The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
Tammany Discovers United States
Extends West of Hudson Riuer
On Trip to Democratic Convention

operation OF the hotel at Broadway
and Forty-second street.
1t cost Mr.. Regan s1.75O, 900 four
teen years ago to fit up the Knick-
erbocker. which is to become An Of
fice building. and the auction sale
has thus far netted a s500,000 re-
turn.
Going to open another hotel?
No? Then, what? Well. every dol
lar that Mr.. Regan has in the world
Is going into the idea OF preventing
future railroad accidents in the
United States. He Is the backer
OF an automatic train control prof.
ect which is now being tried out
on 500 miles of Rock Island Rail-
road system.
preaching train by the use of the
Regan devices. NJ L. Bell. vice
president and general counsel of
the Rock Island. thinks that there
Is fair chance OF the former hotel
man becoming a public benefactor.
a No. Westinghouse.
Money Needed.
1t always takes money to get an
idea across-often wads of money.
For several decades there has been
a demand for some form Of auto
matte train control that will pre-
vent collisions when the human
agency fails. The germ of the idea
which Mr.. Regan has improved
upon and given his own name was
originally known as the Casale
safety device.
Briefly it consists of two eie-
ments. one comprising the locomo-
tive and tender equipment and the
other apparatus located on the
roadside. The locomotive and ten
der equipment consists OF a speed
circuit controller. an electro-pneu-
matte valve, a shoe mocha nism, re-
lay. storage battery. release key
and the necessary wiring for the
electric circuits; also visual or au-
dible cab signals. The roadside
equipment consists of a specially
designed ramp and the necessary
electric connections.
We will leave the rest of the
technical description to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, which
has the matter in hand. All that the
writer started to do was to reveal
Mr.. Regan's new Job. He talks
railroad affairs with even greater
used to discuss the prevailing prices
of foodstuffs and the last schedule
of hotel rates.
Skyscraper Apostle Dies.
In the death Of Frederick Zittel.
the oldest real estate operator in
New York, who was Sc years old,
passes a special personality, for he.
the son of an Erie County farmer,
was the first man to have faith in
the skyscraper. He rented out the
offices in the initial tall building to
be erected in Broadway, assuring
and reassuring inquirers that there
was perfect safety in the building
which stood at No. 81. 1t was only
eight stories high and was opened
in 1884.
No other development In the prog
ress of New York begin to approach
the magnitude OF the tremendous
change the skyscraper wrought and
the altered conditions 1t created
Bradford Lee Gilbert was the dar-
ing architect who braved precedent
and gave to the world this remark
able type ef building. He always
said that the idea of an iron build
ing had come to him in a dream. He
DEMONSTRATED the feasibility OF
skeleton steel construction and
caused New York to climb up into
the air instead of along the ground.
This first skyscraper has been re.
placed by a much larger one, its
creator has journeyed from among
us, and recently at Spring Lake,
N. j.. died the man who had the
great, faith to spread the good It'd
ings and NIL 1t with tenants.
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