The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-03

New York. Feb. s.-The creation of
the worlds finest civic center with
public buildings, representing an out
lay Of over $4,000, 900 and occupying
land valued at an equal sum, is likely
TO be brought about in this city as a
result of the long and bitter contro-
yersy over the location of a new court
house. The building in which the high
est judicial officers hold court is an I'M
slightly monument to the unbridled
graft of Tweed days. For years 1t has
been denounced as a disgrace to civ
ilization on accoun of its unsanitary,
condition, and it has been held re-
sponsible for the deaths of several dis
tinguished jurists. Controversy over
the location of a new courthouse, how
ever, has been so violent that no de-
cision has been reached. although sew
eral times the question has seemed TO
be on the verge Of settlement. Since
the beginning of winter, however, the
matter has been brought to a head by
the refusal of some Of the judges to
risk the lives of lawyers, witnesses
and attendants, as well as their own,
by holding court in the old building.
Now a committee of city officials has
brought forward a plan to locate q
new courthouse at a point a short dis
lance north of the city hall park in an
area where several streets intersect
and to make this the nucleus of a civic
center which shall excel in the num-
Der and cost Of its public structures
anything heretofore attempted by any
city in n country. Two magnificent
structures already erected by the city
will be included within the new cen
ter as 1t has been designed. One of
these is the $12, 1000, 900 hall Of records
and the other is the new municipal
building, twenty-five stories high and
costing $7,000,00 which is the largest
public building of its kind in the
world. The site for the new court
house viii involve the expenditure of
S6,500,000 additional and the area to
be included within the civic center
will be extended gradually as the
necessity for additional public struc-
lures arises. Altogether it is estimat-
ed that the carrying out Of the plan
Will give New York ultimately q mu-
nicipal center representing an outlay
of 100000, 900 and containing some
of the finest buildings in the world.
Future historians probably will
spend years of research and waste
reams of good paper in attempting to
solve the mystery as to whether Col.
Theodore Roosevelt OF oyster Bay, NJ.
X, did or did not say at the already
famous Aldine association dinner that
he would become a candidate for pres
ident. Three hundred guests were
present at the banquet ana nearly 500
versions of what actually was said
already have appeared.
That New Workers are acquiring the
disappearing habit with alarming
rapidity, is indicated by figures conn
piled by the police department, which
show that during the past year no less
than 3,l92 persons disappeared from
their homes in this city. More surpris-
ing stiil is the fact that only $40 OF
those reported missing were found.
So far as any official records go the
other 1859 have vanished into thin
air. Occasionally, of course, q disap-
p~earance OF particular note attracts
the attention of the whole country as
in the a OF Miss Dorothy Arnold.
The records show, however. many
more surprising cases Of which the
public rarely ever hears. One OF the
most remarkable Of these is the case
of ar Italian woman with her four
small children, who walked out.of her
home last April tt purchase some
small supplies and has never Deen
heard from since. The fact that all
i've should have disappeared so COM
pletely Is considered particularly re-
markable by the police, who point out
that 1t Is about ten times more diff
cult for even two persons to disappear
together than for each to vanish alone,
and that for five to disappear at once
is almost al impossfbility. with an
average OF nearly nine persons disap-
pearing every day New York has UNI