The evening world. Newspaper, May 30, 1908, Page 6

tn Be a SE JBURBANITIS IS EPIDEMIC ON MEMORIAL DAY ‘@onditions This Year Favor Widespread Ravages by Restless Germ. (VICTIMS SEEK HOMES. Metropolitan Transit Lines Ex- pect to Carry 5,000,000 Passengers. Have you caught {t—suburbanitis? | It becomes epidemic on Memorial Day. It ts called suburbanitis because the victim !s seized with a fierce dosire to hunt for a new home fn the suburbs. Subunbanitis began to break out on Memorial Day a few years ago, when rapid transit subway building started to open the out home tracts. Old Manhattanites, particularly flat dwell- ers, are rendered very susceptible to the rerm by the few weeks of bulmy spring or summer weather which come before that day. The sudden change to mer makes thelr pent-up flat life irk- Some, and the aew subways offer a powerful suggestion at the psychologi- | cal moment. Suburbanitis Symptoms. Restless germs of suburbanitis drive their victims to escape into the outside country districts. They turn this first summer holiday into a home-seekers’ festival. They jam all the transit lines, which usually make high records of | the year on Memorial Day. They over- | run all the old favorite suburban set- | tlements. Their buying of lots at | Decoration Day sales frequently lays | the foundations for ones. Never before have New York's sub- urbs been in such gala dress for the | fnvasion of suburbanitis victims. This | years epidemic promises to leave a high-water ma: If the day continues fine more than 6,000,000 passengers are expected to be carried cn the transit} Unes of the metropolis and {ts suburbs. The total last year was over 4,0,000 The Interdorough-Metropolitan systam | alone carried nearly 3,000,000, But the spread of suburbanites is sure to be wide because this year ‘s the fir: of actual transit through express nels under the riv Everyt Tread of the new :orvice into urbs, and that m se the ‘Busy on 526 Town Sites. = All the, promoting been getting 1 to com parties of hu: It has s under | Counties 31 ing to spe enough to Tavages of t Belle Harbor Sales Begin. Building lots st 1 best will be time to-da; Day will s tages on up sections the highest of 1908-1907 $1,000,000 result building. It ‘oad Auctioneers are a lots to-d: ! gota, flows and cate weather maven er that been sold walk fron F708 arct ie Build 100 iouses Wood, & ex of lots p catlo tM N . vania Railroad states will be next week. ac- Aivanced 10 per cen’ _—_—__ = | | | TNE EVENING WORLD, 5s Amelia Stone in New Sheath Gown 'Roof Garden Amel is the prima donna of the costume on the stage. That Made a Sensation in Paris. lia Sione e rican actress to array herself in the sheath- | skirt Directoire costume which has caused such a sensation in Paris. Miss Stone ‘The Gay Musician,” _ Season Opens | Coming Week (TH a milkmaid giving ekilful attention to the cow on the old | Root | Garden i Belasco | theatres will open for the summer on Daily matinees will be Victoria theatre down- stairs | DIN will be Alexia, a Franco~Russian \@ancer and pantominist, who will be assisted by M. Orpheo. Alexia will ap- pear for four weeks at Hammerstein's VY REN en then ‘urn to Europe. The bill “A include Horace Goldin, {!lu- the Six American Dancers, Ni ed s Cat and Dog Circus, Fe! the Three Joscary Carriers, re and Mack, the Five Spaseei Musical Avollos, the Camille Trio, the Brittons, Pau! Le Croix and new vita- graph views. For his Muste, st week at the Acagemy: Mr. Sothern will appear in miet'? on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes- day and Saturday nights, and in “If r Avera King’ on Thursday and Friday and Saturday afternoon. Paul MeAllister will introduce his | new stock company at Hurtig & Sea- | mon's Music Hall on Monday night in C.” Gunther's. well-known | piey, With Mr. MoAllster Wainwright, Verner Florence Lester, | Florence Charles Lane, Mrs. Graneker y at the “Hearts- pan: . End Bleatre will give a 0 9 “The Merry Widow will be given in German at the Harlem Casino, begin- ning Thursday evening. Mildred Holland, at the Yorkville The- | atre, will offer a new romantic dram “A Paradise of Jes, by Mathew oe the Metropolis Th Rill be seen in “Mi tre Adelaide . Dane's De- eee Cectl Spooner will change her dill at the Lincoln Square Theatre to “The | from Texas ee Merritt concludes her eng Vhen Knighthood W: at the Carnegie Lyceum and will sail for Burope a week | maTAe®, in | later. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. fef feature of the initial, ATURDAY., ' | MAY ae UIO> Exh ST, CEACS Es xh ax 4 TN > rf Lots 25x108---§270 Upward | 5 $10 Secures Any Lot No Balance on Easy Terms — Leave 44th St. and Lexington Ave, - 125th St. and Park Ave,- - was THIS _ PROPERTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF cA Few Pleasant SCARSDALE PARK The New, Highly Restricted Residential Offering of mie BIOOMMGAACS | Real Estate Department Will Be Worth Something to You. No Interest No Assessments Join Our Excursion To-morrow, Sunday FREE TRANSPORTATION FURNISHED BY OUR SALESMEN WEARING RED BADGES. Ali Cars Transfer to BLOOMINGDALES’, Lex. to 3d Ave., 59th to 60th St. ee one Hours Spent at LEXINGTON 105" AVE 59%060"r Taxes Afternoon Train 1:36 1:47 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. _LONG ISLAND. ESTATE FOR SAL LONG !SLAND { ARG Ul eeinley At Keith & Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theatre wil be Cole and Joh Iph C. Herz, late of "The Soul com- yy; Emma Janvier, Tom AMELIA-STONE-IN HER:NEW DIRECTOIRE COSTUME - company in “Pat and thi |Jullan Eitinge and others. The One |Tundrea and Twenty-ffth Street The- | atre will have Beatrice Morgan ta, “For |Ttaly and a Bow of Ribbon Bi the aerial plano mover, cermile Stage,” [Charles and Fanny and Carroll and Ba Wilitams and Walker will make their ie | tles F. Semon, Van, Madge Fox rst. vaudeville appearance at the now running at Wallack’s, and wears | ((9P'8 Hallvant Carle sie tee He and the Jay ce Outs are oO Class passenger |A. N. GITTERMAN IS A SPECIALIST ON | SUBURBANITIS. 1 for the ot | AW, deal to | Excursions to Hiltonia Y Somber of —— BiG LIST IN STEERACS mon alled ~ 00 In tae seer eel SAYS PORTER BROKE n fans, Mr. and Mrs. id Ray Cox. Alhambra will have Eva . the Pianophiends, May 1 hEH CHILD'S ARM Her Six the Muilini ; Dean and W: [Ww Year-Old Girl 3eat With a Whip, Mother Declares. *s Mureum, SEASIDE AMUSEMENTS —Luna| Park now tte Hube van She to-day, Monitor Hereafter Dreamland, 2 time to-night Freak Stre spectacle for the firat Bostock’s 4 new and thr! She sald The Coney He land Circus and Eippe | street, striking |@7ome “opened, to-day. The | ah ‘When I chased | 4 Julla up her arm said e children had been He swung the whip away, he saf4, and the ambled and fell on 5 | Abramson’s Plans for 1 > denied that he had struck er | Opera at Popular Prices Tsteeplochas ing attractions + BY SYLVESTER RAWLING. Tis gala performance by the Ttal- | Coy TRALTO WHOM MR. ARRAMSON | HAS DISCOVERED fan Grand Opera Company at! the American Theatre last night. which was & jontal to Ivan Ab- | . the @ rr gave the voung| {mpresario an opportunity to announce | his desires and his purposes. In a modest speech when called before the irtain, he declared that opera at es within the reach of the poor lent end the wazeearner was im- re! tively demaniel by the American usic loving pubic and he. for one wes prepared to ive It Next season he expected to find in this ct a sult able house for his ~urpose Eventually he hoped to get suffictent capital to pulld na permanens home for his en terrrige Asi to) leat) niebiia) pertormence ate need be said. Ar «tically {t was below the standard which Mr. Abramson has set. That was table in a * in counter” offering that included serpts from fv) operas. Besides Miserere, ogue and first ot of ‘Pagliacc!, with Desana fov the first time as ne from ‘“Luct heroine; the Aida,” and * made “up tic atter all the mem- the compi' appeared, some not in cos All the prin 's sang * because none ast season sang ‘® chorus at the LSTHER J DAVIS: A Few Hundred Might Be Right; Several Thousand Can’t Be Wrong The purchase of home sites during the past ‘At ere fF is direct evidence of the wonderful advantayes of this superb city si YORK’S GREAT SUBURBAN CITY DEVELOPMENT. This Sunday at 2.30 P. M. We Have the “MASSAPEQUA SPECIAL” Trains Take the subway from any station in New York to Flatbush Avenue Depot, Brooklyn, or East 34th St. Ferry to Long Island City, for these trains. 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