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Big Rents Paid by New Yorkers. A BROADWAY CORNER HOLDS WORLD’S RECORD. Enormous Sums Charged For Officesand Apartments Both Downton and Uptown g B;—_Tl. W. MOUNT. ‘ The island of Manhattan isn’t very big. but it makes the most of itself. One little chunk of it, at Broadway and Wall street, commands a higher rental than is paid for the same amount of space anywhere else in the world. Slightly over $35 & square foot, averaging, it is said, $40,000 a year, is paid by a cigar company for one small store on this site, which goes to show that money invested in cigar stores does not all go up in smoke. A quarter of a million is the con servative sum estimated as represent ing the combined rentals of space on the concourse floor of the Hud son Terminal Building, while half a million is paid by a single firm for ten floors in a neighboring skyscrap er and, it is said, the Erie Railroad more than matches this sum by the tidy rental it pays for five floors in the Cortlandt street Terminal Build ing. No other corporation has as much floor area in this structure. People who want office space in Manhattan never seem to let a iittle matter of rent stand in the way of acquiring it. When John W. Gates desired a suite of private offices in upper Fifth avenue he paid $55,000 a vear for a modest sized floor and fitted it up cozily at an expenditure of $12,000. His suite in the Trinity Building cost him $50,000. The postoffice is one of Manhattan's good tenants. Close upcn a quarter of a million dollars goes into Father Knickerbocker’s pockets from the government, which pays $230,000 a vear for postoffice stations, finding space in the Grand Central Palace at $33,500 a year, at West and Morton streets for $20,500 and at the Madi son Square and a few other stations at almost as high a figure. The Pro duce Exchange has the postoffice for a tenant. Like others, it has to pay the $7.50 a square foot, which totals up to $4500 a year for store space in this bailding. Lessees aré so afraid that rents will continue to soar in Manhattan that many—the government includ ed—have taken out as long leases as they could, while, on the other hand. numerous agents have wisely provided against future contingencies ‘of another kind and refused to lease except on long terms. A $72,000,000 Leasc. The longest lease of its kind in New York is that of a Greeley Square site at the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-third street for a term of 105 years for $12,- 000,000. Four millions will be paid for the first forty-two years and SB,- 000,000 for the rest of the term, an arrangement on the part of the les see, Harry Levey, which goes to show that he believes the site will increase in value a generation or so after he has erected a two or three million dollar structure to stand upon that corner on completion of the Penn sylvania tunnel. The old New York Club site, at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, has been taken by a grocery firm for a term of twenty-one years for $4,- 000,000 net, while another lease for the same period has been entered in to for No. 1 West Thirty-fourth street. ‘“Notwithstanding the present money stringency, there has been no appreciable reduction in rentals for office space this year,” said Robert A. Granniss, Jr., vice-president of the firm of Pease & Elliman, speak ing about downtown office buildings. “‘The general average of offices rent for $2 a square foot, and $30,000 for a floor is considered a pretty good rental in the average office building. A common price is about SIOOO a year for an office about twenty-eight by eighteen feet in size, which is usu ally partitioned off into three rooms. “Of course, there are exceptions to all rules, and certain buildings in Broadway, in the neighborhood of Wall Street get from $3 tos4a s(flare toot for a floor 20,000 to 30,000 square feet in size. ‘ **A brisk demand exists for offices, and, owing to the opening of the new buildings, many firms have been at tracted to New York who have never had offices here. Of course, store sents are always higher than office rents, and ground floors are looked upen as practically store floors and rent accordingly.” ! Rent of SIOOO a Rocm. “ ~lt is said in the Empire Building, in which the Carnegie Steel Company is, that its offices rent for over $3 ai foot, or more than SIOOO a room,i and some companies occupy severali floors in this building, each represent- | ing an annual fortune in rentals. The same prices obtain in the Trinity and its companion building, where no company occupies more than two floors at an estimated rental of more‘ than $30,000 a floor. It is said that these prices are matched by those‘ obtainable in the City Investing Com pany, Hanover Bank, Equitahle.l Singer and Terminal buildings. The two latter are, respectively, the tall-‘ est and largest office buildings in the world, while the City Investing (,'r):n-j pany is said to possess the longest main corrider in the country. ‘ In the neighborhood of these‘i structures store space rents at sls a | square foot, or S6OOO a year for a“ small store of four hundred sguare feet, while second floors, with onlyl a short. flight of stairs from the street, bring $lO a square foct, ox'l S4OOO for a small store. Correspond ingly high prices are also paid for offices which occupy especially ad vantageous positions. In the uptown office district $30,- 000 a year is said to be the highest ‘rental paid for a store floor. This is at Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth | ‘street, and rooms for offices in this | locality bring about SIOOO a year, or $2.75 a square foot. ~ Significant of the times in the fact . ‘that private houses which have rent-! ed at S9OOO and SIO,OOO are-now; bringing only S4OOO =nd SSOOO. For| exceptionally fine houses people pay | a rental of from $25,000 to $75,000 | a year, a price which would havei made the early Knickerbockers gasp, ! while the fact that the late J. Henryl Smith paid $2,300,000 for the Whit- ! ney house when he bought it, with; a few of its furnishings, would have‘ caused the very wigss to rise from | their heads in amazement. l *“The most expensive residence | property in Manhattan,” said Messrs. Pease & Elliman, “lies between Fifth and Madison avenues from Fifty ninth to Seventy-second street. In good sections this property sells for $400,000 to $500,000, while in Park and Madison avenues values run from ! SIOO,OOO to $200,000 for a house and lot. i $40,000 ¥or Eight Months. The highest rental paid recentl‘v} for a house was $40,000 for a period | of eight months. This house is in | Sixty-second street, just off Flfth! avenue. Scarcely two blocks below | it in the avenue are apartments‘ which are said to be the most ex pensive in the city, with an average annual rental of $15.000 each. Peo ple who have two of these apartments | thrown into one to enjoy a spaciousl home pay just twice that sum for the additional privilege. In this locality ten-room suites, | unfurnished, may be had for $12,- 000 a year, while a block further down large suites entice the gre- | garious householder at $7500, unless he wants them furnished, when he can get them for S9OOO. Around Fiftieth street housekeeping apart ments bring $12,000, while an apart ment hotel not far distant asks SIOOO a room a year aand rents small suites | at SSOOO a year. Certain apartment hotels consider S6OO to S3OO a room no unreasonabie figure to ask for suites of rooms, and l that homeseekers agree with them is shown by the cheerfulness with | ~which they pay this price. | . New York hotels no longer shelter only a transient population. Each great caravansary means home to un numbered families, John W. QGates is said to have paid $50,000 a yvear for his suite at the Plaza Hotel. A certain wealthy woman is said to ! exceed this figure by SIO,OOO in the sum she pays for her luxurious ho- | tel apartment. At the Holland House one may enjoy the use of two rooms and a bath for $15,000 a| year, and at the St. Regis at the rate | of 's2s a day, while the Waldorf! charges $20,000 a year for small suites. The St. Regis is perhaps the only place in New York whi¢h will not make a long lease. A tenant is charged by the day only, and may decrease or add to the number of rooms in his suite at his own con venience and depart at pleasure, with no lease to occasion months of out-' lay during absence. v Special Privileges Costliest, The highest rents in New Yorkl are paid for standing room. The most | princely rental paid for store, office, residence, apartment or hotel space does not compare, proportionately, with the sum expended for an hum ble bootblack stand, a soda fountain or cigar kiosk. A. Schulte pays S3O a square foot for cigar privileges in the Cortlandt street Terminal Building, and this is said to be next to the highest rent paid by anybody in the world. The cigar lease for the northwest corner of Cortlandt and Church streets runs for twelve years at a cost of S3O a square foot for 600 square feet, while the lease includes five other stands in the Terminal Building at a totall cost of half a million. One of these | is in the exact centre of the Hudson] terminal eoncourse floor, and for this , glass booth, open on three sides andi covering a space twenty-one by nine feet in size, a rental of $7560 a year! is charged. It is said that ].88,000} cigars at two for twenty-five cents | would have to be sold to cover a! year's expenses of this stand, and, | taking other expenses into account, a.% aquarter of a million would need to be i disposed of before profits would be- | gin, . 1 Higher prices are paid for cigar | privileges than for any other occupy- | ing a proportionate amount of space. | In a Broadway office building 51500’ is received as annual rent for a stand { ninety-nine square feet in size, and | such stands pay correspondingly high | prices for space in other buildings and hotels. Booth space is rented subjeet to bia and charged for on the basis of the business proposed as much as on the location of space. Eizht trades are great lessees of space privileges, and rank in the following order asg profitable tenants of these: Tobacco, bootblack, soda water, package candy, newsg, flowers, fruit and cutlery and gatciel stands. A boothlack formerly rented a large stand in the Empir: Suilding at a cost of SIO,OOO a year :»d one paid S4OOO for a small space in the Equitable Building, which was the first to establish booth lined corri dors, and even now charges as high as S2OOO for stand privileges. The bootblack privilege in the Hudson Terminal rents for SIO,OOO a year for a term of twelve years. Notwithstanding such a tax upon the privilege of shining shoes, boot black stands netted Tony Aste a for tune and enabled him to maintain a costly racing stable. Office building booths pay on an' average of $450 to SBOO a year, with exceptions here and there, notably in the "Terminal Building, where a small central space of about ten by twenty feet rents for S6OOO, a soda water stand for $15,000 and ordinary side booths from S2OOO to S3OOO a year, while in the corridor a booth about 560 feet square is leased at S3OOO. | A small bar pays $26,000 a year 1 for its space and a restaurant on the | concourse floor about $30,000 for a room in which to feed hungry frav~ elers. While ¢igar stands pay the highest rentals, bar privileges make a close second in buildings where these exist, and flowers sometimes match their fragrance against that o] the popular “weed’” when it comes to paying rent, as in the Grand Cen tral Station, where a flower stand pays the highest rent for the space it occupies of any booth actually en gaged in business to-day. Flower booths in hotels pay an average rental of SISOO to S2OOO a year, and in the Terminal Building nosegays will cost their sellers from S3OOO to $4500 in booth rents. Those who adorn every available spot—ifrom chimney top to bedrock —with advertisements have to con tribute not less than $404,333.34 a vear to the coffers of the subway and elevated systems for the privilege of informing the wayfarer what to chew and how to make hair grow, while railroad trunk lines derive a pretty penny from news comparies who dis pense news and candies along their lines.—New York Tribune. RN Py N G SN ")) g Qumm‘. -ond 8 N 1171005 L 8 TR PSS The salaries paid the employes o New York City aggregate seventy six millions dollars a year. : It is estimated that nearly 4004 ‘acres, of cedar trees are cut dow ‘annually to provide the materia for lead pencils. 4- — i ¥lason Canfield, of New Milford, Conn., is the oldest voter in New England. He is 100 years old and has deposited a ballot at every presi dential election since 1828, Cremation is not yet permitted in Austria; from Belgium, too, bodies must be sent to France or England, as there are no crematory ovens in the country. Spain has no regulations on this matter. - In the collection of armor in the Tower of London is a helmet sent to Henry VIIIL by the King of Portugal. It is a mask of Satan with gleaming red eyes and the wusual horns of Mephistopheles. The Portuguese po tentate evidently possessed a sense of humor. In Russia and Saxony they are a little more sensible, for in both coun tries a youth must refrain from mat rimony till he can count eighteen years and the woman till she can count sixteen. In Switzerland the men from the age of fourteen and the women from the age of twelve are allowed to marry. The young bee, as she issues from her cell, is a baby-like creature, but in a few days she is at the height of her strength and usefulness. She stays at home, as a rule for about two weeks and helps to do the house work of the hive, removing dead bees and foreign matter, attending the queen and feeding her, secretin wax, building comb, caring for tlyE larvae and ventilating the hive. ! When a New York florist brought from his refrigerator a bunch of roses of a velvety blue-black hue, such ag certain dark pansies possess, he remarked: ““These black roses are called ‘Fetizoffs,” in honor of their creator, Piotr Fetisoff, a Russian of Veronezh, Fetisoff, a poor man originally, is growing rich from his black roses. He sells slips at a tre mendous price to florists and nursery men all over the world.. Some peo ple think that black roses are simply red roses dyed. It is a great mistake, They are the real thing.” Desperate means were sometimes resorted to in order to get men for British warships. A chronicler writes that in the year 1738, ‘‘a fleet of ships, being required immediately to be manned, the press gangs placed a live turkey on the top of the monu ment, which, drawing together a great. number of idle people, they h&d the opporiunity of selecting as many men as answered the purpose of their intended scheme.” The gcene 80 enraged a citizen that he fired a shot at the bird, “'which occasioned it to fly away.” But the mischict had begn done Jashions New York City. — Coats that in one way or another are so arranged as to conceal the armhole seams, u‘\ Gy il N3z // ‘M 4 (" -.r.':_ Ca 2 ;jfgw“; o g N 7 6 2 :".«\a\ " ‘ ,‘“ "‘ J’/ “" 3 ‘: \ %&J 2 K ZANE N A 3 Vi % A A gl y ! Z NS N AN e b I BN | A‘l 17, ’ o o Y 11/, ¢ i | ’/i{ / K N\ ; 4 0 1 ’l' \\\\‘\ \ I :u’% SRR IM A 4 O N B i\ 1A vy \\ | \ { W ! ’//'/ NQ \ Ll 7 o | : \ aifl / - Y an By ) It | | \ o\ HEARsy {7l P ‘r[ ‘.r‘;fl[ ‘/ ) : . :\'l'\ '1!-‘, 1 ] DI A\ { \\ //’ =2 8 ~;’s’ ) /’//‘r’l/ X N \ ‘,v A M /, \ Y I /111 \ ‘\‘\ iy ‘/ // \ v /,/ 7/{ J/’ g ‘ ‘ /’/ // f,‘ \ ( / /;"// 1 \\ }l i / "y ; / \ %1 make a notable feature of the season., This one, designed for young girls, is charmingly attractive and grace- /w%\\% 2 | fl,/ k 3 4 &Q ! ey s | o { \J o~ (@ M‘fi /! % o C Q“l("/ T =\ v/ 3 2\ / “‘: /‘l\’& E \ f‘v‘x Hi WM M",. Ly | _ ~N'\ Ul \//@l l/ f\l {6" 0/ N.’ l/ 4 Al /: @fi ?l. V{[ Uil LT %%’f' \“‘ | :l"".' 5T ‘r A S [ | e ) et e e ful yet quite simple withal, and al lcws a choice of three-quarter or full length sleeves. lln the illustration porcelain blue Panama cloth is trim med with black braid, but the little wrap is adapted to every seasonable suiting material. It would be charm ing made of any of the rough finished pongees or of linen quite as well as of wool, and it can be trimmed with straight banding or with applique or finished with stitched edges only as liked. The coat is made with fronts, side fronts, backs and side-backs. The fronts and backs are lapped over onto the side-fronts and side-backs, so forming the pleats over the shonl ders, 'fhe sleeves are made in two portions each and three-quarter sleeves are finished with cuffs, but the long ones are stitched to simulate the effect. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and three-quarter yards twenty-seven, two and three-eight yards forty-four or two and one-eighth yards fifty-two inches wide with four and one-half yards of braid. An Emotional, An ‘“emotional” gown is of smoke gray veiling with little touches of blue and silver embroidery and dead roses at the belt. It is known as the “dear desire”’—possibly because of the price. Popular Silk Patterns. Bapphire blue foulard, patterned with white disks, dots, stripes, checks, Grecian pdtterns, or other motifs, is one of the popular silks. Riot of Colors, In the bewilderi®g mazes of colors that are in vogue this season there is always danger that too glaring col ors or unbecoming tints, though ef fective, may be chosen. There is no denying that striking colors challenge attention, and certain complexions can stand brilliant colors. Misses' Pancy Pleated Skirt. There is no variation of the pleated skirt that is not in demand just now and this one suits young girls ad mirably well. It is plain over the hips and at the waist line, so doing away with all bulk at thatpoint, while it is gracefully and becomingly full below. In the illustration it is made of one of the novelty materials trim med with banding, but it is suited to almost everything seasonable. Plaids and stripes with bias folds of the same are much worn, plain on plaid material is in vogue and there are numberless ready made bandings, while also a plain stitched hem is al ways correct. Indeed, simple as the skirt is, it can be varied again and again, There are nine gores with exten sions that form the pleated portions and the fullness at the back is laid in inverted pleats. Above the pleats the edges of the gores are lapped one over the other and are stitched flat, while they ean be trimmed with lruttons as illustrated or let plain as liked. The quantity of material required for the sixteen-year size is ten yards twently-seven, five and one-half yards forty-four or five yards fifty-twe AFLT \ ,r/éfl/ Ib) i ,fiw i l \ /i ’ ™ B b | A ,\ .\ | il 1 I / M A ; 4:1 V- \'l ;"/{/,,x' ‘ ",/4 :\‘ A <. \ T iy /f\‘ 14 \ . ; W - ,'/.«fl/" ) l AL HIE H@, il ML AR A A (Ol B “ ~ X 1 .- \ B 6' A%, /,’s\/ d M ) Al il / i 1 1) Ul \»\., I}4 inches wide with five and one-quar ter yards of banding. Outline Tucks, Some of the broad tucks in the new linen tailored blouses are sewn in with the outline stitch in mercerized cotton. This is merely the bhack stitch used on the right side of the ma terial, and in contrast of shades it presents many possibilities, Smart Linen Gowns. White linen gowns showing a touch of color are considered snmarter thar all white this seazon. / \ g 3 ~, R: ‘m ) W N 7 /)" POPULAR \ 4 N & __SCIENCE 7 Iron and steel pipe may be readily distinguished by a flatfening test, ac cording to statements made at the meeting of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Soft steel pipe, cut #n very short lengths or rings, flattens smoothly and evenly without breaking, while wrought iron pipe usually fractures at two or more places when flattened. According to the American Machin- Ist, the greatest single consumption ot brass is for condenser tubes, a battle ship alone having from 30,000 pounds to 40,000 pounds of condenser tubing in it; and owing to the cor rosive effect of sea water this tubing must be continually replaced. The material used is usually either Muntz metal—sixty per cent. copper, forty per cent. zine—or else a mixture of copper, seventy; zinc, twenty-nine, and tin, one. The most remarkable feat of travel in the whole history of creation, with a single exception, i the invasion of Europe, Asia and the Americas by the elephant family, whose birth was in Africa. New light has been thrown upon this interesting chapter of nat ural history through the discoveries of the American Museum of Natural History; and the paleontologist in charge of the museum’s recent expedi tion to Egypt, Professor Henry Fair field Osborn, has written fully for the Century of “Hunting the Ancestral Elephant in the Fayum Desert.” An irrigating canal has just been completed in Hawaii. It will carry 45,000,000 gallons of water daily through sixteen miles of tunnel and open ditch. Its purpose is primarily to carry water for irrigation from the Waimea River to the Kehaka planta tion, but on the way it will be used at two places for the development of electricity, That eminent American astron omer, Professor Percival Lowell, has become fully convinced, from photo graphs of Mars, taken recently at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., and in South America by the scien tific expedition sent there, that the little planet is inhabited. The piec tures, .in the professor’s opinion, cor roborate the theory of a remarkable system of Martian canals, and so as sure him beyvond a doubt that the planet is “the abode of intelligent, constructive life.” J \ | P ‘ Dr. John B. Watson, professor of physiology in the University of Chi cago, is said to have made the dis covery that sea gulls have a lan guage of their own and think as well ~as talk. Dr. Watson has just re turned from a remarkable trip of research in the Dry Tortugas Island off the lower coast of Florida, where he made the discovery. The mammoth lived in Europe— and also in America—before the Glacial Period set in; it flourished in an inter-glacial time, and was driven south as its habitat was invaded by the snow and ice. No wild elephant has lived in Europe during the hige toric period. The Oyster, Psychologically By ED. MOTT,. It is the fate of the oyster, peace ful as he is, to perish in many a broil. And how he is deviled! How he must submit to everyone's sauce! How delighted people ever are to touch him on the raw! How they love to keep him in hot water! What a stew he is frequently in! Poor oyster! His case is, indeed, uncommonly hard. Quiet always, mild to placidity, yet he participates in nightly scenes of debauch and revel, He frequents midnight suppers, companions of wild roisterers of every degree, His very name suggests irregularity of living, late hours, riotous company, unwholesome haunts, unlimited pota tions. And yet ladies and gentlemen, the highest and most exclusive, have him at dinner, not only without scruple, but with undisguised pleasure. There” would be a blank at the board with out him, What a creature of fate, indeed, is the oyster! His earliest close associate a heart legs rake. Later in life welcome guest of the high, the mighty, the brave, the fair, His inevitable end and epitaph; “In the Soup!"—From Judge. Didn't W 29 Him, “I've got the very thing you want,"” gaid the stableman to a ruralist in search of a horse; “a thoroughgoing road horse. Five years old, sound as a quail, $175 cash down, and he goes ten miles without stopping.” The purchaser threw his hands skyward. ‘“Not for me,” he gaid. “Not for me, I wouldn't gif you five cents for him. 1 live eight miles out in the country, and I'd half to walk back two miles.”-—Farmers' Homge Tournal. Canada's governmentrevenue from cll sources last year will be more than $100,000,060, In the first seven months the customs receipts increased $9,500,000,