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MOST CON6ESTe0 CORNER M THE .SWOPPlNG
DISTRICT Sr AVENUE &7d "a " .SrREeE

years ago when the city was taking ac-
count OF pedestrian trafYic In order to
obtain figures on which to base its ac-
ton In reclaiming sidewalk space which
then was encroached on BY stoOps, en-
frances. stands and the like, a count
showed that jus. a few less than 200. 900
persons passed the corner Of Fulton
street and Broadway daily on foot and
that in that respec It led all other in
tersections. 1t Is interesting to note
In this connection that the count Of three
years ago and the one just made by the
police were taken at the same time of
year and under similar conditions. SO
that a comparison can be made fairly.
In both cases the count was made daily
for almost a month by men armed with
comptometers. who kept tally Of every
person who passed on foot and OF every
vehicle. bust did not take account OF
passengers in cars or In vehicles.
Traffic experts are inclined to the be-
lief that the Park Row corner will con-
iinue to be the point Of heaviest traffic
for many years despite the opening OF
new subway lines with stations at fire.
Quent intervals to swallow up mucn OF
The traffic that now congests the streets
in rush hours. The Manhattan end OF
the Brooklyn Bridge, IL is believed. will
continue to be the heaviest traffic poin,
after all transit building operations ar.
completed. for practically all of then
make the Park Row end of the bridge
terminal point or principal station
Right now 1t is the station for the Brook
iyn elevated and trolley lines. the Brook
lyn subway. the uptown subway the
East Side elevated lines and the Centrt
street subway with trains for the FOur;i
Avenue-Coney Island line and the
Williamsburg and East New York ele
waited lines. These roads will alw;Hs
meet at this point and soon there viii
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altered. Such building can then be sold
or leased and the buyer or lessee can
feel assured that he is not the owner or
tenant Of structure that any hour may
take terrible toll of life.
The approval of the consolidation
plan iS SO great that various officials
and ORGANIZATIONS are reported to be
preparing bills. The only fear ] have
is that too many bills may he drawn
with the purpose of bringing about this
result and that We will he compelled TO
ask that we he defended from our al
legged friends Those who now seem 10
be endeavoring to effect compromise
and who are trying to unite factions are
perhaps reckoning without their host
They are apparently not recognizing the
fact that no matter what Dill is intro
duced 1t will have to be satisfactory TO
the Legislature. A bill that might be ac-
ceptable to the Mayor or bill that
might be satisfactory to the Boroush
presidents or one that might be salts
factory to both these factions might still
not be satisfactory to the Legislature
"That the bill which was presented
nv the conference committee to the last
Legislature was satisfactory to II IL
, proven by the fact that It passed the
Senate with but 3 negative votes and
that II passed the Assembly with 1O6
votes in favor and only 23 votes in
opposition, It Is TO be regretted that
so much time was lost In endeavoring
to bring about various compromises Had
this time not been lost the bill would
have been returned to the Legislature
and beyond any question would have
| become IA law.
The conference committee on Novem-
| ber 23 wrote to the Board OF Estimate
and Apportionment asking them to join
| In preparing a bill or offer suggestions
| toward the proposed consolidation. Mr.,
| McAneny, acting Mayor. replied that
| within the next several days he would
have the drafts OF bill proposed to
remedy the existing conditions and that
| he would be glad to have the commit
tee meet with representatives OF the
I city In the matter at some time to be
arranged--certainly before December ~.
"The 10th Of December has come ana
gone," said Mr. Kirkus. "and there has
been no conference nor have we seen
any draft OF a bill as promised, 30 the
conference committee is drawing a Dill
and will submit VI to the Board OF
Estimate and ApportionmeM for sug-
gestions or approval. The committee
will further a bin acceptable to ma.
joraty of the members Of the Hoard
Of Hstimats and Apportionment.
I'VE have every reason to believe that
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COMMERCIAL SPACE RENTED.

Spear & Co. and 3. II. Tying, Jr.. 4
Co. have rented a loft In 10 East Sew
enteenth street to A, Spiegelman; also
lofts In 143-l45 West Twenty-ninth
street to ]. Lashin; In 13O-134 West
Seventeenth street to the Puritan Rain
coat Company. and In 133-1S5 West
Nineteenth street to Schildhause q Gins.
berg.
Corn 4 Co. have leased 10000 square
feet in 4S-54 West Twenty fifth street
TO the Chelsea Waist Company; 5000
square feet In 10 West Eighteenth
street to A. Levy 4 Co., and with Al.
bert r. Ashforth. space In the Knox
Building at 452 Fifth avenue.
Roy Sherick has leased to Becher
Mondshein the ninth floor in 29-33 West
Thirty sixth street for term of years
Cross & Brown represented the lessor.
H. Nelson Flanagan has leased the
loft building at 10 First street, corner
Of Extra place. for Ave years to Lam
broja 4 Co.
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ParkROWa atFrank.
fort Street Re-
gains Position of
City's Most Pat.
ronized Thor
oughfare-.-Fu ulton
St. at Broadway
in Second Place

Results made public last week by the
Police Department of its count Of pedes-
TRANS and vehicles passing the more
prominent street intersections through
out the city indicate that while the
movement Of business northward on
Manhattan Island has been little short
q remarkable 1t has by no means taken
anything from the lower sections OF the
city. In fact, despite this uptown mi
grafton. of which so many signs are
visible, the business population below the
Brooklyn Bridge has increased during
the last few years, and to-day Is greater
shan ever. That downtown sections from
which there have been many removals
to the newer uptown commercial and
Office districts have gained more than
enough population to offset the removals
y Indicated by the fact that the two
mos, congested points in the city con-
tinue TO be south Of the Brooklyn Bridge.
and that the congestion at these points
b greater than II was three years ago.
vhen the last count OF trdHNC "as hAuo
and since which time the migration
northward has been greatest.
Park Row at Frankfort stfeet Is now
the busiest corner OF the city as regards
pedes,nan traffic. This Is the corner
occupied for many years by The Sun
Building. and now the site OF q structure
under construction which when COM
pleted will be a three story store build
ing. According to the police count 1885,
800 people pass this interesting spot on
toot every day. In addition $500 horse
and motor propelled vehicles 20 up and
down Park Row past the corner. While
this intersection has been one Of the
heaviest trafic points in the city since
the Brooklyn Bridge was opened 1t has
aot always been the leader. In fact II
Is only during the last few years that
Park Row and Frankfort street has
taken the leadership from the corner OF
Broadway and Fulton street, now the
second point in the city In traffic con-
gestion,
Police records show that 223.000 per-
sons on foot pass the Fulton street cor
eer daily and 10000 vehicles. Three
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Lower Fifth avenue as n centre OF
high class book publishers was strength
ened yesterday by the acquisition by
the Macmillan Company Of the property
Of Thomas r, Ryan at the northwest
corner OF Fifth avenue and Twelfth
street. The site is to be incorporated
with the plot now occupied by the pup
fishing company's building and LOT At
62 Fifth avenue, acquired some time
ago, and the whole plot Is to be i'm
proved with a twelve story structure
of an area of about $4,000 square feet,
to cost about 100000.
The property purchased by the pub
fishers Yesterday is the site Of the resi-
dence occupied by Mr.. Ryan until he
removed to upper Fifth avenue. Sew
eral months ago wreckers took down
the dwelling in anticipation Of sale
of the corner for Improvement. 1t is
a plot 50.9xl25 and was held under the
title of the IL West Twelfth Street Cor
poration, holding company formed by
Mr.. Ryan with Robert Il. Bowling as
it's head Il. IL. Ludlow 4 Co. nego-
tiated the deal.
1t was only last May that the Mac
milan Company, which for many years
has owned and occupied 81 and 66 Fifth
avenue, bought from Mr.. Ryan 81 Fifth
avenue as a site for an eventual addi-
ton to its building. This deal also in
cluded the sale of the dwelling property
at II West Twelfth street in the rear
The corner purchased yesterday lies ad-
jacent to these properties and gives the
4 hi, all
two feet of the Fifth avenue block front
from Twelfth to Thirteenth street
! Their site now measures 15+ feet on the
avenue and $50 feet on Twelfth street.
The new building will be erected with
out mortkage and when completed this
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Hundreds Of buildings In New York city
will continue to hold out dangers Of
such loss Of life and property as were
suffered in the Triangle waist factory
nre and the recent Diamond factory hre
as long as six city and State depart
ments make conflicting rulings regard
Ing the construction and alteration OF
buildings according to Alfred H.
kirkus chairman Of a conference COM
mittee Of business men who seek
through legislative action. consolidation
Of inspection functions OF all city and
State departments having to do with
building construction, alteration and
Structural changes.
Mr., Kirkus. as spokesman for the
automobile, banking. dry GOODS, hotel
real estate and allied interests, demands
'he rigid enforcement Of existing Avs
Tor the protection Of life ard property,
but he declares enforcement, impossible
while authority Is divided among the
Building, Fire. Health, State Labor,
Tenement House and Water supply. Gas
and Electricity departments. and While
each one makes and tries to enforce
rulings at variance with tine rulings OF
all the others. The worst disasters In
the city in recent years. Mr.. kirkus
says, can be traced to multiplicity OF
Inspections, and he believes recurrence
o. them can be stopped forever II "ne
department is made responsible for The
rgd rnforcement OF the law
THE fire prevention bureau Of the
Fire apartment" continued Mr.. Kirkus
had he enforcement OF the law reKa. d.
shs fire drills and the installation OF Ere
alarms in the Diamond factory In
erooklyn, The inquest following the
. NE brought out the fact that there wore
neither drills nor alarms. The Stat
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MULTIPLE INSPECTION
CONSTANT MENACE
Alfred R. Kirkus Says Loss of Life
and Property Will Continue Until
Departments Are Combined

Labor Department IL authorized by iaw
to enforce the provisions regarding the
building of hreprOof or hre resisting
exits to enforce the law regarding un-
locked exits and exits opening outward
None of these provisions for the safety
of tenants was enfoi ced. The State
Labor Department requires counterbal-
anced stairways. but in the Diamond
factory the stairway. when an attempt
was made to lower 1t, am told. fell on
to the top of an exit door at the ground
level. making both exit and stairway
useless"
The impossfbility of complsing with,
all orders Of the various departments Ia
pointed out by Mr.. Kirkus. who says that
the Tenement House Department calls
for ladders at the bottom OF fire esca pes
while the State Labor Department de-
mands counterbalanced stairways. The
last section OF the new building code
dealing with exits from buildings has
been completed after the views OF ex-
perts from all over the country had
been consulted. In spite Of this the fire
prevention bureau Of the Fire Depart
ment In issuing orders regarding exits,
having made rulings which are entirely
It's own and In no way related to the
provisions OF the building code.
'"How can any one know what the Law
is?" Mr.. Kirkus continued. mo matter
how much one would like to obey IT, 1t IA
impossible. We certainly do not intend
to remove safeguards. Far from It, By
the removal Of divided responsibility w
expect TO erect q real safeguard. 1t had
been proved that divided responsibility
makes possible the locked door and pre-
vents proper fire escapes or means o
exit az we'll AZ fire drills and alarms
ia 81 H.,
spections Of buildings to be erected oi
altered In New York city. Then 1t will
be necessary for builders to hls plani
with one department. which saane depart
ment will give . certificate thaA TIN
building 10 properly Constructed ol
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NEW BROADWAY RESTAURANT.
EcOnOp0uly to Help Feed the Pa
irons of Theatrical Section.

Peter d. Econopouly, who maintains
a large restaurant at Coney Island, Is
to join Rector. Churchill, Shanley and
the rest in the purveying of food to
patrons of the night life section of
Broadway. As location for new
place Mr.. Econopouly, under the title Of
the l5s7-S9 Broadway Cafe 4 Restaurant
Co, took a lease yesterday OF the ground
floor and basement. 80 feet on Broad
way and 1885 feet on Forty-eighth
street. OF the building at the southwest
corner OF Broadway and Forty-eighth
street. adjoining the Strand Theatre. The
lease is for twenty-one years at an ag-
gregate rental OF about s750.O00. Nell
son, Lee 4 Green negotiated the lease
with S. Osgood Pell & Co., representing
the tenant
The new restaurant is to be a novel
place. For summer the entire front to
q depth Of forty feet on Forty-eighth
street will be rolled up to open tlue
Parisian street garden and restaurant.
There will be an extensive equipment Of
silver grills distributed no that the
patron having selected his dish may
know that II Is broiled to his liking. An
especially large and ornate ice box will
BE- accessible 70 the diner. through the
glass Of which he can make his selec-
Sisa.
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B'kLYN PACKARD BLDG SOLD.

Charles f. Rickerson has sold for
Louis F. seitz the two story automobile
salesroom building with frontages OF
50,2 feet on Eighth avenue, IS feet on
F'latbush avenue and 95 feet on st.
Johns place to an investor. The prop
erty 10 under lease to the Packard Mo-
tor Car Company Of New York and was
held at $4,000.
Frank A. Seaver & Co. have sold for
the estate of Augustin Fuller 10 Leonard
Hull the two-story dwelling. on plot
lO0xlOO. at the northwest corner OF
Eleventh avenue and Eighty NTH street
Dyker Heights.
A builder purchased through Joseph
MetsgeP Q plot oexio7 ut t67 and <Ss
Bedford avenue. The buyer will erect
an apartment house.
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PALMER TO BUILD ON DEY ST.

PALMER TO BUILD on DEY ST.
Leslie r. Palmer launched yesterday
his second operation in downtown Man
haitian. Since he has been identified
with the building field Mr.. Palmer has
confined his operations to the Fifth ave-
nue. section, with the exception Of one
deal recently on Ann street. His new
venture concerns the property at 20 and
90 Dey street, Il plot o0x79. adjoining
the skyscraper being erected by the
Western Union Telegraph Company. 1t
is understood he will erect n twenty
story office building on the site. from
plans by Hermann a, Meader. Adjoin-
ing the plot on the west is the twenty
two foot five story corner building, held
In trust for the infant John Jacob Astor.
and leased to the United Cigar Stores
Company for Il term of twenty -ons
years. therefore assuring permanent
light on the westerly side OF the pro-
posed building. The property was bought
from John b. Peck through the Duross
Company.
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$40. 900 MONTCLAIR DEAL.

The residence of Robert II. Dodd on
the east side of Upper Mountain ave-
rue, Montclair, has been bought by
Miss Eliza r. Greenwood. 1t contains
eleven rooms and two baths and occu-
pies a site 1S5X250. The grounds are
laid out with ornamental trees and
Strawberries. The property has heen held
at $4,000 +. NJ. Crawley Il Bros. %
Montclair were the brokers.
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sbO.OOO DAILY AVENUE FLAT.

4 five story apartment house will he
erected. on plot 57xs64, at the north
west conner of DAILY avenue and lSOth
street, at "A cost of $4,000 The plans
were filed yesterday by Architect An
drew ]. Thomas.
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DAY OF SENSATIONAL
r REALTY TRADING
RYAN Corner on 5th Avenue Site for
$4,000, Building---Leslie Palmer
Buys on Dey Street

owners will occupy the ground floor and
three floors above.
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s5g4 S79e!g 4H5 5HES EXHEI
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-11

ADVERTISE It in the Democrat Il you
want to sell or swap t.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-11
TRADE AT HOME.

The newly organized Merchants As
ISOLATION of Hendersonville has inau-
gurated an advertising campaign for
trading at home.
AS We have said before, the asso.
citation was not organized for fixing
prices, but for fixing a satisfactory
credit basis, in which lies the protec-
ton of Hendersonville merchants.
They do not wish to work a hardship
OH any n and will not when the
purchaser does his part, but they are
organizing against the cheats, dead
beats and swindlers who resort to va
rious nefarious methods for getting
merchandise for nothing.
The Hendersonville merchants are
entitled to more consideration than
they receive from the buying public in
the matter of home trading. The mer-
chants are necessary to the growth,
convenience and welfare of the com
munity AND they are entitled to some
consideration from those who are in
ciined to send their money away from
home when equally as good bargains
nay be had i'll Hen%dersonville.
Read the sensible advertisements of
the merchants on the subject of home
trading in the HendersonviIle papers
and you will be convinced of the fol-
of sending your money out of town
when the goods desired may be had 8.
home.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-11
HENDERsONvILLE'S NEED AGAIN.

The Democrat struck a popular
chord last week in its advocacy of in
dustries to supply ~HendersonVille s
Need" as will be seen by the replies
elsewhere in these columns.
We are glad to have these views OF
some of our most thoughtful citizens
and in addition to these we hope t.:
have others until sentiment grows
sufficiently strong to result in some
united effort along this line. =, =,
While Hendersonville has its dis
advantages along with it's numerous
advantages, unity of purpose and con-
certed action would no doubt help to
offset our unfavorable conditions. :
We are pleased to know that sent
ment has, greatly changed in this re-
spect for it has been only a few years
since some of our most public spirite
citizens were inclined to throw cold
water on any movement tending to-
ward industries for Hendersonville
Their claims and contentious were
somewhat unWarranted and sentiment
has about reached the stage where By
the laying aside of our individualisr
and selfshness for personal gain, an,
by uniting in one common cause f.
the %upbuilding of Hendersonville III
told good ear be accomplished.
We would highly welcome the view
Of others on this important subjec
from week to week.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-11
WOULD PENALIzE DEL1NoUENTs.
Suggests Plan for Prompt Payment of
Taxes-Would Relieve Embar-
raising Situation.
fGastonia Gazette.l

((IaSLOnla GaZ0ICe.j
Prof. Joe s. Wray, superintendent
of the city schools, has addressed a
letter to Gaston's Senator and repre-
/ sentatives in the General Assembly
suggesting some legislation which
result in taxes being paid more
typography and 1.-The consequent doing
away with a constantly recurring en-
Farrassment suffered by the county
because of the: lack of funds.
l.. The letter is as follows: -.
You. will please pardon me both for
ifftruding upon your time and for pre-
Stunning to suggest to you some legisla-
tien 7sorely, needed in our great Com
ponwealth,
/ am going to give you my views or
the ,installment plan, sending the first
Etallment herewith.
Each year both the cities and the
counties are embarrassed by the lack
OF funds from midsummer until after
January. The embarrassment is all
the more so in the case of the schools
Think of it! The teachers are forced
to tide themselves over a long summer
vacation. They are often thrown into
debt for a living during vacation
Their creditors expect pay at the end
of the first month of the school term
They can't pay till they are paid.
This past fall presented a spectacle
Of a number of the greatest and rich.
est counties having to let the teachers
go unpaid practically until the first of
the year. Such conditions are EN-.
barrassing to more than the teachers
The following is given to show more
what I mean than to dictate a solution
Of the problem.
The tax books are turned over to the
collectors about the first of October.
II seems that it would be just to con-
slider October and November tax pay.
ing months. Then add 1 per cent. to
Their creditors expect pay at the end
Of November; 2 per cent. to all unpaid
at the end of December.
There is great need to make it to
the advantage of the taxpayer to settle
as early as possible.
There is great need to make it 70
the advantage of the taxpayer to set
tie as early as possible.
Please see that a copy. of this gets
the committee whose duty it is to
consider such things.
! should like to know that you favor
this, and that you are urging a bill
carrying out the spirit of this letter.
With all good wishes for you and the
work, I am
Very truly yours,
JOE S. WRAY.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-03-11
DOCTOR COOK IS INDICATED.
Stenographer Swears to Great Wrong
Done Him in North Pole Discovery
(~EuorUthin0

Stenographer Swears to Great Wrong
Done Him in North Pole Discovery
(Everything.)
The evidence grOWS, n Old Doc
Cook, no doubt the original discoverer
of the North Pole, is some day going
to have his own. In Washington re-
Gently a Miss Kiel revealed some of the
villiany of that infamous attempt to
discredit Cook. The story is authe-
mic, and in order that it may not be
what we say, we print it as it came
from Washington, and it was as fol-
lows:
Washington, Jan. 28.-Miss Lillian
e. Kiel, of New York, who said she
was a st~enographer employed by a
magazine which printed articles under
the M of Rear Admiral Peary and
DR.. Cook on their return from the
Arctic regions, testified tonight before
the house committee on education that
the articles were not written in their
entirety by the explorers whose names
they bore, but that they were rear
ranged in the magazine Office.
Miss Kiel was n Of a number of
witnesses who testified in connection
with the resolution of Representative
Smith of New York, designed to estab-
lish the priority of the discovery of the
North Pole.
Miss Ktel said she took the dictation
of DR.. Cooks statement. She said that
after he had received proofs and had
80. KID" them, a sub-editor of the mag
azine clipped the proofs, eliminated
certain paragraphs and inserted 9TH
ers, the result being, she said, that the
story indicated a confession of failure.
She said that Admiral Peary's story
vas obtained by questions asked by a
reporter, that a woman transcribed
the notes and wrote the story. The
admiral, she said, had a contract or an
agreement of some sort under which
the magazine was not to print any
thing detrimental to him.
All of this Doctor Cook has repeat
eddy insisted upon. He was victimiz-
ed by the Magazine which slandered
him and which distorted his state
ments and made him a self-confessed
swindler. Right will eventually tri-
umph, and we have no doubt that with
in the next few years, DR.. Frederick
Cook will be declared, beyond any
question, the true discoVerer. of the
North Pole. The men who tried to
hand it to Peary are not as enthusiast
tic % they were, and all the time new
evidence is coming to the surface to
sustain the story first sent out by
Cook and absolutely substantialted by
Harry Whitney who was a disinterest-
ed party. Cook has never had, justice
done him-but WI r a strong, believ-
er in Incorporation that Truth finally
gets back, NO matter how badly crush
ed.