largest single gas
plant In use anywhere In the world,
as we'll as the most economically
producing plant. owing to its very
magnitude Of operations. The first
unit completed produces 10000, 900
cubic feet OF gas daily, and the half
Of Unit No. 2 which has just been
completed has q capacity Of 100000
900 lore. The entire nine units Of
which the plant Is to be composed
will have q productive capacity Of
$50, OOO, 900 cubic feet Of gas daily.
The enormous capacity q be real.
ICED when 1t Is borne In mind that at
present the total consumption Of
Manhattan and the Bronx Is NO..
10000 cubic feet. The entire plant,
when finished, will be larger by far
than the giant gas plant OF London.
which supplies the metropolis Of the
world. The total cost Of the nine
units complete will be about $780,
OOO, 900.
Enterprise, in an undertaken, Is apt
to take some gruesome form. When
the five Italians who had been con.
victed Of the murder Of Mrs. Mary
Hall rear CrOton Lake, Westchester
county, were e~lectrocuted at the Sing
Sing prison recently. an Italian un.
dertaker on Mulberry street, o en-
terprising than his competitors, con.
ceived of q rather novel plan of ad-
vertising his establishment. Armed
with a petition. signed by the friends
and relatives Of the executed men, he
went to Sing Sing and obtained per.
mission to have the five bodies taken
to his undertaking establishment
and to be prepared for burial, After
the bodies had been embalmed, they
were laid out in a row in the morgue
room of the establishment. Some kind
Of an altar was improvised in q corner
of the room, under an arch decorated
with painted angels and a picture Of
the Virgin, candlabra with burning
wax candles were placed in front of
the altar and around the biers and
then the public, that means the
swarming multitudes living in the
Mulberry Street district, vas invited
to view the bodies. Conspicuously
placed on a table near the bodies
was a large platter. with a sign SOL
letting contributions for defraying the
cost Of shipping and embalming the
bodies and having them buried in
proper style. For q whole week the
bodies were on exhibition and in that
time thousands of men, women and
children, driven by their morbid u
iosity, viewed the gruesome spectacle
and filled the platter to overlooking
many q time.
Nothing Is easier than to get into
an insane asylum, but 1t is a mighty
difficult matter to get out of one, even
If n is not at all insane and was
taken to the institution by mistake.
A few days ago a resident Of Newark,
N. j., went to the Essex County Hos
pital or the Insane, after he had
been inormed that his mother, who
had been at the newark City Hos
pital, had been transferred to the
insane asylum. He asked for his
mother and was shown to q room.
Great was his surprise when he found
that the woman, who was In bed and
apparently very i'll, was not his moth
er. An Investigation was made which
disclosed the startling fact that by
the mistake of q stupid or careless
inferno the wrong woman had been
sent to the asylum. The patient had
protested that she was not
the woman mentioned in the transfer
papers and was not lpsane( but no
attention Vas paid to her. After the
mistake was discovered the woman
was taken back to the Newark City
Hospital, where she died q few days
later, her death being probably has
tened by the excitement and worry
over her experience In the asylum.
The visitors to Luna Park, Coney
Island, we're treated to 9 sensational
spectacle the other evening, which
was not included In the regular pro.
gram. w. H. Hill, who nightly en-.
tertains the crowds by doing a clever
wirewalking act on a wire which Is
stretched from the main entrance
over to the bandstand and the lagoon
to the big tower. He had almost
his act the other evening
and was on his way back to the tow
or, when the violent shaking of the
wire almost made him lose his bal. |