Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-02-13
Plan q Great Floating Palace for
New York Harbor.
NoScI Plan for Auditorium Built ON
concrete HuIIs in the Bay-A Mig
Cigarette War-Onc More Pain
less Trust Dissolution.

able approval here during the exhibition
of the Architectural League on n huge
circular raft or scow of concrete the de-
niger would erect Il building Of cir
rular form, with graceful Doric columns
OF concrete and steel, and inside he would
Lave. besides ample space for art OK
EDITIONS and schools of arts and crafts.
an auditorium which would outclass any
thing now standing in this country. It's
seating capacity would be 5000 persons
and provision would he made to use II
for public meetings, great concerts or |
operate performances. BY system OF |
screens. the size of the auditorium would |
be capable of being reduced to suit A the
atrical performance. Performances would |
be given by municipal actors, according |
to the designers plan, and prices would |
be kept at the lowest possible level Es- !
necia emphasi would he laid, however !
rpon the use Of the building for artistic |
purposes. particularly as a school OF the !
rts and the higher crafts BY floating |
en- the harbor Il would save entirely the !
lost OF land. and would be moored where !
most convenient. Engineers say. accord !
ing to the designer that such : structure !
is entirely feasible. Watertirht compart- |
meuts In the hull" would provide pro- |
lection against possible leaks In view OF |
the designers plan to anchor his floating !
art palace off the Battery, 1t is interest
ing to remember that for years New |
Works. great auditorium and concert hall |
was n mammoth circular structure SUI
rounded by the waters Of the harbor- |
Castle Garden. an old fort with % foot !
stone walls, which Is now surrounded by
the ma dc land OF Battery park and used
for the Aquarium.
CIGARETTE WAR.
New York. which has seen about every
possible kind of commercial and iinan-
cial war start within its borders, from
the stamp act struggles OF colonial times
to the gambling war Of last year is now
the storm center Of a cigarette war
whose field OF operations covers the whole
United States. The fight is raging be-
tween several OF the leading tobacco
companies, and the distinguishing fea-
/ lures just now are the souvenirs" which
each side is giving away with packs OF
! its cigarettes The trick Is old as
! trade-E9yptian embalmors used to slip
/ picture cards Of clay showing the pro-
| gress Of the dead through tho lands of
/ the other world into the cases of the
mummies which they prepared for bur
| ial. But a mummy was bigger piece o.
goods than a package Of five-cent cigar
| cites, and the Egyptians never went to
| the trouble Of working out such beWder-
! ing systems of cards the modern clCer-
ottes-all is grist that comes to the pre-
people believe they are getting something
more than they pay for. Pictures OF
| actresses, of fishes, of baseball players,
of buildings. and about everything unde-
the sun. scraps of silk with college en-
blems stcnciled on them, playing cards,
coupons redeema Bile for a toothbrush or
an automobile when you have smoked
few thousand dollars worth OF the cigar
etes-all l., grist that comes to the pre-
! MUM mill Evidently the souvenir plan
| works, or 1t would not draw the hundreds
| OF thousands Of dollars which the tobacco
people pour into II. \ woman who l.,
| prominent in the anti-cigarette move
! ment has suggested that, since the SOU
venir plan seems to have started with
| mummies. it might be well to 7 row In n
| mummy or two with each cigarette pack
! age as gentle reminder of the moral
which she would have drawn from the
| whole AFFAIR.
PAINLESS DEATH TRUST.
| Another step in the progress OF pain
less' trust dissolution which is going on
! here rapidly at present was marked this
| week by the announcement that the Am
| erCan Sugar Refining company, otherwise
| known as the sugar trust, was about to
| rid itself Of it's holdings of stock in the
| National Sugar REFINING company by the
| simple process OF distributing these hold
| ings pro rata among its own stockholders.
, This is the same kind of dissolution
| that has worked so satisfactorily to the
| owners Of Standard oil and tobacco,
| Legally II seems to answer every require
| mcnt for 1t reduces the trust share in
the total output of refined cane sugar to
| less than onc-half. In view OF the con-
| tinuancc OF the common ownership If
| the two companies it is not likely how
| ever chat there will be any acute com
| petition between them. In fact IT was
! brought out by the Hardwick congress
! sional Investigating committee last wear
| that there la a frieudlN understanding
| among the big relincrS and that they in
| terfsre with one another as little as
| possible, 1t IS we'll understood here in.
| deed that the rc!lners in their fight for a
| reduction OF the sugar tariff are working
| In harmony ana are making common
! cause against a new rival that has sprung
up In the rapidly growing beet sugar
! industry. II Is no secret In the trade that
the reiinera are genuinely alarmed at the
| vigorous competition OF this new source
| OF supply which has forced them to cut
| prices and recently caused several re-
ilner1es to close entirely while others Were
! put on half time. Tho reflners evidently
believe that II they can bring about
| enough to drive the domestic sugar pro-
| cut In the duty on imported sugar deep
| Queer out OF business II will be more eff
! fective than any number of agreements
or holding companies In restoring them
to "A position of complete control over the
| American sugar market,
THE NEWEST BIG TERMINAL,
with the opening of the new Grand
| Central station, New York nov has the
Terminal city in its midst. AS the build
| ers Of tho new terminal call their as
toniShins group Of buildings. The name
| lis not badly chosen, for the terminal
covers 70 acres and has n capacity of l.0y3
| cars. The mere figures regarding the
| new station give some notion of it's stu
| pendous dimensions. II took 5O0,0n0 bar
| reis of cement to build il, and llS60D tons
| of steel Forty-two tracks enter its up
| per level whore express or through trains
| arrive and depart, and tho lower or local