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The New York herald., 1922-12-19
Early West Side Flats.
Garry Green Brought Plans OF New
Houses From Paris to New York.

To THE New YORK HERALD: In an
swer to the inquiry as to the location
OF the Arst apartment house In New
York allow me to say that my recollec-
ton OF the building at and West
Fourteenth street goes back to the late
SOS. IT was a large double house with
a large picture gallery and stable In the
rear.
Ir the early '7os II was changed into
an Office suite building with he. entrance
on Fourteenth street and Sonerville's
Auction Gallery occupying the first floor
and gallery in the rear. with an en-
trance on the avenue. 1t remained in
this condition for several years and then
was altered into the Knickerbocker
apartments about the Same time that
the Navarro apartments on Fifty-ninth
street were built.
The first family apartment with ac-
ccmmodations was much earlier. The
first apartment house TO my knowledge
was built in 1s55-5e on the site OF the
garden attached TO the residence OF
Garry Green, and is still standing at SOC
Greenwich street. Green lived next door
at sfi Greenwich street and had lum-
Der yard at the foot OF Horatio street.
Mr.. Green had heard OF tho apart
ments that were being built In Paris on
the new avenues created by Haussmann,
tho engineer employed by Napoleon Ill.
to remodel Paris. Green went to Paris
IN 1s53-54, examined the new houses
and returned to New York with French
plans, which he had revised 10 suit the
size OF his garden lot. which had a
frontage OF trife more than twenty
five feet. and nc butt four story and
basement house on the lot.
Tho frat floor and basement were de-
signed as n single apartment with some
thing like ten rooms. The remaining
floors were arranged for family use.
each with six rooms, with bathroom on
the hall. The kitchen had a stationary
range with waterback. copper hot water
boiler. two stationary washtuos. large
lrcn sink. all with running hot and cold
water, and gas in each room. including
the bathroom. which had a zinc tub With
hot and cold faucets The only thing
lacking. was an elevator. which was
then In embryo In the mind of Otis Tufts
OF Boston for the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
that being the first building in the city
to have Installed a power elevator. cleo
trio lights and built IN icebox. all OF
these OF later invention.
My family moved into this house In
the summer OF 1856 and lived there until
1883. Each family had q separate coal
vault under tho yard, which was fiagged
and had gate on Jane street. When
ilrst erected II attracted much atten-
ton. and / can remember visits from
numerous architects and builders TO
study It's plan. Later II was forgotten
and the double tenement house on Eighth
avenue near Eighteenth street was de-
scrlbed as the first apartment house. but
that was not erected until some time In
the eos. Previous to that my Family
were early residents In what was after
ward called Battle Row. in Nineteenth
street, betweeni Seventh and Eighth ave-
uues, built about 1852. 1t was then a
garden spot with flower beds both in
front and back spaces. II had running
water IN each apartment.
] 10 not think there was anything
built previous 20 Garry Green's house
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
One Who Thrived on Difficulties.

The recent death OF ESos A. Mills
has recalled TO writer In the Kan
sas City Star many stories of tho
naturalist's struggle for success
against what appeared almost insur-
mountable obstacles. A boy OF feeble
constitution, Mills became q noun
tain climber and a nature student
who Travelled on foot thousands OF
miles TO gain first hand information.
without book learning he became a
writer who could skillfully combine
with a felicitous literary charm use
ful scientific information. and with
out any aptitude for oratorical ex-
preston he acquired the power to
hold an audience under the spell OF
his esrnestness and sincerity.
Mills was born on a Kansas farm.
When he was IA years old the doctor
told his parents that he had not a
chance to live, but that outdoor life
in Colorado might help him better
10 endure the few years that re-
maired 10 him. He struck out from
Kansas CITY for the Rocky Noun
tains and he built little cabin ia
Tahosa Valley, south OF Estes Park.
lie began with short tramps and
gained in strength by his efforts. lie
learned '"to travel light and feed of
the country" and his tramps soon
extended over the mountain rangee
and finally to the Pacific coast. He
kept his eyes open and his heart
attuned to the things which wild life
disclosed to him. Here was the in
spiration which made long climbs a
/ 10y and days and nights alone in the
forests glorious expeditions in search
OF hidden treasures. II stretched out
I his years to 80.
Wandering along the beach below
! San Francisco on one OF his trips
he picked up a strange plant. II
puzzled him and he asked man
whom he met what 1t was. The
stranger told him in language that
| fascinated him. The man was JoHN
MUIR. and this meeting Was the be-
ginning % MriLss long friendship
with tho Sage os the Sierra.
hs they walked along the beach
/ Mcia was struck with the young
mans minute knowledge. Can you
systematize what you know Mum
asked. Can you write it2 Can you
tell anybody about it?" MnLs knew
he could not. Heyhad no education
and he had no idea OF how TO trans
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
Erie Canal Costs.
Profits Direct and Indirect OF the
Waterway to New York.

To TIE NEW YoRa HERALD: "Oid
Line Democrat writes about socialism
and ends up by attacking the canal pol
icy Of this state and the Erie Canal,
He asserts first that on the canal "a
ton Of freight costs about three times
more for carriage than by rail- Then
he says It is carried for 30 cents &
ton when It actually costs s2." Hle says
his computation included the cost OF
maintenance OF the ditch. the interest
on the debt created for It's construction
and the freight rates charged for the
actual business OF carriage by boats"
He says How. deep the sink hole Is
Providence alone can know" thereby
leading his readers to believe that in
building this canal the State has sunk
money which has never been received
back from il.
In 1883, when tho Erie Canal was
made free OF tolls and the State as
sumed the cost of maintenance. it had
contributed TO the State Treasury the
sum OF sl3.00o.ooo in exccss of its orig
inal cost, plus the cost OF maintenance.
plus the cost OF all improvements from
its construction in 1895 TO 1889. That
s43000.00o was a clear profit to the
State.
That sum OF s43.o0o,ooo is credited to
the Erie Canal ON accounts kept by the
state. Therefore all costs prior to 1883
are wiped out and cannot be computed
In the cost OF transportation on the
present canal. That is to say. IN 1888
the State had the Erie Canal absolutely
free of cost and 5000, 900 in addition.
That S43.o0o.oOo at ordinary savings
bank interest from 1883 down to the
present time would just about produce
sum equal to what the State has expended
upon the enlargement and terminals for
the canal since 1908. So that we have
a great waterway at this time which has
cost the State nothing.
"Old Limo Democrat" is a good cal
culator and perhaps can figure this out.
He may also calculate, although it would
be more difficult. how many billions Of
dollars In the value Of property in this
State were created because the Erie
Canal existed. More difficult still. he
might calculate how many billions of
dollars the business interests OF the State
have been able TO acquire just because
this canal existed and compelled busi-
ness to come to merchants and manu-
facturers within this State instead of
enriching other communities.
Perhaps he, can explain why New
Haven. Conn, exceeded New York In
population. In business and, industry be-
fore the Erie Canal was opened. but
then New York commenced to grow and
by gigantic strides has left all other
cities behind. If the Erie Canal is that
kind OF sink hole. let US hope that the
state will make more ike 1t. and let
US thank Providence and De Witt Clln-
ton for il. FRANK <. GARDNER,
Secretary New York Board OF Trade
and Transportation.
NEW YORK, December IS.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
To a YnunR Mother.

I saw you bend above the sleeping child.
Wistful and tender-sweet
AS mothering sky that leans 70 kiss tho
hills
Where earth and heaven meet.
There was whlte holiness upon your
brow.
And IN your face such peace
As sometimes fingers In tho hush that
falls
When chords OK music cease.
And 10 a sudden glory In your eyes,
A wonder born OF pain.
As when spring skies let down a silver
food
OF sunlight after rain.
I watched gray shadows tiptoe through
the room
And ciothe you where you stood
Then night came down to glimpse a
dream fulfilled
The kiss of motherhood
HELEN FnAzEr-Bovrr.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19

Mrs. Ordway Partridge on Drug Coud,-
tions In Our State. State committee meet
ing Womans Republican Club, West For
tleth street, 1850 a. NJ.
League for Political Education, Alfred w
Martin on The Victory Of OPTIMISM, Town
Han. IL A. M.
Ely Club. Miss Janet Richards on Topics
Of the Hour" Hotel Plaza, AS a. NJ
National Association Of Waste Material
Dealers. meeting. Hotel Astor. 10 a. NJ.
Floor Covering Association OF America,
luncheon. Hotel Commodore, 1880 p. NJ.
New York Theater Club luncheon. Hotel
Astor. p. N.
Thester Owners Chamber OF Coalrnerce,
luncheon. Hotel Astor. P. N.
Trade Association Secretaries, luncheon.
Hotel McAlpin, 1890 7. NJ.
National California Club. card party. WAL
dorf-Astoria, . p. ~.
Michigan Women in New York. meeting.
Wsldorf-Astoria. r. NJ.
Frances Fry Maternity Society, bri6 se
Hotel Pennsylvania. P. NJ.
wnman's Law Club. meeting. Hotel Me-
Alpin. T. NJ.
Coy rTsas Of !gnesots on C,1Ih ,Tho e. Law
Hotel Astor, r. NJ.
Park Community Council, open forum on
prohibition. Public school 81. East Eighty
seventh street between Park and Lexington
avenues, $3.50 r. NJ
womsu's Pro League Council, meeting,
home OF Mrs. Lewis L. pelsfield. 20 West
Flry-eighih street. s:iS r. NJ.
New York Entomoiogicsl Society. Howard
Notman on Notes on the Tribe osorirl,"
American Museum of Natural History, =
II. NJ.
Frateinai Association OF Musicians. con
cert Ethical Culture Society Building,
West Sixtyfourth street, $50 =. NJ.
Actors Fund OF America, forty-first an
nual benefit. Century Thester, S;l5 y. III.
New York Electrical Society, Engineering
Societies Bvilding. 20 West Thirty ninth
street, p. NJ.
Council on Foreign Relations. dinner.
Sherry's, Park avenue and Forty-nirtn
street. 80 p. NJ.
National Association OF Cost Accountant.
meeting. Machinery Club, SO Church street.
s y. NJ
New York cry Teacher, Association.
Society OF Colonial wars, meeting, WAL
dorf- Astoria, s y. NJ.
Braid Manufacturers of. 'hs United slater.
dinner, Hotel Astor, p. NJ.
New York Aetna Club. dance. Hotel Gem
modors. 80 y. ".
British Schools and Universities Club, din-
nes. Hotel Astor, p. NJ
Mozart Society. concert and dance. Hotel
Astor, r. 81.
sewanee Alumni Association, smoker. "Fsx-
perirnce In the Near East" Carl Bowdir.
81 Marks Club House, 23i East Eleventh
street. $3.50 L. NJ
Peoples Institute. Philharmonic Crchestra
concert. Cooper Union. p. NJ
BROOKLYN Institute OF Arts and Sciences.
lecture wild Life In the Blue Mountain
Forest" Ernest Harold Baynes, Academy OF
Music, S:I5 p. N.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19

to see in Mr.. FRoHMAy's project TO
give sorely needed help to the Actors
Fund what he calls the entering
wedge to dramatic performances on
Sunday nights in the future. Much
OF the activity Of the Lords Day
Alliance in the past has been d.
rected against enterprises under the
name OF charity or art suspected by
its officers TO cloak commercial de-
signs against the traditional Amer
lean Sunday.
There have long been numerous
agencies active in seeking TO make
possible Sunday night performances
in the theaters. Many theaters are
already occupied on Sundays with
vaudeville entertainments that bear
little more resemblance to concerts,
which the statute permits, than
do tho offerings in the motion pic
ture theaters. For years managers
have been looking longingly on the
crowds that, Aocklng to the cinemas
on Sunday nights, testify to the de-
sire For amusement on the first night
Cf tae week. The demand for such
entertainment has unquestionably
grown in twenty years.
Saturday night has always been
the most profitable night Of the week
for legitimate theaters. 1t Is a poor
entertainment which does not draw
capacity audience on Saturday
night. Theater managers declare
that with New York's rapidly in
creasing population with foreign
habits there has come into existence
an equally urgent demand for diver
sion on Sundays, and they hold that
genuine concerts, motion pictures
and vaudeville do not altogether take
the place OF the theater.
On the other hand, there are pow
erful and determined opponents OF
Sunday night theatrical perform
ances IN this city. They are. like
tho lords Day Alliance, prompt to
see in every projected opening of
playhouse on Sunday an effort to
bring about the commercial use OF
all theaters on that night.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
The Maine BIueberry Eeii.

From the Portland Herald Press.
when $4,000 worth OF biucberries can be
picked from ten mile strip OF barren land
AS was done IN Washington county this
year--it Is tmo TO sit up and take notice OF
this modest little berry. Washington county
blueberry belt was celebrated long before
tho civil war and Jefferson, Davis. when he
WAS Secretary OF War. visited the 'barrens -
as they are called and was enthusiastic over
the berries This section Is an elevated
tsbleland practically treeless. 10 Is COM
posed OF sand and gravel and Is an ideal
olueberry country In The middle Of the last
century THIS land was worth about 10 cents
IN acre but to-day q commands at least
$1,000 an acre. There are twelve factories
IN this area. bat at tlries the packers we're
actually obliged 70 refuse berries because
The New York herald., 1922-12-19

there was a typical Monday night au-
dience.
The Gov. and Mrs. Nathan L. Miller
were members of the brilliant audience
that attended the opening performance
OF tho sixth week at the Metropolitan.
They were guests in Box IA OF Mr.. and
Mrs Edward Dudley Kenna, whose
guests also included Mr. and Mrs. Finley
j. Shepard
Mrs Vanderbilt was present and with
her in Box 81 were Mr.. and Mrs. John
r. Drexei, Jr. and Mrs. Wortham James.
In Box 9 with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter e.
Maynard were Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss.
who Is In New York Z. few days from
Washington Miss Anne Morgan watched
the performance from the Morgan box,
No. So. In Box / with Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Goelet was Miss Lucrezia Bori
In Box II with Mr. and Mrs. Henry
White were Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Mrs.
George D. Widener and Messrs. Camp
bell w. Steward and Edmund l.. Baylies.
The party with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
II. Sheriff. In Box q included Mrs.
John r. Drexel. Miss Bell b. Gurnee
and Messrs. George Lediie, McDougall
Hawkes. and William Hude Nelson.
Mrs. William Watts Sherman's party
included Mr.. and Mrs. James Lowell
Putnam, Mrs. Newbold Morris and Mr..
William r. Eldridse.
The guests OF Mr.. Frank Munsey In
Box 12 included Col. and Mrs. Edward
NJ House, DR.. and Mrs. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler and Mrs. Chamberlain
Chanler
IN Mr.. Clarence IT. Mackays party
In Box SO were Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
r. OBrien. Mr.. and Mrs. Esnnond p
O'Bren and Mr.. William White.
Mr.. Austin E. Fletcher gave dinner
party In the Metropolitan Club and took
his guests to the opera. In Box So with
him were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Under
wood Johnson, Miss Annie Burr Jen-
nings, Miss Belle Skinner and Mr.. WILL
lam Skinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodhue Livingston
were with Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus l.. Pat
terson. Mr.. and Mrs. Beverley Bogert
were with Mrs. James =. Haggin.
Others present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles III. Marshall. Mrs. Egerton l..
Winthrop Mr.. and Mrs. Snowden Fab
nestock. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Mcneil
Bacon. Mrs. Peter Larson and Ma and
Mrs. Frank V. Storrs, whose party in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte, Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll l..
Wainwright and Mr.. +. Pizzella.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
By w. J. HENDERSON.

"Dle Walkuere" was repeated at the
Metropolitan Opera House last eve-
ming. 1t was the second performance
OF the work this season and Incl
dentally brought forward the second
SiegHnde, in Miss Elizabeth Retilberg.
This valuable young soprano had been
heard in two Italian roles OF widely
divergent types Add and Media.
She had not previously appeared In a
German part Her Sic0linde had sew
eral important merits, namely. youth,
pleasing appearance, understanding.
temperament and a fresh and warn,
quality Of tone. II all these had been
revealed in great br:lliance, hers would
have been a great Sie9llnde.
But Miss Rethberg fell just a little
short OF realizing the figure OF the
daughter of the mysterious stranger
who in the Morse legend drove the
sword into the Branstock. The abb
sence of the heroic element was
doubtless not felt by most of the audi
bility Of the impersonation absorbed
the attention. Miss Rethberg's voice
Is perhaps a triie light for the grand
Ndgnerian roles. and it sounded a
little tired just before the 'end OF the
act when she uttered the exultant cry
OF recognition OF Sisomund. But her
Sieottndc was very praiseWothy and
fitted well into the general scheme OF
the performance.
Mr.. Taucher's SieomunG does not
grow larger on acquaintance. 1t re-
mains comrnendable because OF It's in
telligence. It's clear delivery Of the text
and It's fervor. He was in good voice
last evening and his impersonation
went for its full value. Mime. Matte
nauer's Brnennhilde IS SO familiar that
it needs no comment. The same thing
might besaid Of Mr.. Whitehill's Wotan
but the sterling character of the
barytone's delineation OF the emotions
of worried one eyed god calls for re-
newed praise. So, too, does the brutal
and sinister Hundino OF Mr.. Bender, a
valuable addition indeed to the Wag-
merriam forces of the house.
There was choir OF vigorous
Valkyrs, who would have been called
forty years ago "the untuneful nine
But those days have fled. now that
we are learning to love the latest
French fashions In music. Mr.. Eo-
dansky conducted last evening. and
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
Labor That We Had Is Shut Out.

Commissioner of Immigration
HUSBAND makes good point in his
suggestion that special provision
should be made in the law for draw
ing needed labor from European re-
serve sources. This plan Of being
able to turn to the required labor
supplies abroad in times of necessity
would include "all needs Of States
for settlers or farm labor or what
ever activity is undermanned or
could be wisely extended" And any
such plan should also embrace some
provision for permitting the return
or good workers that left the coun-
try in the postwar depression.
The great fault OF the rigid re-
strictions OF the existing immigra-
tion act is that it takes no account
OF the fact that It excludes hundreds
OK thousands OF workers who previ-
ously lived in this country and were
found acceptable as workers and as
sojourners. They were needed then
and we had them. They are needed
now but we cannot have them.
When industry began to slacken
more than two years ago foreigners
thrown out OF employment went back
t. Europe by shiploads both to visit
their people and to escape American
living costs, which were insupport-
able for unemployed wage earners.
When they left the country they
created right then and there a
marked labor shortage as measured
against the normal requirements OF
the country. And when the new im-
migration act went into effect it
simply served to perpetuate that
shortage by keeping out those upon
whom the country had depended for
It's adequate labor supply.
In other words, il the exclusion
measure had not been enacted there
would have been at the turn of the
In this country until all those de-
ported foreigners had returned or
others had come in their places. While
the immigration act, therefore. did
not literally create the shortage,
since the foreign workers who al
ready had taken ship by the hun
dreds of thousands had themselves
created it, the immigration act. find
ing the country stripped of such
labor. did build up the exclusion
wall to keep this labor from coming
back no matter how desperately it
might be needed.
That was the situation which made
the rigid exclusion act piece OF
economic folly when It was put
through Congress. Now that the
country must have labor or get itself
iuto an Industrial deadlock where II
cannot go ahead, 10 continue that
rigid exclusion act would mean
economic suicide.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19

When the last OF the British
troops left the Irish Free State on
Sunday 1t marked the end OF an oc-
cupation that had lasted more than
seven and half centuries. From
ROBERT FITzsrEpHES, invading for
HENRY III. IN 1869, to General Sir
NEvIL MAcREADY, evacuating at the
order OF GEORGE V. in l922--what a
stretch of time and tragedy!
In all those centuries great gov
ornmental or dynastic changes
marked the outer world. but Ireland
remained as she was-an English
province, always in revolt, except,
perhaps, for her adherence to JAMES
II The Hapsburgs, the Hohenzol-
lcrns and the Romanotfs rose and fell.
The Manchu succeeded the Mongol
and in turn was deposed. Even
England saw within herself the pass
ing Of Plantagenets and Tudors and
Stuarts. But Ireland stayed un-
changed, with Hope on the throne OF
her heart and the English soldiers
in the streets Of her towns.
The farewell given TO the troops
by Dublin was a gesture OF friend
ship, a sign OF the new and better
feeling that must exist between Ire
land and England. For that matter,
it was never the English that the
Irish hated, but the British Govern
mont. 1t was never the soldiers they
hated. but what they represented.
Now Ireland has her own Govern
ment and her own troops. CROMWELL
is dead, TIM HEALY liveth.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
A Song Of Love.

Love wandered by the sad sea waves"
Love lit dungeon celi";
Love struggled where the myrtle paves
A hidden bos,xy dell;
without q srudder or a fear,
Love faced the Icy blast
I always thought 1t very queer
Love got around so fast!
Love grieved beside the fountain in
A garden green and old;
Love wrestled with aNdeadly Gin"
Love few across the wold",
Not even movie heroes are
Through all the dangers OF
Their risks on plane or cliff or car
More overworked than Love
Charlotte BECKER.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19
A Case of rellasra in New York cuy.
From the Weekly Bulletin Of the Depart
f11ent Of Hrclkh-

From the Weekly Bulletin Of the Depart
rent Of Hcclth.
The following is = brief report OF an tn
teresting case seen by the acting chief cias-
nostician OF the Bureau OF Preventable Dis
eases at Bellevue Hospital.
r. n, ~ years, had been IN Ward AZ for
some weeks suffering from pe.isgra. This
man Is a native OF New York and has not
heen out Of the city "a recent years. He
states that about six months ago friend
of whom he was very fond left the city AID
that no grieved a great deal over the cir
cunlstance. He ate irreeuiary and lived
principally on cake. bread and crackers.
About three months ago he noticed an
eruption on the back OF both. hands, his
mouth became sore. he developed q dlar-
rhsa and became much depressed mentally.
On his admission 90 the hospital several
weeks ago he was IN very bad shape and
showed marked dermatius on the backs
OF his hands evenly distributed, an excessive
eisrrhss, severe slostitis ana- marked men
tai depression.
lie now shows considerable improvement.
The New York herald., 1922-12-19

on Greenwich street that had all the
accommodations and privacy OF a ,pri-
vate house on each floor. OF course the
vast apartment houses that We're built
around Central Park in the '70s were
intended for people OF means who
wished to escape the petty annoyances
OF furnace and cooking and yet not be
In hotels. They were a much later
thought of advanced builders.
have seen this town grow practi-
cslly from Twenty-third street north In
MY lifetime and have gone with it a
trifie. but the days spent III the old
Ninth ward are still vivid in my mem
ory. NJ. r. SAVAGE.
NEW YORK, December is.