The Buffalo News from Buffalo, New York • 14

BUFFALO EVENING NEWS: MONDAY MAY 27 1912 14 The College Widow By 1IT Webster MBBOBBBBBBUBBBOBOBOBBBqBBBtKMBBBBBBBBBI HESITANCY DESERTED CITY LIES IN CENTER OF MANHATTAN These two men were among the first to build In upper Fifth avenue -but their houses have long stood Idle Mr Harrlman bought Dows' house which standi at the north corner Fifth avenue end Hlxty-nlnth street for about 61000000 The Flske house was recently sold for little more than 6650000 Next to tha former Dowa property stands the house of Heber Dishop which was numbered gmong the deserted dwellings until It also wss purchased by Harrl- Silent Gloomy Mansions Are Here Vacant Filled With Costly Treasures and Owned By Men With Well 1 Known Names ALL ARE MAINTAINED AT ENORMOUS EXPENSE An old man whose life was ripe with experiences said have had many misfortunes THE WORST OF WHICH I NEVER Fear timidity uncertainty the bugaboo of inpend-ing ill -all are misfortunes that many experience without reason Ift MOST instances they msy lie oyoided Let iot the misfortunes and mistakes of the post impede your progress for the present lose time mourning over been done Let some one else bewail the spilled milk' Arise from the misfortune force circumstances to help to build to shape the present and the future Time spent in retrospection further than marking the lessons that have been learned by experience IS TIME WASTED In this busy clay your neighbor your employer your employee and your acquaintance want to know what you are doing NOW Nobody cares what you have been Fast performances count only as they influence your present stan ihig on the form sheet of ATTAINMENT The past is gone We have today We hope for tomorrow If Stumbled or fallen if Fate has frormed if circumstances have lieen adverse HALT Face about set your mark RESOLVE Then act begin anew Every day brings new opportunities new hopes RENEWED AMBITION Remember most fancied misfortunes art never met and he who has the enthusiasm of resolve and doing gives misfortune the widest berth 9m York Herald Sprrial to the XEWR house Id Firth avenue NEW YORK May Surrounded by the gnyety the life and the turmoil of New York city is a deserted village a magnificent village worth by a con servatlve estimate $30000000 This deserted village or city ss It might better be termed lies entirely wILhln the limits of Manhattan and the reel dences which go to make It up are among the most costly In the world and they are owned by men whose names are known throughout the country Fifth avenue Perk avenue Madison avenue Riverside Drive sll supply their quota of mansions to the deserted village Rilent gloomy hall they are which echo nothing but the quiet step of a caretaker who keeps all In readiness for an unexpected visit from the owner who may perhaps sleep In his home one night In the year perhaps never Some of the houses are closed vacant of furniture: others are for sale still Others are never used but arc maintained at enormous expense because of sentiment attaching to them Whims death marriage bust ness all are responsible for these melancholy monuments to wealth But the deserted village does more than gratify the whims of wealthy land owners It is a source of great Income to the city for the taxes run Into the hundreds of thousands of dollars Take the monslon of A Clark one time Senator from Montana In Fifth avenue Mr Clark who made his money In copper haa amassed a won' derful collection of paintings and art objects which he keeps In his Fifth avenue house It is more like a museum than a home It Is a seven story building of massive and Intricate architectural style and resembles to a certain degree a mediaeval French chateau A catalogue of the conveniences In this building would Include a concealed garage a quarantine room aayeral art gallertea in which are represented many schools of painting especially the early Dutch a swimming pool 16 bathrooms a steam laundry a cold storage plant a safety deposit vault and a miniature stage the southwest corner of and Fifty-seventh street by Whitney father Payne Whitney and was a show place in It day of years It has not and although It has been still steiuls Idle Many been made to Mr will not allow the building for trade purposes to it steuds the house of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt occupies her house she Inteuda doing so Mr not allow bla property to trade which Is fast that secliou of Fifth This Idle property of not leas than 620UU0IM) it the only onee to reap the caretaker and the city also owna the house which his father sold to Morse who recently Europe after recuperating effects of his Incarceration prison This residence Morse sold to Henry some years ago Is also Big Expense Henry Clsy Frick not enormous building In which Is vacant but he for 650000 a year and foot Imiide it Probably burden In the way of the property formerly the Lenox Library block in Fifth avenue and Seventy-first block was purchased by 1606 for 66400000 On of the new Public at Forty-second street avenue the Lenox Library the building but Mr It at an enormous Last year the city property at 42300000 taxes of 639660 a year on the Investment cent adds 696000 to the brings the total to 6115460 this lmmnse outlay which THE DAY OF DOING TODAY IS THE DAY OF DOING The laggard has no place in the arrangements of- the business world Efficiency accomplishment are the demands on every hand Those who are skilled competent and -capable of bearing responsibility are sought out for the HIGH PLACFS i INTENSIVE BUSINESS 'where the fraction of a cent figures in the cost of production and the meeting of competition brings chances a plenty to those who can point -out MAXIMUM accomplishment at MINIMUM outlay GET UP ON YOUR TOES GET INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES BECOME IMBUED WITH THE ENTHUSIASM OF ACCOM-' PLISIIMENT recognition for-those who persevere well directed effort brings reward Tliose who fit into the rut never experience the ex- hiliration of accomplishment never know the' jov of saying IS A GOOD JOB AND I HAVE DONE IT The upward path of striving constant effort sin- cere endeavor is more crowded at the BOTTOM than at the TOP It takes strenuous effort to get the first start but the REWARD is worth the sweating and the toil Today the cry is for WORKERS who are capable of accomplishing many tasks only those who are DOERS need apply crutches and sue the employers for damages One of the most Interesting features In connection with the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers which dosed lost week at the Waldorf-Astoria was the exhibit of safety devices for preventing workmen from injuring themselves In the performance of their tanks Owners of factories and mills are not hard hearted despite the remarks of the Rociallstlc press From a purely business point of view It Is of no benefit to them to hate a trained and well killed employe incapacitated when by the use of ordinary and often very Inexpensive safeguards he iy enabled to protect himself More devices than any oilier company has- adopted were shown by the United States Steel Corporation and likewise the corporation had the faith of Its convictions to put some of the very cigars on exhibition which It offered to its workmen when the record for accidents should prove exceptionally low The cigars are warranted to be full Havana and to contain no deadly Ingredients They may be smoked without injury to fellow craftsmen nd without Incurring the enmity of III CORPORATIONS INTO CENTRAL HOLDING CO Leonard Matthews St Louis Banker and Broker Has Plan Which He Says -Will Reduce Cost of Living Special to the XEWH 8T LOL'IK Mu May With the stamp of approrpl ol many prominent men of ilia novel plan ol lonard Matthews a banker broker and business man of 5447 Oubanue avenue 8c Louis for reducing the cost of living determined effort will be made to have an Indorsement of the plan Incorporated lu the platform of one of the political parties when Iho national conventions meet In June Matthews' plan proposes the absorption of all business corporations Into central holding company which will handle business of all kinds The company will be owned by the people and supervised by the government "Conditions have been working more and more against the Interest of the laborer and farmer Matthews declares that now wfth greatly increased wages It is more and more difficult for the laborer to enjoy the necessities of life to say nothing of Us luxuries and the farmer owing to constantly adverse conditions receives less than 5U per cent of the price the consumer pays for his produce The queitlon to be decided Is this: Shall the farmer and laborer the source of sll wealth be allowed to retain It all or shall the trusts and non-producers be allowed to absorb ltf The Plan "The farmer and the laborer have aa Incalculable amount of potential power if they can be made to realise it sad to demsnd that such changes be made as shall give them better opportunities 'A change of conditions which would put the conduct of all business Into the hinds of the people If carried out at once would mean revolution But the change can be brought about gradually without causing inconvenience and serious loss to anyone Thera are certain outstanding obligations such as bonds and leases that could not be canceled at ouce without great low In order that such a change may be equitable to all would allow 65 years for the eventual consummation of the plan But some action ehould be taken on the plan at once that conditions could be immediately ameliorated (- The first step should be to make provision for 11 existing corporations and all which may be organised in the future to operate under Federal charters limiting their capital and term of existence Every corporation should then be required to put' aside 614 per cent to sinking fund swhlch would be sufficiently Urge st the end of 65 years to reimburse the storkholdKrs of the corporation st par when the corporation Is absorbed by the Eots Company the central concern Under present conditions this amount would not be felt by the public Federal Charter The organisation of the Eots Company which should also operate under a Federal charter could be started as soon practicable so ss not to interfere with other business It and all other corporations should be controlled by a Federal commission which would regulate prices salaries of officiate rates of interest and such matters The result would be a gradual absorption of the business of the country by a comps ny in which every one who rsred to do so could Invest and get their share of the profits Moreover the operation of such a company would make for economy In such degree that the prices of commodities would be reduced better wages could be paid and the condition of the people generally improved "All stock of the company should be subject to rail at par in excess of 6150000 snd thus speculation which has such vital effect on the fluctuations In pricer would be eliminated The dividends would be limited to six per rent What the company earned In exres of that could be devoted to the use of the public In paying State and national taxes for making rivers navigable for draining swamps and reclaiming land for building museums nd zoological gardens snd constructing and equipping buildings for educational purposes' MOB SEEKS NEGRO IMPLICATED IN OUTRAGE WACO Texas Msy A mob or 2U0 men is reported to be en route to Waco from Tyler aboard a special train get Reorge Price a negro In jail here Implicated by the confession of Dan Davis who was lynched early today st Tyler Price it is said hod been spirited sway The train Is due at 8 o'clock 8unday CT BRIGID'8 DRAMATIC CIRCLE TO PRESENT COMEDY The IVimitlc Circle of St Origin's Church will present the "Millionaire and the Meld" a musical comedy si St lU'iKin's llall Louisiana snd Fulton slreela Tuesday night The comedy haa been produced before end the crowds were so large that all who warned to see ills' piny could not be accommodated It was In response to tho request of those turned sway that the circle decided to produce the comedy again One more act and some other feu-lurcs havn been added to the pro gram Dancing will follnw the performance The entertainment will be -for the benefit of the church Mr Homelniilder You want a direct route te the easterner the man who routs tho a who buys? Hava you Tested tha Want Ada? You know their effl cieney If you have but If you have neglected I ham I here's every real why you ehoaldget busy gt once THOUSAND! HEAD THE WANT ADH One la at the avenue It was built of Henry considered For a number been occupied for rent It offers have Whitney but he to be leased because opposite his mother She frequently and while Whitney will be used for encroaching on avenue represents a value and from benefit are Mr Whitney next door Mr Charles returned from from the In a federal which Mr Payne Whitney standing Idle only owns on Fifth avenue leases a house seldom seta his greatest real estate la occupied by occupying a between Seventieth streets This Mr Frick In the completion Library Building and Fifth vacated Frick la carrying expense assessed this which means while the Interest at four per expenaa and Besides brings no return Mr Frick rents the George Vanderbilt house in Fifth avenue between Fifty-first and Flfty-aeeond street The lease does not expire until 1915 and meantime Mr Frick la paying 650000 a year for a house In which be very seldom stays A landmark of the deserted village la James Stillman's house at Seventy-second street and Fifth avenue Until two yean ago Mr Stillman one time president of the National City Bank occupied the house but It Is now tenantless James Haggln turfman owns vacant house at Fifth avenue and Blx-ty-thlrd street In which the Progress Club met for time The two houses are valued at about $li000000 together For years the Charles Yerkea residence one of the most famous buildings In New York hoe been vs-' cant It is at the south corner of Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street and the great traction men of London and New York spared no expense In making it a wonderful building The property extends 60 feet along Fifth venue and 163 feet on the elds street Since Mrs Yerkea left It three years ago It hie been tenantlcss Bhe end her husband packed It with art treasures and Its conservatories were the wonder of New York Soon after the residence was completed Mrs Yerkea acquired so great a number of paintings and other art objects that her husband had built an extra gallery at great expense The land for this was acquired by the purrhaaa of the adjoining Downing residence 660 Fifth avenue In 1900 the executors of the Yerkea estate had the combined properties old at suction and tha house wee hid In by Robert Dowling for 51238-000 Later Mr Dowling sold the gallery to Thomas Ryan whose residence adjoins it on tha south Concern to Residents Some of these deserted houses are matter of concern to residents In nearby houses for there Is always chance that tha owner may Some day let his property for trade purposes One of these le 19 Weet Fifty-fourth street a house formerly owned by Francis Kinney tobacco man and owner of tha Hoffman House and Albemarle Hotel The unoccupied house wee on the market for number of years after Mr Kinney's death and It wee understood that many offers were being mode for it by persons who wished to use it for trade Opposite this building la the residence of Mr John Rockefeller and several of his family When Mr Rockefeller resllied the danger of the Kinney house being used for trsdo he pur chased It for 20200 There was no Intention to occupy the Kinney house end Mr Rockefeller's object ip pur chasing It was merely to protect his own property Mr Rockefeller intends to erect con' crete walls on each side tbs broad trip of property he owns running through from Vest Fifty-third to West Fifty-fourth street The spare en dosed will he taken up by gardens exrept for that occupied by his own house his daughter's house and the eight story dwelling which he le erecting for hie eon Mr Rockefeller seldom spends any time In New York end this property might almost be classified witli the deserted village For six years no one has lived In the house built by Joslsh Ffske Mr Flske who Is deed woe grain merchant and a member of the New York Produce Exchange He built the house on the south corner o( Fifth venue and Seventieth street In order to become neighbor to hie friend and associate on the Produce Exchange David Dows who la alao dead Lovely Woman Plays Poker By II Webster MWBU1WBU ones MBMiAMat? the surrounding population They will burn slowly sud evenly with or without fuses andno forced draught or blowpipes are required to keep them up to the highest standard of drawing effiotoncy The chemists of the company accustomed to careful analysis have examined the rolls of tobacco and guarantee them to contain the proper proportion of nicotine and potash Other Prizes These are no slender little pana-tellai but cigars of tha psrfacfo else which any able bodied toller la able to handle' Their aroma is so fine that their presence may be discerned in the fumes of a foundry Every cigar has a red and gilt band on which I embossed for Safety'' Other prises Inscribed' with this same slogan are' also given such as match safes watch fobs paper cutters scarf pins and buttons which msy he given to operatives who are not fond of smoking Hundreds of working men from the factories snd mills in this city and Philadelphia gathered with the manufacturers to inspect devices made for their protection and to view the moving pictures i "mason ns esr eo mm WHEKSHAUI HlMBOYSt Advcirftnsiinig Talks MANUFACTURERS USE PREVENT ACCIDENTS "for Safety and Win a One of New Means Adopted to Protect Employes New Yok Herald Hprrial to the KKWH NEW YORK Mar Boost for safety end win a cigar! This Is a sample of the new tactics by which manufacturers induce their employes these days to keep from having their fingers cut off and their wrist broken and their eyes eliminated In the course of their duties It Is much more pleasant to- be whole end sound and smoke large cigars in leisure hours at the expense of the Company than to walk about on MOW MMttTHe wsitrea Mi twefgfse losneiw suit icieiBsum? Buga if mm iowNnu When 1 i one 'Only a Beginning 'The glass alone In two to the bathrooms la said to be worth 614700 In the breakfast room are 170 panela of different design On the roof are an observatory and a solarium Every room In the house has a system of secret doors which are operated by means of-hidden springs In order not to have any breaks In the hangings That is only a beglM-Ing The steam heating plant eoat 6140000 to Install the chamber organ which is said to be the largest of Its type In the -world 1s valued at 6160000 on the roof is bronxe ornamental work which cost 6400000! a single friese cost 610000 and uncut marble for the stairways and other parts of the building cost 640000 One of the stairways is made up of marble from almoet every known 'quarry In the world In the main dining room there extends for distance mi eight feet down the ceilings of Caen atone carved In are carved panels of selected with extreme care for 'the blending of colon and made from Moods frbm all parts of the world Even now the house Is not altogether wumpleted for Mr Clark Is not quite satisfied with the result For 11 yean work has been dons on It almost constantly aco neither the 'owner or his family have occupied it for more than a few days at a time 'Mr Clark spends most of his time traveling Just what the building and Its eon-tents are worth la greatly a matter of conjecture but the figure is often estimated at more than 66000000 It was assessed by the city ini 1010 as valued at 63500000 but on protest this figure was reduced to 63600000 on the ground that it was not fair to assets such a house on the cost of replacing It It was pointed out that because cf Its costliness and unique quality it had no rental value Even with the reduced assessment the taxes amount to 656400 and when Is added to his the inters on the Invested capital the cost of maintenance of the house enormous Scenic Palace the most palatial cf the resl-of the deserted village and one whirh occupies a position almost unique for its scenic uoauty is that of Charles Schwab Bi-ilt of red brick and stone and modelled after a French palace this elegant mansion sands 1l the center qf the block bounded by Riverside Drive West End avenue and Seventy-third and Keventy-fourth street its windows command an unobstructed view of the Hudson River and the Palisades (Spacious lawns are surrounded by an ornate Iron fence and a broad drive curves gracefully from the handsome gates to the ports eochere Mr Schwab who Is president of the Bethlehem Steel Cmipany a usually in Pittsburgh or in Europe and scarcely ever enters the house which is kept ever ready for his use Motor cars are a fad with him and there have been as many as 14 at one time stend' Ing idle In Jhe garage os the property with no one to use them Although Mr Schwab does not spend more that a day or wo a year in thia house it is always In that state of preparedness which would be maintained lx he were expected tha night The expense of keeping a staff of 'servants in the house is no small item but 'then them am the taxes The house and land is assessed by New York City at 61240000 which makes the taxis at the rate of 6176 on 6ino amount to 620440 If it Is permissible to add to thin the merest on the In vestment at 4 per cent the total cost rear amounts to 66640L Heaiy Payne Whitney owna two Ol -i-i i Nw York City Two Hundred Thousand Sailesmen Has the manufacturer of a desirable product ever pohdered over the fact that every copy of the daily newspaper performs the function of a salesman? A daily newspaper with the circulation of two hunv dred thousand copies means that the article advefr-tised in that newspaper haa its merits described simultaneously by two hundred thousand agents of good repute received by every section of the com-munity A ready-made market for -ever-present purchasers The Daily Newspaper Club emphasizes the value of the daily newspaper for introducing cheaply promptly and efficiently every kind of merchandise for every class of man woman and child TheClub is an educative force it accepts no contracts and gives its advice and the knowledge gained by exper- ience free to all applicants THE DAILY NEWSPAPER CLUB 1 ADAMS Uwnl kmcn 'SAYBOtetoMB out TO KlCcNT AnO HAVS A Httg LITTLE GAME Of 3ACKWT WITH MY WiSE AHP MF KACY IS Fort DOF THff game a I Now vou hcsdKt srr MibRY BeCMibg KMT KVXLF CAPPS PiptfT do it mention-ALIY AND fU THgOVV CARD AWAY World Building.