El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-25
.GR0JNDW0RTH
MORE THAN
G0LDMINE
New York Lot Sells For
Enough to Cover It Deep
" in Bank Bills.
DISPLAY OF FAKE
PICTURES PLANNED

mi "A new real estate price
i has been established here
by the purchase Of a lot 25x73
feet for enough money to cover the
ground with two layers Of dollar bills,
a layer of fives. a layer of tens. a
layer of twenties and a fifth coating
of hundred dollar notes. The land
was bought to build the new 32-story
home of a giant Wall street banking
institution.
It has also been learned that J. P.
Morgan, located in an antiQuated look
ing building in Wall street, almost
directly across from the Stock eX-
change, has bought an adjoining lot
at what is said to be an equally fabu-
lOuS rate. The exact amount is not
known but the land is said to be the
highest priced portion of the earth's
surface, not excepting any real estate
in any city. nor the surface Of any
gold mining claim.
Just how local values compare with
those in London, for instance, is shown
by the fact that a record making sale
in the English city was recently made
at a figure which would bring the
price of a square foot to about 1927
as compared to an actual sale here
at the rate Of S55S square foot The
significance of these changes in own
erShip seems to be that Wall street,
which has suddenly taken to reform
ing its banking, its brokerage trans
actions and its members habits and
regulations, has now set out to reform
Its physical appearance as we'll The
street at present is anything but the
canyon of skyscrapers which, outside
New York, it is supposed to be- Only
two buildings In the whole street go
above IS stories, and the average
height is about six stories. Also the
structures are for the most part old.
Time Clock for Judges.
While It has not yet been deter
mined just how much work a judge
is expected to do to earn his salary,
plans are now under way here to find
out just how much they do accom-
plish, and for the first time in the his
tory of the courts the members of the
judiciary are soon to be confronted
with something very like q time clock.
While matters have not yet come to
such a point that judges will be ex-
pected to punch such a clock like any
employe, arrangements have been
made by which tabs will be kept on
their work in a manner just as strict
The clerks of the trial parts of the
supreme court have been furnished
with special charts on which they will
keep a record of all the work per-
formed by each judge. Lawyers have
openly charged that certain judges
'1oafed" and that they could hear many
more cases II they worked as much
as the judges in other counties.
Newspaper Writers Strike.
For the first time in the east a strike
of newspaper writer's is on. The pa
pers affected are the Yiddish dailies
Of New York, and though they are
printed in language that is foreign
to most Americans. their circulation
reaches to nearly half million copies.
For years attempts have been made
to unioniZe the newspaper profession,
and in some of the western cities they
have been successful, but this, il is
believed, is the first time that such a
thing has been done in this part of
the country or on so large a scale.
The new union. which is known as
Newspaper Writer'S Union, No. 4"
was organized and chartered by the
International typographical union. one
Of the largest and most powerful of
craft unions 1t grew from an organ
ization formed by Horace Greeley, and
has more of the features of the old
European guilds than any other ac-
tive labor body. A curious twist Of its
history comes out in the fact that the
hundred or so Jewish scribes who
walked out Of the offices the other
DAY are organized in a chapel Of
the uniOn-a name that is used be-
cause the first English printing press
was set up In ruined chapel of the
The demands Of the striking reporters
and writers is for shorter hours and
more pay, for recognition of thei O.
ganlzation and for the closed shop.
Gallery of Fakes Planned.
New York, it is announced. is short
~ to have what will probably be the
most remarkable art gallery in exis-
tence- This does not mean that an
other multi-milliOnaire is planning to
bring back a few truckIoads of "oid
masters" from Europe. Indeed, the
value, since the gallery, which is to
be operated by the Metropolitan mu-
scum, will contain only art fakes. There
is a very serious purpose in the plan
ming Of this gallery, since it proposes
as far as possible to educate the pic
ture buying public in the vile of art
dealers, who annually unload at fabu- I
Ious prices on an unsuspecting public |
clever counterfeits Of the work of IA
nous painters.
The faxed pictures which will ap-
in Hha 1.r~r~ 10, -
basis of Instruction in the art of pick Z
ing out a genuine old master. as COM
pared to a counterfeit, are themselves
good enough to fool the average buyer E
real results can be accomplished in I
educating and protecting art lovers. (
Thousands Orphaned 9y Divorce /
seventy thousand children are made /
orphans in one year by our divorce /
laws" is the startling expression OF {
facts which were brought out here by 1
the Rev. Francis h Moody in an at
tack upon American divorce condi-
lions. In the last 40 years, according
70 the clergyman's carefully prepared |
statistics no less than 300 900 men
and women have been legally divorced,
and the persons directly connected
with these cases number more than
100000. or almost exactly the same
as the present population of New York
Most OF the children who have been
orphaned by losing one parent |
than 10 years old, and Mr.. Moody points
out that moral danger to the young
sters who grow up thus in half
home" Half of all the divorces in
the country he finds, have been be-
tween couples living in the middle !
western states.
Ia Illinois alone there have been
10000 divorces since 1862, a number
which is larger than that in any other
state.
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