Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-31

New York, October 30.-Another in
teresting old landmark, the old Aston
house, is rapidly disappearing. 1t is
in the process OF demolition and the
work will soon be completed. Win
dows, doors, timbers. plumbing, brick
stone and every other possible salvage
from the big structure are being cart
ell away to all points Of thS compass tC
= begin a new existence in modern
structures. Even the laths are saved
for further USE. Secondhand building
material dealers in the Bronx, Browns.
vile. Queens and New Jersey are cart.
ing brick and other parts of the struc.
ture to their yards to sell them again
to small builders. The blue Quincy
Granite blocks forming the facade of
the building are going in truckloads
to a Brooklyn firm, which will con-
vert the blocks into monuments and
tombstones.
The company which bought the no.
tel from the city for $3,SS3 sold the
granite for $4,000, and is now disDos-
ing Of the brick at the rate of five
and six dollars a load. 1t figures there
are between 500 and 900 loads, or
approximate, I 20o,tG0 bricks in the
old structure, which is being removed
so that the#Brooklyn Rapid Transit
subway ca nbe carried under it.. All
of this material will doubtless enter
into the construction of hundreds Of
small buildings in the city's outskirts.
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1t was q lucky haul when the police
arrested q gang OF ten men recently,
all OF whom are members of the most
dangerous black hand organization in
New York City. Eight of the ten lei
arrested confessed to d long lis. Of
crimes. including blackmail, ARISEN,
burglary. robbery, coun%terfeitlng,
horse-steaiing, extortion b~omb-eXplod.
ing and murder, not to mention many
minor violations of the laws. But,
after ali, the police authorities were
a triic premature Wien they congra.
tulated themselves upon having brok-
ell UP this dangerous gang. for on the
following day a bomb a exploded in
front OF an Italian grocery store in
Monroe street, completely wrecking
the place and proving conclusively
that either the police failed to arrest
all members of the black hand gang or
that there is another gang operating
in this city.
1t has always been puzzling to the
police that in most cases where gang
sters were arrested after one of their
lfJn fOh.,, Tr ,o,I,pIlr. M NY U,nrn
found upon their person, although
there was every reason TO believe thai
the men arrested had been. active par
Elephants in the crime. The mystery
has at last been solved by one Of the
settlement workers in the sang-infest-
ed Sast Side districts. He learned
that the gangsters were in the habit
OF employing mentally defective boys
and girls to carry their guns for
them, persuading them that this was
q grea3 honor conferred upon them.
When starting out on one of their e
petitions the gangsters would keep
tleir youthful helpers near at hand
and after the fight. OF. murder they
would hand their guns to their helpers
and confidently submit to arrest,
knowing that no tell-tale weapon could
be found in their possession.
Artist D~espondent.
All artist committed suicide in this
city the other day because he found
That his work was unsatisfactory.
Perhaps the mar was over sensitive
perhaps his work was really poor and
unsatisfactory. But if all the artists,
actors, actresses, and musicians whose
work is unsatisfactory were to commit
suicide, the coffin factories would have
to work overtime to supply the de.
mand for their products. Another "a.
ther unusual suicide of the week was
that OF a boy of sixteen who killed
himself because his mother and his
sisters ridiculed him for his atren-
lions to a woman much older than
himself.
Saved BY Bible.
That Albert Kent, a young married
man in West Orange, N. j., is still
among the living he owes to the fam
lily Bible at his mothers home. Not
that by reading the Bible he had be.
come convinced of the sinfulness Of
suicide and had given up the plan of
doing away with himself. 1t was in
q physical, not a spiritual manner that
the old book saved him from death.