The Washington herald., 1920-07-21
ny RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

New York. July 20.-The Grand
Central Station at last is going to
have its crown. Whitney Warren
of Paris and New York. chief archi-
tect of the Pershing Square i'm
provement. today announced to the
writer the work of adding ten
stories to the station proper is
about TO begin. He said:
I'VE want to get it under way
during the summer months. The
topping off of the huge structure
will not in any way interfere with
the movement of trains in and out
of the station. when finished,
these upper floors will be used for
Offices"
schwab Rides I'm Cab.
Asked what other immediate
building was scheduled for the
neighborhood, Mr.. Warren said:
we have everything projected
for two mammoth apartment build
ings on the west side of Park ave-
nue.; one extending from Forty
ninth street to Fiftieth street and
the other from Fiftieth to Fifty
first streets They will cost in the
neighborhood of $3,000,000 each.
One of them is to be run by Louis
Sherry.
A wheezy old taxicab drew up IN
front of the Forty-sixth street en-
trance of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
shortly after noon and a rugged
man attired in a plain black suit
of clothes got out and fumbled in
his pockets for the fare. He re-
ceived instantaneous attention from
the white-suited hotel starter. for
the arrival was none other than
Charles NJ. Schwab. In the process
sion of private limousines the de-
crepit taxicab presented a most in
congruous sight. particularly as It's
occupant could probably have
bought and sold the worldly pos
sessions of those who came in the
stylish motor cars:
Mr. Schwab informed the writer
he was passing the summer quietly
resting up in the country. He eX-
pressed himself as very optimistic
over business conditions. "A man
who is a bear in the United States
deserves to lose" was his sole COM
ment. He said he knew nothing OF
politics.
Baruch in Town.
In a building across the street.
Charles Schmittberger, an interior
decorator, who is called "the in
spector" among his fellow workers
after the famous police official
watched the arrival Of Mr. Schwao.
Il last saw him two years ago
when I was working on his sl0.-
000,0 900 residence at Loretto, Pa. "
said Schmittberger. He is a fine,
likable man. l recall that he paid
$4,000 to move his old frame house
worth half that sum from the site
where the mansion now stands. and
the conditions were that not a
crack was to be made in the walls.
They did II. The old house Is about
two blocks away from the new
structure"
Bernard NJ. Baruch stays in town
and is at his uptown Office at Is
East Forty-ninth street every
morning. Before the San Francisco
convention had settled upon Gov
ernor Cox as the Democratic stand =
ard bearer, Mr.. Baruch was widely
reported as being in the market for
the purchase of a New York daily
newspaper. Which one? Several
were mentioned. Since the conven-
ton ended its deliberation. the talk
has died down, for the current ro-
port is that Mr.. Baruch was per-
sonally interested in the candidacy
of William Gibbs McAdoo.
The s10.000.0o0 bond issue OF the
Republic of Ireland has been over
subscribed and the managers OF the
drive" are waiting patiently for
the Dali Eireann to meet and de-
eide whether another issue shall be
asked from the American people,
Some twenty-five clerks, principally
rosy-cheeked Irish-American girls.
were found busy at ali Fifth ave-
aiiA mailing the bonds to their pur-