Show In Little i Old New York NEW EW YORK Oct 24 Probably Proba Probably bl I the most pl picturesque sight in New NewYork York Yo Is that of myriads of ot men burrowIng burrowing burrowing bur bur- I rowing like ants In the earth mak mak- making making mak-I mak ing a bole hole with the sheer brawn bron of ot their heir arms and their backs Such sights about about town are common common for over each of f these holes hole a 0 great new building is reared and ond buildings are I going up in Manhattan so eo quickly I and thickly that one cannot keep count of them Manhattan is solid rock When old buildings are demolished this rock is If revealed at street level Many of at the old houses had no cellars cellars cellars cel cel- lars because excavation in ouch uch rock was too difficult and too expensive a generation ago But now when hen a building comes cornea down men swarm over the place with driven air-driven drills crowbars and ond sticks of dynamite with great cable mattresses to hold down do fragments of the exploded stone Before many days these men are deep in the maw of or the earth looking lookIng lookIng look- look I Ing for all the world like swarming insects They pull and strain and I push and soon they have loaded I h heavy avy crates to th the brim with crushed rock An engine puffs puff and wheezes and yanks the crate crote up to a truck Like e ea a great ogre with a long elastic arm it swings Its heavy I burden about as though it were a mere and drops it Jt Into the truck The shouts of men are drowned out ut in the mechanical fury of the tho place the chattering drills the thud of picks the snorting of engines and the chugging of ot motors So one fat little man stands down there in the center of things making gentle movements with his fingers and the derricks and the Ute trucks and all the rest of It seem to obey his every whim How far will these fellows dig How far tar will the business of ot underminIng undermining undermining under under- mining and up shoring-up go go Will allot all of ot Manhattan be so honeycombed that some day a slight tremor of the earth will cast the place into perdition Over on Second avenue there Is Isa Isa isa a curtained room which proclaims itself through a streaked banner as I being The Jewish Social Club for tor Unmarried Men and Women Welcome fellow fellow fellow fel fel- Everybody A A. young low in passing was heard heald to Jo mutter to his companion Yes unmarried I bet my wife's in there now JAl I JAMES S W W. DEAN |