The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-17


 Thursday talks are highly edifying. They remind one of the college president-the scholar in politics. After Mayor Lows term of office has expired these talks will probably be bound in neat little volume and distributed among his admirers as books of municipal wisdom. Mayor Low is demonstrating by these talks that he Is a theorist and not practical man of af- fairs. He was not elected to convert the Mayors chair into a professors chair; he was not elected to preach but to act. Mayor Low and District Attorney Jerome avoided the liquor question during their campaign, and they are endeavoring to avoid 1t since they have been in office. The "side-door" Sunday liquor question is one that politicians hopeful of future are anxious to avoid, and the Mayor says: Ut must not be forgotten that approxi- mately one saloon out of every five in the City of New York at the present time has the legal right to sell liquor on Sun day" And in regard to the police he says: "In the enforcement of this law and of others like it, the police are not to be expected ordinarily to go beyond what they can accomplish in full uniform" If there Is any concession which the aver age dealer would ask 1t would be just what Mayor Low comedies Every liquor dealer who sells on Sunday considers that he Is one of those who is permitted to do so if not by virtue of the Raines law then by his membership in the Liquor Dealers Association. and he will assume the risk of arrest by a policeman In full uniform. It is very plain that Mayor Low does not propose to enforce the Sunday closing law, and by so doing virtually de- f1es the legislature that made the law. Taken as whole the people of New York favor an open Sunday, but they also de- sire a legal Sunday. Until the bad law Is repealed tricks and evasions must be the rule, and the result must necessarily be the black-maiing of liquor dealers and the corruption of the police. Mayor Low should obey the law, and the result would be the amendment of the Sunday law.
 
 Next season the new race track at Jamaica will be opened to the public. It will be the best appointed track around New York city, not excepting that Of the Saratoga Racing association, which though somewhat distant. Is neverthe- less considered metropolitan track. Racing has never enjoyed a more pros porous season The daily attendance ex- ceeds last year by 50 per cent. The en- tries have been more numerous, the purses larger, and the character of the stables represented more representative of the best influence on the turf. The acquisition of a stable by Mir George J. Gould Is one of those events which does much to stimulate the interest in racing and good sportsmanship, just as the withdrawal on the other hand, of men of like calibre seriously injures the great national pastime A few years ago, when the Lorillards, George and Pierre, and August Belmont withdrew their support, the dark days in racing began. But now our young millionaires are numerous, and they have gone into racing with true sportsman's love of sport. This means fine strings of horses. fair racing, honest management and efficiency. guarantee to the racing public and to the bettor fair run for his money
 
 Mir w c. Evans vice president of the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Rail- way, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Ho- tel. Mir Evans Is the son of the late governor of Colorado, and a partner of Mir David H. Moffat, In building a link in the new trans-continental line from Denver to Salt Lake City. MT. Evans stated that the progress made is very gratifying, and that he never was con nected with an enterprise which has aroused so much enthusiasm among the people. The new road will be about five hundred miles In length and pass through the heart of virgin territory that abounds in natural resources All that this great territory. equalling in area the State of Pennsylvania, requires is a we'll equipped road to develop the resources and make marketable the wealth that 1t contains MT. Moffat proposes to make this the crowning effort of his busy life, and undoubtedly it will be the greatest | success that he has ever achieved. The road will probably be ready to do business over the whole length of its line inside of two years. It will have great terminal ad- | vantages at both ends. It will connect in | Denver with the Rock Island or Burling- 1 ton, and at Salt Lake with the San Pedro, | Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway. It will be 235 miles shorter than the shortest present connection between Denver and | Salt Lake, and it will be from the very outset a paying property.
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 | Captain Richard Nye has made an in- teresting cruise in the Pacific on his lit- tie steamer w. s. Phelps. He visited the Galapagos islands, and now returns with story of wonders. The Captain was bit of an explorer. and his report may savor somewhat of seamen's yarns but whether they are yarns or not they are