The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-23
new YORK SLICES
OFF MILES OF
BUILDING FRONTS
lily Gains Ten Acres Of Land
Worth Many Millions by En-
forcing Widening
GOTHAM MEN SWEAR LITTLE
Stock Brokers Complain that They
Must be Encyclopedias
Nowadays
GOTHAM MEN SWEAR LITTLE


ast issued by the city engineers
hat the widening Of the twenty-five
niles of New York's busiest streets
nearing completion brings to light
he curious fact that the anguished
,rotests of owners Of encroachinG
roperty have given way 10 sincere.
reluctant admissions, that only
penefit has come from slieing off OBJ
ruding doorways, pert cocheres,
loops areaways andsthe like. Prop
rty owners and shop owners are be-
ing compelled to eXpend about I'VE
lillion dollars to meet the city's an
Ease making the building line the
leadlinc on certain streets with
much resulting lamentation The
.hange OF heart is due TO the fact
that dwellings, and shops minus for
ner obstructing stoops, ratings and
ellar entrances rent to much greater
dvantage, Taking in he aggregate
ather knickerbocker's efforts TO
ecure more elbow room is of most
comprehensive nature. From the
,attery to Fifty-ninth Street more
han fifty streets have undergone
adical changes. The whole work
If reclamation as undertaken so far
5 equal to a strip of land ten feet
vide and eight miles long or about
$4,000 feet. Some idea OF the
alue OF this area may be had when
| is remembered that the assessed
| aluc of this particular eight miles
| from $1,000 to $4,000 per front
| DOT. Sentimetalists refuse to take
omfort from financial and traffic
| Eains wrought by the city's street
widening program, however, and
| many morn the absence of cherished
! architectural landmarks. Old timer;
lep'ore the shorn appearance OF
'wenty-third streets high-stoopet
brown stores and yards while habi.
ues of the Fifth avenue and Broab'
way hotels find them sadly chang
ID, minus BALCONIES, facades and or.
namental columns. Even TammaAy
Iall suffered while patrons of the
amous old Academy Of Music find il
1ewiideringly different. The power
If the Standard Oil availed nothias
or the home 81 the octupus lost it'
| Elaborate entrance or the New Yorl
Life Building its huge columns. AID
Is though this was not sufficient the
completion Of present plans will BE-
1ut the signal to begin work on ;
second campaign OF progress or van
ialism. according to the viewpoint
Talk of Sports Mainly
With the assistance OF traitorol
male accomplace a New York clul
Woman has discovered what it il
men talk about in the seclusion o
heir clubs or elsewhere when fore
altered with none of the opposit
aX about. The traitorous male j
ues,ion, a stenographer, made yer
atm reports OF number of cluI
oom oonfabs fotaling 290117 words
he speakers included doctors, ClerE,
men, editors, jewelers., merchants
butchers, coal passers and representa-
ives OF many other professions ant
rades In order to secure conclusiv
violence the espionage covered tn
lntrammeled discussions of the class
S and the masses. An analyst
shows that sports was the chief topi
# conversation and that other topic
'ollowed in the order given, thei
landing being determined by tb
number Of words scored by each
It is worthy of note that while NOR
conversation hinged upon sport tina
'pon women, the former included tn
olympic games, Without this un
Usual advantage the result woul
rave doubtless been different.