The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02
ERECT PERMANENT STAR
OVER MADISON SQUARE
Lovers of the Famous Garden Put up Beacon Light
Great Christmas Tree Will Blaze for Week
Old Corner Becoming Almost Deserted

peace and good will" There is not let
tering on 1t, no. advice of any kind. JUS
J the cleaning white star.
Set there in the historic square will
Deer, cigarette, whiskey and paten
madeleine advertisements glaring IL
every direction, the star strikes 6
peaceful and restful note in the riotous
and rancous glamor. 1t is way below
that part of Broadway that makes m
the present-day great white way. It's
location was the scene in the years
gone by of long forgotten splendors
and gaity Across the street where
now huge office building rears it's
towers was once the famous Fifth ave-
nue. hotel, location of the Amen corner.
scene Of the brilliant balls and func-
tons and dollhouse for some of the
most momentous and far-reaching DO
litical plots that have made the Empire
states history.
Diagonally across the intersection
OF Broadway, Fifth avenue and Twen-
ty-third street was once the old Hotel
Bartholdi, in it's day famous hosiery,
home of distinguished foreign travel
ers, visiting diplomats and famous folk
from all over the world. A square up
Fifth avenue was Louis Martins. one
of the first of the lobster palaces" and
for many years one of the most ex-
elusive Of New Yorks eating places.
Once Bright, Now Dismal.
But where once the night life of the
big city throbbed at it's zenith, is now
little but commerce. The white lights
and automobiles, decollette gowns and
silk hats have gone northward, and
Madison Square is left at night to it's
own devices, and to those whose only
refuge are the city's open spaces. Men |
and women and children from the east |
side tenements come there in the even |
ings for fresh air, and later in the
night the benches are occupied by job
less men who know no other beds.
1t is for them that the star was put
up 1t was to give them hope that the
idealists erected the pole with it's five
pointed emblem of cheer. The defect
ed lounger on the bench and the be-
lated wayfarer hurrying by can see the
star and perhaps learn from it that all
hope is not dead.
A wag who saw them putting it up
The other day said it was the first time
4 star" had been that far down Broad
way since the Garden theatre became
l stock house
Dogs Caused Death.
Forty-two dogs live in one block on
east Twenty-first street, between Sec
md and Third avenues. That state
nent was made by Coroner Holthauser /
It an inquest into the death of Henry s
3lass. Blass owned dog. His next !
oor neighbor, Eugene Kluger, owned s
dog. Blass's dog and Kluger's dog 6
licked fight with strange dog going 6
y and the two men with the invading | +
og engaged in a fight with Blass when G
e attempted to separate the three 7
ogs. Blass was killed. Kluger was $
+
The inquest developed that Kluger O
as not there at all, and he was re-
,aSed Meantime tha coroner mazda an
lvestigation of the neighborhood and
accidentally learned that AZ dogs were Y
wned and housed in the block, a dog
, every house and few left over. All
the dogs were properly tagged,
lowing that the owners paid the re-
Tired license.