The chronicle=news., 1913-01-25
1877


enough money to cover the ground
with two layers OF dollar billg. n
layer OF fivcs. . layer OF tens. u lay.
cr OF twentics, and fifth coating OF
hundred dollar notes. The land was
bought to build the new thirty.two
story home OF giant Wall street
banking Institution. II has also been
learned that J. p. Morgan. located In
IN antiqusted looking building IL
WALL Street. almost directly across
from the Stock Exchange. has bouEh.
an adjacent lot at what liz said to be
Nm equally fabulous rate. The exact
amount Is not known. but the land
ts snid TO be the highest priced por-
tiou OF the carth's surface. not eS-
ccpting any real estate In any city.
nor tho surface OF my gold mining
claim. Just how local values cou,-
pare with those In London. for In
stance. In howu by the fact that
record making sale In the English
city was recently made ut figure
which would bring the price OF a
xquaro foot to about $l:s ~ COM
pared 10 an actual sale here ut the
rate OF 353S = square foot. The sig
srship seems to be that Wall street.
which has suddenly taken TO re.
forming It's banking. Its brokerage
transactions and Its members hab-
3ts and regulations. has now sct out
to reform It's physical appearance us
we'll. The street at presrnt In any
thing but the canyon OF skyscrapers
which. outside New York. II liz sup-
posed to bc. Only two buildings in
tho whoL, street 20 above eighteen
stories. snd the average height iS
about SIX .:oricr. Also tho struc-
lures src for the most part old. and
while they have . great deal Of dig
nifty and even luxury In their nt-
tipss and furnishings. their cxtcr-
t0fs yuKEcst banking and busirrss
Systcm Of Andrew Jucks0n's day.
rather than thO~c Of the present.
While II has not got been deter
mined. Just how much work q Judge
10 expected to do to earn his salary.
plans are now under way here TO
linJ out Just how much work they
DO accomplish. aud Tor tho first timc
- sa,-.:s.ssFy.-Uf thc courts thi- -incfu-
Usry of the Judiciary are soon 10 bs
confronted with something very lik.
= lIwcclock. While matters have
not yet come to such a point thnt
Judges VIII bc cxpcsctcd to punch
such clock like any cmployc. nr-
ruuxemcnts have been made by which
tabs will be kept on their work In =
manner Insi ar strict. The clerks
Uf the trial parts Of the supreme court
,syc been furnished with special
charts ON which they will keep u
record Of all the work performed By
each judge. nLwycrs have openly
charged that certain judges "loafed
aud that they could hear many more
cases II they worked ns much as tho
Judges In other countries. The New
York Judges. however. have always
had defenders. who contcndcd that
more work Is performed by individ-
nal judges IN New York county than
anywhere else In the state. While the
keeping Of the record Is don"
through an order made by the SUI
prcuic court judges themselves. II Is
done ut the suggestion Of the State
Bar association which passed u rcso-
1uiion to that effect at its last ses-
sion. Among other things the rec
ord will show the number of cases
heard by each judge. the successful
litiSant. the number Of Disagree
mcnts. defaults. disiniss.ls. and dis
continuanccs. amount of the verdict
md tho number OF opinions written
by the judge.
For the first time In the East Il
strike Of newspaper writer's is OH.
The papers affected are the "Yid-
dish" dailics Of New York. and
though they are printed in Ian
guage that is foreign to most Amer
icons. their circulation reaches to
all hpl
years attempts have been made to
unionizs tho newspaper profession.
and in some OF the western cities
they have been successful. but this
II is believed. is the first time that
such thing has been done In this
part Of the country, or on so large
scale. The new union. which Is
known NJ Newspaper Writers Union
No. L." WIS organized aud chartered
by tho International Typographical
union. one of the largest and most
powerful Of craft unions. II grew
from an organization formed BY ifor-
uce Greeley. and has more Of the fea-
lures OF the old European guilds"
than any other active labor body. A
curious twist OF its history comes out
in the fact that the hundred or 50
Jewish scribes who walked out OF
the offices the other day are organ
ized Into u chapel" OF the union
a name that is used because the first
English printing press was set up in
a ruined chapel of the Catholic
church in the fifteenth century. Tho
demands Of the striking reporters
aud writors Is for shorter hours and
more pay. for recognition Of their or
ganization and for the "closed shops
II tho movement is successful an ut
tempt will be made to call out the
stsffs of the German daiiies and later
10 organize the great English writ.
ten papers themselves.
New York, it is announced, it
shortly to have what will probabl!
he the most remarkable art CALLER!
in existence. This does not mean that
..,ethar I,aaaiti aaaiiliouaArs is nla !.