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is NG ro) ar o oi * ag Left raft Rell of Secret ' Autopsy Suspended from Church Beam. | WHST MINOT. Me. March 21.—Cor ters repairing the belfry of the “New id West Minot’? Church wore startled finding hanging to a beam in the bel- tower the skeleton of a human leg, t Yast one of the oldest members of congregation was discovered in Me- @hanic Falls who knew the history of the strange discovery. Back in the 40's, when many grqves being pobbed for the benefit of the @ man living in Mechanic great dread of being dis- is had from the quietude of the grave. ring a fatal iliness he told a friend | fhe could die in peace if he was sure his grave would not be disturbed, and ex- acted a promise from the friend to watch his grave a certain number of bights after he was buried. Phe first night passed without any fncident. But the second night the man heard picious nolses, He shivered. hhis courage failed and he fed. ‘The next day he mustered up courage went to tue grave, which he found fhad been robbed of the body, It was a6 learned that the body had been trans- ferred ko the neighboring town of West Biinot and hidden under the church. Kn a few days the doctors in all the Reighboring villages were Invited to at- tend the autopsy. The only evidenee semaining of the | episode was one leg of the victim which, | Riripped of jjte flex, was suspendad from a cord to a beam in the Tower of the ola chu wold timers knew tt w: the Courage to tak SIlG,503 THEFT WORRIED POLICE *Twas All Off, Though, When! Perspiring Man Said He Mislaid It. it down, “Are you the police sergeant?” A man, with beads of perspiration ; @tanding on his face, was before the desk at the West One Hundred and fwenty-fifth street police station. The @ergeant had not time to answer before the man continued and as he gained Mis tongue his perspiration became More profuse. It rolled down to his collar and into bis eyes until he was MRearly blinded. “I have been robbed,” he ejaculated. “I have been robbed of a great for- tune. I am Francis Scallion, of No. 9010 Seventh avenue. I am a real estate dealer, I was on an elevated train when I was robbed of my wallet. It wontalned a ilfe insurance policy for 100,000, a certified check for $9,500, a | check for $203 and a $7,000 bond." "Phe police got busy. Every man in the station-house no: on patrol duty fas sent out to find Mr, Scailion’s for- tune. They were sll ‘out when this Message came over the telephone to “the excited sergeant: “elelio! 1 have only to eay that 1 we found my wallet I left it at home. No one has robbed me.” Then the police called In their brother officers and the robbery of a fortune was explained. _— sa COLLEGE THIEF SENTENCED Rapp Goes to Prison for Robbing Harvard Studestts, CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March %4— ®uclus Rapp, aliss Lambert, who ts wanted at New Hayen, Conn,, for al- leged larceny from Yale students, and hy the police of Chicago, has been sentenced to State prison to from thres to five years for stealing from Harvard students and for owaining from them under false provens The sen- tence was imposed by Judze Lawton In the Superior Oourt for Middlesex County. ‘The police say that Rapp has taken g00ds from Harvard dormitories to the value of se i ra that his larceni as extensive ax t the police, Ru ceny while a stu of Chicago. He wis x: for a year, but escaped —___— Schoolgirl Railroad Heroine. ANDERSON, Ind, March 2.—Miss Blabel Reeves was about to eross the wallroad tracks on her way. to school qwhen she saw a little girl trying to ex- Mricate her foot from e@ frog, while a | passenger train was bearing lown upon | e child vegan to scream and i , but could not free| ves drew a penknife jdrom her pocket, slit the chiid's shoe band jerked her 4: from the track (dust In dme to (2 (ie Peeping beneath the window shade of a New York City home, Inquisitive Dick, the daring de- tectlve, saw a man Hy stowing bags of a money away in private vault, Sv pecting “crime Dick drew his tru ty revoly tered. magi chagrin when learned that Wiseman was merely laying away the of a Sunday World Want Real ite transaction, IEE WHAT YOU CAN SE PAOW SUNDAY. . ¥ jonward march of business destroys their |lation until congestion is apparent on Now Yorkers have started « far-reach- {ng transformation in thelr manner of } living, | He ne Itfe, as It was were im the o!4 old Sone te becoming extinct. Tf he cllnge | to former home centres he must live in ‘big hotels, for private houses and even | flats are disappearing from his familiar haunt | oH es of @ few decades ago are p to be found {n central Manhattan. The | | few private dwellings that remain are | in districts far away from old residen- tial centres, In the fashionable districts | private houses are for the rich only. ‘The cost of land has risen too high for | families in ordinary circumstances to| s nave & home of thelr own. In mictdle lolass districts, where private houses {might be looked for, a large part of the |dwellingw are used for boarding-houses, | Decause thetr cost has gone ao high that the owners must make them yield an {n- come on the large investment of money | which they represent. On the edge of the stil fashionable dwelling districts private houses of a cheap class are bought by the overflow from the neigh- doring high-class district and altered into a better type to conform with the more costly neighboring dwellings. In thig way the high-class dwelling dis- tricts are expanding and carrying their higher values with them until they meet | with some tnsunnountable barrier to fur- ther progress, Thus they remain until the residential utility in the higher values which trade cam pay for the land Trade Crowds the Masses. Similar movements are under way in all the high-class dwelling districts South of Fifty-ninth street cearly the entire territory has been ingulfed in business, The few exceptions are dis- tricts in which old mansion owners have been strong enough finenctally to take @ firm stand against the cohorts of trade. In flatshouse districts, both on the extreme east and west sides and in Harlem, the continual presssure from the centre of Manhattan, due to ex- panding trade, has piled up the popu- all sides, It ls @ congestion of the| masses. The increasing population in those cheaper fiat-house centres !s 'made up of persons who work for a@ scanty Uving—who spend all, or nearly all, of thelr weekly wages for the necessities of Uving. Cost of Living Extortionate. The massing in those flat-house dis- tricts has grown denser during the past few years. Rents have gone higher. The cost of ordinary living necessities has risen to a maximum. Wages have stood still. The last straw has been placed on the back of the fiat-house rent payer. Rather than risk the new burdens which ought to be expected in the never-ending series of petty Hving ex- tortions, he ls throwing down the Joad on all sides and rushing away from Manhattan with its always-Increasing charges for the Wage-earner, Seek Relief in Suburbs. The Fush is to tne suburbs, The wal. yatiua of the humbie he of family is the network of Fapid-tranaic subways, wulph promise him cheap land and lower living costs on the outer euge of the restiess, expanding metrop- oli This movement quietly for the past few showing marked aoceleration with the rapid ‘growth of populatiya. | From ai {ntiications it will reach immense piv portions during the coming eer: Care- ful students of the evolution say will continue to stor eect each year until after ali the east and | west subways shall have been cotopi- led 0 etill later north and soutn prot othe shall have begun to carry thelr fir assengeres ns far as Mount Ver- “on nen and Now Yorker's transforma- tion an manner of living {8 thus chang- ing his former elegant home life, with Ai [ts exclusive ‘elsure, into the rush Sf hotels, the crush of’ flat houses or the airy quiet of a suburban dwellin whither he must be whirled thr the subways at express-t stropolis 1s in the first stages | Pe ne transformation now, It is one of thse formative perbsde which mark in old Father Knickerbocker's Evolution Opens Big Problems. The evolution opens great new prob- ms. First and foremost there are \dertul rises in land values to uiecwend the | utilities, ‘These nee ng fortunes ty the w' Cia eS tere who buy land in. tim throughout the zones of transforming jevelopr.ent. ‘Then come new finauctal jroblems,; new constructional prob- fi involving milltons of — outsid New York has entered one «f 7 great transformation periods while Some in cycles. It is the Hood which leads on to fortune in the lives of hun- dreds. The cycles ocour in the great city’ growth, in obedience to natural lawa. First, there ig a sudden rush outward from’ old centres, due to the arrivel of an opportune time when new transit taollities, plenty of money and Incrégee bualness unite to urge the e into a wider area of activity a reasonable emount of susunbin | as been pressed into service and land values have doen hi along to a height which discounta the tarusn of new population, the movement halts for a few yours until the outiving districts shall have been {mproved | thus explalted 5 a and 1 tenet not qbgtore the Increasing | on, | transit | hemes: re the new conditions. “There is anotie sh out- ward for more che train of real-estate veloped on a larger tent runs Its course until the resting ps ied There palt again unit tit Aerts p land. A similar henomens are da- onward 7 re Swallows Smali Vitlag: Ss. It lias been the same story, overing a since the firs ee Bowling Green and considered | the evolution js based p: population, 1 grows lore populat: ows 4,000,000 polation of ne greater olty to-day tt hes assu: tre: mendova proportion, ne nes the future hag in store cannot be foretold by the tring imagination. The Old New Yorkor bas ov rag swall ed. the ones! hes oui ever | across the North Rt | lath tne ey Would Se cou Mul i north of Wall street a wil- | THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1908. INEW YORK DRIVEN TO COUNTRY FOR HOMES Harlem, Washington Heights; Bronx with irresistiu East River to Brod n and Q into the » force; actoss the eens; into New Jersey. | Electric Traction Era Now. The recent rush into Harlem an | Bronx, as well es | re ie parts of Long Jersey, came as a feature of the el traction era. There had been a first nd the Lee rush to Harlem When the olevated roads were bulit, ere nad beer ed in lowor Manhattan when the| reet system Wa Out im 1%, with Fas and water on came a| €ycle whieh bi cars in place Another turn od roads. ally the gaps lett 8 of transporta: agit Subway, wy punarily of all Huxely 6 Oway leis baer, 2 in chuder mean Tha mpd by Rene ual tis a promnt result of the first subway. € of ‘population older, fe oul Subway New Avenue of Escape. No prophet bo toll what mieht have habpensd to Tho cone on" in "Maphatan Uh raid | gansti eh emer eA BN cen i one cag see tod Sh alaefeta By very | mu means of new Ugrlem an ed & oon: a Sen bras ler ce nd th cost of Livi aulekly established a situ: tion for relief. New sub. ae » belzed eagerly as une Pans oO: ram new p on sigiera! ew pomilation reneats {tsolf. and the in wealth and numbers nad ae rilons, It becomes more estate 4 ma- evervthing gone to mproye hunt ‘react with count benefit on its suburbs. It 13 plain to larwe real Interests that the suburbs, at no distant tme. must contain noni for th jority of the sraater city Decgrise the comfortable. resident Daditv oi inattan has neariv Manhattan WIil Be Homeless. The constant vressure, of expandt: business promises to reduse this re: dential canaeily an bp Although the net rate year, Inclucn Bilt 0 sult of the business exnans!, Such a theoretical neriod would pany voars in the future that the prolls oatill supa tmenis ie almost a negligible quantity, ould be stuted broadly that People made their homes rbs and anhattan, population has mul G7, tmes since 1800, when 4 doubled ‘itself 7 slaoe 1790, when It wee! si, geetteled/ Works for Suburbs, mh disappearas @ be 30 Donu- the miMtonse® remained in zon 1a | aan in the | carried on thelr business | itiplied | it was times early overy week some new public | project illustrates theory that ever; big imp) the central tricts nm situation. During t week caine the plan 13) re < ciewell 8s Island a public To tike the place of penl- F ary taere will be built on d biggest penitentiary ‘Che Sinking Funa “has tbe Plan, which wee cnmissloner’ Lantry. 1 of the Mayor and tthe W peniten The eity nos: Riker’ s in the Commission Stas the Board $a to al and the bre to be removed from ey and tle win island will be devote, 1 park p The work- se is to be on Whees 1 Island, near joys’ reformatory. © penal institutions as new Blackwell's nail ‘Phe intention 1s nearly park wiil be under the Island lg to become one of the anieries for Queens ms, it must become very important in relation to suburbun de- velopment In that section Che bridge itself w finished in It ia to be the lurgest ocantlever enty-third and where St will ing ight s dha Sullwel avenue to VGoney, qi Far-Off Lots Find Good Market. ent wal estate transactions form y 1 even 4n the mor hon «Like transient quarters, suburbs, no better real vst Weak by which a jang in Mamhattan an ht a tr L. 1 Tt mes in @ dls~ vtry—While thelr town homes strate this growing trend bo- estate could be studied than that dicate Brook- Bt Of 8 G00 ecroa a oy are preparing to forty pretty houses. And coe ies to the best orm= trana- the better for u~ ban lota and own by transactions highly ‘improved Manhattan pr operty was sold to Investors who gave suburban land in part payment. @ MOST conspicuous ‘ave in exc! was te fe of the tweive- hance Acreage at Amityvillo and Babylon, : in the Rronx, J.B. MelKeon © Bros, veld une new fate, Nos. 806 and $8 Jackson avenue, taking i part ment acreage at Port Jefferson, ye Bronx the Object Lessons, Tt ts, ew 2s at in y a waich the Bronx was deonde ng, ‘ot tie 4 na year after the new rapid 1 been proven an unqualitied the engt and west suburbs, ho | theng must be half a decade m | Tising prices before the situation ons baste existed in year, the Bronx during irons of Bronx Growth, ain that the Long Island and suburbs affected by and west rapid tranait projects are sing through @ altuation similar to new placed ‘The wonderful | Bronx during the 3 forecasts what may be 9 to happen on @ Iargor fa the suburban zones of east and | recent nibway longer transit access. waver, ore of can be of realization such ae has the past in the Bronx during the year 1 a reacts eee o Sie te Sate a ei.tik “Sow th” pine for pew pe ed or | 068, 200, | the Stirs: | during |“Deleacy of Touch” Wort! to | Det FEE PEPTET With the Usurpation of Old Residential Districts by Business and the Electrification of Traction Lines, the Beautiful Suburban Towns Are Calling the Crowded-Out Families, Se¥rewate was $6,708,000, with $8,545 tor | Stancate Bae. 1904 jumped to $23,- Then the | total completion of on the aggrenate rose to fa5318, 500 and the | ave ee ise $16,805. foundation for the great iding capital into the Bronx the period of discounting. the rapid transit eubwny the | populating in- creased fron M6, and to en Polloe cansus In’ January, 1906. Leads U. &. Cities in Gain. The ercentage of gain fram 1590 1%.5; that from 1960 to 19 Yearly average from 1900 to 1905 wes an Increase in population of 7-1 per cent, or 71 in a thousand. nis, & pared with the yearly inorease of for the entire greater city, owe ht the euburban drift affected the Bronx as a result of the first rapid transit ubway. The percentage of pop Natt crease In the Bronx s r than that im any other city of The United Sta In the mean time, to demonstrate that Bronx land values advanced in propor- tion to the general expansion, the total real esate Values rose from 119 tn 1900 to $337,881,608 tm 1905 $45,548,727 im 1906. Expanding Zone of City Flats. As further evidence that the original suburban development of the Bronx had been changed into a cosmopolitan |olty development by the new rapid transit, the plans filed for new but ings reveal 69 brick flat house projec for At a cost of $27,708,000, while only 444 projects had been undertaken in at a cost of $14,711,700. brick five-story were oomparatively unknown in most parts of the Bronx a decade ago. The flats built in 1995 contain homes for| 69,009 persons, while those dullt in 1904 | houseq 44,400, City flats ‘thus spreading Bronx remove a large. part oF that country fram the gone avaliable for pri- flat-house limits, in districts now farm jands, which are to be pierced soon by rapté-transit subways, New Yorkers are seeking sites for their family homes, a Assertin# that by reason Injuries she sustained to her hands when she fell into an open six-foot trengh at Newtown and Flushing ave- tues, Brooklyn. she hea since been un- able'to make ples or other pastry quiring ‘delicacy of touch, Kerns, a young woman employed as a kin Astoria, has begun a “suit. in Supreme Court for the recovery of fomptroiler Metz has | aseigned experts to determine whether | |the young women has a valld cause of action against the city. of the ere Mina Gonld Gives School a Piano. MIDDLETOWN, N. af March 24.— another act jerosity, Miss Gould has endeared ‘herself children of Roxbury, are County. Miss Gould, whose summer home is at Kirkside, near Kox- bury, learning that a plano would be acceptable, ordered one of the finest instruments she could procure sent to with her compliment A DIFFERENCE the sehool, « PENSYLUAN RAILROAD. vate dwellings. Far outside the present | is where the old} $2508 | CAP! REAL ESTATE. REAL ESTATE. The Theatre of Activity. Lene ISLAND is attracting investors, speculators and operators to an extent never equalled in the history of real estate developments. The door of opportunity is open to every one to double and treble hts money within the next 12 months by making judicious investments in well- located property before the Spring advance in prices will be made. Reward A reward of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars will be pald for the arrest and conviction of any Junk deter or other persen |] guilty, under the provisions of Section 550 of the Penal Oode of the State of New et of criminally recelving any erty belonging to this Canimane MEW YORK TELEPHONE GO. 15 Day St., New York JOHN H. CAHILL, May 1, 1002, Od Vice-President The comprehensive scheme of the Long Island Rallroad for electrically equipping its system has created a new order of things on the island. The $100,000,000 which is being expended by the Pennsylvania R. R., the Belmont Traction System, and the City of New York on Tunnels and Bridges will revolutionize things generally on Long Island, and result in an increase in land values to figures that can only be guessed at now. an RAL LROA he Every dollar spent in these gigantic developments means an advance in the value of the property we have improved at BLAMUNS She AN! vishosses AND tathe SaMiae ie from Desbrossea and vot ocr 9 atar fiven below for THe tre | °7.55 A. MACH OS Ae nelinati 710.65 A. M—THE PENNS YLVANIA LOM iiss ar Bkag? 2 QeUTs 0 Cotcago. “8,55 P. M.—PENNGYLVANIA SPEOLAL— $498 B M—cincago fatiris, 3333 £ A SNESTERN ExPrnds 13. CINCINNATI On completion of the Pennsylvania RR. Tunnel this famous town of flowers will be but 20 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY. Floral Park is right in the centre of Long Island's real estate activity. It fs less than 15 miles from Herald Square on the main line of the Long Island R. R. On this line electric trains are now being operated from the Flatbush Avenue Station in Brooklyn. To tell you what a delightful town it is seems superfluous, because it has been known for 25 years as bea (Pasir) ~CUBVELAND DeAND CENCIN SP and Be oN ae and Florida “New Yi site nak oh! THE GARDEN SPOT OF LONG ISLAND. ‘SRN RAJLWaY— The town enjoys every advantage and convenience for all-the-year-round residential purposes. It has all city improvements, several good hotels, and a number of excellent stores. Its churches comprise the teading denominations. Its public school is one of the finest on Long Island, and its Fire Department a model of its kind. EXCELLENT TRAIN SERVICE TO LONG ISLAND CITY AND BROOKLYN. Within a couple of blocks of the railroad station we have developed one of the finest sections of land, and for a limited time we will sell Choice Building Lots for $300. 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He grasped Sunday World's Want Die dreamod By this thme Nohope felt #o wealthy He made up his mind to Invest; ‘The chain of his draam did not weaken, And he right quickly ended his quest, Next Nobope dreamed he was In busl- “What luck I have etruck,” ness poor Nonope. And needed good help the worst way; “If I now had a Flat I'd rejoice.” No sooner had he made his want known Ltke magio there loomed up a thousand ‘Than of ‘help'' cam oodly array, Apartments, Nohope took his choles. reotory vfs oe tian And Sis. creern ot oerne 176 eae reams of Fame and Fortune May Be Realized If You, Too, End “Things Wanted”? in The Sunday World’a weant Dikectory, To-Mo r eit Bhat