Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 14, 22 November 1908 — Page 17

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' THE KICH310XD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1908.

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EARLIEST LEADER SEES CAUSE LOST

Don Jaime Spanish Pretender, Would Willingly Give Up Fight.

MAY BECOME A GENERAL

VIEWS WITH SATISFACTION NEGOTIATIONS LOOKING TO ENDING OF LONG WAR WITH CROWN PUBLIC WITH HIM.

' Madrid, Nov. 21. I have been able to ascertain that negotiations have been In progress for the nomination of Don Jahne an Infante of Spain and to appoint him honorary captain general of the Spanish army, but the result of the negotiations are as yet unknown. , It seems Don Jaime wishes to visit and remain In Spain without restraint. He feels personal sympathy for King Alfonso and Inwardly thinks Carlism a lost cause. The negotiations, therefore, meet with his approval. ' The suggestion is hotly discussed in political circles. Reflecting the Premier, Senor Maure's, equivocal answer, high government officials merely allege that they know nothing of the matter, but refrain from denying its possibility. Moreover Don Jaime in his last letter in reply to questions on the matter by Carlist partisans, was silent on. the point, but the subject will be clear3d up on Monday, when a deputy will interpellate the government. , Public opinion is In favor of receiving Don Jaime back into the fold, for thus the menace of Carlism to the present dynasty would cease. A prominent grandee told me that by its attainment Senor Maura would achieve a most important action in favor of King Alfonso.

OLD BROADWAY, WORLD'S GREATEST STREET Never Sleeps and Is Known Wherever the White Man Is 10,000,000 Trips a Day Made Upon it, and Value of Its Property Is Greater Than the National Debt.

New York, Nov. 24.street in the world is

-"The greatest in America.

Women of the town of Kranichfeld. which lies partly in Wemar and partly in Meningen, Germany, have cent a petition to the governments of both principalities asking that something may be done to regulate the closing hours of the drinking houses. They complain that after their husbands have been turned out of the public houses which lie in Weimar they cros the street to Melnlgen, wfcere the closing hours are much later. ' -

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London may have its Strand and Piccadilly, Paris Its Bois du Bologne and Champs Elysees and . Berlin its Unter den Linden. But viewed from any aspect except that of mere age, BroadwayNew York's Broadway is ahead of any two of them put together." The words were spoken today by an American who had; just returned from a trip of several months through Europe, but they may be taken as typical of the sentiments,, of those who have had an opportunity of comparing the most celebrated thoroughfare in the United States with others more or less known to fame in foreign countries.Even the New Yorker,- who takes for granted almost all the good and bad qualities of his city, grows enthusiastic when Broadway is mentioned. The reason for this is easy to understand for those who know the long irregular thoroughfare which runs from tip to tip of Manhattan Island. It is not merely that Broadway is the most important street in New York; it is the epitome of New York. Other st eets and sections have made more or less fleeting bids for popularity, but as the growth of the city has continued northward the famous old street has steadily maintained its supremacy, which is more firmly grounded now than ever before. It is significant that one never hears an actor singing "Take Me Back to Fifth Avenue." It's always Broadway, for all that Fifth avenue has been written about and preached against its fame like that of any fashionable street is transitory. Even in its palmiest days Fifth avenue represented nothing characteristic except wealth. Now business Is rapidly driving out the costly residences, forcing them into side streets and to the newer fashionable sections further uptown. Almost the entire length of the evenue below Central Park is already given over to business and to the kind of business that keeps daylight hours office buildings, wholesale salesrooms and retail shops. After nightfall it is comparatively silent and deserted. Broadway on the other hand lives every moment of every twenty-four hours. When the daylight fades the electrics begin to bathe it In their brilliant glow. Nowhere else in the world are such millions of lights used in outdoor Illumination as along that two-mile stretcn of Broadway between Madison Square and Columbus Circle, which has come to be known as the Great White Way. And before the last of these lights has winked itself out as the last of the all night crowd turns it steps homeward or more likely

hotelward the glow is bright again in the east and a fresh army of toilers and pleasure seekers is rolling down Broadway to take up the burdens of another day. Broadway is a long street. It extends from the southernmost tip of Manhattan to Its extreme northern point when the Hudson and the Harlem join to shut it off from the mainland. This is a distance of some fourteen or fifteen miles. As a matter of fact the street retains its name and identity all the way along the eastern bank of the Hudson to Albany, 140 miles away. Along its course within the boundaries of the island it exemplifies every activity of the city and nation of which it forms a part. More than 1,500,000 people live along it and 10,000,000 trips a day are made on foot and in vehicles along and below its surface. Thirty million business transactions involving amounts from a penny to a million of dollars take place along it during every twenty-four hours. It is a business, shopping, theater, hotel and restaurant street and as many a confirmed Broadwayits has discovered it possible to find almost every conceivable means of making and spending money within its limits. Beginning its course at the Bowling Green where the Dutch burghers of New Amsterdam smoked their evening pipes, and sniffed the salt breezes coming up from the bay for the first half mile of its length Broadway is the street of big business, the home of the trusts. Almost at its lower end, No. 20 is the Standard Oil building, its twenty floors devoted entirely to the activities of the great oil combination and its subsiduaries. Along this part of the street are the offices of the big setamship companies, the steel corporation, the rubber trust and scores of representing hundreds of millions of invested capital. Interspersed with these are banks, insurance companies, .awyers' and brokers offices and all the varied machinery required in the operation of great financial undertakings. - Farther up between City Hall park and Union Sqxiare, Broadway runs through the heart of the wholesale district. For some two miles it is lined with great merchandising establishments in which are gathered the manufactured products of every part of the world. Above this in turn Is the retail district The crowds, which further iown, consisted chiefly of men, show as great a majority of women as soon as Fourteenth street is passed and the l$ department stores which have Bucket ded the wholesale establ ishments ire thronged with smartly dressed ihoppara, ...

The shopping section of Broadway has been moving rapidly uptown during the past few years ad has crowded out a number of hotels and theaters. Its nothren limit now is Herald square, at least this is the location of the furthest uptown big department store. Here at Thirty-fourth street too is the most crowded spot in the city or in the world. By careful computation more than 1,500,000 persons pass here every day when this number will be still greater when the new Pennsylvania terminal is completed and the tunnels under the North and East rivers meet near by. Above Thirty-fourth street extends "the Rialto," "The Great White Way," "Champagne alley," to quote a few of the pet names New Yorkers have given to their favorite stretch of Broadway. This is the region of hotels and restaurants and theaters. Longacre square is the capital of this gay prin-

j cipality. Less than a century ago the j cows pasturing on the peaceful acres I of the old Astor farm were almost its I only tenants. Now the great mass of brick and stone which forms the new Hotel Astor stand3 on the site of the old farm house, twenty theaters are within a stone's throw and famous resJ taurants are grouped all about. - More money is spent every day within the space of these half dozen blocks for food, drink an amusement than in any like area in the world. ' Longacre , square is the core of the evening life of the metropolis, where the lights flash brightest, where the crowds of

pleasure seekers are thickest and where all that is typical of the gay, careless, fashionable life is most in

! evidence. Following Broadway s upj town course onward one passes block : after block In the region about the j lower end of Central park given over almost entirely to the automobile in

dustry. "Gasoline alley" it is called in the local vernacular. Still further north is the region of the great apartment hotels, the homes of those residents of the city who are among neither the richest nor the poorest, extending block after block in structures of towering height for several miles. Where the street begins to mount the heights that form the northern part of Manhattan it enters upon another phase, passing great institutions, the lofty arches of the Cathedral of SL John, the halls of Columbia university, and further up the cviiege of the city of New York. Open places begin to appear. There are private residences as well as apartment houses. Broadway here overlooks the lordly Hudson and the Palisades on the Jersey shore, and along this part of the course from the upper heights to the northern end at U island at Spuyten Duyvil will

stand in the future in all probability the finest and costliest of New York's homes, residences of the fashionable wealthy. ' Broadway has two advantages which many other famous streets lack a worthy beginning and ending. At its lower end is Battery park, a spot greenery looking out upon the busy waters of the harbor, and at its upper terminus is to be placed the beautiful Hudson memorial bridge which will form a fitting gateway to the city from the landward side. Broadway will always be the street of spectacles and processions, the national parade ground and the national playground. Even in the matter of age, Broadway has no mean record. In the early days of the city it was the natural highway from the lower to the upper part of the Island, since the ground on both sides now occupied by skyscrapers was then only" marsh land. Down to 1542 the thoroughfare bore a succession of appellations. First it was called simply the "main road." Later it become the Public road, the Hoch Wey or Highway. It was also called the Heeron straat, or street of the Masters. From about 1640 on, however, it became generally know as Broadway, although its identity was established much earlier. Perhaps in a way these early names corresponded to the newer titles given this much nicknamed thoroughfare. On Broadway it was that the first clergyman preached regularly in a little wooden church near what is now Pearl street. It was near what is now Pine street that Colonel de Puyster in 1695 built what was described as a "palatial three-story dwelling mansion." Fortyfour years later, in 1739, a public market house was erected In the middle of Broadway opposite Liberty street. It was a gigantic structure forty-two feet long and .twenty-five wide, but for some reason it was never popular. Of no other spot in the world are so many men able to say, "If I'd only bought that property thirty years ago for a sons, I'd be a millionaire." The story of Broidway is one of unnumbered fortunes made by those who did invest, and as the city moves northward it still applies. Back In 1692 lots on Broadway were sold as far as Fulton street for about $20 each. Today those same lots are worth a hundred thousand times the original cost. Purchasers were required to erect buildings not less than two stories in height and in some cases to cover the entire front of the loL Today an owner of Broadway property who did not do more than this voluntarily would be considered insane, so great are rental values--

PLAIN CIVILIAN IS MRS. TAFT

Always Well Gowned, But Is Never Extravagant in Dress.

DOES OWN MARKETING.

NEVER HAS HAD PRIVATE SECRETARY OR HOUSEKEEPER UNLIKE OTHER WOMEN SHE SEEKS NO BARGAINS.

Washington, Nov. 21. In the matter of clothes the next mistress of the White House is a woman of the plain type. While Mrs. Taft Is always well and usually handsomely gowned, her clothes are never the first thing which attracts the attention of the stranger.

: Her taste runs to the lain cloth and

rich silks. She is emphatically not the tailor-made, silk-lined woman. Her favorite colors for the street are brown and gray and for evening wear ping, almost invariably. She has never appeared in an imported gown. She ha bad a number of evening gowns made of the fascinating flimsy Philippine fabrics,

L which she brought back tothe states

with her after her long residence in Manila. And yet she brought only what she might have actual need of in the near future. According to her thrifty nature, she purchases only what she can see a use for. Mrs. Taft has never been wealthy. Her money is always spent judiciously. Mrs. Taft patronizes always the con servative establishments. Good value for the money is what she loo!iS for first in shopping. She rarely goes into the cheap stores, except for unira'portant articles, which careful women know how to buy. During her residence in Washington she has done her purchasing mainly in the shops along F street. When in Cincinnati, she buys there. She has been known to patronize the tailor in Baltimore who sometimes makes gowns for Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Metcalf. and she also patronizes the Sisters of St. Rose industrial school In Washington, who are famous for their handmade French underwear. Hats Not Always Becoming. It Is In her hats that Mrs. Taft is somewhat lacking, as she often gets unbecoming ones. She has not appeared In Washington in large hats, they run In fashion to the English or walking styles. Of gloves she wears & six and a quarter. Mrs. Taft has one falling In wearing her clothes.

Her skirts frequently do not "set" well. Mrs. Taft and her daughter are both" careful buyers. In doing Christ mas J shopping, they rarely are guilty of pur-'' chasing useless trifles. They go about1 : months before the holiday week, and by the time other Christmas shopper are beginning to think of buying, their gifts are bought and carefully: put away, carefully. labelled, awaiting" the auspicious day. In this respect Mrs. Taft. Is much like Mrs. Roosevelt, only that Mrs. Roosevelt does much of-' her gift shopping in the Jewelry stores.-' while Mrs. Taft is more apt to look la the department stores or notion shops.While both Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Roosevelt frequently visit the shopping district, one must know them perBonally to recognize them, so unostentatiously do they go about it. Instead.' of dashing up to a shop in a carriage, they walk briskly a Ions the street accompanied usually by some favored ' friend, always .choosing the morning hours, when the crowd is not so large.. Knows Just What She Wants. . " As buyers, Mrs. Roowevlt and' Mrs. Taft, are unlike, for the latter always knows exactly what she wants aadf can see at a glance how nearly an artlcle can answer her purpose. She needs no advice except occasionally that, of' her daughter. Mrs. Roosevelt ' rather prefers to consult some one else's taste and judsmenL i The Taft household is dominated byy the mistress of It except when the' master of it is in it. As a matter of fact be does not dominate it then, but only thinks he does. It Is only the clever woman who create that delusion."; Mrs. Taft does her own marketing. , She has never bad a social secretary:; nor a housekeeper, nor has she dons', her household buying over the tele--phone except In emergency. ' ''

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