El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-14
FIFTH AVENUE
SHAVE NOT
coon JOB
trimming of Buildings to
Widen Streets Does Not
Help New FORKS Looks.
WHAT MEN. DISCUSS;
FISH IN WATERPIPE

New York. Sept 1.-THE report just
issued by the city engineers that the
widening Of the % miles of New York's
busiest streets is nearing completion.
brings to light the curious fact that
the anguished protests of owners of
cncrOaching property have given way
to sincere, If reluctant admissions, that
only benefit has come from slicing
off Obtruding doorways. port cocheres.
stoops, areaways and the like. Prop
erty owners and shop keepers are be-
ing compelled to expend about five mil
lion dollars to meet the city's ukase
making the building line the dead line
on certain streets with much resulting
lanentatiO7. The change of heart, is
due to the fact that dwellings and
shops minus former obstructing stoops,
much greater advantage. Taken in the
aggregate, Father Kniekerbocker's ef-
forts to secure more elbow room is of
a most comprehensive nature.
From the Battery TO 59th street more
than so streets have undergone radical
changes. The whole work of reclama-
ton as Undertaken so lar Is equS! 70
a strip of land 10 feet wide and eight
miles long, or about 425. 200 feet Some
idea Of the value of this area may be
had when it is remembered that the
assessed value of this particular eight
miles is from $1,000 to $4,000 per front
foot
Sentimentalists refuse to take COM
fort from financial and traffic gains
wrought by the city's street widening
program, however, and many mourn
the absence Of cherished architectural
landmarks. Old timers deplore the
shorn appearance of 25d streets high
stopped brown stones and yards while
habitues of the Fifth avenue and Broad
way hotels find them sadly changed,
mental columns Even Tammany Hall
suffered while patrons of the famous
old Academy Of Music find it bewilder-
lngly different
The power of the Standard Oil availed
nothing, for the home of the octopus
lost its elaborate entrance and the New
York life building its huge columns
And as though this were not sufficient
the completion of present plans Will
be but the signal to begin work on
second campaign OF progress or van
dalism, according to viewpoint.
What Men Talk About.
With the assistance of traitorous
male accomplice, a New YORK club
woman has discovered what 1t is men
talk about in the seclusion OF their
clubs or elsewhere when foresathered
with none Of the opposite sex about
Tie traitorOus male IN question q
stenOgrap her, made verbatim reports
of a number of club room confabs, to-
falling go, III words. The speakers in
cluded doctors, clergymen, editors. jew
elers, merchants, butehers, coal passerS
and representatives of many other pro- .
fessious aid trades. In order to Sc
cure conclusive evidence, the espion- !
age covered the untrammeled discus |
sions of the classes and The masses. An |
analysis shows that sports was the |
chief topic of conversation and tEat l
other topics followed in the order given, I
their standing being determined by the /
number of words scored b. each It /
is worthy of note that while more con- l
versation hinged upon. sport than upon !
women, the former included the. Olym- 1
pic games. without this unusual adj 4
vantage, the result would doubtless 1
have beeu different