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New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
Block Front Improvement.

The work OF putting up two loft structures
on the westerly block front in Fourth ave-
nue.. from 20th TO 2lst streets will soon be
we'll under way. That is task that
Klein & Jackson have undertaken al the
northwest corner OF 10Th street is to be n
twelve story loft, 92x125 feet, and at the
southwest corner of 2lst street will stand
an eight story structure. l.. f. Dommerich
e. Co. have leased the twelve story build
ing and Pierls. Buher e. Co. the eight story
one.
An important transaction in tho district
was recently made by s. Osgood Pell &
Co. The brokerage firm sold for the Bruins
wick Realty Company. Of which Robert p.
Zobel is president. the building known as
the Twenty-eighth Street Arcade II is
No. 1lS East 2Sth street, and extends 10
Nos. l2l and 123 East 9th street II is a
ten story store and Office building II was
held at 100000.
A new home for j. II. & c. K. Eagle will
stand at the southeast corner OF 2Ist street
and Fourth avenue. The plot TO be i'm
proved is No. 261 to 265 Fourth avenue and
No. 100 East o1st street 1t is 90x1l5 feet.
The building will be twenty stories and
will cost S60O,0 900. according to the estimate
of Warren Wetmore. architects.
The dwelling house No. 10 Madison ave-
nue. owned and formerly occupied by Mrs
]. II. Hegeman is TO be replaced by six
teen story Office structure. II will be built
from plans by d. f. Ward and will cost
81. 600. 900.
A S50OOOO sixteen story office building
will be erected by Dr. T. Adds Emmet on
the plot No SO TO 95 Madison avenue
Barney & colt. architects. recently filed the
plans William Openhym Co, silk mer-
chants whose place Of business is at Mercer
and Grand streets. will occupy the store
basement and two other floors. 1t leased
the space about week ago. Mark Rafal-
sky Go. was the broker In that trans
action.
A twenty story Office building is to be put
up at the southeast corner Of 25th street
and Madison avenue from plans by c. A.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
A GARAGE NOT A STABLE.

In Massachusetts the Supreme Court mas
held that a garage is not a stable IN the
meaning OF this term in realty restrictions.
This is a Just decision which recognizes
changes in life, custom and habits ana acts
on them.
An Improvement company had sold land
subiert 20 the familiar restriction that mo
stable private or otherwise shall ar,,ey ever oe of
tho Iand sold The court decided that
stable in such a restriction involved the
presence OF domestic animals. hke horsss ,ss
or cattle - II these were absent the punu
Inc the court held was not a stapie,
even IN the dictionary defines garage ~
a stable for motor cars. ,..,,,
1ha occ,nants OF the next lot dfsnked n
Garage as much as a stable. Hence the
action In It's bearing on realty sessT''Sns Ss
in other states, this o Is an iirpv cpvrt whose
sndinss are heard with respect by the
bench IN all states.-Philadelphia Prss&
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

II will cost Sl,3OO,OOO and will
be owned by a. Fillmore Hyde.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
THE CLARENDON BUILDING.

The Clarendon Building at the southeast
corner of Fourth avenue and 18th street.
s one OF the finest mercantile buildings on
the avenue. 1t was sold last year to pri-
vate investors by Lewis y. Preston.
THE policy OF the new owners is to give
'he hest service. and TO that end many i'm
we're made In the building atter
rs acquisition, 10 bring the property to the
very highest possible state of efficiency
The building has exceptional light
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
with which to begin the creation OF tive
such colossal business territories
Planned for Trade.

Planned for Trade.
Then the builders there knew what the
wholesale and retail business demands
were. and the plan OF the structures was so
drawn as TO make the buildings most use
full TO the prospective tenants.
Pleased tenants speak freely abou. eff
cient building service. and It is hardly
necessary to say that such praises help
investors to form opinions as to the value
of improved property.
Besides ideal location these are some OF
the principal building features Of the
Madison and Fourth avenue districts: Al
tractive rentals, light and airy offices.
stores and lofts, low insurance rates be-
cause of the structures being freprOof.
facilities for displaying goods in the best
way, up-to-date heat and power plants,
and model arrangement OF floors.
Those are the building features, too. OF
the Irving Place district
Some millions are going to be spent this
year erecting lofts and store buildings in
Fourth avenue and office and store struct-
ures I'm Madison avenue.
At the southwest corner OF 26th street and
Fourth avenue the Hess Building Company
is putting up a twenty-two-stor loft at
cost OF Sl,5OOOOO. The plans have been
filed by Neville & Bagge. The Fourth Ave
nue. and Thirty-second Street Company is
going to erect a twelve story loft at the
corner of 32d street and Fourth avenue.
Frederick Southack and Alwyn Ball. jr., re-
Gently leased the store. basement and first
and second lofts in that proposed building
to Schwarzenbach, Huber g. Co. silk manu-
facturers. now at No. 472 Broome street.
Cross & Cross are also busy perfecting
plans TO add TO the skyscraper area in the
district. They are receiving figures for a
loft building to be erected at the southwest
corner Of 9Oth street and Fourth avenue
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18

dwelling house No 12S West 65th street
to Mary Mccall.
Samuel II. Martin has leased in conJunc-
ton with IIuberth & Gabel offices IN the
American Building, at Columbus Circle TO
the Civilian Company.
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
Other Big Factors.

Other Big Factors.
OF course, there were many other i'm
portant factors in the transformation OF
lower Madison and Fourth avenues and the
Irving Place zones into big trade marts.
AS New York grew It became necessary
for wholesale and retail business houses to
locate In a district TO which concerns trad
ing in or manufacturing the same goods as
they could be attracted Thus, there are
sections occupied almost entirely by silk
houses or hardware concerns or art dealers
or other business houses all I'm the same
trade.
With the passing years increasing busi-
ness also came, and more modern factory
rlaces or lofts for displaying manufactured
products were needed.
The fear OF losing business by getting
away from Broadway no longer haunted
by night and day the heads Of prosperous
concerns which had outgrown their old
homes Meanwhile, northward had moved
the residential zones and the central dis
trcts had become more popular to retail
shoppers Some Of the downtown whole
sale concerns were also striving for big
retail trade. so when they decided to JOIN
the northward movement the Madison and
Fourth avenue and Irving Place sections
naturally appealed most strongly TO them.
BY this time the subway had brought
Fourth avenue within the great electric
rapid transit system of New York: and al
,hc northerly end and northeasterly OF
lower Fourth avenue was forming hotel
centre OF beautiful lines and generous area
The fact that just west OF Fourth avenue
is Madison avenue, and block further
west Of Madison avenue is the great Flih
avenue retail shopping district, materially
helped in the development of Fourth ave-
rue
Looking backward at the changes in the
skylines Of various central sections in New
York in recent years, does II not seem that
lower Fourth avenue was just kept In
quiet state, from a realty point of view,
by some mysterious force until ~ was
wanted for business? For when business
entered il II did not take long to remove
old rows of small buildings and put up IN
their places the best loft and once sruc-
lures ever designed
Moreover, could there possibly DC dls-
trjcts more favorably located Tor wholesale
and retail trade and commercial on'ee Pur-
poses than Madison and Fourth avenues
and Irving Place.
When Spectators entered In large mum
bers tho Fourth and Madison avenue
districts same years ago the price TOT ia''u
permitted them TO put up buildings "nlcn
could be rented at less sum sp""''
OF floor space than In most Of the oiner
business zones. and the highest rehtal
figure for space was equal to the lowest In
the older sections.
That was a splendid building ao'~~so
New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
MODEL STORE, LOFT AND OFFICE CENTRES
BUILDING Features Of Fourth and Madison Avenues and Irving
Place Districts Appreciated by Growing Business Concerns.
ABROAD TERMINALS AND HOTEL SECTIONS NEAR BY

lished mercantile houses closely together
downtown for years has been much over
drawn. There is no doubt, however, that
firms with homes along Broadway had less
difficulty In marketing their goods than
concerns with less favorable sites. For In
stance, the phrases "Direct from our Fifth
avenue store or For sale at less than
our Fifth avenue prices" have an advertis-
Ing worth that can be quickly computed by
many experienced storemen. For years
Broadway as a trademark had a similar
effect in reaching the pocketbook OF the
public.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
GENERAL BENNETT II. YOUNG.

General Bennett H. Young of Louisville,
KY, was elected COMMANDMENT Chief of
the United Confederate Veterans at the
reunion held in Macon, Ca, last week.
The honor was conferred by unanimous
vote and the election was held amid great
enthusiasm of the delegates.
A better selection could not have been
made. A gallant soldier and estimable
gentleman, he ranks high in the estimation
of all who know him.
The friends and comrades of this grand
and chivalric gentleman, who was true to
his principles in the days that tried mems
souls, will be glad to learn of his we'll
deserved promotion. For many years, as
Chairman of the Historical Committee of
the association, his very able and forceful
annual reports have been true history of
the brilliant deeds of the sons of the South,
who in the heyday of youth and hope, in
the Confederate Army, gave heroic testi-
mony of their convictions. And as the
popular Commander of the Army of Ten
nessee, U. G.. ", and in other capacities
of usefulness, General Young has rem
dered a lasting service, and his name will
ever be proudly associated with the history
and matchless deeds of the heroes of the
Gland we love-"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
LATE NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

London is the banking center Of the
world.
nerided for eating with his knife, man
in Memphis shot his critic.
The coal consumption per capita in Eng
land is three times that of France.
A law Of the Argentine Republic makes
it compulsory for citizens to vote.
Italy consumes less tobacco per capita
than any other country in the world.
Three thousand automobiles were sold in
California during the month of April.
Congress will not furnish seeds for re-
planting crops destroyed by the flood.
Throughout the world the total capital
in railroads amounts to $40, zoo, 900, 900.
At the last computation our railroads
killed 10, 900 and injured 10000 in one year.
The Southern Baptist Convention is hold
ing its fifty seventh session in Oklahoma
City, Ok.
Two battleships now being built in Eng
land for Chile will be the longest battleships
in existence-625 feet.
The most densely populated of all the
countries of the world is Belgium, with 636
inhabitants to the mile.
A Chicago firm gave 81 ,OOO,O 900 to further
plan of scientific farm management
throughout the State of Illinois to secure a
larger yield of better grain.
The Confederate Reunion at Macon las,
week accepted an invitation to attend a
joint reunion of the blue and the gray al
Gettysburg, Pa, next year.
United States Senator Percy of Missis-
| sippi says the money loss caused by the
present flood is twice the cost of complete
levee system down from Carlo.
More than two hundred saloons in the
upper peninsula of Michigan closed May
1st by the operation of the Warner Cramp-
ton law, which places the number of sa-
looms on population basis.
Cleveland, Ohio, is so much in earnes,
about Kidding itself of the pest of flies thai
the city health authorities have offered a
reward of one cent for every ten flies de.
livered dead at the city hall.
A cyclone struck Talladega, Ala, early
Monday night, blowing down many build.
ings and causing great loss. Talladega
College, having an enrolment of 4O(
students, was completely razed. Two ne.
groes were killed and extensive damage
was done at Tuscaloosa.
The year 1912 already remarkable as
opening the driest spring Paris, France
has experienced for two and half cen.
turtles, practically no rain having fallen in
eight weeks, adds another record to its
credit, last week being the hottest ever re.
corded in May-86 to 80 degrees.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
High Winds and Heavy Rains.

New Orleans, May 1O.-New Orleans to-
night withstood the severest rainstorm in
her history. All of the lower half of Lou
isiana was affected and thousands of the
people who live behind the already strain
ed levees that hold back the Mississippi's
flood waters were panicky.
The wind ranged from twenty-seven
miles an hour at New Orleans to forty miles
at Baton Rouge and at many points along
the river it swept the waves of the swollen
stream over the levees.
At New Orleans five and one tenth
inches of rain fell from noon until 10
o'clock and about four inches fell between
and 9 o'clock. The Mississippi River
here was banked up by the high winds and
rose eight inches in two hours between s
and 10 o'clock, forcing the waters over the
levees at several points.
Rain and hail accompanied the wind and
meager reports tonight show that the lower
half of the State experienced deluge such
as was never before recorded.
The streets of New Orleans were flooded
as never before in the city's history. In
the Carrollton section, the upper part of
the city, the water was six to seven inches
deep on the sidewalks. In the downtown
business section, Canal and all intersecting
streets were flooded over the sidewalks and
the water entered stores in a number OF
instances.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
Most Popular Book in The World.

From the Christian HERALD
The Bible is the most popular book in
the world on account of its pure literature.
Say what we will concerning the advance
ment of modern methods of style and
beauties of expression, doubt if any one
will ever approach some of the passages
which can be found in the Psalms, in the
Prophets, or in the Book of Revelation.
Considering the fact that these writings
have come to us through translations, it is
astonishing what beauties and power have
been preserved. There is no book quoted
oftener than the Bible. Passages have
been woven entire into our own literature.
No writer of any prominence has ever
been able to escape borrowing from the
Bible. The reading of it has affected the
style of writer's like Ruskin and Browning
and Milton. Gladstone repeatedly ac-
knowledged his Indebtedness to the Bible
for his phraseology. Charles Fox said
more than once that he owed to the peru
sal of the Bible his vocabulary. The
variety of expression to be found on the
part of different writer's is strangely COM
mingled with unity of expression, due in
large part to the fact that all of these men
are writing with at least one great purpose
in view. For we have in the Bible style
which is more or less uniform from begin
ming to end-even the style of expression
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
HeW to The Line.

Try to please everybody and the first
thing you know you are pleasing nobody,
not even yourself. Hew to the line, with
the admonition to people that few rockets
have gone up and the sticks, in all human
probability, will come down. 1t is one OF
the lamentable features of mans manifold
make-u up that he is always ready and will
ling to butt in and give voluntary advice
whether it is in the case of horse with
the collie or at fire, where thousands OF
dollars are being sent up in smoke. This,
we say, is one of the inscrutable evidences
of the strange working of the Divine plan,
in man. Every man, or pretty near every
one, imagines he can show the other fellow
just how to do given thing, in much
better and safer, as we'll as quicker way,
than the man who is doing the job. We
have always found it best to let every man
look after his own private business. He
gives his time and attention to it. Other
people do not.-Monroe Neacs-Star.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
DIR. J. |. SCHUMPERT.

DR.. J. |. Schumpert, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of Caddo Parish, died at
his home in Shreveport on the 9th instant.
DR.. Schumpert was elected in November,
1872, to the House of Representatives from
Caddo Parish-of which body Judge j. c..
Moncure was elected Speaker-and served
in what is known in political history as the
"John McEnery Government, which was
overthrow by Federal bayonets in support
of the notorious Kellogg usurpation. DR..
Schumpert was a Democrat of the old
school, true to his convictions and his
friends. He never faltered in his devotion
to either. We recall an incident which it,
Illustrates his party devotion. In January,
1879, he, with great many other patriotic
Democrats in North Louisiana, was ar
rested by authority of the United States
Government on the frivolous charge OF
intimidating voters" at the November
election in 1878. Such arrests were in the
interest of the Republican party, and were
intended to annoy and prevent Democrats
from taking an active interest in political
matters, but arrest and persecution did not
prevent patriotic Democrats from discharg-
ing their duty to their State.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16

Judge R. G.. Drew is a candidate for
reelection to the office of Judge of the
Court of Appeals from this district, and
his formal announcement appears else
where in this issue of the Banner.
He.was appointed to the position he
now holds on the circuit bench by Gov
ernor Sanders during February, 1911,
succeeding Judge L. K. Watkins, who
resigned to again take up the practice
Of law. Judge Edwards, who is Judge
Drew's only opponent in the present
contest, was also the only candidate that
contested the appointment honors with
him. At that time Judge Edwards and
his friends made very active fight to
secure the appointment, but the Gov
ernor finally decided in favor of the
Webster Parish candidate.
Judge Drew gave up his position on
the district bench to accept this appoint
ment, and his friends feel that he is at
least entitled to a full term on the cir
cult bench, the term he is now holding
being only an unexpired one. His
claims to reelection are further
strengthened by the fact that he has
made good during his short incumbency
Of his present position, making the cir
cult an able and satisfactory presiding
Judge.
Judge Drew is one of the best known
lawyers in this section of the State. He
has long and distinguished career
both as lawyer and as a Judge. He is
learned in the law, and has had nearly
or quite twenty years experience as a
presiding judge. He was Parish Judge
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
From Over Our Great State

New Orleans ranks second in percentage
of increase of postal saving deposits.
Fourteen negroes were drowned Tuesday
of last week in Pointe Coupee Parish.
Mrs. S. N. Dorset was drowned at Winns-
boro when canoe in which she was riding
upest.
During the storm in New Orleans Friday
night Joseph Dalse walked into canal and
was drowned.
Twenty thousand persons are homeless in
Louisiana as result of the flood, accord
ing to army figures.
The entire town of Vidalia was flooded
with from two to four feet of water Friday
morning by the breaking of a protection
levee.
Five places where food is served in New
Orleans were ordered closed by the Board
of Health for failure to connect with the
sewerage and water systems.
w. S. Atkins. Commissioner of Streets
and Parks of Shreveport, was recalled by
a majority of three votes, George Epple
BEL. the successful candidate.
George II. Packwood, former Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons OF
Louisiana and Major General of the Lou
isiana Division, U. c. ", died in Clinton
Saturday.
The General Assembly OF Louisiana con-
vened in Baton Rouge Monday. Hon. L. E
Thomas was elected Speaker of the House
by reclamation, Hon. w. J. Johnston OF
this parish, administering the oath of office
There were 10 of the 116 members pres
ent. Hon. Joseph Voegtle of New Orleans
was elected President pro tenn of the Sen
ate by the following vote: Voegtle, 26:
S. K. Amacker of East Carroll, 10.
The wind and rainstorm in Shreveport
Friday at noon was the most spectacular
one that has visited that city for long
time. Two houses under construction il
Queensborough were blown down and the
streets were flooded with water. The Times
says the streets were darker at noon thar
they ever were at night. ''SuperstitiouS
negroes took stock of their religion. Timie
white folks looked apprehensively at thu
sky. Chickens scurried off to roost, anc
street sparrows flew swiftly to their nests
Everywhere business came to standstill
The whole city held its breath"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16
THE BEGINNING OF EVIL.

Heredity doubtless plays its part in in
Ginning men to vice as we'll as virtue, but
association with those inclined to evil is Il
greater factor in determining the career
of young man. Proofs of the strong
effects of criminal heredity and crimina!
associations are abundant, for there are
families of criminals, just as there are
families whose members are devoted to
certain learned professions. But there
are also abundant proofs that criminal
heredity is small factor when not COM
bined with criminal associations. A very
large number of criminals coming from
good parentage drift into crime almost
ANONYMOUSLY through idleness, bad asso-
Citations, inordinate greed and lack OF
moral force. They do not start out with
any thought, much less intention, OF
becoming criminals, but they are led into
wrong courses by bad associates, and
finding themselves involved have not the
moral courage to break away from the be-
ginnings Of evil. When exposure comes
as it must some day, with broken reputa-
tons, they drift into the criminal class
The only safe plan is to resist the begin.
nings Of evil. If wrong step has beer
taken, or one that appears to be wrong, il
should be retraced at once, even at the
expense of humiiating confession. Dali
lance with wrong is always dangerous
nor can any one find security in the idea
that the world is divided into fixed classes
of any kind. The criminal class is GER
tainly recruited day by day and year afte
year, and some of the recruits come from
that other socalled class who, by heredit!
and association, should remain uprigh
and honest.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-05-16

Just before he sailed for Europe Cover
nor Dix vetoed at one time 143 bills passed
by the recent New York Legislature.
These bills automatically vetoed them
selves, for these reasons, as stated by
Governor Dix: "They are either uncon-
stitutional, effectively drafted, duplicates
of bills already disposed of, special chan
ges, amendments or additions to State
routes or canal system, appropriations OF
moneys exceeding available funds, viola
tons of the principles of home rule or
sound public policy, or combination OF
any one or more of these defects" Could
there be any more cutting arrangement OF
the quality of State legislation than this:
And this is a sample of the poor legislation
with which majority of the States are
subjected to by men who never think.
violations of home rule or sound public
policy is one of the most glazing evils in
legislation nowadays, particularly in
Louisiana.