New Britain herald., 1926-10-15
NIGHT LIFE NOT
 ALL ONE OF JAZZ
Chicago Has Thousands Who
 Work Hard
(By The Associated Press)

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 To many persons Night life" in large city means music, dancing, theaters and cabarets.
 There is another kind of night life, however, night life of honest toll and endeavor by hundreds of per sons who pursue occupations under artificial light while most Of the world Is sleeping.
 To one familiar with the tremen- dous hustle and hustle of Chlcago's loop in the daylight hours, the same area at three o'clock in the morning seems strangely still and deserted. But after his mind and eyes become accustomed to this strangeness he becomes aware that considerable &C., tjvity is in progress and that the streets are not so deserted as he imagined from a first impression.
 Look into the owl drugstore on prominent corner. The fountain at- tendant Is mixing drinks for two or three later customers. The drug clerk is selling a box of face powder to q woman, probably an actress on her way to a hotel from the Ram dolph street rialto. The cigar clerk is fumbling for cigarettes. Outside . newsboy is taking newspapers from a wagon which has just clat- tered up to the curb.
 Acros. the street an attendant at an all night cab stand is calling vehicle for patron. Six or seven all night restaurants in the white light block have a scattering of diner.,-actors and actresses, news papermen and other late workers Motor cars line the curb. Motor trucks with bread and rolls and pies and other supplies are moving in and out of the restaurant district Other cars are carting away the refuse of the previous day.
 On a street corner a large force Of workmen Is busy putting new ballast under street car tracks. Night watchmen at nearby theaters watch the operations from sidewalk chairs. A half dozen men move along the street with lanterns. They engage In some mysterious measure ments and make chalk marks on the pavement What they are doing, however, nobody knows.
 Charwomen, their tasks In the huge office buildings completed, wait at the corners for street cars.
 Move down into the all night movie district on Madison street. Patrons actually are entering these cinemas; they are in operation 24 hours. For 30 cents you can go in and look at a picture or sleep. Many find 1t cheap lodging for the night.
 Presently the ice wagons appear and hardy workers deposit huge slabs in loop doorways. Then the milkmen.
 Threats of a fistic encounter that wasn't on the cards came thunder ing into Chicago via wire and then the radio during the hectic scenes enacted shortly before the close of the broadcast of the Tunney- Demp- sey scrap. Sharp and clear could be heard this protest of one ringside ocupant: If you don't get off my neck, I'll bust you in the eye"
 Some surprising evidence of par tiality for accurate Byzantine archi- lecture is showing itself in Chicago. Apparently, though. anything By zantine here must be four-square, pure to the core, and also Chicago esque.
 How this unusual result is achiev- ed Is illustrated by the new church of St. Basil. Garfield Boulevard and Honore street, structure with a broad Byzantine dome and especial ly an aspiring graceful minaret. Lesser domes and half and quarter domes. together with many monolith pillars in granite and marble, still further accentuate the style. Exquis- ite polychrome mosaic and mosaic windows contribute likewise to make St. Basirs one of the most unique churches in the country, but particularly so regarding the nina ret.
 The great original and classic ex- ample Of Byzantine architecture is the world-famous church of St. Sophia in Constan- tinople, ancient Byzantium With the exception of St Basil's church. Chicago, however, no church in America built on Byzan- tine lines has a minaret such as ap- pears in all present-day paintings and engravings of St. sophia's.
 The Chicago minaret is in reality the church smokestack. Neverthe- less, the architectural effect as seen from an advantageous point, is strikingly similar 10 the best cur rent representations Of St. Sophia's church in Coastantinople.
 Private shaving booths have been opened in Chicago's Loop district. They are offered for use for a fee of fifteen Cpnts Hot water .ouale