Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-05

much Work TO 90 IN selecting the best
manuscript. The judges are Mrs. Ames
Adolph Klaubcr and Augustus Thomas
The joint commissions Of the states
of New York and New Jersey, primar-
lily created to devise plans for bridg-
ing the Hudson, have been brought
seriously to consider the alternative
Of tunnels under the river as high
ways for general traffic and travel by
ordinary vehicles. This looks as if
bridges over the Hudson. although
talked of for many years, may never
materialiZe. The most conclusive ar
gument in favor of tunnels and
against the proposal for bridges is the
fact that while the estimated cost II
a bridge is $42, 900, 600. two tunnels,
one for movement in each direction,
could be constructed under the river
for not more than $11,OO0,O00.
Well known members of the thea
trical profession who make up the lit
tie summer colony Of actors at Sias-
conset, on the island of Nantucket,
were overjoyed to learn that Bob
billiard had taken unto himself a sec
ond wife. For summers almost with
out number Mr.. billiard has been the
life and spirit of the little colony by
the sea. Ely common consent he has
been it's mayor" He has settled all
disputes, refereed the tennis matches
and acted as master of ceremonies at
the weekly dances in the little casino.
When the first Mrs. billiard died sud
denly at SiascOnset last summer Mr..
billiards. grief was sincere and over
whel!ning. The couple had been a
most devoted one When the lady who
keeps the only shop of any sor that
SiascOnset boasts ventured to suggest
to Mr.. Hilliard that in the course OF
time he might find another mate, the
actor vowed in his most impressive
stage tones that such could never be
the case. The other members of the
colony feared that Mr.. Hilliard might
keep his word and that ]Siasconset
would know him no longer. But now
he has dispelled their fears and with
his new bride he probably will spend
the summer at 'Sconset without the
miss of a single season. The fact that
the new Mrs. billiard possesses a for
tune of 50, 100000, inherited from her
father, a New York brewer. may help
to enliven things at the little colony
this summer.
| At midnight tonight the famous old
Grand Union Hotel closes its doors
for good and passes into history. The
property. which takes in the entire
block front on the east side of Park
Avenue, between Forty-irst and For
! ty-second streets, has been condemn
ed by the Public Service Commission
for the purpose Of constructing the
new crosstown line Of the subway to
connect the Lexington Avenue branch
with the Fourth Avenue subway line.
For many years the Grand Union
Hotel has borne very much the same
relations to the upper part of the city
that the old Astor House did to the
downtown district. The original build
ing was known as the Westchester
Hotel and was opened about half a
century ago. 1t never changed it's old
character of a commercial house, and
its reasonable prices, combined with
the fame of it's restaurant, made the
name of the Grand Union celebrated
throughout the country. In early years
it had little competition, but notwith-
standing the fact that the Grand Gen.
trail Station vicinity has in recent
years witnessed the advent of half a
dozen of the largest and finest hotels
in the metropolis, the Grand Union
apparently has never lost custom, and
there have been few nights in the year
that it has had a vacant room.