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...cities grow and their suburbs thicken, city merchants find it increasingly wise to take their wares to the suburbs for sale. New York and Chicago particularly have become surrounded by rich buying areas far from Fifth Avenue and State Street. Last week Fifth Avenue lost more trade. Opened with much civic and social pomp was a large new store of Franklin Simon & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Not the first nor the second New York store to open a branch outside the Metropolitan area (B. Altman & Co. has branches in White Plains, N. Y. and East Orange, N. J.; Best...
...spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...nearly a week Chicago had been shy 473 policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...
...Pumps. Early Sunday morning the weather began to thicken, and at 9 o'clock the Vestris sprang a leak. Chief Engineer James A. Adams went below, found water pouring in through an ash-discharger valve, also into the engine room where a pipe had given way. Hardly had these been stopped when it was discovered the Vestris was shipping heavy seas through a coal port...
...sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail...