The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-29

building OF plain design. IL is now
planned 10 secure the entire BLOCK
bounded by ST Antoine, Clinton
Hastings and Macomb-sts.. so as TO
provide sife-fOr the poor com
mission and health building adtareni
10 the proposed municipal hospital
quarter OF this block IS already
owned by the poor commission.
The famous motion pictures of Alaska
and siberia secured ny the Carnegie
expedition a few years ago, VIII be
shown Friday evening Ia the \ NJ
e. 4. auditorium.
Mrs. Alice ward. or No. Isg kInR-nVe.,
rcp0rts 90 the police that 1s she was
walking along king-Rve, near John
K.-st. Wednesday night. Negro
grabbed her handbag containing 81.
Moslem WInpIe, Mystic shrine, viii In
itiate a large class of candidates
Friday evening In the Masonic teu9 .
pie. following the reunion OF Michi-
gan Sovereign consistOry, which has
been held In the temple, the present
week Following tho Initiation there
Will be a vaudeville entertainment
Fred 4. Gregory, real estate uKent for
Henry Ford. who H. pushing "a plan
20 widen Michigan ave from the
city limits TO Dearborn, believed that
the thoroughfare Is an old Indian
trail and that the state Will have
the right 10 GUST several buildings
which he thinks are "squattinR" on
public property near the city line.
lie will go 10 Lansing for the pur-
pose OF looking up the old records
IL is planned to increase the width
OF Michigan-ave. 10 100 feet outside
the city limits. and also TO widen IL
Tor tnree-quarters OF mile inside
the city limits from 90 TO &C feet.
The West Side Improvement associ-
alton IL interested In the plan
building Inspector Dupont thinks he
has solved the tenement nir space
problem oy a brand new amendment
70 the building code. The amend
ment. provides that the owner will
lac able 10 use 50 per cent or "A cor
ner lot and 20 per cent OF an inter
Tor lot for his building, but the for
mer requirement OF yard across
the entire width OF a corner lot has
been altered so that the owner may
choose any portion OF his lot for a
yard. providing all apartments have
access 20 the open space The l5-
foot provision for interior lots where
there Is no alley remains unchanged
Another amendment, which VIII be
submitted 20 the council Tuesday
night, regulates windows in tene-
ments
Steve King. who has been arrested
scores OF times for petty thefts, fn-
Guiding nearly everything from a
door mat 10 the contents Of the poor
box or church, took plunge into
regular burglary. Wednesday, and
stole jewelry valued at s54 from the
home OF James Gabriel. No 22I Di-
Vision-st. He was arrested. Wednes-
day night. and had the stolen lew
elry In his pockets. Patrolmen Wan
drie and Oldani. on free lance duty"
out or Hunt-st station. were about
TO stop steve. on general principles
when ne headed for second hand
store. and they searched him. finding
the stolen jewelry, including four
gold rings. and gold watch later
identified as stolen from the Gabriel
home
The health board IL asking for
si,7S4'4t5 this year. OF the amount
$4,000 Is for hospital purposes
About $3.50 will 60 TO build "A
modern tuberculosis sanitarium, with
200 beds, and TO buy additional prop
erty at the site at Hamilton blvd.
and Blaine-ave. Provision is made
for several new offices. among them
being statistician at $500 year:
epidemiologist at $500 a year; chief
FOOD Inspector at 81, 600 year. clerk
or contagious diseases at 81 900 a
year; chief plumbing inspector at
ST., 500 year. and chief housing In
spector at 1900 year Five more
plumbing inspectors, - more hous-
Ing inspectors. 20 more nurses for
contagious diseases and two more
meat inspectors are asked.
Through ,Dr. Emil Rosinger. secretary
of the Detroit Stadtverband. that
organization has sent a formal In
Nitation TO Washington TO President
w liSOfls ASklnk MIN 10 De the guest
OF the Stadtverband the end or Feb
ru6ry, on his way 10 Chicago, tn
which city he is 10 address a gath
ertng OF recently naturalized citi-
zerls. The Stadtverband proposes 10
have the president address "A similar
gathering In Detroit. During the last
year. the Stadtverband has main
tanned school. free OF charge for
the instruction OF aliens I'm the
knowledge necessary 10 become n
citizen OF the United States. During
the twelve months. 243 aliens OF all
races have attended the school and
out OF this number 1873 have become
citizens.
over 5000 new memberships In the
Animal Welfare league have been
secured this week by the contestants
In the mem bership campaign, the
prize for obtaining the highest num-
Der OF memberships 10 be the hand
some Scripps Booth cycle car now
on exhibition in the temporary Of
fee OF the committee in the A a.
cray Co. furniture store window. No.
200 woodward ave, An interesting
and gratifying feature OF the en-
rollment OF new members IS the fact
that all classes or persons are com
ing In. and, especially. drivers OF
horses and individuals and firms em-
ploying teamsters. The members OF
the Animal Welfare committee. OF
which Mrs. Abner E. Larned is the
active and energetic chairman, be-
IleNe thdt the greater the number
OF persons reached who drive horses
the better the results VIII be In
spreading the gospel OF humane
treatment or dumb beasts.
The difference between a bird OF para-
disc plume and Just rooster tall
plume is not 80 great as might be
supposed. AT least Justice DeGaw
could not tell the difference, We'd
nesday afternoon, when Mrs. Mar
garet Moore appeared in his court
10 demand damages from the Bren-
nan Feather co. Mrs Moore de-
clared she had sent a 273-strand
bird OF paradise 10 his place to be
dyed and that when 10 was returned
81 had increased 20 POI strands but
large portion OF them were chick
en- feathers. number OF her
friends testified as 70 the beauty OF
the original plume, and the feather
man called on his employees and on
his own stock OF feather knowledge
60 prove that chicken heckle and
paradise strands were similar and
that Mrs. Moore's plume was largely
the former and that his additions
had improved the beauty OF the
plume. After trying To get things
straightened out, Justice DeGaw