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Show q Notes from New York., New York, Nov. 10. Strangers in New Vork who wnut to ace as much as possible lu a short Unie usually take a trip over the elevated i'oads, and few of them fair to cote What seems to them a glaring lucon sistency. All along the line from the BaU tery to' the Harlem river they are con fronted by lnnumorablo signs of apnrl mentsto let, and yet they see all over the city new apartment houses and fiat build ings sprlnjriugup as though people were; compelled to sleep in the streets until they were complotod.- 1 Wily,: they, naturally ask, with so many old apartments vacant is throe such a rush to build new onesr . It is a l'uct well known to builders that only , a small percentage of the city apartments are paying fair interest on the investments, invest-ments, but it is equally well known to them that at the rate the population is increasing in-creasing it will be only a few years before every habitation on Manhattan island will have its occupants tbe year round. No one engaged in daily business iu this city who hus the means to. live there comfortably , will seek a residence outside, except, perhaps, per-haps, during the summer months. The most modern apartment of the better class is a very comfortable place to live In, Taxes are heavy on real estate, aud the knowledge that a new apartment house will even now much more than pay taxes on the ground it occupies is enough to keep up this building boom. New York city has now a famous ob-ervato?y ob-ervato?y a point of view from which ' every detail of the city itself and its environments en-vironments of rivers, bay and islands is ' presented in a single grand panorama. This is the iron balcony surrounding the cupola of the Pulitzer building. This balcony bal-cony is a little higher thar the top of Trinity Trin-ity church spire, aud a long way above every other available pofnt of observation. An iron rail, breast high, encircles the balcony, bal-cony, and renders it a perfectly safe promenade prom-enade for any one whose nerves are not Jl'euted by the tremendous altitude. Cuktis Dunham. |