The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-30

organized move being made by mer-
chants whose places of business front
on Firth avenue. Practically all of
the large cities of the world have al
ready taken steps to restrict the
helght OF buildings. New York is the
last, almost to make regulations to
TINS end. Much data on the subject
has been gathered by the Fifth Ave-
nue. association which will be placed
oefore the newly created commission
10 inquire into the practicability of
limiting h height of buildings in
TINS city. Their report is to be made
within six months. The Fifth Avenue
association has advocated openly the
limiting of buildings on that thorough
rare to not more than 125 feet. The
question which it raises w is wheth-
er a law making restrictions to cover
Firth avenue alone will be constitu-
tlonal. The opinion seems to be that
a general law covering the whole city
VIII have to be framed. Many foreign
cities limit the height Of buildings
considerably less than 100 feet as
COMPARED to New York's 600 foot and
IO0 foot monsters. The highest ap-
pellate court of Massachusetts, the
court OF appeals of Maryland and the
united States supreme court, have all
neld that laws limiting the height of
buildings are directly based upon a
proper exercise of the so-called police
power of he state. Of course it should
be understood that. in any given case
the limitation of height must be a
reasonable one or the law would GER
tatnly not be upheld. But from pres
emit appearances the hundred story
building SO freely predicted only a
snort time g may never arrive in
New York, and the present skyscrap-
ers tower in lonely grandeur over re-
stricted buildings of the future.
The death of John III. Trenor has
taken from New York the father of
its apartment houses, which now num-
Der far in the thousands. 1t was In
the early 7Os or something like forty
years g that apartment houses pat
termed after Trenor's experiment be-
gan to spring up in the city. 1t was
predicted that French fats, as they
were then called would pave the way
Tor French morals, which meant that
the community was asst going to the
dogs. IL is not easy to say what eff
feet apartment have had on families.
but they certainly have proved a
blessing to countless families Of mod
crate means and home making in
stincts. In addition to being the
father of the apartment house idea,
Mr.. Trenor was a famous dancing
master many years ago. He taught
LILY NlSAll1iCu SQudT0 dances @ liner IN
vogue as well as the waltz, the galop,
the mazurka and the %schottische as
different from the tango and the tur-
key trot as the New York of that day
is different from the modern city Of
fiat jewellers. Among his pupils were
such well known men as Chauncey
DepeW n w, X. Vandervbilt. When
Mr.. Trainor was teaching New York
ers how to dance the wealthy and
well-to-do lived in houses of their
own, those in moderate circumstances
inhabited boarding houses and the
poor We're housed in squalid, unsani-
tary tenement houses. The apartment.
houses have proved al potent infiu-
ence In lettering these conditions.
How great the vaudeville class Of
entertainment in this city has become
is strilkingly illustrated by the latest
report OF the city bureau Of licenses,
which shows that during the year
ending May 4 commissions a~ggregat-
ing 100000 were paid to employment
agents by vaudeville performers. The
report also indicates why there CON
tiaues to be a scarcity Of household
servants and incidentally brings out
the fact that the expectation Of cattle.
Son the hoof has entirely stopped so
far as the port of New York is CON
cerned. Part. OF the report deals with
conditions in theatrical employment
agencies. It sets forth that the com