Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 22, 1918, Page 3

g A FRIDAY." MARCH 22 1918 NANY CITIES "\ START Z0NING Are Following the Lead of New York in Attempt to Save Highclass Sections. The zoning and building heights re- strictions, which when they were put into operation more than a year ago -engendered so much opposition from <certain Interests, are now considered a great step in city planning, a wonder- ful means of safeguarding sections from detrimental influences affecting the character of sections, which .in #arn produce loss in many directions, ‘particularly fee value. Outsiders have watclied the working of the restric- tions and are convinced that they are worthy of acceptance. More than a half’ dozen large cities of the country are now preparing restrictions based -on those of New- York. This was dis- «closed at the meetings in New York nf‘ the American City Planning Insti tute, which had for its special purpose a closer study-of the restriction. Zon- ing commissioners and city planners to the number of 100 attended the meeting. They came from Philadel- phia, Newark, St. Louis and other cities where zoning commissions have already been appointed to subdivide thelr cities into residential, trade and manufacturing zones. HUMORIST HAD LAST LAUGH How Mark Twain Turned Joke on Vi- enna Authoritics Will Be New Story to Many. The letters of Mark Twain record but little concerning the years he spent in the Austrian capital, the Christian Science Monitor observes. The humorist did some special writing for ' American papers during those “Wanderjahre.” Indeed, the Vienna Jjournalists took him to their hearts as a colleague of a particularly genial type and often invited him to a friendly “spread,” at which the guests were members of the Austrian fourth e e e o AT Ty A THY BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEEP il estate. The story of how he got into, trouble with the authorities, through the indiscretions of a Vienna journal- ist, has probably never been published. As the tale goes, a certain reporter, either in a facetious or a vindictive moment, gave out that Mark Twain had been seen suspiciously loitering about the bridge which spans the Danube canal near the Ring strasse, and not far from the Hotel Metropole, at which the Clemenses lived. Mark could not let this reflection upon his character go unchallenged. He hastened to ex- plain—to apologize, in fact, for having given the authorities the slightest anxiety about him. The explanation was thoroughly Twainlike. He had found by the bridge the longest German word he had ever seen and, in order to compre- hend it in all its longitude and lati- tude, he had pinned one end of it to the bridge with the idea of unfolding it! Bearing his precious burden with him, he came to the opposite end of the bridge, only, alas, to find that he still had yards to spare! The apology was accepted with many a broad grin. 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