Arizona republican., 1899-02-08
ALL BUYING STOCKS
New York Women Are Spec
 uIdtiO1 Mad.
PIaTf and Roosevelt Have Not Yef Agreed Upon Dian for Police ReOrganiZ niZaiioR-ChangeS in Han nation Elevated Arrangement.

l city the swelling boom Tn last week $ stock market is plainly reflected. It
 is usual at this time of the year for
 many visitors to be in the city. some
 for pleasure and others to buy for va
 rious western houses, but the crush just now is almost beyond parallel. Many of the larger hotels are daily
 turning away many would-be guests.
 There is hardly 2 hCstelry of conse- quence in this city at which a room can4be secured without being previous
 ly reserved. The visitors are from all
 sections Of the country, and every one of them seems to be prosperous and to
 have great deal of money.
 Ali the visitors from the Pacific
 slope, from Canada, from the south and from the great west tell of unusual
 prosperity at home. The commercial
 buyers say they have never heard Of
 such a demand for goods at home as
 there is this year. Nearly every man
 has taken a great interest in the stock market, and in many instances the vis-
 ftors have been heavy buyers of stock
 in Wall street. In many of the up- town hotels, where the brokers offices
 for the last two CT three years have stood idle and the ticker pounded away nOisily with no one to heed, there hre now several tickers, and each the cen
 ter of an interested group. Every one seems to be enjoying the boom. and none more than the hotel pnoprietors.
 The ladies are once more taking q hand in the speculation of the street, for the mania has apparently spread to them. Dozens of the big Wall street firms who have uptown branches furnish favorite places in which the women stake their money cn the chances of the ma-ket Some of them are learned in the devious ways of the stock exchange. talking Sagely of sall- ing "short' and TO per cent margins and all the rest of it. Others, woefully ignorant, walk up to the cashiers win dow and seem very much daZed when asked what stocks they want
 The uptown clerks have some dis tracing times. for most women are ex- ceedingly bad losers. Occasionally one of them, on finding that none of her account remains, will burst into tears, declare that the game is not fair and the '1rOker5 should return her money. The ma. ket SC far has been rather favorable to the general run of women investors, since they are always buyers. Few women can master the method of making money by going short" It is hard for them to realize that it is possible to win by drop in values.
 PLATT AND ROOSEVELT AT ODDS
 Governor Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Platt, if report be true, are un- able to agree upon new police Iegisla- tion for the greater city. It is stated that Senator Plat feels that trouble would ensue if the governors plan for a single-headed police commission were adopted. In the debates over the Greater New York charter the organi- l zation took the stand that a :bi-paEti- san commission was the most desir- able and effectual solution of the police problem, while the reformers, and es- recially Seth Low and other close 1 friends of Governor Roosevelt, held 1 that one man should have entire con- tTOl of the force They were confirmed i in this opinion by the unfortunate sQuahbles in the police board during | the Strong administration. Colonel | Roosevelt often deplored the deadlock | which hampered the work of the de- partment and said time and again that | the only way to prevent a recurrence Of the difficulty was to vest the su- preme power in enc man.
 Aside from the question of the con- centration of power in the police beard | there is involved that of local self government The governor favors the | vcsting of the appointment of commis- sioners in the mayor, while the crgani- Zdtion leaders believe that the best in- telests of the city will be conserved | if the appointing power is given to the governor. To this plan, it is said Governor Roosevelt IS firmly opposed. While he may compromise as to the POD ctit1Jfinn If Inc hoard ba i- of keeping the appointment Of com missiOners where it now is, so as to shut off any complaint that the. admin istratiOn las any intention of curtail- ing the power of the mayor, CT taking away from the city one of the most important rights of self-government. It is said the police department will be stripped of all control oyer elections. and it's duties in that regard trans ferred to the state bureau of elections. of which ex-Chief of Police McCullagh is the head The adoption of this plan would entail several important amend ments tc. the election laws.
 RAILROAD MANAGEMENT.
 It is rumored that Uncle" Russell Sage is to quit the directory cf the Elevated railroad in order to make way for a younger man and great improvements that have been planned for Manhattan. The rumor also says that the new partner of George Could in the proposed improve ments will be J. Pierpont Morgan. It is said that there is an understanding between the Manhattan and New York Central whereby the latter road and it's suburban branches will connect with the elevated tracks, thereby enabling the Central to run it's suburban ser vice the length Of the ''L" roads.
 Once in a while somebody thinks of the sweat shops, and then. a commit tee is appointed, which goes over on the east side and inspects them Re- gently some representatives of organ ized labor thought Of them again It MaS 3 committee of the United Gar