Show www ww LIGHTER EDITORIAL COMMENT ON THINGS OF MINOR MINOR IMPORTANCE Copying Af After r Gotham's City Hall HaIl I The he n architecture of ot New Yorks York's city hall hail Is to serve as a model for tor the 1 hanges n h es to be bc made In the White House Employees ees of ot Mead 8 White tho the architects are arc about the New York city hall hail dally daily making exten extensive lve photographs photographs photographs photo photo- graphs of ot both the exterior and In in- in tenor This firm has tho contract for tor altering and repairing the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House at Washington and It Is the desire desire de- de sire to embody several Reveral of ot the architectural architectural archi- archi t features of ot the New York city hall hail In the these c change change- An assistant said that architects considered the tho city hall as nearly nearh architecturally perfect perfectas as BS any building In the United States Garden Gardon Truck Raising by Children Vegetable gardens are a new departure departure depar depar- ture for the Chicago Board of ot Education Educe Educe- tion which will wilt b begin gln on Ju July to send lend a a. supervisor to the playground round maintained In ninth Ninety street by bythe bythe bythe the Outdoor Recreation league A portion of ot the ground will willbe willbe i be set aside for tor tore vegetable e gardens and each child who desires ma may havo have one oneto oneto oneto to cultivate In another park also between between between be be- tween second Fifty-second and fourth Fifty streets and Eleventh Eleventh- and Twelfth ave aye nue flue square feet teet of ot ground has hns been sot aside for tor gardens and tut fifty or sixty boys and girls who ho want gardens were bu busy y today picking up stones In preparation preparation preparation prep prep- for tho the plowing Actual plantIng planting plant plant- Ing will begin on July and the children n will raise such garden truck as aa can cnn be he most easily and quickly cul cul- Now York Now Sells Her Ashes The city of New York has haa entered the business J of selling Its ashes Street Cleaning Commissioner r Woodbury sold the tho first scow load measuring COO OO 00 cubic yards ards to a construction company which manufacturers ng materials at 8 S cents a a. cubic yard T he 1 he brought 10 tO and as It would have cost 65 to dump It the saving was Th The yearly saving sa promises to be large h This Is 19 a bit of municipal enterprise that might well be adopted In other cities clUes C Capt pt Strong and May There Capt Putnam Bradlee Strong and May were two conspicuous visitors visitors visit visit- ors at the opening of ot Japan at Night Ight on the roof root of or the Madison Square Garden Oar Gar den New York It was In the land of ot lotus flow flowers and nd pink that the they dreamed their love dreams The Tho opening o on Monday night was a a. hit Japanese lanterns were hung all over o the great roof root as thickly as cherries Geisha girls tripped d about drared In of ot shimmering silk and wearIng wearing wearing wear wear- ing tiny white sandals sandal that pattered pleasingly and tea girls fluttered here and there Japanese waiters watters with stiff black and hu huge e spectacles served the popular beverages of ot the thc Occident Occident Oc Oc- and the Orient Some few there were vere who hazarded a thimble of rico rice wine but tho the majority were loyal to beer despite the tho clustered chrysanthemums mums and the rhododendrons and the tha fruit trees hundreds o of years old Japanese artl artisans set the stage st. and the thc auditorium with genuine properties s from Japan Back of the stage the east cast section of or the root roof was devoted to a n. afine afine fine panoramic view law of tho the Imperial gardens g at roko laid out under the direction of or Kintaro Sato the Mikado's landscape gardener There are arc tea teahouses cafes where houses houles little walled paper Geisha girls sell rice cakes and Eastern dainties One can play the Japanese game of ot ball and listen to Japanese mu mu- sic Plants Grown by Electric Light The effect of ot arc nrc light lIht upon potatoes as a means of assisting the speedy growth of or tubers I Is enthusiastically Indorsed in indorsed In- In by Mr Ir J J. J C. C Breckenridge chief en engineer of ot the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company He claims that his vegetable garden on oti Richmond Hilt Hill has haa grown faster this spring than anybody else's and attributes the rapidity of ot growth to five el electric lights which he has hns rigged up above the garden These lights are ore kept burning all night long and In consequence consequence consequence con con- sequence Mr Breckenridge says not only did his vegetables appear more than th two weeks earlier than those of ot any one else ello In the neighborhood but they are by far more healthy health and luxuriant lux lux- He Hc declares that as light Is the stimulus to plant life lite It must follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low that the more stimulus the more rapid the growth and the more healthy the plant The other amateur gardeners ol oa on Long Island are no now making a n. run on the electric light companies for arc light t connections |