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HK mayor of Skyscraper
*1 City had been laboring
fflgß jSs/ the whole day with many
of the problems that de-
f ))|\\ volved upon him as one
Q P]}) responsible for the wel
(j lare of ten or twelve
jy thousand people. All
these had been prob-
lems different, from those
which commonly arise in
the administration of the affairs of a
.municipality. In the first place, Sky
scraper city had no unemployed to
provide for. It had no prisons, no
poorhouses, no hospitals, nor any of
the many other public institutions
that arc part of the average American
city. And, furthermore, it was not
periodically rent by political strife.
The population, nevertheless, was a
most exacting one and in this respect
Skyscraper City was unliko the aver
age American municipality. In most
communities the people will stand idly
by and see the politicians divide the
;loot of ofTlceholding without even
looking to their personal interests. In
Skyscraper City, however, let a win
dow be broken, let the voice of a radi
ator be raised in plaintive protest
against too much steam, or let the wa
ter supply be affected by too little
pressure and the mayor is instantly
(besieged by angry constituents de
manding this or that official's removal
from ofllee.
These were some of the annoyances
that had wearied Skyscraper City's
chief magistrate. Even while he sat
■back in his chair, gazing at the ceil
ing and pondering upon the designs
In the decorations, the chief of police
walked in and announced that he was
,60 unfavorably impressed with the
people at No. 1511 Fifteenth street
that he would recommend their en
forced departure.
"They are always breaking some
law or other," he exclaimed indignant
ly, "end I want to get rid of them.
They haven't paid their taxes, either,
for the last month, and, what's more,
they have a barrel of gasolene in their
possession, which is a violation of the
law."
So a writ of deportation was issued
and the chief of police withdrew ex
ultantly, making way for the head of
the health bo&rd.
"In Tenth street," said that digni
tary, "1 find there is a leak in the sew
er pipe. I am having the sanitary
equad remedy It."
The mayor was still endeavoring to
determine which individual design in
the ceiling would hit. him on the nose
were it to fall, or which particular de
sign his nose would hit if he were to
rise and meet the ceiling, and the
health board officer went out.
And then the fire chief came In with
a grievance, and the head of the de
partment of water, gas and electricity
and other officials. So the whole day
passed, and so does the whole year
pass for the mayor of Skyscraper
City.
"A strange sort of place indeed, this
city," you will say. "Where is it?"
Skyscraper City, to enlighten you, is
a übiquitous community located in
every part of the Uiited States where
land has become so valuable that, in
stead of capitalists building over a
large area, they build In a limited
space, and straight toward the clouds.
In plain words, It is none other than
the great modern skyscraper, with its
population as great, in many cases, as
that of a third class municipality.
"Hut the mayor," you will say. "Who 1
ever heard of a mayor of a building?" 1
Yes, the mayor. You have heard
of a superintendent of a building, and
if the superintendent of a skyscraper
housing from five to twelve thousand
people has not as much right to the
title of mayor as the chief executive
of a community of, say one thousand,
spread along a couple of streets,
where the city limits are marked out
by fence rails and stone walls, then
the United States is not a democratic
country.
Building operations can't goon with
the spirit of emulation that now holds
between contractors without the Sky
scraper City of a few years hence
being in sore need of a real munci
pal administration, with a mayor, al
dermen and all the other public serv
ants that make annual elections nec
essary. It has them all now under ,
different names.
There are, for instance, the mem- -
bers of the health department, which j
sanitary body consists of a corps of (
able bodied women, equipped with (
mops and pails and compelling voices.
That corps of women alone is suffi
cient to suggest an analogy between (
Skyscraper City and a representa
tive American municipality, and should
give the former a lasting right to the |
name of a thriving city.
Policemen on Patrol,
Then there are the members of the
police department, whose main duty
in the suppression of criminality is to
see that no one walks off with any
part of the building or its contents.
These are the watchmen, who patrol
continuously night and day, and the
main differences between them and the
police of your recognized city are that
they are paid less and are, perhaps,
not subject to periodical charges of
graft. Xor do they have to parade for
composed of the electricians and as
who stand out in the sun, doffing
their hats and smiling approvingly, the
while patting each other on the back
in appreciation of the department they
have developed.
What more heroic and picturesque
body is there than the fire depart
ment, with its red shirted or blue
shirted, or any other color shirted,
men, ready and eager to grapple with
flames or anything else, under any
conditions and at every moment? In
Skyscraper City the fire department
consists of an efficient band of men as
well 'trained as the firemen of a large
municipality and equipped with all the
latest devices for combating flames.
And there is the department of
water, gas and electricity, the latter
composed of the elecricians and as
sistants in the engine room. These
large buildings do not depend upon
outside sources for their electricity.
1 They have thoroughly equipped plants
for manufacturing their own. As far
as the water department is concern
ed, one New York skyscraper has a
pumping station that is capable of
supplying sufficient water to furnish
a city of 350,000 people.
Now here is where the similarity
between the skyscraper and the recog
nized city is made strongly apparent.
Skyscraper City often has within its
boundaries establishments which can
supply every need of a hungry, thirsty,
dirty, naked citizen.
No need to die of starvation were
you to be confined for life In Sky
scraper City while its restaurants are
able to get a dinner together. Its cafe
would banish all fear of longing for
something to render the throat and
stomach more comfortable without
hope of receiving It. Its haberdashery
and tailor could clothe you In the lat
• est fashion; its shoe store would at
tend to the task of keeping your feet
well shod. Its baths would be ever
ready to open their arms to you. Your
i every want for things procurable only
in a confectioner's shop would be fill
■ cd, while you would merely have to
Igo downstairs should you feel that
i j your happiness might be enhanced by
I a fragrant cigar. The fruit stand is
J on the main lloor, left.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1910.
Suddenly In the course of a busy
afternoon the confectionery which you
might have bought at Skyscraper
City's progressive shop might causa
some restlessness on the part of your
teeth. You merely have togo to 12th
street, which Is Skyscraper City's
twelfth floor, and have the trouble
remedied by the dentist. Or perhaps
some fruit from the stand below might
result In a little disturbance in your
interior mechanism; you will find a
doctor on Bth street. An occasion
might arise where you might require
the services of a lawyer—a bad account
or any of the many little things that
simply will crop up in everyday life.
Skyscraper City just swarms with
these eminent practitioners. The law
will always be sure of interpreters so
long as Skyscraper City rears up
ward.
Population Over 10,000.
All the stores in this "city" are lo
cated in Main street —nothing unusual
for municipalities of its size. In one
particular case this street is more
than three hundred feet in length, and
is traversed daily by thousands of
people. More than twelve hundred
residences are located in this "city,"
each being labelled on the front door
with the name of the inhabitant and
ills business. These residences art,
specifically termed offices, and each
one is visited a number of times dur
ing the day by the postman. Of
course, it would take one postman a
good many hours to cover the entire
route of the "city." Consequently the
streets are divided into territories, so
Skyscraper City may be said to
have its own postofflce department.
In this particular "city" one street is
inhabitated by more than seven hun
dred people. This "city" has forty
one streets, the entire population be
ing more than ten thousand.
There is one thing in this same city
of which the inhabitants may well be
proud. It Is the transportation sys
tem. It consists of twenty-three ele
vators, the combined capacity being
about ten thousand people an hour.
Transportation in those cases is both
quick and safe. There is no mortal
ity in connection with this transit
system. An elevator In one of the
latest of New York's skscraper mu
nicipalities travels 548 feet into the
air, all the way up to the fortieth
street, and this without the incon
venience of changing cars, which is
more than can be said of New York
City's car lines at times. These ele
vators can carry twenty-five hundred
pounds at a speed of six hundred feet
a minute, which means rising with
some rapidity.
Again, in the method of summoning
the fire department or the police de
partment the similitude between a
municipality and Skyscraper City
is maintained. In the big cities, when
a policeman is desirous of bringing
about a meeting between some re
creant citizens and the judge at tho
court he summons an appropriate
conveyance by ringing up headquar
ters from a little box on the corner.
The fire department may be required,
and it is similarly called. In one Sky
scraper City in Chicago there Is a
-system of signals, possible ol' opera
tion from any part of the premises,
which permits of an official getting
in touch with his subordinates at any
instant. And so far as the postal de
partment is concerned, there is the
letter chute, running to every floor,
which might be said to correspond
to the letter boxes installed at various
points throughout American cities.
So the immense building operations
of the times are surrounding residents
of real cities with these twentieth
century municipalities, with all tho
officers and laws, in different form,
of a regularly chartered city. There
is nothing missing, not even the fa-
I cilities for traveling home from work,
! without leaving the confines of the
buildings, for some of these skyscrap
ers have private entrances to subway
and elevated lines. And all must not
necessarily be work here any more
than in any other city. If the inhabi
tants of this modern institution wish
to take recreation some Skyscraper
cities afford an opportunity by hav
ing palm gardens laid out on the roof.
Quite True.
I',ill —He says his books are his best
friends.
.7ill —Well, he can turn 'em down
when he gets tired of 'em without of
fending 'em.-Yonkers Statesman.
All Are Sinful.
We are ail sinful. Therefore what
ever we blame in another we shall
find in our own bosoms. —Seneca.
GOVERNOR STUBBS OF KANSASj
r— ———————————--| Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs, who was re
nominated at the Republican primaries of the
JjjZygfc state, has had a short career In politics, compared
' with most leaders. It is only seven years since
he began to interest himself at all actively in
w public affairs, and now the governor's ambition la
feSfc/ 'ltte t° succeed Senator Charles Curtis, whoso term
expires in March, 1913, and whose successor will
VW// *£& If k e c^osen two years hence.
/ Stubbs Is red headed, like that other Insurgent
JB,' 112 'K 1 leader of Kansas Republicans, Victor Murdock.
Red hair means energy. Oddly enough, he comes
ot Q uaker stock. His parents, who lived in Rich
17w///]k iffi]lljl niond, Ind., when he was born, were very poor,
j®*, Irill I Now fifty-two years old, the governor is wealthy
1, / ' . ' l 'if'| as a result of many years of hard work as a con
tractor, mostly in railroad building. Thus he has
an intimate acquaintance with one feature of railroad affairs, the cost of
new lines.
A big man physically, Stubbs has a face that Is often boyishly emotional,
though It can change into granite hardness when his fighting spirit 1»
aroused. His talk is homely and direct. He frankly admits that he is ambi
tious togo high in politics. He baR hardly any "book learning," and ha does
not pretend to have any. He has been, however, a very good friend to the
etate's educational institutions and appreciates education.
Stubbs l*igan his political career In 1903 by going to the legislature. In
1904 he became chairman of the Republican state committee and remained
f.uch for four years. Ho nominated Edward Wallty Hoch for governor, after
Hoch had refused to accept the nomination. Stubbs hired two good talkers
to use the long-distance telephone from Topeka on every farmer in the state
who had a phone in his home. It cost a good deal of money, but Stubbs was
satisfied with Uie result "They wouldn't have worried about a letter," he
said, "but when they got a long-distano# call they knew that meant some
thing."
| CARDINAL GIBBONS AT 76 |
~1 James, Cardinal Gibbons, who recently cele
brated the seventy-sixth anniversary of his birth,
' s noted among churchmen and is head of the Ro-
MTy man Catholic hierarchy in the United States.
was born in Baltimore, but at an early age
\ was taken his parents to their former home
i %•) in Ire ' an<1 ' where his education began. Upon
' l ' w returning to tho United States he lived for a
ijlw wJ while in New Orleans. He studied first at St
, T Charles college and later at St. Mary's seminary
m fl jf I in Baltimore, and in 1861 he was ordained to the
priesthood. In a short time he was made private
?/y\ secretary to Archbishop Spalding and chancellor
of the archdiocese. In 1803 he was raised to the
_ fafflm!/. episcopate and in 1877 was created coadjutor
sfitmk eihi archbishop of Baltimore. A few months later he
succeeded to the see, and on Juno 30, 188 C, he
was invested with the insignia of cardinal. Cardinal Gibbons presided at
the third national council of the church, held in Baltimore in 1884. He has
written books and pamphlets on religious subjects and is noted for his char
itable work.
In the course of a general conversation with the cardinal the
subject of divorce came up and he at once opened up on it with all his bat
teries. The evils of divorce are ever uppermost in his thoughts. "Divorce
is a canker which is eating into the very vitals of our life," he said in the
interview, in which ho also urged young men to enter politics. "Society—
our whole civilization uprears itself upon the sanctity of the home and the
unity of the family. When you attack the family you attack government
Itself. And government to protect and perpetuate Itself must expunge from
Its statutes the criminal divorce laws which the best of our life abhors.
"I pray for he time when men and women may be persuaded to under
stand the seriousness of marriage. Regardless of religious convictions, they
should understand that they are entering upon a contract which Is not of a
day or a month, but of a lifetime. They should know that they must bear
and forbear. The husband cannot pull one way and the wife another. They
must pull in the traces together."
WILL GIVE AWAY MILLIONS
|— —— -————-1 With the announcement that John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., has resigned from the directorate of
the Standard Oil company and has relinquished
other large business interests to assume charge
or the WOrk 0f giving awa y his father's vast for-
JyMISHB tune, a new public interest in this young man has
arisen. Now thirty-three years old, lie has been
* / looke 'l upon for many years as the heir apparent
«l of the elder Rockefeller's habits of aoqulsitive
k ness an ' l fru &«lity. His talks to his Sunday
Am school class have been keenly matched and re-
V ported in the newspapers, and their tone has
been considered, by a good part of ♦■lie public at
I " ' Jfyt least, that of unctuous, self-satinged piety. But
" SiwwNffifc now everything is changed; both the father and
w*'/ ' the son aro preparing to demonstrate their belief
that faith without works is void," and the works
are to be great indeed if all that is promised of the Rockefeller Foundation
shall be carried out.
October 1, 1901, Mr. Rockefeller married Abby Green Aldrlch, daughter
of Senator Nelson W. Aldrlch of Rhode Island. The marriage, which took
place in Providence, was a great society event, and was attended by 1 000
guests. The gifts were valued at $700,000. Three children have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller.
Gradually the younger Rockefeller has been relinquishing his responsi
billties as a director in large corporations. As a Sunday school teacher Mr.
Rockefeller has been an utterer of many precepts for the guidance of hia
fellow young men. He has advised against living beyond one's means
against borrowing money on friendship, against drinking anything intoxicat
ing, against shirking humble work, against discontent because of poverty
against sourfacedness, against timidity and several other things that have
been the subjects of platitudes and homilies since religion began to be
associated with morals.
There is nothing original in his remarks, though they undoubtedly are
the outpourings of a sincere, if conventional, mind. His Sunday school class
naturally, has been filled with young men eager to learn the way to success!
| WEDS A JAP WAR ADMIRAL I
Miss Florence M. Roche, the only daughter of
the late James Jeffrey Roche, the famous poet
m a "' l author ' was recently married in Boston to
in Rea(l Admlral Henr y Walton Grinell, formerly
" ie Yankee admiral of the Japanese navy, and
they are now tourin g Europe. They have been
WHPPfF iSr friends for years. The admiral was a friend qf
q the >' oul, S woman's father while ho was editok
■«" / of the Pilot. During last winter the two were
wl Vt brought together a great deal at St. Augustine
\ 1111,1 their IOnR friendsh 'P strengthened by con
stant association, led to their engagement.
• Wlss Hoche ,s abou t 25 years old and has lived
I )'A / ,n Boston virtually all her life up to the time that
'-f /'f hcr father was appointed consul to Genoa by
L_ :—— : L President Roosevelt in 1905, when she pave up
her work and joined him. Mr. Roche died two
years ago. Admiral Grinell entered the United States navy at an early a-e
and rose to the rank of lieutenant. 0
Just before the Chinese-Japanese war Japan asked for an American naval
officer in helping to build up and organize its navy. Grinell was made th«
choice of the navy board. He was given the rank of rear admlral by the
Japanese government and remained in its emploj for several yearo in an
advisory capa/iity.
SOMETIMES*
Octa««
Henderson —When a man marries
he keeps his wife in dresses, hata,
shoes—in fact, everything she needa*
What does a wife keep her husband
In?
Henpeck (absently)— Hot water.
Had Lost Faith In Doc
tors and Medicines
"I wish to thank you for the sample
of Itesinol Soap sent me several
weeks ago," writes Mrs. M. F. Clem
mer, Sunhury, Pa. "At that time my
baby's face was like a raw and bleed
ing piece of meat. Medicine from
three different physicians, besides va>-
rlous salves recommended by friends,
all soemed to make the Eczema worse.
Then another mother recommended
Resinol Ointment which I procured at
once, although I had no more faith In
it than in the rest I had tried; but
never did I spend fifty cents to better
advantage. The first and second days
I noticed a remarkable change, and
now at the end of the third week, my
pretty blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked baby is
perfectly well again. I think tho cure
was surely something remarkable.
Resinol Ointment and Soap did in
three weeks what everything else
failed to do In four months. My baby
had been positively disfigured, now
his complexion is all right again."
Resinol Ointment cures all skin
troubles, from pimples to the most dis
figuring eruptions and rashes. The
first application stops tho intense itch
ing of Eczema, Itching Piles, Pruritus,
etc., and subdues the pain of a burn
or scald instantaneously. It is sold
in every leading drug store in the
world.
Booklet on Care of the Skin and
Complexion sent free. Write for It
Resinol Chemical Co., Baitimore, Md.
A Bernhardt'Trick.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, who is sup
posed to be something of an artist as
well as an actress, was recently called
upon in one of her marvelous crea
tions to enact the role of a sculptor,
and to model a certain bust in view of
the audience. This fairly electrified
the critics, but when going into rhap
sodies over the technical skill in han
dling the clay which Mme. Bernhardt
exhibited they showed that they knew
little of the artistic tricks of actors
and actresses; as a matter of fact, she
does nothing of the kind. The bust
is modeled and baked, and over it is
placed damp clay of the same color.
This the talented actress merely pulls
off, exposing the beautifully modeled
head underneath.
Try This, This Summer.
The very next time you're hot, tired
or thirsty, step up to a soda fountain
and get a glass of Coca-Cola. It will
cool you off, relieve your bodily and
mental fatigue and quench your thirst
delightfully. At soda fountains or
carbonated in bottles—Be everywhere.
Delicious, refreshing and wholesome.
Send to the Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta,
Ga., for their free booklet "The Truth
About Coca-Cola." Tells what Coca-
Cola Is and why it is bo delicious, re
freshing and thirst-quenching. And
send 2c stamp for the Coca-Cola Base
ball Record Book for 1910—contains
the famous poem "Casey At The Bat,"
records, schedules for both leagues
and other valuable baseball informs
tion compiled by authorities.
A New Version.
Lawyers have a peculiar system of
abbreviation, such words as trustees,
executors being cut down to trees,
exors, and admors. This practise led
to an amusing slip on the part of a
solicitor, who, somewhat late in life,
abandoned his profession and entered
the church. A few Sundays after hia
ordination he startled his congrega
tion while reading tho lesson by deliv
ering one of the passages as follows:
"I see men as trustees walking."
Less Lavish.
"I saw 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' played
recently."
"So?"
"I think I'll read the book."
"You may be disappointed. Tho
book mentions only one little Eva and
one Lawyer Marks." —Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
A Treasure.
"Your new maid looks very dis
creet."
"Indeed, she is. She even knocks
at all the drawers before opening
them." —Pele Mele.
3Tr«. Wlnfloim Soothing Syrup,
Forchiidivn t<*<»thkuf£. softens the Hum a, reaucesl~
tluuiuiuuuu.allavs pain. cun;s. wind colic, wcu bolU >,
Potter a nagless wife than a horß®>
less carriage.