The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1918, Page 12

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1918 Du Pont Estate of Future To Rival That of Astors i Fourth Generation Turns to the Soil as Did the Famous New York Land Owning Family, but the Gener Has No Use for Vacant Lots. By Samuel M. Williams 1 a COLEMAN DU PONT, buylug New York's biggost ho G fs rapidly becon America 6 for at landlord. M nilitor aire, master business man, director of g te » he has @ now aspiration—to own land and mouumental structures, the fine of their kind. H purchase of the Waldorf-Astoria He focuses at tention on the founding American proprietary estate In New York City he art: with the bigge: oMce bullding, th Equitable; the biggest hotel, the McAlpin, nd the most famous hotel, the Waldorf. ILis enterprison always must be on the superlative senlo Now that he has embarked to become of vast extent ae RE ts this notable Pont and the lots waiting for unearned tncre rent. He wants them opera n roal estate, hie ultimate holdings bid fat Hiference between the ideas of Col He bas sent or buildings that bring In merely dito thelr maximum possibilities on a 4 expansion Hullding and then bor oolety because the two e man du old type of landowner, ho use for vacant das's of business creation a Ho erected the Eq Equitable Life Assuranc terprises seemed to him inseparable, He embarked In the hotel businows by raising tn Wilmington a hugo structure that towers above the under its roof th Hotel. He launched, with Char the busiest corners in it control of the town, to combine du Pont Powder Company offices and the du Pont es 1. Taft, the McAlpin Hotel on one of York, to accommodate more guests than any other house tn the city. These successful enterprises wore started by a man of middl who had not been @ real estate operator and knew nothing about the hotel bu Ti significant that in du Pont's latest acquisit haps tn rivalry, with Ar family, the Ho could not purchase from them ownersh Waldorf land and bulldings, but Le bas acquired ccatrol and operation of the hotel. No single property of the Astors equals in size or in value du Pont’s Equitable Bullding, which he owns outright and stands as the cornerstone and the monument of his holdings A hundred years ago the first of the Astors and the first of the du Ponts to c to Am from Germany a Franee-—w laying the Vons of thetr family fortunes. Jolin Jacob Astor, accumulating wealt?: in fur trading, tmmedtately invested fn New York real estate, Merre du Pont vnd his son Eleuthere built powder mills on the Brandywine, near Wilaington, Nel, but not until the fourth generation did any of this family @tart to turn their for- tnne back to the soll. on he tf AMOU Hake up a's mo propric the other fror und AND development more than mere land ownership is Gen. du Pont’s hobby. Love of land ts perliaps an outeropping of the French blood in his veins, for his anc s owned the soll in France. His first esvay in its development was In Delaware when he planned and dullt a fine highway from one end of the State to the other with the {dea not only of developing the land but of making its upkeep self sustaining with Income from a strip reserved on cach of the road This energetic me of the Md not make bis first fortune out of the Kentucky fifty-four years ago, educate neer aud accumulated wealth fu mnd street railways. At thirty-eleht he was read. family called bim to bocome President of the Delaware, At the age of fifty he sold out his powder Interest and started again In the greater enterprise of New York. 8 a landlord he of tenaats. The Equitable Building hou bustness day, Tho MeAlpin Hotel and the Waldorf, with {ts 1,000 rooms Pont at Wilmington and the Hotel T to the roll of his tenants, Asked how he came to start the Equitable Butldtng, Gen replied “Anything numerous du Pont family powder business. Me wa at Boston “Tech” as yperations, steel companies when the der company {1 for $14,000 000 owning a large part of stands unrivalled, not tu th acres but extent of lo every os care of ta a night Hotel da von add 1,000 more early as at New Ha constructiyy appenla to me The Keuttable people wanted a building on this site—the very best in the world. The {dea of erecting fice building {a the world appealed to me. 1 Uke concetving, protect establishr| note organizing, syst iccessfully, ‘The ving und eetting a nl want to To own more acres then an English Duke do modern king of landlords. Thore must be «¢ the possit of con ‘ lop ona mental First of al _ Turk Marriages and Buttons for Socks as to Test Tea or Coffee In Your Own Home Populur Setence Monthly, Voor tea f wh the 4k i be blown awa breat t the tea has stain will be the materia he te: oF and sprinkle a few gr on the sur ¢ the wate i! coffee will fi ase tt dean cor much € 1 \ ki t Kor re Cotter Dorr Not Misroivr the Water. At Lefi—Adulterated Coffes Sinks nad Kaplilly Dire colors the Water, - * 4 ; c: BOL DING r? Manto? S10 0010, 0) MnO Vay . VOD OR al You Can't Sew Buttons on a Sock Any More Than You Can Sew C o oj bhai bn « bachelor to 8 ton ance, Ruttons and socks mates, In spite of that a bathtub 1 fine over a telephone Dogs ore # king nd the ki Over in th 1 whore rn w Huts b stricter, Her na Keystone ¢ ves to darn t 4 t wife, r went And if a T make her a Cent ation we Turkwives who were i " Ag pt \“PeN tae a butt on a way it is a tough performance Buttons don't belong on socks In the first place, on a Hgck ts Just as @ “T. COLEMAN OVLFON 3, | New York ° Newe: ising yO ems ay Ey Stes Se Se ee Ne ¢ = Wyn) HOTEL CLARIOGE ilization ona Turk, as Is Proved by the Peculiar Turkish Institution of Matrimony From Dogs to Grandfathers’ Beards Everything Is Sacred in Turkey, Everything Except Wives, for They Have No More Votes Than an Alarm Clock Has Friends “Even a Turk Bachelor Can't Die Without Having Sixty or Seventy Wives at His Bedside.” BY ARTHUR em York Bvening Workl Vress Pubilading Oo, ff this world. One is for a buchelor to The othe boxing gloves on. sh jobs tn sock with boxing gloves on. ris fora Either ay it is a wasted perform- Sowing a button sock wi and either ratic as trying to sew civilization on to a Turk nd elyilization and Turks don't m They aint m ry work, the Turk st)ll thinks ‘ r yist w t sa ed 1 af your grand iy H 1 Turkey ox “ wear red flower pots for a wit uiarm clock has friends, 7 is dered mart , wt least © tnwe t was considered J A Turk didn't mind hay r f red f nook. uso if he st ght pore ox than a ne fe had to fone Ox And 1 to think up t \t nd. 1 © back fl fdn't like hls Turkwifo he led t of a nice granite lavaliere wel about fat chance to swim with o « and y She aperowving buvband was s wid ("BUGS") BAER. War ' Coins More Valuable. : ea +) Meaic wer, ha only 290 w ft be en himselé ang the of earning his own living, We don't know what the new atricter Turkish marriage and divorce laws are going to be, but, btleas, no Turk will be a’ ed or divo: tw the future ach shoe, owns a red fez and Vania carpet mill to supply him with York trade, s he has at least one bi Qs a contract with a Penneyl Turlcish rugw for the Now tine POOR RICHARD JR. } A woodneckor maketh his living by cking, but what excuse hath thee? The bantam bec well that all meth ferocious in a telephone argument, knowing full ght in a battle over the phone men are the same we Friend, do not be too proud to tarry a moment with the humble. Even the Empire State Express stoppeth at Poughkeepsie. Tho failure thinketh not of the acorns that groweth into oake, but pondereth too long on the acorns that the Makes hogs eat larly Mex figure, ar ath 1 ¢ neern dealing in inte 6 Lox . r at 1 away v a * n verted b ton i 0 aud other vouNtryay Gay buss Wore than ite face value | | | | | ‘New York Is Half Pagan;’ 3 ‘ a EG) yourself how little the chur politan TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1918 Dr. McElveen Tells Why But Chicago Is Just as Bad--New Yorkers Have Ambition but Not Aspiration—Believes in Dancing in Churches, and | Doesn't Believe in Adopling Puritan Notions. r By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ght, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York f « World). ‘N" YORK ts half gan! Afier an absence of nty years tha t a New York boy thinks of New York, He said so the « r day t the Manhattan Congregational Church, when, De, Willlam Thomas McKlveon, he returned to the town where he was born after spending in such way stations as Brooklyn, Boston and Evanston, NL And whon 1 ash m, in hh at Broad- and 76th we were pagan, his first apologetic reply was, “You know, you're no worse than Ch As if that judge our most Way Stree ment didn't seek to deprive u cherished vanities! New York's paganism. in Dr. Mek m, doesn't by nymphs of one of veon’s opin- ty is populated ox- Hie wouldn't even accept my admis- plenty found on Broadw “New Yorkers,” he sald, “walk a horlvontal line. They do not climb a vertical line. New Yorkers have ambition, bat not aspiras tion, They are so devoted to the passionate pursuit of money and of pleasure that they do not think very much abont their cons selences or about their souls. And that is pagan, is it not? plenty of fine people in New York mean that the ¢ id satyrs on th y Of both could be course, there are ttua earnest, conscientious, spire Tt fs not all pagan east half But you krow of our cosmo- even in the ies mean to at pulation. It has changed so emendously twenty years of my absence,” “Thut what would you have?" 1 asked the big, &ix-foot, smiling clergyman, who ts a living advertisement of the phrase “muscular t “Are you opposed to dancing and other pleasures, as Sund Sunday may be up e in ‘ methods, but he's dreadfully parse in Dr, MeElveen observed drsty, “We have a dance ever week right In this chur and the young p a beautiful time, I have heard Billy Sunday was dread by it e other night—Sunday night--1 came in and four sailor boys were 1 billiards in our church parlor, I looked at them, and I thought, old father would turn fn his grave at the tdea of playin , 1s in a church Sunday night.’ But do you suppose it fease your delicate 446] BELIEVE in dancing « just sald to another ec? ft f this spectacle outrages lergyman who was with mo, ‘My dear sir netbillties you can disay dd good tt and theatre-going; we certainly need the theatres in a ‘ke this to keep ap our spirits, T think a great deat of nonsenso ts talked about the temptas tions of New York, using the word to mean gambling, drinking and kindred evils, 1 dc se ANY et you w ne ANY greater percenta ons than of the people era yield to “Rat the reme temptation of New Vork is easy, comfort- able living. It Is living which laps you about, keeps you sure rounded with good food, comfortable rooms, money, innamerable xayetles, ‘There ure so many people who simply live along, make Ing money, spending it, being useful, perhaps. bnt not being pare Henlarly moral or partieutarty belpint to oihers.* uch op other elt iid not have t r estioned 1 wou t would. 4) h ta fore ever having it, because y rset that we are directly much mo y minded sroup, the Pilgrims y should not New Yorkers o give their con- » In calisthenics? 1 belle is every man's his body in the best phystea to give It datly i proper food. Also he should keep his mind fit by trains and preventi from getting suff and Inactive. It is Just as {mportant that bis co © and t 1 d be fed suitably and kept in training.” I ASKED Dr. MeLilveen if he was @iink tf the dress of New York women when he applied the adjective an” to the city “L haven't seen anybody straying a dressed tn a necklace, tf that’ tha’ up tn solitary hall bedrooms, } and find how interesting they ean be." what you mean,” he “L believe that women ought to wear good clothes, and T think Nhat on this point New York women are ahead of those in the Middle West. It seoms to me that the short shirts are tremen- dously sensible. And certainty it ts only necessary to compare the clothes women wear to-day with those of the Revolutionary pertod to note how marked is the improvement in good sense and rood taste, ‘Religious people can be aw uisay en assured ity church, as verybody, including S Most candid of But warm, social fireside for %, girls and boys, shut s should visit thelr churches \ hurches can be dre should be a } ly youn New Yorke Hully poky Why Your Electric Light Bills _ | } many ho 24 as in summer and fifty minutes « day This is perfec summer days | Meht hours’ Are Highest in Winter : . f the electri RS AEHE Mees See ee sauen i ver, vacations light billy are hicher tn sumo] are ¢ achome saute s more hight win 1 depend = i edt ours in ¢ ot ‘oP Po coos, LY Ls - ez sad In June the av