Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-01
The "Trip of the Oregon.
the New York Commercial.

From the New York Commercial.
What a wealth or memories that
coming trip of the Oregon through
the Panama canal will awakei The
glory of her dash around South
America and her swinging into action
against Ceryera's fleet Without the
necessity for the slightest repair is
C considered by naval men one of the
finest pieces of work In the history
of modern seacraft. II present plans
go through Rear-Admiral Clark will
stand at his old place on the bridge,
and those of his men who are not
dead, who have not become sluggish
and bound with fairness and affairs,
who are not ION the beach" in the
scattered ports of the world, will be
at their stations. sharing the honor
with their old ship and their old
commander.
There was much that was hysterical
that was ridiculous and q little that
was downright disgraceful. There
were in 1t all of the elements which
make these United States the finest,
mobiles, most considerate, most eff
cient, most irritable, best balanced,
most emotional people in the world.
We like to think of the Oregon, her
crew and her trip as typical of the
people who do things in this country
of ours. When her commander re-
ceived his orders he set out as sim.
ply and directly for a trip of 1000
miles as If he had been ordered to
take his delicate war instrument
down the bay. She ate up her coal,
and Clark coaled her again at places
on the trip down and up the world
where other Americans of his stripe
had made provision for him, and he
steamed into action at the end OF
his Journey as vigorously and as eff
fectively as his brother commanders,
whose vessels had been rolling in the
North Atlantic ever since they were
born.
Since then. men OF the type Of
Clark and his crew have dug the
Panama canal They have solved
brand-new problems on the instant.
finding their reward in the playing or
the game. Other men, less conspieu-
ously but none the less effectively,
have governed alien peoples, have
conquered old-age plaques, have
wrenched ore from rocsbound hills
and fashioned steel into strange
shapes to meet the needs of the mo-
ment and have gone on, forgetting
their past deeds in the new work be-
fore them.
Demoiishing the First skyscraper.
From the New York Evening SUM-
New York's first slSyscraper is to be
torp down. Its owners have decided
To raze the Flower" building, which,
when erected. marked the beginning
of the modern steel structure. The
CITY has outgrown the building, which
is famous among architects as tine
earliest example of the, skeleton con-
struction, in which the entire weight
of the walls and floor is borne and
transmitted to the foundation by
framework of metallic posts ana
beams"
The reason for the destruction of
the first skyscraper is simple. 1t Is
not earning its tax assessments. 1t Is
bu 1t upon ground valued at u, 29o,Ooo'
and the building Is assessed at only
$4,000. The advent of the tffty-story
skyscraper has destroyed the earning
mower of the eleven-story one. Where
land is measured by the. usefulness OF
a fifty-story pile, the pygmy cannot
be permitted to take up room.
New York has witnessed one trans
formation in the change from stone TO
steel. Apparently another, though
lesser one is on the way. II eleven
story buildings cannot pay Tor them
selves, in the city's busiest section,
then the eleven-story building is
dc omod.
The brass tablet which marked New
Yorks steel pioneer Is 10 be removed
as the building comes down. Senti-
ment has no place in the race to
breast tax assessments with earning
rover. But the incident serves as a
reminder Of the place that New YORK