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Show I Our New York Letter I I Interestiai 'Gowip Withered Around Gotham Bask For Womea I Otij U Opened-City Drbki a 21-Mile River Daily-Autos I Have Transformed Upper Broadway. H j --f5r rw ha) I NEW 'YORK. Now York's very latest lnno- TOtlon Is "My Lady's Hniik," tlio only oxclualvo I ' 5 UdLrrrr ii 'womai'B bank In the country. Womon with I jL-Jf PlUP 'coupons to clip, fair depositors with rolls of bonds I I 'J :anJ notes 08 D's ns dress patterns, have opened I A hi iA''it) 'Accounts with tho now bank. J Lyf il4fl y VN This distinctly feminine Instlttuion Is tho Zjrr TyBS-l --7 y 'financial stepchild of tho Day and Night bank, h ' " 1 " 1 j jBgr corner of Fifth avontte and Forty-fourth street, H I J I which opened last May. Tho new bank Is under H , tho samo management and housed In 'tho samo ,7 A Ibulldlng. H f - tn. Anna Rico, a clover ilttlo Kngllsh worn- H -sf""7 " r 'an' wn0 'ins ')0en 'n charBO of the woman's do- H -sss::5:j partmont of tho Night and Day bank, will attend s" " ' to tho depositors In tho now bank. Mrs. Rico's H " "T-- exporlenco gives reassurance to tho timid ln bank- 1 lng transactions. She Is a veritable 'guide book H of Information. She can tell just how many -crowns, 'marks, and pence you can got for good American money If you aro IH going abroad; sho can glvo you the addresses of Fifth avenue's fashionablo HJ milllnors, dressmakers, and hairdressers (this, sho has discovered from past HJ experience, goes with any woman's banking business, and the hundred and M ono Important things that women want to know. In a recent report sho said J In part: HJ Women Of wealth don't Hko to bo delayed In maknlg deposits. Womon HJ 'of small means are the same. Women, not being as strong as men, don't Hko HJ 'to stand In lino with thorn for fear of a strugglo for their possession. HJ Tho same Is true of -womon with largo and small accounts when they H come to draw money. HJ Depositing or taking -out monoy Is an Inspiration with women. Thoy aro HJ (Afraid of changing their 'minds after they have decided. Delay In tho line H unnerves them. Tho only man In tho 'bank will bo Robert J. Phalr, tho teller. Mr. Phalr H has had 15 years' cxperlonco with the woman's department of tho Fifth Av-H Av-H enuo bank, and ho explained his now position by tho modest assertion that he "understood women." In his banking exporlenco Mr. Phalr has handled tho fortunes of New York's wealthiest womon, and declares he likes to transact business for them. "If women don't know." said Mr. Phalr, "they loam H quickly, and thoy aro clovor In business matters." 'BIG RIVER OF WATER USED DAILY. William U. Ellison, 'commissioner of water i H supply, gas and electricity, has been "taking ac- r count of stock" in his department. This depart- jffgb f"- s-v ment Is ono of tho few ;in the city that makes 22X,. lf H .money, tho revenuo for a -year having been $10,- C7jt2dBS'a'A i 065,000, whllo tho commissioner had to expend fcJrMBMnrfc ot that 16,215,000. ImprovemcntB costing $20,- 1!iwViVfB 000,000 aro now being mado, or about to bo be- ''rifclMw vrvt H gun, Including nitration works, which will cost wjjifc '''JWrfiu -v5 Vll about $12,000,000 and flltor all Now York city's SM I Now York's water would niako a romarkablo :m5?"BB H river. Tho amount dally consumed Is about jOcJSP "Wjfl 600,000,000 gallons, making nbout 182,500,000,000 "Xtftfj J gallons In one year. In weight the dally supply Zf I yH represents 2,100,000 tons, and Its volume Is Buch 'vw"7 h V that It would flood a street 60 feet wldo to a depth V 00 (i-H (i-H of ton feet for a distance of 21 miles. 1 -" 1 This cnoYmous dally consumption constantly Increases, said tho commissioner. Much of It has to bo pumped to reach tho distributing reservoirs. In Rrooklyn, Queens and Richmond tho wholo supply has to bo pumped. This requires 58 stations, burning moro than 100,000 tons of coal a year. Distribution ot tho wator Is through about 2,000 miles of- mains from 6 to 60 Inches In diameter. To theso mains are attached 293,945 taps and more than 25,000 hydrants for flro engines, whllo 50,172 meters aro installed to measuro tho wator Btipply. For tho high pressure, ur so-called salt water system, 78 miles ot mains from 8 to 24 Inches In diameter will bo laid and will havo 2,012 hydrants. A fire can bo Immediately chocked without tho aid of flro engines. UjfPER BROADWAY NOW GARAGE ROW. f" Upper Broadway, between Forty-second A A.. y- street and Seventy-second street, has been named Kr i-'"" Sr-""i Qorago row by tho nutomoblllsts. In the last two WfKvritaif I 0 f V yarfl automobile garages havo strung up thore at reASffrJBL Q ) tt groat rate. Most of tho ground which tho garages jKrvxtl tMKsxT now occupy was vacant lots n couple of years ago, i SsrS. J some with squatters' shantloB on thorn. Then ono (r rfil nutomobllo manufacturer erected a temporary v"N w KaraBO abovo Fifty-ninth street. It was a hit . ' yV"-tA from tho .start and other manufacturers followod sv ltnr'v BU" nni1 orected garages. , ' At Hfst tho garages wero only temporary af- T jrfZZZz C fairs, tho majority being only two stories high. 1 It X As business Increased substantial buildings took VcBUBy j? the placo of tho temporary ones. Each bulldor Jl fa I p trlcd to outdo his rivals In tho appearanco ot his IztHV garage, with tho result that somo of tho garages I dHBfiS3E L 1 rcsemblo private dwellings moro closely than business buildings. When nil of tho avallablo vacant ground was titlllzod tho manufacturers wero forced to look elsewhere. Somo of them bought up buildings which wore being used for othor branches of business and transformed thom Into garages. Ono of thcin transformed a livery stablo Into n garage, whllo another an-other purchased a ,flat house, and after overhauling tho entire lower part turned it Into a garago. Most of tho garages arc four or five Btorles high, with a deop collar for torlng gasoline and oil, where cloctrlc sparks or flro can't got at them. Tho buildings aro all of fireproof construction, with steel frames and concrete floors. In Bomo of tho streets off that part of nroadway thero Is so much auto traffic through them dally that tho asphalt Is stained a durk brown from tho oil and grcaso which drip from tho machines. AAN CUPID CAPTURES MANY TEACHERS. . f Seventy-four womon teachers wero married I xS3JgjjS. (n tho summer recess. This Is tho largest num- fyr? her of marrlngos that has been recorded at ono. vV4iTr" time. Tho list Is not comploto yet, for many V'lSiKa teachers marry and take their own time- about ruTPfr' reporting tho fact. t (yStiyS ) Tho ravages of Dan Cupid In tho ranks of w fVu 'JJmf&d tho teachers has revived tho Intorostlng question vUY Y of whother a woman can marry while Bho Is a vMil J, teachor. Tho by-laws of tho board of oducntlon A&i Jllk J say that a woman teachor cannot marry. Tho ) court ot oppeols has said that tho board ot edu- VI hiW Kl , ' cation had no right to adopt such a by-law, and flBB7 I that tho by-law Is null and void. Tho board has "-VkXHR f J been In a quandary over tho question for somo .Vi,l tlmo, and has novor taken Btrlngont moasures to If T A I enforco tho by-law. " i 1 L J Of tho 12,000 womon who aro toachlng In tho 1 Ct- 1 riementary Bchools many hundreds nro married. Somo of thoso who aro not married hopo to bo somo day. Many of tho married mar-ried womon havo famlllos depending on tlieni, and It will mean much to thorn If tho board of education should enforco tho by-law. Tho thousands of teachers teach-ers who aro not married aro not lotting tho by-law troublo them at nil. Thoy say It Is a dead lottor becauso tho board of education has not enforced It, and thoy may go ahead and marry when thoy pleaso. Tho by-law has nothing to say about women who enter the school system after they havo been married. mar-ried. WIFE WANT8 $10,000 TO QUIT STAGE. ZivthttwoooMf) A lnoro mutter of Hollars $10,000, to bo ox- Ja.ru tm act soparatos Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Iloctou. Ho JtfYT""7 t Is senior member of Ilvcton, Dlckorson & Co., . ' 3lVoJ I innnufocturers of surgical Instruments, and his S." 'ufcr w" '8 11 cnorus K'r' 'n body's Maid." iv P3-K Mrs. Ilocton says sho has a small volco, and L' " r v(Wj3M ,nat " Mr" "oc,on doesn't want Now York thea-Wrfx thea-Wrfx ATjI Va.r torgoers to hoar It ho'll have to pay her $10,000 O'fcMivW V" u year, which, of course, as Mrs. Ilecton says. Is Vl nBLi S-CM ilttlo enough. M iHKV ill Tll lmlr woro lntlrrlel1 ln 0n,u two years ago. W Ll im sho was then Vlda Mohr, which namo Is tho ono 7 . iwod by her on tho Btago. Sho Is u strikingly f Vk handsome woman with au oxcollent figure. I U "My stago dubut and tho decision nbout tho I I , p $10,000 a year Is all duo to my husband." sho said. i7-JJ JJ - "Ho Is very purslmonlous rnthor miserly, you (' might put It Iloln'g a partnor in n very prosper- f$. ous business, ho can well afford to glvo mo $10,0p0 a year, which is moro than I asked before 1 took this stop." i Mr, Decton has thus far boon unable to decide which alternative to accept, and it seems as If the case will land In tho divorce courtB. |