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New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

the purer air that is waited over
from the City Hall.
The first sixty-e eight steps Of this
journey are now accomplished for
the subway inmates by the new es-
calatoT.
The Park Place escalator is tall
and thin, somewhat as though it
had been on a rigorous diet. Its
two-foot beam permits only one
passenger at a time to enter upon
the sprightly journey upward, and
in the morning rush hours, as tho
customers form long aueoue
awaiting their turn, each to save
slxty-eight steps, the appearance is
not unlike the opening Of the Zieg
field Folies.
In the course Of year 2,000,o 900
passengers who detrain at the Park
Place station ara going to save
13S.000,00o steps. I
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

pera ton, business has been scarcely
healthy enough to feed him and his
horse, and then there are lodging and
clothing to consider. Bill said that
he has something set aside for the
dry days, and now that they have
come he will be forced to use it.
"But, gee," said Bill, "it's like
guy who had a first love that
took about all the love in him and
who amt got much left in his heart
for any one else. This business was
something / had talent for. Any
thing else is going to seem un-
friendly and rotten. But Mollie
and l must live She don't look it.
but she's twenty-four years old and
still pulling strong When ! had
business I'd never get tired. Some
times l worked twenty hours a day.
This waiting is what gets my goat.
The younger people look at my
coach and say what they think are
funny things. The older folks, my
best customers, have their stuff in
their cellars and they don't come
out"
Bill looked up at the new City
Hall clock and read aloud that it
was 10 o'clock.
Might as we'll close for the
night" said Bill.
"Giddan Molliao
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

Bill slumped forward in his seat
one night last week. He even for
got to tuck in a loving young couple
who were riding with him, not to
get anywhere but just for the nov
city Of it. Bill hates people who
ride in his coach for humorous di-
version. The only kind of people he
likes to drive are those who are 60
ing some place, or those who want
q quiet, refined. healthful ride.
The young couple had nothing to
do with BilPs slumping. They came
too late; they merely were rubbing
it in Bill is going out of business,
He took in exactly s1S.95 last
week, although his horse Is stalwart
and his barouche has fine springs
and soft cushions.
From s o'clock until 1880 he
maintained his hungry watch be-
fore tho Brevoort on Monday night,
the first one after July l. Nobody
came. Bill said he felt lonesome
and Just a little afraid Kind of
hopeless and helpless, he described
It. People were going home early
and in streetcars and subways
Some nodded real cordially to him
But nobody wanted to ride.
Then he went up to Longacrt
Square and stopped tn front Of q
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
years ago Big
( Bill Nicely drove up in front

TWENTY-TWO years ago Big
1 Bill Nicely drove up in front
of the Brevoort Hotel one
morning in a coach drawn by very
new horse and entered the public
hacking business. To-day many
persons knew Big Bill, although
they possibly never heard of Neely.
He has for years taken home gen
tiernen who, suffering from alcoholic
amnesia, had forgotten their ad-
dresses.
He always sat up In front, Of
course, on the seat without a back
to 1t. Despite the temptation to
slump forward as he drove through
the years, Big Bill always sat erect
He took personal interest IN his
customers and had the same smile
for those who rode two blocks and
those who rode two hours His
clients were his friends, and he
tucked all under the laprobe with
the same solicitude.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Editing ''7he Subway Sun -

N7R1T1NG speed never has been
w standardized. A fxt-class
hack writer will turn out
his 5000 words a day, but Robert
Louis Stevenson sometimes wept
for hours over the composition of a
single paragraph. Browning chewed
penholders with relish as he wrote
slowly and painstakingly; it took
George Borrow a lifetime to write
only few books, among them
"The Romany Rye" while the edi-
tor of ''The Subway Sun" writes an
average of fifty words a week.
Whether the conservative pace at
which the editor of "The Subway
Sun" labors admits him at once to
a literary footing with Stevenson,
Browning, Borrow, ct al, he is will
ing to leave to his readers. What
ever literary rating he may finally
be given and he probably will
have to die to get it-he can with
out boast claim that his daily cir
culation greatly exceeds that of any
writer, living or dead.
The editor of "The Subway Sun"
figures his daily circulation at g.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
T HERE do we go from here?
y That is the question half


thousand cabaret show
girls and principals along Broad
way are asking. 1t is violating no
confidence to say that many will 90
home, more will join burlesque and
musical comedy "road" shows and
the remainder will go back to the
counters, the manicuring tables and
the clerkships which they left when
they were magnetized by the lure
Of Broadway.
This compels an admission. On
the word Of an authority the "New
York show girl" the sinuous gazelle
with the luminous orbs and the in
corrigible toes, isn't a New York
girl at all. Fact. Not one in ten
of these insouciant damsels who
are supposed to crack the steelv.
mercantile heart of the hat sales
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Eons Ago

TF YOU should casually remark
H. to a friend that a gentleman
bathing at a beach near New
York stepped on the calcaneum of
megatherium Of the Pleistocene
period, your friends reply would, in
all probability, depend much on his
Individuality. But just the same,
that is just what happened.
DR.. Ledoux, of New York, was
bathing at Long Branch, near New
York, when he stepped on some hard
substances, which upon examination
proved to be fossil bones. One was
the skull of a walrus, the second a
fragment of mastodon, and the
third was a bone Of a megathium,
orc gigantic ground sloth.
This calcaneum, or heel bone, is
Of enormous size, measuring over
fifteen inches in length and weigh
ing over twenty pounds. The bone
shows no evidence of erosion and
apparently had not been trans
ported any considerable distance.
The animal to which it belonged
probably died within a few miles
at most Of the place where the bone
was found. The ground sloths
fiourished during the Pleistocene or
glacial period. They were Of gi-
gantic size, larger than any exist
ing quadrupeds except the elephant.
The hind legs were very massive,
as was the tail, which supported the
animal when he reached up after
the leaves upon which he fed.
Remains Of ground sloths abound
in South America and are not un-
common in our own Southern
states, but this bone seems to mark
the limit Of their northern range.
Numerous skeletons Of these AMI
mails have been recovered, and q
very f1ne collection Of these ex-
tinct mammals Is to be found in
the American Museum Of Natural
History. The late Colonel Roose-
velt gave to the museum three
specimens Of another species Of
these extinct mammals, called gryp-
otherium. These were found In q
cave In Patagonia. Exploration
showed that these species lived
until a few centuries ago, and were
not only contemporaneous with
primitive man, but were stabbed or
confined and fed by him in the
cave.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
NEW WORKERS are to be

NEW WORKERS are to be
L Y invited to become the
critics Of their own art.
In the course Of the next sew
eral days a silhouette Of the
Park fountain, the original Of
which has been executed by
Frederick w. Macmonnies, will
be set in place that members of
tho Municipal Art Commission
and others may SOC how it blends
into the classic surroundings of
City Hall Park.
Tho work portrays q figure
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

from the Park Place platform to
the street level was one of the most
tedious among subway ascents in
the city. From the fact Of the
stairs to the first landing-or from
the cellar to the mezzanne floor, as
1t were-took sixty-cight steps and
from tha point to the exit across
from the Woolworth Building re-
CURED seventy-one additional PAGES.
IN all 139 steps, the majority of
them upward, were necessary for
a lady or gentleman to get out Of
Mr.. Shonts's clutches and breathe
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27

typify1ng Civic Virtue, with her
aldic sword in hand, with Con-
quered Vice lying at it's feet.
Mr.. Macmonnies said he did not
wish the group to be purely
decorative, but an allegory Of
truth and justice. He made the
study in Paris, he said, and the
model was a young Frenchman
who had an American cast Of
features.
, Civic Virtue is sturdy figure
nino feet in height, at whose feet
arc two conquered sirens typi-
flying vice. ~
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
The Park Place EscQZQte2z.

n WHAT Is it that runs
W swiftly without getting
ahead, sinks lower as It
climbs higher, and saves slxty-eight
steps?
A The Park Place escalator.
A picture Of ruddy good health
after its severe attacks Of spring
fever, the new escalator attached
TO the Seventh Avenue subway ser
vice IS now up and around and
about able to do full days work
New-York tribune., 1919-07-27
Days the Present City as Looked 1867
Bowery Meals
MERE was a time on the Bow
cry, before the Lexow inves-

HERE was a time on the Bow
Z cry, before the Lexow inves-
tlgating committee spoiled
material for lot of good Sunday
stories, when man who wasn't so
particular about his brand of whis-
key, could guzzle his senses away by
paylng dime and breathing one
oreathful of booze through a rub
Der tube. Some places charged a
nickel.
A restaurant was opened at 81
Third Avenue last week where
man can eat his hunger away for
some time into the future by pay
! ing twenty-five cents. Urban J.
Ledoux, former American consul
at Prague, Bohemia, and later
maker and breaker of the first post
war breadline, owns and generally
supervises this new kind of eating
place. Mr.. Ledoux runs the only
restaurant in the city which pre-
fers converts to the Bahai prin-
ciples to profits. The Bahais are a
sect whose basic principle is the
Golden Rule. If they were poor
they would like to be given a fill
ing meal for twenty-five cents.
Hence they give it to others.
4 Vegetarian Meal
The restaurant does not serve
juicy porterhouse steaks. Neither
are chuck steaks, without juice, on
the menu. Mr.. Ledoux and most
of the Bahais are vegetarians, and
meat is as popular with them as the
Grown Prince is in France. The
% cents worth of food is entlreyv
along vegetarian lines.
Vegetable soup is the beginning.
It is followed by a plateful of as
sorted vegetables, served in we'll
cooked large chunks. The final gas
tronomic assault is committed by
rice pudding and coffee, which isn't
coffee, but near coffee. Some
appetites, built up in smoothing
ruffled thoroughfares, occasionally
survive the vegetable onslaught.
These healthy cravings are quickly
reduced by another plate Of the
vegetables.
The brows Of many Of the patrons
are quite low. The largo majority
come to the restaurant to eat. A
few Banaians visiting for spiritual
comfort. No bill for single per-
son can ever rise higher than 25
cents. 1t is possible, however, for
light caters, Nognishi, for instance.
to eat for considerably less.
"A man came in this restaurant
last Wednesday and ate three plates
OF assorted vegetables. He fumbled
around in his pockets for several
sweaty minutes before he said that
he didn't have the money. Then
he prepared himself to land as
lightly as possible. But he wasn't
thrown out. They gave him another
plato Of assorted vegetables.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Is CASES OF CHILD
PLAGUE IN ILLINOIS

Springfield, Ill, July Infantile
paralysis is beginning to appear in
various parts of the state though not
in such numbers Of cases as would
cause alarm" says DR.. c ST Clair
Drake. director of the state depart
ment OF public health.
"Seyenty-fve cases have been re-
ported to the state department OF pub
lie welfare this year" he continued
"Of this number twenty-five, or one
third, were reported during the TWEEN
ty days Of July or five eases re-
ported this year at Standard Putnam
County, whore the epidemic started
last year. two have proved fatal.
Any physicians hearing of sus-
pected cases Of the disease should
promptly notify the state department.
of public health in order that an in
spector can be sent TO the locality AMI
the case investigated and combattel
if it is one Of infantle paralysis"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
~ t4sl
FREEDOM NEWS
ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs Charles Mcclure %
Ottawa were recent visitors AZ The
Cody home.
Richard Tery has a now Buick tour
ing car and Louis Austrem Il new Rec
truck.
Mrs. Jack Pool of Sheridan visited
relatives here.
Mrs. James Shaw went to Laporte,
Ind, to visit her son.
Mr. and Mrs John Butterfcld AMI
Mr. ana Mrs Charles HoXie and baby
visited at the home of S NJ Wright
recently
The ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist Eiscopal Church will meet
with Mrs. English Friday afternoon
Aug, l.
There will he no further Sunday
evening services In the Harding Meth,
odist Episcopal Church unti' Sept /
Carol Rawling is homo on a thity
lay furlough
Rev and Mrs. Grant Rmdboueh of
MINI" are visiting at theI
zone of Rev EngeIstadt
Lester Clark and simon Johnson
lave landed in New York
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
REJECTED DRAFTEES
CAN'T WEAR BUTTON

Springfield. July 29-Consc ieutious
DIRECTORS, who refused to don sol
der uniform. will not be permitted
to wear a soldier service button
Neither will draftees who We're re,
iccted at camp,
This is the information received
at the army recruiting station here.
An order says;
Conscientious DIRECTORS who re-
fused to wear the uniform or to ac-
ccpt service in any branch of the
army and men accepted by local
boards but rejected at camp before
entering regular duty thereat will
not be issael Victory medals or Vic
tory buttons However, conscientious
directors who did accept service in
any branch of the service are entitled
TO the medal and button"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
The Test That Tells.

There is only one real test for a
cough remedy and that Is use, s. NJ
Oliver, Box 1872, r. S. d. 8, Greens.
boro, s. c., writes: "Folcys Honey
and Tar Is just fine. keep it all
the time in my family and do not
expect to be without It as long as |
can get It," 1t relieves hay fever,
asthma, coughs, colds. Group and
bronchial affections by covering the
inilamed. irritatod surfaces with a
soothing, healing combination Of time
tried, reliable. pure, harmless medi.
cines. Contains no opiates. Children
like it.--For sale by w. d. Duncan.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29


voc spent sunday afternoon
starved ROCK
MT and Mrs. Clarence Mills are Wis
lung al the nome OF ehe former
ia'hef' A j, AAliN' west OF town al
lols llliie'
ar MINIS recently returned from
rance ana mas received ms as
VHaF@ e' men loeH WISH Is hhl9Hed
tnoE WIZ 90 10 NAicaBo "here Nf,
MINIS FORMER poSItloh Is awaiting
'lu!'
vi anu MIS- \. II. 'dthi'lohu were
recent guests 81 MOTIFS lfleh0S,
= L. fiioos ana ". a feBfiIn mo-
''' 3" u ri"l'AllH 1IoNe SUNDAY lhef
were "ecoihpahIet nome py MIS- re
= '+H an" MISS A'"CeHe iloeS' VINO
apeiit very PHEASANT week Win
attN''" NfioNe 4'lei'0s.
H. simpson u f'SIheF'liie' Ia"
" ''o 0"Ile 10 'I''c"-o Win Two car
'''"9 u N"'''' 'o"N "aNdHtS'ae oi ms
- 9AiisAlsA 10 llle sliiase ana came
uo" II ~ Ni94l Ills 'h0llief' MIS- LFlla
''i''' poo'' an" 9IsLeI, MIS-. II. NJ Gia-
""a '"Hlht' ileF were joined
va 2"Aiuaf ny NJ anu MIS-. j. d. NH
'0' VI i"1Al'iCo, MIS- ,hilier Is also
q .,"" ''esl u Nlf simpson
~ ""NeF lailll1S' r w.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Clear, Peachy Skin
Awaits Anyone Who
Drinks Hot Water
Says an inside bath, before break.
fast helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Sparkling and vivacious--merry,
bright, alert--a good, clear skin aud
a natural, rosy, healthy complexion
are assured only by pure blood. If
only every man and woman could be
induced to adopt the morning inside
bath, what gratifying change would
take place Instead Of the thousands of
sickly, notwithstanding men, women
compilations: instead of the multi
tude5 Of nerve wrecks" 'rundowns,"
brain flags" and pessimists We
should see virilo, optimistic throng
or rosy-cheeked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning, before breakfast,
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful Of limestone phosphate In it
to wash from the stomach liver, kid.
neys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
vious days indigestible waste, sour
lamentations and poisons thus
cleansing, swcctenin3 and freshening
the entire alimontary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bill.
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism,
colds; and particularly those who have
a pallid, sallow complexion and who
are constipated very often, are urged
to obtain u quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store which
will cost but a trine, but is sufficient
to demonstrate the quick and remark
able change in both health and appear
ance. awaiting those who practice in
ternal sanitation. We must remem-
Der that inside cleanliness is more i'm.
portant than outside, because the skin
does not absorb impurities to con-
taminate the blood while the pores In
the thirty feet Of bowels do.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Grand Ridge and Vicinity

Forest Jones has returned from
IT. Sharid,n ho,irg roao;vo1 vi.
honorable discharge from army sery
/ ice.
Mr., c4ao,,n,a, - ,oa, r,i;at a.ho
Iboa hoan ,.;.t,i,,, u,,o,,..,. na,.+t,....
u,s ,.;t,,,a. III. ,ra1,o,d.r
-, 49,
-. np'l'S' 40 'e4'es ''''" ''''lp
'''"9,''~' '''''' VI e''''' 81 ''oi,'
'.'9 ~ re-. ~ ','' ,'' - -
'''''''' sun VI '''' N'''' ''"e' i'' q AZ"
" "
MI ana Mrs oiln y Stone have
returned from a most dellShttUl' va
e"'Ioh spent III Nhleaso'
f. J, Lindsay has returned from
Earlyille, where he went the first OF
the week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs Row Gin are the
proud parents of a baby bow. who
came to bless their home here recent
w
ff,tla Mis- ,r;,drod 1onr ava
hn,.,},,. l,,.a,,,t - I'M,
nj. ~, :, D., 60
Ii,ht,,,1 g.. ,..,,1-., - ..it,, a.,
or..na,,rorts NJ ia NJ roha
''0, f1i'i'oi Eue' 9o'e a'i" slst1t
MISS u" una bliile VI l.i''eo'h' ILL.,
""o nave HeeH S'Sle'hs felatiNe7 heie
an" III oC'd"a nave sole 10 hdilSda
NY ~ 'i9it theH "iotner'
WI 'oi'hsoh ana fanny were cait
e'H at Tue io'le u REV anu MIS- j.
y F"l'ie "t Tue VI L. parsonage on
fita!'
MrS. Margaret trospF ana daugh- |
TER MISS INJURED nave returned TO |
taeir nome on west washington st,
after d very Pheasant VISIT with Otta-
wa relatives.
MIS- u. +. Butte departed this week
Tor an extended VISIT with her sister,
MIS- tilIabeth Mccormick, in New
Mexico
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
TRANSC0N T|NEMTAL-
PLANE is WRECKED
BY LIGHTNING BOLT

Washington, July Lightning
struck a hangar at Ha2elhurst Field
this afternoon, housing the Martin
bombing plane in which Capt. Roy n.
FRAMES was prepared to make one.
stop flight across the United States.
The machine was completely demol.
ished except for its motors, but II
will he replaced as soon as possible
and the fight made Notwithstanding.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29

ualrius verified vas 2S5,S50,
The number missing in action had
been reduced 70 l.5S5 from 1000 re-.
ported III March The checking OF
casualties revealed 10000 dupllca.
tiNus.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29

The man who is looking for soft
place without honest labor can usuo,Iv
find 1t right under his hat.--Detroit
News.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Daily Tnouunt.

A chaSte and lucid style is indicative
Of tine same personal traits In the au.
thor.-Eiosea RallNl
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
ILLINOIS BRIEFS.

Charleston Aheanca NJ 1o,o ;,,.t;
eos o. diyorco O. a,a., NJ, C-a
trndo V;,ri,,,. ,.,a 49,. en-, 49,.
for divorce in corrt hora sron, hnr
bus.h.na cor,.o,. ,-;,ria,.,.. .'.,.,...
farnar hooa,so no aaas nat ,a,s 49,
any mora ~
to pr,za y, tbo n,hIio s,roo,s hana
until o,o ~ ,ha,, hi, % ;,,io,, &c.
off now sb,,,bhory an tho noIjon 49,
tion lawn Nan, +ba FREQ ,,na}, -
been take, from, tho,,
-.
Aurora -polioo,,.r ,ra,ao, so,
Harold Smith. Il Chicago in = dnnr
way Whom bo shool, ,ho ha,. Wv, ,,,'a
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Fat People
Get Thin

oil OF korrin On capstilesD at the drug.
Eista. Follow delightful korein sys-
TEN under 800 guarantee that you
reduce 10 TO 60 lbs, or more. II needed.
Improve appearance, lcngihen your
lie. New book mailed FREE to you:
tells all about reducing weight, pleas
unity. lastingly; write to Eoroin CO.,
NT-6o, Station j, New York, N. Y. =
Sold by Corbus Drug Store
T. Il. Gapen & Son
kneussl Bros.
W. ID. Duncan
and others In Ottawa
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29

fering TO deaths from other COR
tagicus diseases, it is noted that
measles, a disease stin foolishly re-.
Farded in some quarters as a trivial
affair. caused the death Of 3it per
sons, twenty-five times as many as
died from smallpox, and more than
twice as many as succumbed to scar
Let reyer.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Typhoid Fever Toll.

Typhoid fever, the typical filth di4.
ease and the one disease by which
The sanitary intelligence of con-
muuity is most commonly ganged
caused a total Of 533 deaths Of these
only -hirty-eight We're in the City Of
Chicago, the remainder, 49,. BEING
downstate the doNnstate typhoid
fever death rate, based on population,
being, therefore, ten times higher
than the Chicago rate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Business Home Buying New
Development i'm Central Zone
$23 OOO, 900 Invested in Four Months in Lofts and
Mercantile Buildings by Tenants in Central Ier.
camille District; New Business Locating There

Home buying by business concerns
current for months in the financial and
other centres of the lower end of the
city, is developing in uptown trade Sec
tlons. 1t is estimated that in the last
four months twenty-three loft and
mercantile buildings in the central
mercantile district have been purchased
by business concerns and other buyers
Central Mercantile Association esti-
mates the investment in realty IN this
section in four months at 30 600. coo.
Among the largest investments made
are:
The National Biscuit Company pur-
chase from the Bradish johnson Estate
or ITS chelsea plant, occupying two
blocks, bounded by Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets, Ninth and Eleventh ave
nues, and assessed by the city for taxa
ton purposes at 3,30SOO0 The Bedell
Company purchase of the eleven-story
building formerly owned by the Sus-
quehanna Silk Mills, at 1922 West
Eighteenth Street, extending to Seven
teenth Street, for 100000 Frederick
Brown purchase of the eleven-storv
Cluett Building at % West Nineteenth
Street, for 100000. The Greenwich
Savings Bank sold So Fifth Avenue. a
thirteen story building, northeast cor
ner of Sixteenth Street, for 5000 600.
DR.. Parkhurst's Church, Madison
Square, bought by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company for $500 900.
The Albermarle Building, northwe st
corner of Broadway and Twenty fourth