The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1911, Page 12

12 FUTURE CITY, SAYS. HETTY GREEN'S SON Gateway to the Orient and Al- ready Doing Tremendous Trade in Exporting. ODD MARRIAGE OFFERS. | Manager of Millions Laughs at Cupid and Says Mother Is His “Only Girl.” | “Mo olty in the United Gtates hae present evidence of @ greater future than San Francisco,” @aid Col, Edward H. R. Green to an Evening World re | porter to-day. The big son of Mrs, Hetty | Green had been axked what large Amert- | can city loomed in hie mind as holding the greatest possibilities in the indus- trial development of the country “Bocaure of its ideal harbor--the only firat class one on the Pacific coast-—San Francisco ia the doorway to the Orient,” he continued. “Forget atl about the} earthquake, It ds an old saying that ‘Mehtning never strikes twice in the same place.’ People in the Fast do not realize the possibilities of San Francisco, but &f they once saw the shipments of | agricultural implements bound for China, Japan and the Philippines, pass ing oyt the Golden Gate, they would re. alizg ‘the importance of that port.” . /Offers of Advice and Marriage. Bince the exclusive publication in The Bvening World of the arrival in New York of Col. Green to take charge of | his mother’s business affairs hundreds | of letters have poured in on him at the Walorf. Some offer advice, and others offer marriage, for the Colonel is a bachelor. The announcement made tn this paper that Col, Green was going to organize a trust company to handle his mother's Western and Southwestern business brought offers from a half dozen existing trust compantes to aell out at bargain prices. “My eyeteeth were cut long ago.” aid Col. Green, “and I am not buying gold bricks. For the present I am tisfled to work ten hours a day at business and in the ning take tn the Broadway shows. I have made an arrangement with a theatre tieket ‘agency to furnish me with two seats on the aisle below the venth row for some time to come. Mother’s His “Only Girl.” “I usually take Marshall, my secr‘ tary, and there is only one girl in the world for whom I would break th theatre en ements, and she is my dear mother.’ Col. Green says that his own cotton company in Dallas, Tex., i9 now e#hip- ping a portion of ita products to Japan. His confidence in the future of Gan Francisco is based, he #a) upon the certain knowledge that it is bound to be the metropolis for all that portion of the United States west of Kansas City. Mr. Green says that his personal rep- resentative in Texas is Eugene Corley, who, as his assistant, is running the Texas Midland Railway and generally looking after his other properties in the Lone Star State. ———>——_ SUPREME COURT HEARS GOMPERS CONTEMPT CASE. Famous Boycott Suits Dropped, but Decision Is Awaited on Labor Leaders’ Appeal. | WASHINGTON, Jan, %.-In the Bu- preme Court of the United States| yesterday the cases of the Bucks) Stove and Range Company of St. Lous | va, the American Federation of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor | va. the Bucks Stove and Range Com- pany, after being argued for three hours, were withdrawn with consent of counsel. ‘The announcement of the discontinu- ance was made by Chief Justice White from the bench. No one in the court room seemed m expected ending of the suit than Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor; John Mitchell, Vice-President, and Frank Morrison, Secretary. ‘They were jn court when the case was called. \ But #& was not the cases that came from the District Court of Appeals, ‘olving the question of boycott, that | held the labor leaders’ attention; {t war the case of alleged contempt of court and a sentence to Jail imposed by Jus- thee Wright of the Distr Court. This case is the only Supreme Court will pass upon. oe aad Noll SEVENTEENTH STORY BLAZE| STIRS TWO BIG HOTELS. Guests of the Majestic and Great Northern in Chicago Get Lively Scare in Early Day. CHICAGO, Jan, 28.—Fire drove tan: drede of guests from their rooms in the Majestic and Great Northern hotels, which adjoin, at Dearborn and Qun streets, early to-day. The fire, which one the ‘that once tnside its walls all hope of escape was gone, re pleased with the un- | t Supreme | ORI toRCR, RANDOM SHOTS AT BIG GAME. AND SMALL BY W.P.M¢ LOUGHLIN. THE GINK-I they’ reformed the polive desin and killed off “the syatem.”’ | THE GOOK-You don't aay! How 414 they do ft? Who do-od tt? THE GINK—Why, tt boss of the department. | Hell Gate and hack, Then he swore some at a dozen of patrolmen found smok- ing clenvettes in the dormitory or leaning againet a coal box in front of a gro- cery, after which he fined them thirty days’ pay apiece or broke them. THE G ior #t w THE GINK--Don't make a syzyaist of yourself. It has been administered to the unfortunat weary year bill of reform THE GOOK—What would you 407? THE GINK—I'd try @ new line of goods, I don't believe ft tmproves matters to degrade an inspector and then put him in charge of « precinct where his men ‘Will tnevitably have only @ eneering respect for him. It doesn't improve police # all wr Police Departinent « on, conditions to switch a man from the Tendertoin to Flatbush, He'll be ae bad in Flatbush as he was in Forty-second street. It doesn't help the rejuvenation of things to scold, bulldoze and bullyrag men who are arraigned to-day for trifling offenses against discipline or dignity, and then to-night at a public banquet to Ask the people to may kind things of the department or tts rank and file. THE GOOK—Good, ao far! You're the goods! THE GINK—Then 1'4 work for legislation that would enable me to promote men purely on their police records rather than on civil service rulé@™ as at present. I don’t give a hurrah in Hoboken whetner a cop knows how many four-pound chickens can get into @ stone pot or how high are the Twelve Pins of Connemara. But | would like him to know how to get after @ Blackhander, a firebug, a footpad, a burglar or a murderer and get the mippers on him, 1" ike @ captain or a patrolman to keep his precinot or his post in an orderly con- dition, I'd take little stock in brass band-and-battle-axe raids on @ bunch of shoostring handbook players on the pontes. | would make the cop respect himself. Make him feel that | respested him as long as he did right ac- cording to his best lights. Make him feel that promotion would be the re- ward of merit alone. Make him feel that neither “pull” nor favor would help to push him up. When he got up the ladder I'd try to keep him there, Instead of working to drag him down. . And {f,I were Mayor I'd appoint a policeman, or, better still, @ police re- porter, to be Police Commissioner for ten years, subject to removal on charves. But, helas, that's too simple and sensible a suggestion to be adopted in @ com- plex government lke ours, Have « shock? And they said, “Here's How!" Ae the Bronx, will have their own time on Monday next tn Ebling’s Casino, One Hundred and Fitty-aixth street and St. Ann's avenue. There's a fino bu aports in that s: Aerie. ‘There’ Billy Gibson, who 1 chairman of the committee of arrange: ments. Billy 4a a committee all by him- self, Everybody knows that. Asa con- sequence there is @ fine bill af Jading in the way of entertainers provided, as well as prizes for the ladies, bless their ttle Bronnix hearts! Denny Ryan the W. President, whatever the W means, {s publicity promoter and engineered this notice, Doc Pixley will be on hand as official physician to look out for mishaps or damages resulting from the carrying of excess cargoes. ‘About twice a year I go to the Bronnix —to take In the primary fights and the Eagles’ blowout. And two trips to the HE EAGLBS, Aerie No. 491, habitat OWN AT THE OTHER END of D Manhattan the Finne, as joyous « covey of birds as the Eagles ever dared to de, will have thelr annual blow- | out to-night in the form of a beefsteak etn young Battery Dan's headquarters, he Huron Club, at Hudson and Spring streets, There will be a gathering of real old-time ‘beet-eaters there—the chaps who graduated from old Washing- ton Market and can eat ‘em alive {f hard preased, ‘Those are the old chaps with the ruddy cheeks, gray hair and the Diack ‘tashes that you aee only in the old American wards. Then, too, there will be Dick Molloy, who holds the Dublin record for eating Liffey eols. Alderman Drescher will also be ther: He, too, 19 a record-holder, being only resident of Brownsville who corned beef and cabbage. Alderman Coughlin and the Kennedy brothers, Bill Bronnix {s an awful price to pay for|and John, will be along with their the pursult of pleasure. spectalties. RPMEMBER when Domintck Murray, @ sturdy actor of the “now mee pr-r-oud beautee" type, starred the country in @ thunder-and-lightning melo- drama entitled “Escaped from Sing Sing.’ Crowded houses were attracted ry due to a general sort of fearsome regard for the title Sing Sing and a belot ‘The public crowded Dominick Murray's show to learn Just how anybody Sing. Domini oners seem to be of City Hall Park Escapes from Sing Sing have Yecome the stripe-suited gentlemen up there take a © to resume their activities with the are seven Sing Singers now at them alone anywhere at any time. ‘s play wouldn't draw with a year old car transfer to-day, Pria- able to get out of Sing Sing as easily walk out as one can common stroll abroad when they k and the immy feel they jack) large the Dateh, ove T | |tor a man to ask another drink in that State ‘The bill ts not needed: | WURRA WURRA I noticed a letier and yours truly? to have @ We in your column by order of Commisstoner Stover, started in the grillroom on the seven- teenth floor of the Majest! Kuished with a lose mostly from water Both hotels are seventeen stories high, and it was feared that firemen would have difficulty in reaching the fire, but the water pressure proved ad and the flames were soon ,vit out. The lobby of the Majestic became congested with guests who had been awakened and fled from their rooms. With their of about $40,000, arms full of clothing they hurried down | the stairways and dressed tn the crowd- In the uppe stories people about the clevators, pleading aken down. vator men and firemen tried to allay their fea jog them that the fire had been extin- wulshed, and @ numbér went back to thelr rooms, was extin- | quate | # by tell- | | last week from o James Delaney, The supposed reason for the killing was | who asks your opinion of 4 Mr. Bras- | rat the be Was inate aban twankye eel, a Kerryman, who presided at @ | five years old and some zoologieal Doo meeting of @ club called the Na Oster r at an animal of that age Bocklish, which I presume is com- or more should be croaked, as we say posed of Irishmen or sons of Irishy Jin Avenue B. Rut Commfsstoner Sto: men, where a song was sung ¢ oiling ver discov 1 a shorte and uglier | upon Germany to set Ireland cause for the exeoution, He said the You don't give your opinion of the | spotted hyenu is a repulsive chap to sald Rrassel, but ask “if the Dutch | jook at, besides being insatiably glut 1 don't free Ireland, who x surprised I was very much much @ swer coming from who I have been led to b an enthusiastic son of Ireland. tonous. Hence the omer to rauss him was sent forth, ‘Too bad that Park | Stover can't get rid of some of the tw legged hyenas in the park service at It is my candid opinion that neither this man Brassel nor any of the other | gied and neglected condition of Central members of this club are Irishmen, | Park. He won't have to go outside the | or, if they were, they would not | h, adquarters building to find | them | tand for such a song. Ireland needs | pies ng to that precious css of no @ld from any nation, When the | joud-volced ballyhoos who boost then: time comes there will be plenty of | selves into fat johw tmder | her exiled sons only t willing to re and t have the aid in freeing her, tally those fa labe # in the dep true and loyal ones like myself, who duced 60 ast abl: i come from Kilkenny. raised to And New York has @ lot of such dou ble shufflers at present, PATRICK FITZPATRICK, |) @00a tor you, Fat, evic, Bet tor the Tema Rn He knocked the prope trom under @ lot of inspectors and transferred a bunch of captains from Harlem to That dope those many and it has failed dismaily and utterly to accomplish anything fn the rywhere, not #0 much on account of Dominick's thespian ability, but rather | could escape from Sing of late that st looks as if 1d hate to meet any one of Jand’s sake why don't you and the other N ANTI-TREATING BIL, has y}s been introduced in tite vy Jers] Kilkenny chaps get busy and fight for toy Lerisiature making st a crime [2feland instead of fignting Mat Brassel. Think tt EB WAS A SPOTTED HYENA Killed in Central Park yesterday init Commissioner are responsible for the present bedrag- 135,000 PERSONS cnST 360,000,000 <p ‘Year's Construction of Small Family Houses in Suburbs | Below Demand. [FEW NEW ONES VACA | With Transit Problem Settled, Home Seekers Will Take Over 20,000 in 1911. Completed stmtistios for the entire met- ropolitan Gistrict show that 13,725 private wellings were built or projected last year. The new structures cost $43,858,800. ‘They were planned to house 185,000 per- one. The tnvestment represented in land and butldings made « total of $65,- 000,000. Few of the houses have remained va- cant. Most of them were bullt for pros pective ocoupants, A large part of them are oooupled by the owners. Most of them were finished before the end of the year. Can Hoyee 200,000 a Year. Real estate specialists in all parts of | the outlying territory say that the out- | put of one-famfly and two-farnily dwell- Ings during the year was not equal to the demand for such structures. More than 200,000 persons a year could be housed in auch buildings if the proper quarters were availiable. The volume of construction during 1910 wan reduced to almost an absolute in- | vestment basis because speculators were | not active. They had been driven out of the fleld by uncertainties surrounding rapid transit subway delays and the| general reaction in business, With a fair business revival this year suburban brokers say that they could Alspose of 20,000 to 25,000 new dwellings. Bullers in many sections are planning to meet the demand. They are getting promises of large loans from import- ant lending institutions, Contracts will be closed, in many instances, as soon as definite plans for construction of the projected subways shall have been an- nounced, Big Move to Long Island. In the building of private dwellings, Brooklyn held the lead during the past ‘en it has for Many years, but its YSrume of construction was only halt That of recent boom years, Queens, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, FRISCO GREATEST. WURPRAWURRA! DWELLINGS FOR |KREKELER TO LEAD BALL OF UNITED ITED OWNERS we He te President of the United Real Betate Owners’ Associations, which will Give a dig vaudeville entertainment and reception Monday night. Among ite ‘members are a majority of Manhattan's flat-house holders. however, went far above any of ita old recomis, and came very close to the Brooklyn total. Brooklyn's output waa 3,142 eeparate dwellings, The Queens total was 3,859, Tn comparison, Manhattan produced only forty-three private dwellings and the Bronx only fifty-seven. Richmond, with Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester countles, within the mot- ropolitan district, bullt 2,100 one-family and two-family houses, The New Jer- sey output within the same district was 8,010. As an average, each house provid home for ten persons. Manhattan Out of Race. Manhattan has long been out of the race for housing families of moderate means in private dwellings. The cost of a |!ts forty-three dwellings during the past year was $1,956,300, or $45,600 for each house. With the value of land, this | makes each house average an invest- ment close to $100,000. Only the very ‘wealthy can use such homes. Of the Bronx total, 300 dwellings were of brick. They cost $2,010,100 for con- struction, representing @ total invest ment of $3,000,000, ‘This 1s $10,000 each ‘The Brooklyn average for single house construction wae $%,000 and for ‘house with land, $7,500. Queens built 3,300 frame wellings and (60 brick dwellings. ‘The total cost of all was close to $5,500,000, In the further suburbs of Richmond, | Nassau, outlay was $4,398,700 for construction, or @ total investment in land and new putldings of $9,600,000. New Jersey's total investment in tts private dwellings of the past yoar a ms ET i rY Ui 7 Li | | 1 4 SSRI NL AOR A ae RAG PHA te MAR i) | wi i © Ml lig STE lh tere Gs: ae 73 i it | . ORY. io iy iv Wor li t Suffolk and Westchester the! 1911, |reacnea $10,000,000, J oalled for $7,121,400. | Await Subway Decision. Construction alone Practically the entire suburban mar- waiting for news of the new sub- ways, Districts which have been avail. abl only for private dwellings are ex- ted to be transformed Into Mat-house tlona if they get the expected rapid nsit. ‘Chis will force private dwelling butidings further away and the submwaya themeelves wil 1 new areas for email h | Builders | tend lo © st for booms tn many to- on as the rapid transit @lt- juation shall be understood clearly, Until they can get positive information, how- ever, they expect the market to be very dull’ and uninteresting because vaat {amounts of capital are held in waiting for the new improvement opportunities, pe IRELAND DENIES PREJUDICE AGAINST THE CATHOLICS, | | Archbishop, Urging Students to Go Into Politics, Says Merit | Will Win. DWTROIT, Mich, Jan. M—In an ad> Gross bofore @ gathering of atudents at the Detroit Jesult Coliese yesterday af. pobre a Ireland of #t. Paul to be ambitious, at the game time protesting that there are too few Catholics in legisiative bodies, Me ‘i want each one of you students have laudable ambitions. I want you to Put out all that ts in you, How many members have you Catholics tn the Les- islature at Lansing? Not many I wager. At Washington we have only three or four Catholic Senators. In the country at large we are great in numbers, but I do not that we are towering up- ward. The remedy is in our sahools and teachers of our schools. Justice of the United States Supreine Court learned the logic that has made him the ables: jurist in the United) States in a Jesuit College. “I have no patience with the Catholic | who as an excuse for his slothfulne says: ‘I can't rise because there is Prejudice against Catholics.’ I say ther 18 no prejudice against Catholics here to-day. Menit is the only thing that wins and demands attention in this Re- | Public, America looks out to-day for the man who does thing ——_— OSTRICH EGG OMELET ROOSEVELT’S BREAKFAST. Arizona People Will Also Serve | a Whole Roast Ostrich to | Top Off Menu. | FL PASO, Tex., Jan, 28.—The South- west is enthusiastic over the impending | visit of Col. Theodoré Roosevelt, who goes to New Mexico and Arizona aft @ visft with the Cattle Raisers’ Assoc! tion of ‘Texas at Phoenix, Ariz, on March 38, Arrangements are being made |to serve the Colonel an unusual break- fast, the chief dish of which wil be a wedially prepared omelet made of one ostrich egg. It is also proposed to have @ roasted ostrich in the centre of the breakfast table. ‘The breakfast will open, and it ts ex} | citizens of Phoenix ‘be given tn the ted one thousand | 411 attend. —— | A complete Detective Story, 1n Book | |Form, will be given free with to-/ morrow’s Sunday World (in Greater |New York). Don't miss this Great \Detective Story. JAMES MoCREERY & COF azrd Street 34th Street On Monday and Tuesday, ry January the goth and gist. 4 ey SILK DEPARTMENTS. 1m Both Gtores, “McCreery Silks.” Famous over half a Century Complete assortments of Spring and Summer Dress Silks in Se Me lesigns and colors. Sale of Twelve Thousand Yards of Fine Black Dress Silks, including Satin Messaline, Crepe Meteor, Crepe de Chine, Satin Duchesse, and Peau de Soie. 1.35 per yard uuu, Vilue O50 - DRESS GOODS. 1m Both Stores, " Second Floor. Colored and Black Fabrics. Five Thousand Yards of Grey Mixed Irish Suitings. 54 inches wide. 1.75 per yard , value 2.75 2,500 yards of Black Broadcloth, chiffon weight, sponged and shrunk. ‘54 inches wide, 1.55 per yard value 2.28 2,500 yards Black Wool Voile. 85c per yard value 4.25 WASH GOODS DEP’TS. 1m Both Stores. Second Floor. Late Importation of Foreign Noveltie Bordered Fabrics, Printed Tulle, si il ed Organdie, Voile and Irish Dimity. : Sale of Twenty- five Thousand Yard; Scotch Ginghams. 32 inches wide. 18c per van value 25¢ White Dress Linen, French manufacture, 46 inches wide. 28c per yard “GAMES McCREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street ly bul i 0 W S), TO-MORR