Show CURIOSITY speaking of business one of the cu ot broadway is a couple of business houses which have not brought their owner a dollar in nearly twenty years ahey are in houston street a neighborhood in which a good deal of business is done et they have stood vacant ever since the war I 1 never pas that way without taking a look at them why do these in abo heair of isea yorks business ser tion remain idle 3 ear after 3 ear if they bouses to live in some one might sa they were haunted but I 1 never beard ot shooks spooks loafing around where burines bu iines is done the houses are five stones high with marble fronts and stores over a feet deep they should bring avear at least but instead of that they have not earned a dollar going on twenty year while taxes mutt be paid and there is the interest on their cot bemid ibe auto in taxes and interest must foot up at least by this time ahe agent is there every day waiting for some one to come along and hire one or the other but though many inquiries are made no hame is ever done several times I 1 have been the agent sand in front and survey them horn top to bottom as if trying to find out why they empty and idle it is a to many others as well as him |