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of i Mf5 BUIL lql aulo when It is said that each of the stones In the the Hotel Astor at Seventh avenue and There were persons In this city not many with little expression of architectural cornice at the eighteenth floor weighs Fortyfourth street and the Belmont and Ceara ago when the upward race in sky form between eighteen and twenty tons The the Brunswick in course of construction ecraper construction had hardly begun The Increased cost It is said results interior is finished in marble and bronze are factors In the change- who predicted that the excessively tall from the more elaborate and substantial It is said to beqne of tho most expensive It was not until after the WaldorfAstoria- buildings planned would not be successful finishing of the Interior and the more com ¬ office buildings in the world was opened that the builders of hotels and i either as money making properties or as plete equipment of the building with all The Blair Building which Is of white tho men who run them learned that Now i practical office structures sorts of modem Improvements For in- ¬ marble IB seventeen stories high and al- ¬ Yorkers and tho American public In gen- ¬ The lapse of time has proved that these stance many of the recent skyscrapers most equally elaborate In its interior fin- ¬ eral who come here wanted hotels whore a were mistaken Not only has the besides having all the usual sanitary s ngs they could get the best offered by the me turned out to be a success in equipments have Installed the vacuum Tho Sixty structure will bo- tropolis and that they were willing to pay every particular except perhaps archi- system of sweeping one of the giants of the city probably well for it They learned also from the suc¬ tecturally but it has come to be an absolute Lines of hose run from vacuum hydrants hlglier than any other office building ex- ¬ cess of tho Waldorf that tho appearance necessity in the corridors Sweepers are attached- clusive of towers Its steel frame partly of the exterior of tho hotel and the interior improved facilities er with the j to the hose and by running them over the covered looms up Impressively from the arrangements wnre much more potent for rapid transit shortly to be available office in twlnk- 1 rug the dirt is transferred a East River and the Brooklyn Bridgeand has factors in Its success than had been sup- In the lty and with the enlarging of the ling in- g from the room hundreds of feet caused a lot of wonder and comment posed before The St Regis Is eighteen i area of concentrated business activity that the air to the basement It will bo built in two sections and in stories high massive and of gray limestone should follow as a natural result the sky This is only one of the many modern Its architectural design will Illustrate the but it will be exceeded in height by the scraper will continue to be as popular and I conveniences which the business man of 1 kT Y S recent trend toward simplicity in exterior Hotel Belmont and tho Brunswick necessary is ¬ NDr WAG as it now remains to bo seen today expects to find in these great build- R GlS design The Wall street wing will be four- ¬ As Now York sets the fashion for the rest In the opinion of many indications but ings buildings that count their occupants- teen stories high and the Pine street section of the country In everything else sky- ¬ point to the conclusion that It will by the thousandthat alone constitute in twentysix Its height will be 347 feet scrapers Included so also it is predicted the buildings in two ¬ In erected the last some cases an entire route for a letter car- of the skyscraper If it really must be and But while some architects deplore the con- ¬ to he higher than the buildings constructed- the Times Building and the Park Row Build- by men competent to speak that the ad- gears or so including some of the notable ¬ rier and from which the dally mall is car- they admit that it must is a franker ex- ¬ ventional and what they cull inartistic at present It is not impossible though ing each with a tower exceeding It by vance in hotel construction and decoration 3 now in of jonia course construction there ried not by hand but by the wagon load pression of tho fact that there Is beneath trend in skyscraper architecture they ad ¬ that this objection may disappear In time several feet as typified in the St Regis and the Hotel has been a noticeable increase over tho The skyscraper has always been a thorn tho covering of stone and brick a frame mit that it U tho most notable and the The Hanover National Bank Building at The Beaver Building and the Times Build- ¬ Astor and other now hotels will shortly p In size and height- ¬ I tho in the flesh to the architect the student of steel most thoroughly American architecture of Nassau and Pine streets tho Beaver Build- ing like the Flatiron Building are notable strike a responsive chord in other large i of structures Where two years j the ago of the beaux arts and the man who wants There is ono building in the city com- ¬ the time and that it affords an opportunity- ing at Beaver and Spruce streets the Times for their striking appearance and represent cities as occurred after the erection of v was one Building now there but Flatiron frankness of expression In his design pleted only about a year ago which archi- ¬ for tho earning of the largest fees ever Building at and Fortysecond- some of tho best attainments thus far In tho Waldorf and that as a result of what two all ¬ there are or three just as remark These men complain that there is no tects agree la more successful in thi re- ¬ obtained by architects in general practice street and tho Sixty Wall Street Build getting the greatest possible amount ort has been done in New York there may In t able appearance as the one at Twenty attempt in the American skyscraper to spect than most others It Is called one So far as the height of the office building- ing now in course of construction are some floor room out of the available be expected another general upward step in third street make its appearance express its structure- of the few successful skyscrapers archi- ¬ of tho future is concerned there is it in of the most notable structures of the last spars hotel construction und equipment through- ¬ the office buildings have been It la a lie an uncouth lie from the founda- ¬ tecturally regarded In the city said practically no limit below CO or 70 year or two The changes In hotel construction an out the country growing bigger and higher they have It tion to the roof they say Seeking to It Is tho Blair Building at Brood street stories imposed by economical or structural The Hanover National Bank Building Is architecture during tho last two or three This means also these men say that VlaYeald been growing more costly the hide tho fact that It is built around a steel and Exchange place A picture of it is considerations All that will las necessary- noted for the massiveness of its structure years have been much more pronounced there will probably be a corresponding 1 Yl i cost In many instances being frame it simulates solid masonry included In the group above Its success is a FUfllcient amount of space for tho foun- ¬ tho characteristic deplored by many archi- ¬ than in tho skyscraper A distinctly new rise In the of j not a all proportionate to the Increase- Nearly all of thorn sin in tho nine wny lies chiefly In tho fact that it does not simu- ¬ dations tects in view of its steel framo and Its and higher standard of construction and In the future an the first class houses In alze This has been true too in spite these architects say buildings having solid masonry of steel The owners of the buildings havehowover costly and elaborate interior furnishings decoration been established Whether the enerall want till the late Its frame has badly enough general re- ¬ is imposed by Is high I superior accommodations of the fact that tho tendency the general appearance of n column with- is not openly disclosed but some of the found that there a limit It twentytwo stories and built This advance is represented chiefly in ¬ i to increased hill as undoubt- cently has been to minimize external art a heavy base a long central shaft and a metal columns are permitted to show in thn sentimental nature of tho office oc- ¬ mostly of granite the erection of the St Regis Hotel at Fifth edly will do in New York Is something that in the skyscraper and produce a building decorated capital What they would have tho facade cupant and that there are few who rare Some idea of Its massiveness can be got avenue and Fiftyfifth street although only will disclose

BASY GRAFT OF THE MEDIUMS John In tho spirit world shows up at the Homo of Truth Circle people who have what they call the psychic and in ease the method was the I a hundred mechanical devices and secrets TilE TELLING STROKE If the owner of tho glove has a John b Mrs Koakom the second they can pick a some The cabinet is hung with black for the use of mediums Prices run from 1 i lady is told right a mile and covered in front n to 00 npxgmrs among tho departed the medium sends sight wonder the old curtain tl Point of the Tale That Won Del a off tho but that Robert wants her a These x am usually hanklrllllt tu The surrounding wall also draped In black There are about flft slate writing Dime From a Scrptlc i some ¬ beautiful communications and then named Anne Is over her be mediums and to to spirits them Often tho cabinet Is windows devices One for 3 Is described us verjt tTHEIR VICTIMS DELUDED HI tries to draw the victim out With a clever- ¬ shoulder calling her sister selves The medium leads on says of a house or hall The audience satisfactory but requires some skill on The man and the woman were on their 1111111 to t to VERY CHEAP TRICKS ness born of experience she pieces to ¬ Sho goes convinced that that th have and the walls curtains They part 110 can get way dinner just off Fifth avenue down- immor- ¬ to inspect all like gether ills occupation his troubles his Mrs is a wonder and that spirits want close communion they The trick one which requires no skill A double a side street when they heard a voice hark and tality is proved In a Western elt Ive ham It all leads to the private there slate U on and closed When wants and tells him all about them i of them say Tiothinv Myitrrloo About the Means by wen used to distribute such developing sennoe which costs There a dim shaded of light in opened spirit message and answer tor Hes paralyzed with astonishment and information among mediums + can pay and lasts as long as theyll the back of tho room practically no light- any For the love of God lady and gentle- WWeTi They Play on the Crrdulltv of question are found on it Nq so are tho rest of the circle for the people That isnt only method or prttiK stand for it at all When nil is 10 man stop and listen to what a poor woman f1 Victim A Chicago Flrnii Mst very a seat r Their who go to usances arent critical and they names though Some of them an This is their common or garden variety tnko near the curtain and rails for a The firm advertises a full line of single has to say of Mediums Supplies Their Prior clover When In doubt they of But they work all varia- ¬ hymn and for cases where They stopped to listen bo go with a great desire to believe being who It is being sung his assistant double slates the woman play William or John those tions Tlvros a medium in Boston purchase of tho same would cause com- ¬ suppose 1 have one of the queerest Ono of tho hardest things for a test most common AngloSaxon names has cleaned n by discovering lout usually a wonnn tho room by- cause she wanted to hear the man out of t I ment There are pelfplaying guitars politeness fads on earth said the man oh the hotel medium to do is to call at once the name Then they make a to liarn the treasuro locating mines is u a near the cabinet She is tic hands which appear on tho because tho woman had stopped in neighborhood In in a dead black robe and Lla k j Bofal My passion and hobby Is mediums of the dear departed in the spirit realm names of living the uritv Far West the and disappear anti trumpets which For the love of Clod lady and gentle- I and to watch the nfdices There is n medium In San Francisco background of the walls and man t i jdairyoyants psychic readers and IT silo t on with John and runs through seen light matter float air and messages- began the voice which issued trom star that half their victims ore driven to them Mm Smith well mil her whos a wonder cant at all in that no 1 tJieN of that ilk Not that a Kntherlno ana Lily none Rio how sho She wears all at prices running from 20 tho lips of another woman not poorly Im ofthetn hits the mark most by the ache of some recent bereavement in her wa The Pacific Mall liner ouch move rubber trumpets tho catalogue states are tat side of medium then crodu part of busi- ¬ ell Janeiro was sunk in tho Golden Gate on soled shoes and tho hymn helps her to enter dressed but with rather a stylish hat and The graft the business lOUR Is inclined pro- Thais the the wish onl cabinet and material- ¬ seeker after to ness laboring wives and daugh- ¬ Birthday IWH with 00000 without being good will you mo faro what interests me The mens tnns izing 38 Is tho Sis- ¬ shoo give car nounce her a take On tho other boys in geld o one could find black robo alto is conditions Lot Fox ters tho hired and stable who the dreil ¬ I want to go to Brooklyn There is a lady There are poor pickings for ine In New If she fits at the name of tho ghostly white and wears mask ters rapping table used with suc- haunt cheap sonatas cwno Ixcauso hull often she a I ¬ tho M cess Now York in Brooklyn who owes If I York now because the police have been which seeker most desires shes consola- ¬ com- ¬ with phosphorescent paint- celebrated medi inu a in trail anil want sonic help anti After the steamship and coato can get sho pay mo maybe interfering with the medium business pronounced great success tion These people on had failed Mme Smith to make a shining umsFor there will nut hearts panies 00 tho firm will furnish Hero I paused War- t means of HleovoA love n revelation from of thin When the signal is given to appear to shod a still I can find a cheap little test circle hero a unorganized their tell alxv1 their the captain I assorted outfit which will If I will h sort of Mediums Union an affairs and family difficulties in n wa which showed her exact spot she opens rol e mediums answer can there maybe she any time and known place for mutual help In lo all reasonable purposes of an to pay tho an i almost Level exists makes gasp 1 blush sometimes whore the hull water disappears she simply closes it date mt repeated medium that I medium or con- ¬ tho Tenderloin whcrp you car see even1 ridden town listen to theta Smith had this revelation one In a again B a 111 she ¬ demonstrator and utterance was throaty ri Mme Fake to evening vince the sceptical now full you run rear ghosts developed in full view of tho the medium has n now The text isnt the full circle Sho said that It t do tho effect of disappearing through the j most of tears will visitor n fat woman in black inoo liic Spirit forms no two oliks of special In by giving mo money to get to Brooklyn audience To see it In full blast though well whore the mediums make II for her to take all that money shed lose floor Thorn are two or as who wears her front hair In gray frizzes though is really only nn advertisement her power if she dirt wax sifttnntN ono a child or a small woman material nnd very cost this I can provo that you must go to Boston or better to the Far Mine > It from 20 to 30 and has u slight limp aka tries to got custom ¬ to friends and believers- Tho developing medium Ilko test The t2u ones aro chll owes mo money if you will Western n for und develop her dear tie cities out a half names on her Perhaps seancoH All ho time she Is for n consideration medium tabs on the departed dear drens size Im not this language Give five cents said the woman gr Most people suppose that mediums all she down to the sixth before comtnunlrntlons to her audience she is According to a faker who stood In with ones of his regular customers trots It is all in tho catalogue Tho and the man frowningly reached Into his fits some dend is a ¬ to c f profess to summon up real ghosts that that Robert relative of the sizing thorn If ono looks morn eIL fell out with her later site them out It makes regular OCl on under poclcot a and handed it old lady in ¬ profession black or eager titan the she says something sold 125000 worth of stock In her wrecking ashamed of humanity to son a these and thrives on hundreds of thou- Jn the language of tho they Mm Fake through olios rot sands of victims God bless ou lady nnd gentleman r a > They made a few bluffs nt fakorn draw mothers who tnatoriaHze That Isnt true To ono ma learned old u 11 further that the a dead John tells inn t lint t he havo much diving and announced that Mutt i live from week to week Just to talk to their I Mediums are IIlIa women As acini cried tho voice moro than ever terlailtng medium In these days there are- slttor named Annie Tim old lady re to toll you but OUIO holding heel You limit had l een guided wrong an evil load children tho are domestic comfortable middle but with a triumphant ring thin hundred test mediums how Mine Fake been no d to to em spirit and that the diving had There are many other methods of ma- aged women who knit and together tears coursed one II ono down her chocks s a In closer The test medium holds forth usually- getting those goes away do That suggestion IH thrown out once or eaten tin capital terializing one Is the off hours rear families and support the good Lord bless you may tIll shes tio good twice But would make It all most satisfactory and has supplanted worthing who collect at oor good- in a cheap hall The admission Is low third tlmo this particular i Mrs Fake knows all that and knows victim visits the poance the n right Shed give in return for wrecking all tho for the and help to gather But her listeners were out of hearing by y for are poor Usually it runs that the old wont come Vo oil I saw month In useful have something to tell you that cant company stock shares In an company this some of tho rs Information nowWhat r from 10 to 25 cents hut that shell surely go to another medium bo told in public You must see n medium was to make a fortune that a Chicago man has been exposed as a In their public utterances have a outdo you lot her catch you by that l She ftorta off with u hymn Then she fur when a poison bitten by the spirit- alone diseovend by her psychic maker of for Ive singular line made of highfalutin I old dodge asked tho unto ¬ ualistic hug ¬ ¬ borrow an article from each person In to I f the victim Is a womannnd sho usually took it like doing business had In my possession for tho words and phrases nearly used got money in the Lank drawing in- hum until he gets satisfaction Is firings same old a firm which deals the congregation and iMgliys her tests curiosity her around at till stand 0 Inaccurately and In terest So Mrs Fake notifies 6er medium < cost front Materializing or bringing ghosts out of mediums r m with thorn Ive never 1vo seen hundreds of them downtown For cxamplo shell hold up a glove In her crowd a close description- SO cents an hour up according to the mean th vnst so It is It came to mo through a Post Office em- ¬ known ono to talk straight English A who wonted to to Harlem the and ask who owns it When the owner of the old lady together with names and credulity The me ¬ a kind of public show with very little side ployee who out of a of dis¬ recreant medium whod fallen to be a patent woman in explanation und hundreds in haa spoken up hold tho glove to I of her and any other accurate dium no chance of loading her on to II less common and second and third class matter- medicine sharp told me once Harlem to go downtown but shell her Information which she higher forehead and say something like this- I been able to come again- admission is usually a dollar a It was addressed to a medium had- public bad grammer and that ac- ¬ this Is tho first ono I ever encountered out Next Sunday when am Developing sittings aro a beautiful sk piped tho curate English away who wanted a nickel to go to Brooklyn I hear the name John Have you a- headIve old lady in black with frizzes and a limp uses this dodge on soon dozens of developing stances describes and advertises about Its part the graft he said Thats why 5- ft n S

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