El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-13
MAY SKATER
AND REBUILD
NEW YORK
Plans Made to Fill in Part of
River and Create a New
Island of 40 Square Miles.
BABIES PATTERNED
FOR THE MARKET

TEW YORK, Sept. 13.-If plans
now being matured are carried
out, within a few years little
Old" New York will be a thing OF the
past and the map of the greater city
so changed that the Gothamite Of to-
day from an aeroplane view would
never recognize it as his former hab-
fiat
The scheme is a gigantic one calling
for the filling in of East river, thus
joining Manhattan to Long Island and
extending Manhattan about six miles
south to within mile and a quarter
Of Staten Island, leaving above 1.-The
NarroWs" what would virtually amount
to an extension Of North river. The
plan contemplates forming a new har-
Dor bay between Staten Island and
Sandy Hook by the formation of a new
island of about 40 square miles just
north Of the Hook. Within this har-
Dor there would extend from Staten
Island new land peninsuIas of such
size and shape as to provide suitable
docking facilities for the city's grow
ing marine commerce It is also pro-
posed to cut a new East river directly
through Long Island, wide and deep
enough to accommodate seagoing yes
sells. The plan Furthermore calls for
a tunnel connecting the major island
with Staten island and another from
Staten island to the new 'made-to-or-
der" island in the mouth of the new
harbor.
1t is estimated that the carrying out
of this scheme would involve the eX-
penditure of thirty millions annually
for probably eight OF ten years. and
that the total cost may reach and eI-
coed half billion dollars, but on the
other hand it is pointed out that the
gain by the city of about 65 square
miles of new land and 100 miles Of wa
ter front will add to taxable values
40 less than two billions Of dollars.
Babies Fattened for Market.
That babies are actually fattened
for market here and, moreover, that
there is an exceedingly good market
for them, are two facts which are at
tracing public notice. This practice,
however, is a benevolent one for eX-
perience has shown that even If no
body loves a fat man very few love a
thin baby, unless It is their own
Therefore the societies which look
after the placing of orphans in homes
where they are adopted, have hit upon
the scheme of fattening them up IlrSJ.
How well this has worked IS shown
by the fact that through one of the
leading institutions devoted to this
work 100 children, after fattening,
have been placed in good homes. OF
these S55 were girls, and II IS sald
that the demand for girls IS SO much
greater than for bows that 1t IS hardly
possible to supply it More than fOU
were less than two years old when
placed, and no less than 500 we're leg
ally adopted and are now heirs OF
their foster parents. The agents IN
vestigated over 1000 applications in
finding these 100 homes. Many fam
lilies Of wealth and affluence include
one or more adopted children.
Subway Floats Away.
A thousand feet Of subway floating
down the surface Of the Harlem river
was a sight which amazed New York
ers last week. It was not, however,
a section of the present system gone
astray. but the steel tubes through
which the new Lexington avenue sub
way will run from Manhattan to the
Bronx. There are four of these tubes,
one for each track each of them meas
uring 220 feet long and 19 feet IN
diameter, made of 3-S inch steel plates,
with two feet between adjacent shells
which are concerted to one another
by means of steel partition walls
wrapped in wooden sheeting. They had
to be floated off the false work on
which they were built, at the contrac-
tors slip a mile up the river, by nine
fiatboats which had been slipped IN
der them at low tide. Then the fiat
boats were scutled and the tubes set
tied down in the river and flOated on
their own bottoms, for their ends
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