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emt secured the prope atricted eaty in the found it no longer de of the restoration of this area to Snetrapolis City Hall Park and written about th an unobstructe City Hall building. ‘There is another mngie of the s' tan Island south of the W ing to rush to the stree would not be half enough street area people enter between Pearl Street (reenwich Street © west, more every worl rection has mately 1,250,000 ing that the will accommodate much Jess than a Ane congested financtal dis requiring the employment of tho a mile above the ene on top of the other. Vhat Would Happen In Downtown Manhattan— A Great Explosion, Fire, Earthquake, Kmptied Every Building 9 Of All Tenants at Once, More Than Jammed Into Streets That Would Not Hold Half of Them. Why We Need for Added Park Space Area Occupied by Old Post Office Building. HY0 SON RIVER | BELOW CHAMBERS STREET 008T OFmice EAST RIVER TOTAL AREA WITHIN DOTTED LINES see 8,000.000 sq. ft. AREA OF STREETS AND PARKS ... . ¥ 1,250,000 sq. ft. DAYLIGHT POPULATION eeeeeeee . see «..Over 1,000,000 By Major Joseph Caccavajo, C. E., D. Se. ight, 1921, by the Progs Publishing Co, (‘The New York Byeniny World HE old Post Office Building, which occupies what y City Hall Park, at the junction of Broadway and Park Row, should te removed and the area restored to the p afety measure, ff for no other reason. Ww vern- Square mile, To-day en the United ein ee ee te 4 considerable extent by large butl 1- ings, What will it be twenty yer from now? Wiil the addition of evon Post Ofie purposes only such an open area as the present ers inde Gee (to te Geldeeed ip iba Gh theoialbos ufford sufficient room for th There is more than food for reflection in the prob- lem of how best to safeguard the pe ae ple who make up t y from the at it was re ipu ted t t that the Government rable tor such he daylight popula- There has peen talk for years tion of the business districts of the nh hag been for any vehicles which might be in the people would be two anee deep if required to use ih artistic merits of view of the | What will it be hence if many more buildings as have been e un a few sach giant recently com- tuation which seems to eseen ev lected and that is the years olute need for additional aye been ne area in the downtown business pleted on lower Broadway are ¢ Ananciai districts. below Chambers Streot? ew people realize that When New York laid out the event of a great explosion, street widths were no doubt consid- earthquake, which might require the ered adequate the purposes of Wenants in the buildings on Manhat- those days. One and two story build. \d Build- ings were the rule. ‘That was more there than a century azo. ~day more ind leave one building to accommodate the on lower Broadway’ than there In the district below the Brooklyn in New York Bridge extending to Bowling Gre but theatres n the cust und Streets, a | ut no w © in Colonial days, the same old better paved, perhaps, y were when than a million people do business George Washington took the oath of ing day in the year. This Office as first President of the United a street area of approx! at Wall and Broad Streets e feet. Assum qua New Yor! only ten stories n, twenty, thirty, forty and more son requires | “ag & space two fect by eighteen inches, i it will be seen that a rush of peop ries have been added to the bui rs, tut the atrects: rome 4 to the streets would result in ene of USS: 7 reets remain th width, dous and revoiting the most stu horrors in all history. Some years ago the city compelled ‘The strects in the wrea mentioned the removal of all obstructions out- side of the building lines in the bus #, which helped some, but problems of the futur ree of NESS distr one of the 1alf million people with any de: b afety at one t and the addition of cHaldanable ares Cn ouri a ich Will be securing the additional street would accrue by reason of the #4 required to prevent the streets from being clogged to n nt which will be a constant menace to tt community. nt hideo| would Jemolition of the pre 3 City Hall Post Office Build) ong way toward providing a solution of the problem in the event of an un- tsual occurrence creating a panic im In this district are xis of suildings used for business purposes, ads of clerks and exceutives. There re a number of buildings with up- porsdenye ard of 10,000 tenants. ‘Ten of buildings in this district. alone gregute height of more es and would extend over 66TYEAR Miss Vincent: A young lady and | are en- gaged and were to have been married in May, but a few days before our wedding date she was taken ill and we had to post pone everything, She then partly recovered and went to the country to recuperate, but when she re- turned home she was again taken ill. 1 had my doctor call to see her and he pronounced her ailment malaria, saying she should not wed for six months. The young lady's father was highly indignant be- cause | had my doctor call, saying yave an @ han 350 sto: Fifty buildings in what is undoubt edly the busiest busin on earth to-day are assessed at more than $250,000,000, the Equitable Ibuild ng heading the list and paying taxes op $30,000,000 assessed value, Where are several points within the wea where more than 250,000 persons during the business curs, One of these points is on Park {tow near the World Building. Into jj. own doctor was sufficient. +me streets which are the same Width — Now my sweetheart is getting well ind if anything less extensive than — and deolares she wishes to marry 1) years ago,, twenty sub- a . But after what my doctor BO ee Nae ia tuenty said do, you think thie would bp sags im one le? Ro” undreds of thousands of business #dvisable a eels BAM. | The young woman's father eople he seagate Ne ieht sting that he should IcAdoo tunnels, street « Vide the doctor, Her parents have Jersey and taken care of her all these years and their hordes Ought to ple to do so "un becomes your wife. If you dela very morning: marriage six montns you 1 cries from Brookly taten Lsland also dur tioned is jess than one-third of a not wait until the late ~ a en omepanay ANTGUST 16, 1921, 1,000,000 People Would Be THANK Zou AUNTIE Can You Beat It! « By Maurice Ketten New York Evening LOAN ME YOUR PROHIBITION ) BADGES, AUNTIE . LAM 7—~ 7 CIOING To MAKE A THEY ARE } ALL BADGES oF | PROHIBITION | Sodeves | RE LONG To REALL ) AM GLAD y, TO KNOW { YOu HAVE | (REFORMED You Loo A Good UNG iE AB THERE ISA GrocD BRY es Ss once a part of CHEER UP OLD Boy! SAID You. ——; day, without allowing | BROUGHT Vou { WHAT THE DocTor NEEDED / (Not Witt THESE’ BADGES [" Nou Toa AN AWFUL QUESTIONS, ame of the nay. N the Lo vigat ‘opean country is th City of Cadiz Lov 3. What is the oldest divis rty years ago the tallest building # Pres latger in or continental United § fishe American bird is the And ther “wild canary” Istands belon: Of what material were the earti- t cannon constructed? ANSWERS. m suse Of the selfish spi Courtship and Marriage By Betty Vincent 1921, by the Presa Publisting Co, (The New York Evening World) n determine about her me to marry him He begged me to accept a friendship ring from him, which gaged and only consider him’ a friend he thinks | should not go about with any one but him. Shall not to run. about If y that‘is another hand, dry doughnuts. matter, but if you have of ever becoming his wife T think it Would be far better for you to consider his friendship suttic ng other mascul twenty-eight. the to marry soon, ay worry ‘The area within the limits men- her into a more serious illness, Why ae, disposition, ” John Ca 4 woman that distig rved remains her hus! ging forgiveness, ates? » of what. fish sometimes “P* egy a tragedy in country do the forgiveness might less trouble for the the relatives test of all star: 8 misery there holds forgiveness, be ted. Most of (hé people wrong do it ihe forgive bornne of what is due the did not want to man pleaded willin gave him This man asked and | refused, 7 he Housewife’s Scrapbook too young to | am not en- I give the ring back? ove £e% and PUZZLED.” of ugar to 100, YOO pe ol vi timer or vanilia, If Sou tacchpt a Flavor with’ nuimer trom this man and 1 think it would dough soft; too do not any intentions amd turn freq ent without seck- Me. ‘This will pre friends. craoks and give ni “Dear Miss Vincent: | am in nuts Jove with a girl of twenty. 1 am : We are planning Do you think + am too old for her? REYNOLDS.” Not unless she is very childish in Sannel, ‘They should b: well dried gach. time alter being ne certain condit tion, A bullet has beer arest Frenob port from her ri are entertained for ion of A short time before nd was on been a half way n conld have put him on pare! t jaw, his kuees beg Can- revolver and cried: “ tranged from you will not forgive n sof Canada t live.” He also tried to shoot him- self but did not suceced is recorded another Phen kill me I don’t want years just be ve for minor offense: If one.could only satisfaction at being aple t that with- They think 4h I would like to show them how weak Sand an exag and do forgive 4 my dear,” iid the your In this particular » erably joulous when he see ave made yourself rigat Mt another: woman, over ‘ do anything if tb Of course, her pride Miss Vincent: | am a ahe was atigry with girl seventeen years old and keep- —g. ing company with a man three years my senior. Group Exercis Specially The Smart Set How to Butt In, Get In and Stay In i The Darby-Hyphens Followed Directions and Found No Detour in the Social Climb. By Neal R. O’Hara. Coppright. 198L, by ‘The Proms Publishing Co, (The New York Prantng Wey, ASHING into society is not as ( imple as society look it lakes Money and brains if you (hem--dough alone if you don't. Pluribus Unum is the sine q anon ind that’s the prescription for bust- ng in, It ec 2 fortune in’ ball room duds to keep a flapper’s back- bone exposed. She's supposed to show the lates gown at every fune- tion and the lowest vertabra yet seen, Half spinal column at a swell soiree od for a column in the morning paper. But every social lioness had ob- secure beginnings. Even in the most giltedged lives there's been a time when Popper had to buy on margin ind shoot the works at the proper time. Not every Handsome Henri that leads cotillons eut his first t on 14th s ome where, or both, each social priner in, We name at spe Some time, n Wabon Whe wiside butiing ample of the local mart Set to show why they got sre and how. Mrs. Darby Hyphen nse to take in boarders before her inferior halt dis- covered a process for selling tissue paper blankets to the Quartermaster Corps. Leaping into the Charmed Circle was accomplished with neat hese, but not despateh, For three Mr. Darby Hyphen gave a dol Jar a year to the to be known Red Cross and came bly inclined, ‘Then he served on a heavyweight committee for giving ‘ hree Cheers. io returning doughboys. He was n st of duty there, too. er missing from his pe if the movie weeklies wer Mrs. Darby-Hyphen slapped a coat of paint on her back door and de cided to call it the adesman's En trance. She bought a box at the opera from a ticket sealper and t DY: you mean to tell me, Clara Mudridge-Simith, that you wn frem the aad fide, this weather, simply to tell me your trouble wding your bus- band demanding that you quit posing on the beach in a one plece bathing: suit?” Mrs, Jare inquired The opulent young matron opposite her the table in the dining room of the Hotel St. Croc toyed with hor salad a me «i then said. Weil, to tell you the truth, L ca 4 beauty doctor and nt ow to town to have a dimple made Where?" asked Mrs. Jar Sh meant to inquire where the beauty Joctor who dug dimples was, but M Mudridge od hy Mth misunder “Well, I "t know now where Tl ne dimple dug, sinee my hus so foolishly rabid against my wear he kind of bathing suit that m moe,” faltered the out But, unless 1 wish him livoree or separation threatens, perhaps I'd 16 dimple in my cheek 1 may get my chin lifted and my ice skinned, too. But then Pd have to slay hidden at home for weeks. und at this Lime of your, too.” “Do you mean to tell me that you seriously considering undergoing figured for 1 dug in your fi or anywhere else 1 off?" asked Mrs. and your skin pee Jarr "It is not to satisfy my own vanity, r matron, “put won't fo make my bu, 1 mis: antly beautiful?’ y.” Mrs, Jarre inquired with a 4s for Summer Health | Arranged by Doris Doscher. ee Ie lintuinye C0, No, 13—RAISING KNEE FORWARD AND STRETCHING BACKWARD. 1 make good cup When: frying dougtmuts @5 soon as they come nity du this exercise ed for filter ade of linen erast with an interest log Mttings required ture. Have them join the class for this exeretse, ‘The nefits dert fr to-night’s less are 80 self evident that re nimble and graceful @ first fou r tng that can- not en you are perfect 1s another way of saying that good circulation {s often the foundation of miccess adviec, my dear spent her spare mornings at a ontf- fure foundry where they moulded her tresses in an undulating manner aad only charged a dollar an inch per hair, Daughter Isabelle was alse done over, and when she erasned back from the finishing schoo! she was officially titled Ysobel Gradually the ice was melted and society b ame less and less frappe. Willard jr. attended Harvard and ac- cumulated the accent that is there dispensed. When he came back at Easter vacation, with the bullet. proof ater of Varsity Lacrosse, Brother Willard just about mopped up with the fair sex. And when Wi! ard was pinehed in a de luxe dice house the family was all but and practi ily made Meanwhile Fawther was improv ing. He gave up shaking sugar on his oysters and got used to a napkin in his lap. He bought a 1 jack knife for serving tobacco and quit sinking his putts with the wooden driver, All in ail, the Darby- Ilyplien menage was on the brink of arriving, as you might say And then came the piece de resistance, which is French for a tough piece of steak, Mr. Olaf Yourhedoff, who formerly collected the Darby-Hyphen ashes, stumbled into eight or ten fathoms of fame. Olaf won the Grand Prix of Czecho-Sapolio for the limerica be made up out of his head. At once he was society’s petted favorite, and on wecount of having borrowed Mr Darby-Hyphen’s rubbers he was 1p debited to the Darby-Hyphens fore most and first. Whereupon the Dar by-Hyphen front parlor was dusted and rechristened to be a salon. Olaf came to read his limericks and all society was there. Must we go on" inum The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘ 4 ht, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World puzzled look, “did you only marry 1 man Smith to annoy him? You know only too well that [ 1 him because my heart wis nh," was the reply. “Oh, why did I let a slight misunder unding bl my life as well as the life of the r 1 loved, to become the bride of an man with money? you mean your life is blig because you didn’t marry Jack Silv und life is blighted because ! marry you, 1 want to tell you did take," satd Mrs. varried old man Smith sked you. As for Jack ver, he is § bachelor, and 2 MryJarr that as long as fis pri- va K of liquor held out he had nothin © to worry ‘him Mrs, Mudridge-Smith sadly And yet if we had wedded when our ro- mance Was at its swerte vould gur Wontd they?" replied Mrs. Jarr, “The way your temperament with old man Smith's would ashes ve in co: parison. ¥ re the most selfish woman I know, and Jack Silver is the most selfish man. “But we loved,” said her friend You urselves, and you still rr. “And if you have come to town to gush abo: yourself ver or to have a dimple jo either or both, No matter ) Likes me out to dine, 1 always pay for the cheek by be bored.”* “Ah, you are a pessimist!” said her friend lightly, “Oh, weil, my dear talk with you, confiding with yx your advice, has done me a dt My heart is lighter, n from my mita!* na rhter, I know,” & ind it was never enou 4 bear any load." 1 ll wait til I come back to town to have the dimpie du a Mrs, Mudrid th take your GOING DOW PAR PARENTS: Your child D is the sum total! of you and your ancestors. ‘To correct him, remedy your owr defects Anything that 1s per fect cannot produce someth that is imperfect. Th: you strive for fore, as rection your child will become more perfect. se no one is without full on why we should not strive for perfection, A child will not be rood. humored if his parents are « Bees is no re ailing. Seeing the error of your in yourself, you ean remed and by doing so make him y you think he ought to be Very sincerely, ALFALF. ) SMITH, nee ne tee cee e meme he 2 Sen eee a SE. REF |