Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 11, 1923, Page 2

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Fail- ing that I shall have to go over it as best I can. Well, get out your maps. The Island of Manhatten, as history tells us, and history isn’t ail bunk as Ford says was bought from the Indians for a string of wampun and a jug of whiskey and that wasn’t any too much for it as it is about a mile wide on the average and some eight or nine miles long. By the way if I don’t get things just exactly right don’t mind that. Why be too particular? Got your maps? All right! Now go the Chronicle office and take a look at the large air photos I sent the honor- able editor, and then we'll be off. You will admit that you could tell more about Cottonwood Butte from a good picture than you could tell from a book that even such a writer as I had writ- ten about it. Now, Manhatten, for that is what is meant when we speak about New York, there are four other sections or boroughs of the Greater City, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmona (which is Staten Island) is lon#- er than it is wide and Broadway is its backbone so far as it has any. Anyhow as a whole the line of big buildings which have been responsible for no less than 849 billions of post cards alone, these are the latest figures, fol- lows Broadway pretty closely. I mention Broadway here be- cause that is such a distinctive feature of the town. Otherwise. I really got it into the story too early as I meant to write that as we take a birdseye view of Man- hatten we find that the extreme lower tip has the bulk of the big buildings or skyscrapers as they are sometimes called. That name skyscrapers is all a mistake of course but we'll have to admit that they do stick up some. I’m not sure now but I believe the tallest is the Woolworth building and that runs up to a height, be- lieve it or not, of 791 feet. Now don’t anybody laugh. I know that that wouldn’t look so big if it were stuck down in Rocky canyon and it wouldn’t overtop the Butte either but measuring right from the ground up, well, if that thing were in Cottonwood you could see it from Grange- ville. Not only that but if it were all filled up with good loyal Cottonwood people, but I don’t want to make the Grangeville folks feel sick. They’re nervous enough now, what with those weekly reports of Drs. Orr and Shinnick, But to get back to the lower end of Manhatten: The first thing one finds down there is an open space of about an acre or so called the Battery. It seems likely that they must have had some guns down there some time. Then , just as abruptly as that, the big buildings and Broadway begin. I really can’t tell so much about them. There are so many of them that one wonders how they ever get filled up with people through the day but they get filled all right. Tite busiest antheap you ever saw had nothing on us here when it comes to swarming. Wall street the place the farmers aren’t very fond of is down there and in fact, that is the office section of the city. It is not all big buildings there yet as one finds old places that wouldn’t be a credit to any place right close to some of the finest, newest buildings popul- ated by people who haven’t been in this country very long. At least they look that way. But more new building is going on all the time and apparently it will not be so long until all the space down there for the first half of threequarters of a mile from the Battery up will be covered with these modern fireproof struct- ures. The waterfront of course is given over to slips or piers for the ships. The size of New York is due to its tremendous harbor. It is said to be the finest in the world, with something like 900 miles of coast line pro- tected from the sea where the water is deep enough for the largest ships to be docked. I read that 900 mile figure some- where but can’t vouch for it. That probably would take in both banks of the Hudson river as far up as Albany and perh>ys the Jersey coast to Sandy Hook. But there is plenty of harbor | here no doubt about that and if it were not for the magnificent harbor the Indians would have been paid quite a plenty, especi- ally if that was good whiskey. At that tho it is not the harbor elone which makes . |eity. It is the harbor plus the water level rovte via Albany and along the Great Lakes that is responsible. If it were not for the water level route it is almost certain that Philadelphia or Baltimore would now be the larger city as those places have good harbors too. But to be on with our descrip- tion of the city as is. Well, when you get away from that lower section, all the time heading north or uptown, understand, things kind of let up. Broadway is still the backbone but Broad- way here is lined mostly with buildings given over to making ress goods and other things on the upper floors and selling them to the wholesale trade on the lower floors with cheap apart- ment houses scattered all along on the side streets. If you were here and I were showing you the town I’d take you through this section without wasting much time on it. It is all heavily built up with five and six story buildings and some a good deal higher than that and there is a tremendous lot of business} going on but that ain’t one of our show places, no sir, it ain’t. It is all well enough but we’ve got better as we'll see in a minute. That is, if the editor doesn’t chop off right here for a week we will. I find tho that I much cut back a little and put in some more history. I always did have trouble in keeping my history and geography properly seperat- ed and its too late to try to do it now. Well, in the time of the earliest settlement people per- haps dreamed of the day when New Amsterdam, as the place was called then, might be a real town such as Cottonwood is now but they had no idea it would ever get so big that the streets would have to be numbered so that people might have some no- tion of where they were or how to get around. So they just gave the streets names such as Wall street, Church street and soon. That is why when you look at a map of New York you find that the first twenty or thirty steets are not numbered but have names while first street is a couple of miles up- town. It is really too bad that they couldn’t have had the vi- sion of some of the western men who went out upon the plains and with nothing more than an extra large buffalo wallow to rally around grandly drew plans for a city that would run for miles and miles in each direc- tion, miles where now, by the way nothing is to be found but a few farmers who are dissatis- fied with the price of wheat. Here, even in 1830 when the city fathers made plans for a city of a couple of hundred thousand they apologized for taking in land that it didn’t seem likely would ever be really built up but in view of the way the town had been growing no one could tell how much might be needed some day. That is why too, there are too few up and down streets and too many cross wise. in the early days nearly all the busi- ness was along the waterfront and the haulage across town from the piers to the center and from pier to pier or river to river, -and it seemed likely always to be so. It was taken for granted. It is even claimed that when they drew this plan of the upper city they drew a rough outline map and then laid a plasterer’s sieve crosswise of that and put in one crosstown street for each wire. Now all that is changed and we know that if they had just gotten the sieve laid the other way all would have been well for the bulk of the traffic is now up and down. As Bret Harte had it in his parody. “The saddest words of tongue or pen are not at all ‘It might have been.’ More sad by far are these we see, ‘It is but hadn’t ought to be.” It is a fact. When, then, you read about the terrific traffic problems you may know that to a great extent they are due not so much to too much traffic but to the fact that there only about one half as4 many streets yunning the length of the town as there should be. To be specific about this the distance from, say, 51st street to 52nd, center of street to center is 96 steps and I find that to be the general average, while the distance from 5th to 6th avenue is 880 steps. No wonder some 42,000 vehicles pass at the cor- ner of 42nd street and 5th avenue every day! But before we condemn the early fathers too hard for their shortsightedness let us remember that until the Mississippi valley began to be settled there was no reason for supposing that New York would YOU WILL KNOW MORE DUCTS IF YOU V how they are made, give y service is a pleasure. While w Seeger’ Seteetentee ve and C Spdotonteateeteegeatonteaten oateegestonterteatoate deeds ? Tru-Blu Demonstration Comings Monday and Tuesday On those days a demonstrator for the Tru products will be in our store to tell you crackers, cookies, candies and etc. by your taste the par excellence of this goods. 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NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE, Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of sale, made and entered by the Probate Court of the County of Idaho, State of Idaho, on February 10, 1922, in the matter of the estate of Mary Forsman, deceased, the undersigned administrator of said estate will sell at private sale, subject to confirmation by said Probate Court, the follow- ing described real property, be- longing to said estate, to-wit: A tract of land situated in Idaho county, State of Idaho and bounded as follows: Beginning at a point 5 chains west of the center of Section Two, Twp. 31 N. R. 1 W. B. M, and running thence West 15 chains; thence south 20 chains; thence east 6.54 chains; thence north 13 chains; thence east 8.46 chains; thence north 7 chains to the place of beginning, containing 19 acres and being a portion of the NE14 SW1, Sec. | 2 Twp. 31 N. R. 1 W. B. M. _ Also an undivided one half! interest in and to Lots 3 and 4 | |R. 1 W. B. M. and an undivided one half interest in and to the | S4 of the SW of Sec. 35, Twp. ;82 N. R. 1 W. B. M. All in Idaho County, State of Idaho. This sale will be made on or after the 26th day of May, 1923, and bids will be received at the residence of the undersigned 3 miles Northeast of Cottonwood Idaho, or at the office of H. Taylor, Bank of Camas Prairie | building, Grangeville, Idaho up | to 12 o’clock M. of said day. Terms of sale will be cash on | confirmation of sale by Probate | Court; Ten per cent of amount |bid must accompany each and | every bid. Right reserved to reject any all bids. Dated May 4th, 1928. S. E. Trautman, Administra- | tor of the estate of Mary Fors- man, Deceased. 21-3 NOTICE OF ANNUAL STOCK- HOLDERS MEETING FARM- ERS UNION WAREHOUSE COMPANY, LTD. Notice is hereby given that the annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Union Ware- house Co., Ltd., will be held on | Saturday, June 9, 1928 in the /I. 0. O. F. hall Cottonwood, Ida- ho at 1 o’clock p.m. For the purpose of electing two directors for three years, and for such other business as may properly come before it. pate this 6th day of May, | lor ray oO the |sometime be the largest city of of said Section Two, Twp. $1 N./ 19-6 AUGUST SCHROEDER, Secretary.