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were driving into New York late at night
the leaders stopped. He nlcked them.
and the next moment we could dimly
make out that they had jumped. II then
appeared that the street was closed and
that board had been placed across It,
resting on two barrels, but without a Ian
tern. over this board the leaders had
jumped. and there was considerable ex-
citement before we got the board taken
off the barrels and resumed our way.
When in the city on Thanksgiving or
Christmas my father was very apt to
drive my mother and couple of friends
up to the racing park to take lunch.
But he was always back In time to go TO
the dinner at the Newsboys' Lodging
House, and not infrequently also to Miss
Sattery's Night School for little Italians
At very early age we children were
taken with him, and were required to
help. He was Il stanch friend of Charles
Loring Brace. and was particularly in
terested in the Newsboys' Lodging Houses
and in the night schools and In getting
the children off the streets and out on
farms in the West. When I was Presi-
dent, the Governor of Alaska under me.
Governor Brady, was one of these ex-
newsboys who had been sent from New
York out West by Mr.. Brace and my
father My father was greatly interested
in the societies TO prevent cruelty to
children and cruelty to animals. On
Sundays he had a mission class. On his
way to 1t he used to drop us children
at our Sunday school In DR.. Adamss
Presbyterian Church, on Madison Square:
remember hearing my aunt, my
mothers sister. saying that when he
walked along with US children he al
ways reminded her of Greatheart In Bun
van. Under the Snur Of his examnlo L
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needed help or protection, and with the
possibility of much wrath against a bully
or an oppressor. He was very fond of
riding both on the road and across the
country, and was also a great whip. lie
usually drove four-in-hand or else a
spike team, that is, a pair with a third
horse i'm the lead. ! do not suppose that
such team exists now. The trap that
ne drove we always called the high phae-
ton. The wheels turned under I'm front.
| have Il yet He drove tailed horses
harnessed loose in light American har-
ness. so that the whole rig had no posi-
bic resemblance TO anything that would
be seen now. My father always excelled
i'm improving every spare hali-hour or
three-quarters OF an hour, whether for
work or enjoyment. Much of his four-in-
hand driving was done in the summer
afternoons when he would come out on
the train from his business in New YORK.
My mother and one or perhaps two or us
children might meet him at the station.
/ can see him now getting out OF the car
in his linen buster. jumping into the wag-
on and instantly driving OFF at rafting
pace, the buster sometimes bagging IKE
a balloon. The four-in-hand, as can DE
gathered from the above description, did
not in any way IN his eyes represent pos
sibe pageantry. lie drove 1t because ne
liked 1t. He was always preaching eau
ton to his boys. but in this respect he ala
not practise his preaching overmuch MINI
self; and. being an excellent whip, he
liked to take chances. Generally they
came out all right. Occasionally they did
not; but he was even better at getting out
OF q Scrape than into IL Once when we
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and when father came down we called
out. Il speak for you and the cubby-
hole. toow There were three of us young
children. and we used to sit with father
on the sofa while he conducted morning
prayers. The place between father and
the arm of the sofa VIC called the "cubby-
hole" The child who got that place we
regarded as especially favored both In
comfort and somehow or other In rank
and title. The two who were left TO sit
ON the much wider eXpansc of sofa on
for the time being
My aunt Anna. my mothers sister, lived
with lis. She was as devoted to us chill
drcn as was my mother herself. and VIC
were equally devoted to her in return.
She taught Us our lessons while We were
little. She and my mother used to enter
tain us by the hour with tales OF life on
the Georgia plantations; of hunting fox,
deer and wildcat; of the long-tailed driv-
ing horses. Boone and Crockett, ana oil
the riding horses, one of which was
named Buena Vista In III OF patnouc
cxaltation during the Mexican war; and
OF the queer gongs-on in the negro quar-
ters. She knew all the "Br'er Rabbit
stories, and | was brought up on thenn'
One OF my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was
much struck with them, and took them
down from her dictation, publishing them
In "IIarpcr's." where they fell nat. rms
was good many years before genius
arose, who In "Unclc Remus," made the
stories immortal.
My mothers two brothers. James Dun
woodie Bulloch and Irving Bulloch came
to visit us shortly after the close OF the
war. Both came under assumed Names
as they were among the Confederates VINO
were at that time exempted from the am
nesty. Uncle Jimmy" Bulloch was
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A PRETTY STORY.

A charming story about william 80"
Uowells was told at the Thursday Even
ing Club by poet.
.yybap Gilbert and Sullivan" the poe1
said, were touring America tosetne,
met Gilbert at IA dinner. and nc a,ns,
me about Mr.. Howelis's books III "n'e
he was much Interested. Amons o'"''
things | said to him: IA.
"Mr. Howells's story OF "Ine'
ding Journey" Is very popular
Young couples set off on their hones
moon nowadays without includ'hs d ~"
with their luggage. "A
well said Mr.. Gilbert, sullivan
/ are not very young couple W. an
think we'd better include COPY
our luggage, too.
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taught a mission class myself for three
years before going To college. aud for
all four years that ! was In college. /
do not think | made much Of success
Of il. But the other day on getting out
Of a taxi in New York the chauffeur
spoke to- me and told me that he was
one OF my old Sunday school pupils. I
remembered him well, and was much
pleased TO find that he was an ardent
Bull Mooscr,
My mother. Martha Bulloch was a
sweet, gracious, beautiful Southern
woman. delightful companion and be-
loved by everybody. She was entirely
'unreconstructed' 10 the day of her
death. Her mother, my grandmother,
one OF the dearest of old ladies'. lived
with us and was distinctly overindulgent
TO us children. being quite unable to
harden her heart toward US even when
the occasion demanded II. Toward the
close of the Civil War. although "A very
small boy. ! grew To have partial but
alert understanding OF the fact that the
family were not one in their Views about
that conflict, my father being "A strong
Lincoln Republican; and once. when /
felt that ] had been wrongod by maternal
discipline during the day ] attempted a
partial vengeance by praying with loud
fervor for the success of the Union arms
when we all came To say our prayers
before my mother In the evening. She
was not only most devoted mother,
but was also blessed with a strong sense
of humor. and she was too much amused
repeat the offence, under penalty of my
fathers being informed-he being the
dispenser OF serious punishment Morn
Ing prayers were with my father. We
used TO stand at the foot OF the stairs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13

ATuER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is just
coming into possession OF the great
Il est and most costly office building
in the world. The Department of Bridges
has moved into the new Municipal Build
ing. and it is hoped that by October l the
other city departments that are to find
permanent home in the vast pile will have
taken possession also.
"Ciyic Fame" the copper statue that is
To typify the spirit Of the city, now rests
on her lofty pedestal. From the street
level 90 the top of this image, which in
itself is twenty-nine feet in height. is eX-
actly $50 feet Just at present the LADY
is hidden by a scaffolding upon when
artists are at work covering her with
gold leaf. In another week she should
he visible from all parts of the city
Viewed as an experiment in munlcipal
ownership and operation, this building
presents an interesting problem Wheh
completed IL will have cost S12,oOOoVV
The site cost the city some S6,0OO.00O. In
noint of size the only rival in the world
90 the structure is the Woolworth Build
ing. II is true that the latter Is hSher'
IL has ffty-five stories to the forty OF the
Municipal Building. II has gross floor
area of thirty-three acres, while that OF
the city workshop has only about twenty
nine acres But right there the superior
ity of the Woolworth Building ends. The
city building is more expensive, more
massive in every way. The Woolworth
Building cost s7.5OO.OOO and its site 3d.
800. 900. Its weight is only $4,000 tons
including $4,000 tons Of structural steel
while the city's pile weighs 10000 tons
Including 26.OOO tons of steel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
A HIVE OF INDUSTRY.

Built under the supervision OF the Dc
partment of Bridges, Of which Commis-
sioner Arthur j. OKeeffe is the head.
under a special act Of the Legislature, the
building when completed will be turned
over to the care of the Borough Presi-
dent of Manhattan. His will be the prob
lem Of caring for this tremendous hive OF
industry. 1t is figured that there Will be
an average population of 5000 in the
building during business hours, counting
400 employees and an average OF 2Vp
visitors. 1t requires no stretch OF the I'M
agination TO understand that ii is no SIM
ple problem TO manage such an establish
ment.
For many months Borough President
McAneny through his Bureau of Public
buildings and Offices of which Julian
Beatty is superintendent, has been work
ing out the details of the care OF the
structure The handling Of modern Of
flee building has become a science. ana II
is along scientific lines that this prob
lem rs being worked out 1t is roughly
estimated that it will require the constant
omployment of some $50 persons. The
force may be divided something after this
fashion: Female cleaners, $50; porters,
60: elevator men, so; watchmen, 10; fire.
men. s: elevator starters, 6; special Of
fcers. 6: engineers. 3. and oilers .. There
will also be plumbers. steam filters, an
elevator constructor, a chief electrician
and other mechanics.
The telephone system in the new build
ing will be of the most modern type IL
is planned to have what they call a six
place switchboard for the building, mean
ing that it is constructed for six oper-
ators. This will be simply for the purpose
Of caring for interdepartmental calls, but
will have twenty-five outgoing trunk lines
in case any department finds its own
switchboard taxed beyond its capacity
The ordinary outside business Of the vari-
Gus departments will be conducted on their
own switchboards, as at present, with
their own outgoing trunks. For instance
The Department Of Public Works now has
two-place switchboard in the Park Row
Building
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dear old retired sea captain. utterly UNI
able TO get on" In the worldly sense of
that phrase, as valiant and simple and
upright a soul as ever lived, veritablc
Colonel Newcome. He was an admiral in
tho Confederate navy, and was the build
err OF the famous Confederate war vessel
Alabama. My uncle Irving Bulloch was
midshlpman on the Alabama. and fired
the last gun discharged from her bat
tcries in the fight with the Kearsarge.
Both Of these uncles lived in Liverpool
after the war.
My uncle Jimmy Bulloch was forgiv-
ing and Just In reference to the Union
forces, and could discuss all phases of
the Civil War with entire fairness and
generosity. But In English politics he
promptly became a Tory OF the most
ultra-conservative school. Lincoln and
Grant he could admire but he would not
listen to anything In favor OF Mr. Glad
stone. The only occasions on which
ever shook his faith In me were when
would venture meekly to suggest that
some OF the manifestly preposterous
falsehoods about Mr.. Gladstone could not
be true. My uncle was one OF the best
men / have ever known, and when have
sometimes been tempted to wonder how
good people can believe of me the unjust
and impossible things they do believe,
have consoled myself by thinking of
Uncle Jimmy BuIlochs perfectly sincere
conviction that Gladstone was man OF
quite exceptional and namcless infamy
In both public and private life.
Tho next instslment Of Mr.. Rooseyclt's
Chapters OF u Possible AutObiog raphy" II
entitled Education" II will appear In The
Tribune Of sunday. April 2"
published by special arrangement with
The Outlook" of which Theodore Roosevelt
Is the contributing editor, through the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate Copyright. 1913 by
the Outlook Company All rights reserved,
Including rights of translatiOnl
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Zc MUNICIPAL BVIlp,Ao

have seen II as the handsomest OF any
in The city. Then the plan is to have no
wooden furniture OF any description I'm
the building. IL Is probable that at first
some wooden tables and chairs will be
brought IN for temporary equipment. But
these will be replaced as soon as the
Board OF Estimate believes that the city
is financially able to do so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
THE CONCOURSE.

The street or concourse floor is known
as the first floor. SO far as possible IL
has been arranged TO have the depart
ments most used by the public on the
lower floors. The second floor will be
used by the City Clerk. including the
marriage license bureau, with 500 square
feet OF space and by the Department for
the Collection of Taxes of the Finance
Department. with 1l,O32 square feet Of
space.
The departments and the space allotted
TO each on the other floors are as follows:
Third-Department of Finance, 1867
square feet; Bureau OF Weights and
Measures. i,S92; Bureau Of Licenses, 1854;
Commissioner of Licenses, 2,S4S.
Fourth-Departmen of Finance. 4isO.
FTfth-Department of Finance, 5,l35;
public hearing rooms. 1886; Bureau Of
Information. 1884; municipal reference IL
brary sos
Sixth-Departmen Of Finance, 81 1876.
Seventh-Department OF Finance, So2o2;
Sinking Fund Commission, SIS.
F1ghth-Departmen OF Finance. Abs;
City Chamberlain, 1850; Bureau of Fire
Prevention of the Fire Department and
the Municipal Explosives Commission,
1859: Public Recreation Commission, 6Ss;
Examining Board OF Plumbers. 7S3; d.
vision headquarters, national guard, 2,9i2.
Ninth-Tax Department, 1924; Armory
Board, 1.i37, headquarters of the naval
militia, 754: Board OF Ambulance Service.
l,623; Art Commission, LEI.
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SPACE OCCUPIED.

Tenth and eleventh-Public Service
Commission. O., 232.
h-Commissioner OF Accounts,
iOS73: Department OF Street Cleaning.
1885, Department of Public Charities,
s,2G.
Thirteenth-Board of Estimate and APP
portionment. l3,l22; Board OF City Rec
ord. 4,5f6: Board OF Assessors, 4.545: Board
of Inebrlety. 2oSS Commission on Stand
ardization, 4,l69.
Fourteenth-Chief city Magistrate 0st
Division. 4,l69; Municipal Civil Service
Commission. 26.SS.
Fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
Law Department. $3.50.
Seventeenth-Commis OF Esu-
mate and Appraisal. 1850.
ghteenth-Department of Bridges, 49,
5i5; Board OF Elections, 1850.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT House Depart
ment Si.o9l.
Twentieth-Borough President (Manhat-
tam. 1854; Board Of Examiners, i,172.
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THE ELEVATOR SYSTEM.

on each side Of Chambers street there
Will be the elevators. which will open on
"A spacious corridor running from Centre
street 90 Park Row. These cars will run
TO the twenty-hfth floor. One elevator
will serve the Offices from that point to
the thirty-eighth floor. The two upper
foors will be used for water tanks. The
elevators are of the worm gear type.
They have a speed OF Go feet a minute.
II is estimated that an elevator Will leave
each corridor every twenty-five seconds
during the rush periods. Each elevator
is capable of carrying 800 pounds and
Will hold from fifteen to sixteen people.
Included among the many safety devices
Is tho automatic control used In subway
trains. providing for the stoppage of the
car i'm ease the operators hand Is re-
leased for any reason. In addition to the
elevators. there are 10 be four stairways
built In the safety tower fashion.
Experiments arc now being conducted
by the Department OF Water Supply. Gar
and Electricity with the idea of making
the lighting of the building the most per
feet In the world. Various types of lights
have been set up on one OF the floors, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
FLOOR PLAN as
zzzuqpa ar Re
CIVIL CStRNICE COMMUNION !,

with prism glass arc used, so that the
vaults are not to be so dark, after all.
The outside of the building is practical
" in its completed state. 1t has been re-
lieved of all scaffods and derricks, and
the new pavement around the outside VIII
soon furnish a more pleasant setting for
the structure. 1t had been hoped to have
all the departments in at this time. There
have been various delays from the incep-
ton of the project, however. The founda-
lions had TO be changed, there was an In
junction holding up the awarding OF the
elevator contracts, and there was further
trouble over getting just the right sort
of building material.
Now that the structure is nearing com
pletion some statistics should be not UNI
interesting Here they are:
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I photometric tests are being made to de-
termine just what system will best serve
the purpose. In every room are thermo-
stats regulating the steam radiators so
as to maintain the heat at any desired
degree.
In general the floors are of cement. and
are TO be treated I'm a way TO make them
sanitary. The fifth floor, which Is to be
devoted largely to public hearing rooms,
the municipal reference library and a
bureau of information is TO have cork
or noiseless floors. This bureau OF IN
formation is the idea OF Borough Presi-
dent McAneny. and will be under his
Jurisdiction. lie plans to have attendants
who will be able TO answer the average
question about the city government, Or
falling in that, to be able to direct the
seeker after information to the exact
/ source of knowledge.
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sTANoARDrEsrING LABORATORY


which is allotted SO much space, is
product Of the present administration. II
has already more than justified its ex.
istence in the amount of money saved to
the city in the purchase of supplies IL
was established in June. 1911. and is unde.
the direction of Otto II. Klein. Every.
thing that is purchased by the city is
tested here. The saving in coal in one
year amounted to si5.9l5. AS the running
expenses for the year were only s4O,47I, II
can be readily seen OF what great value
the work is. When the new facilities in
the Municipal Building are available, il
is estimated that hundreds OF thousands
of dollars will be saved every year. II is
the intention to have the testing labora-
tory equipped with every modern device
for the work in hand.
AS stated the Bridge Department is the
only one in the new building as yet II
has been in its quarters, on the eighteenth
floor, ever since the first OF the month.
Bridge Commissioner O'Keeffe decided to
move for two reasons. one was that as
he is responsible for the construction OF
the new building, he thought there would
be a tendency on the part OF the con-
tractors to push things II he could be ION
their backs every minute" as he expressed
it, Then. again, it means the saving Of
about $500 in rent. When the Commis-
: sioner moved he thought the Park Row
Building agents would demand a renewal
Of the lease for a full year, so he ilg-
ured he would save some 5000 by get
ting out. Later, however, they came down
in their demands, and other departments
in the Park Row Building have been able
to remain on a six months lease. There
are still many hardships for the employees
Of the department. as the floor is not en-
tirely finished. but it is being put into
shape rapidly.
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open arcade-rather. two arcades. one on
either side Of Chambers street. This runs
under the structure and divides the floors
in two parts up as far as the fifth floor.
In these arcades will be booths, with at
tendants. who will direct tho citizen TO
the part OF the building he seeks. There
will also be flower, candy, cigar and news
staudg
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RKSHOP IN WORLD FOR FAIF4ER KNllkEKBOOkER
Cost Of Structure and Site
Total $l8,000,0 1000, but
New York Will Save
by the Investment.

Twenty flrst-Borough President Nan.
haitian, 1870.
Twenty second-Board Of Water Supply
26,353
Twenty-third and twenty-fourth-D
partment Of Water Supply. Gas and EIec.
tricity.
Twenty fifth-Department of Docks and
Ferries, 1885; Department of Water SUP.
ply, 1o742 Standard Testing Laboratory,
1886.
Twenty sixth to thirty-fourth Gn toweu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
The New Municipal Build
ing, Now Nearing Com
pIetion, Will Be One
Of the City's Prides.

ATHER KNICKERBOCKER is just
II coming into possession OF the great
Il est and most costly office building
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-09

Speaking Of the revenue which will
be obtained from the tariff as fixed by
the Underwood bill, the author Of that
legislation says:
The income tax, leaving out those
features Of 1t that relate to the tax on
corporations, will produce above $685.
100000. The corporation part Of the IN
come tax included in the bill, 1t is esti-
mated, will produce $39,O0O,000, The
custom taxes for the fiscal year 1915
are estimated to produce $4,000, 900.
Taking the other sources Of revenue
that the government now has and ad-
ding to them the income tax and the
customs laws that are affected by this
bill, it will produce for the fiscal year
1915. according to our estimates, ST.
|026, 100000, and II the expenditures Of
the government do not exceed $1,00S,.
100000, which is the estimate that
will cover the expenditures OF the gov.
eminent for that year, the bill will
produce surplus revenue OF $4,000
900, which the committee considers as
a safe balance on the right side Of the
ledger"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-09
Daddy sBedtinne
How Flonie's
; Daddy Helped
With the Cake.
Story

The ce1e
- Jack had eaten when baked
for its being good one
by yourself Evelyn promised
But won't promise to help you oake
don't wantto get FIore's daddy did
you had taught her how to make
i II. s+ ..a w.
how make icing and you
FlorrcS daddy a Z -,
"On{ shopping Bernes
was NJ home on his vacation. u
her daddy and said
with cake &AE4##6s#.
little sisters who liked cake
daddy think make enc!
replied: all by myself!
Of cour your be agreed
Fore daddy what
shelf the little sisters
mixing the cake
right tint
splendidly in the
helpers and daddy brought
powdered sugar.
icing.
.Tney spread 1t until tea time
the cake that they
standing and
something with the tcngF
(.
nothing but paste It never would
instead Of the sugar
let make another
.ake. wouldn't yOu?'
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-10-09

John Barrett, director general OF
the Pan-American Union has the foi
lowing to say apropos the effort to
obtain from congress an appropriation
for food preventative measures alone
the lower Mississippi:
1T is evident that an improved, deep
ened and food curbed Mississippi river
would, in connection with the Panama
canal, form one OF the greatest art
cries OF commerce in the world. With
the great Mississippi river harnessed
90 as to realize half its efficiency and
the Panama canal completed. a com
mercial and industrial development
thought impossible few years ago, is
realized. 1t is changing the face OF
the map"