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Show END OF AN OLD SUPERSTITION Hoight of Present New York Buildings Discourages Youngsters There to Seek Fortune. Bald a New York octogenarian: "The height or buildings In New York has dealt a death blow to an old superstition that animated many a country youth who came here to make bis fortune 60 years ago. Heaven knows bow tlmy came by the belief, but most of those up-state boys came to the city thinking that If they could toss a coin over a bouse they took a fancy to at the firs' try, the bouse, would be theirs some Jny. "It was one of my surest convictions, and I put It to a test Immediately after aft-er paying for my first meal In New York Tne only money bad left was an old fashioned three-cent piece With that In my hand I walked around looking look-ing for a desirable piece of property. Pretty soon a corner lot on which stood a two-story and a half brick bouse took my eye "I had practiced coin throwing la piece go for all it was worth over the front of the bouse and ran around to the back to see where It landed. It went clean over1: knew then that that house and lot would be mine In due lime, and sure enough they were, people peo-ple don't woo fortune by flipping coins these days The fellow whose success depends upon tossing a thre-cent piece over the Singer beHdlng would be to s pretty bad fix " |