Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-30
NEW YORK MAKES
QUICK MOVE To
END STAGNAT|ON
Building Boom to Follow End
of War and the Great White
Way is Once More to Bel
Made White. !


New York, Dec. 29.-To take direct
to the bedside of their boys all the
home folks of wounded fighters arriv-
ing in this port, is the object of Off
GERS from the surgeon generals staff,
who are today making every effort to
perfect plans TO give prompt, accurate
and practical information to the
thousands of women who have flock
ed to this city on this quest Though
the medical men of Uncle Sans army
are working day and night to receive
and attend the incoming invalids in
khaki at their hospitals hereabouts,
they. declare that the care of their
anxious relatives is almost as import
ant as that of the boys themselves.
Until straight. sure and plain path
is made from the home of every one
of these heroes to his hospital cot, the
military men in charge of their treat
ment assert they will not be satisfied.
Building Boom.
Construction that win call for the
use of a million men and billion
dollars is to be undertaken within the
limits of this city during the new
year, according to the present pros
pectus of leading contractors. Huge
hotels, giant office skyscrapers. dwell
ing, factory and store structures that
have been held back for years. will
now sprout skyward in the greatest
building boom that this town has
ever seen, it is asserted. Throughout
this state and the whole nation plenty
of work, wages and profits will follow
this burst of construction, the build
ers declare, while the activities that
will be housed within the new walls
will engage every available worker.
Whiten Ways.
Determined to bring back Broad
way to its old prestige as the Great
White Way" thousands of New York.
ers are just organizing to rekindle the
former fires of this great night
thoroughfare. From end TO end of
the entertaining, shopping and sport
ing stretches of Broadway, 1t is prom
ised to place more than ever before of
The white lights that draw crowds and
bring business that has been halted
under the dulling restrictions of war
time. From end to end of town this
light up movement is growing, and
it is prophesied that it will soon
spread over all the communities of
this continent.
Rent Raise.
Tagging every cubic foot of office
space on this island with marked-up
rent rates, the landlords of this city
have this week apparently conspired
to squeeze from all their tenants high
er rentals than ever known here be-
fore. Since new business extension
requires more office space and new
quarters have not been built for some
years, it seems likely now that these
rent sharks may get away with their
combined eXtortion. At any rate,
everyone who must have desk space
on Manhattan island will be obliged
to render to their agent a 1.-THE,
trebled over that charged only few
years ago.
Funny Feasting.
Proclaiming peace and victory
terms, the brethren of the amen cor
ner have just renewed their annual
feasts of fun that never grows stale.
Though the testing of this crowd of
political veterans has been hushed
during the last two years of war, its
revival the other night showed no
signs of rust or rheumatics in this old
organization that dates back to Tom
Platt's time. Gridiron and other leg
islative correspondents feasts at
Washington, Albany or elsewhere
have nothing on these gatherings of
men, who wrote and played politics
when the Fifth Avenue hotel was a
center.