The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-21
NEW YORK CITY GOSSIP
METROPOLIS ON EVE OF MOST
TREMENDOUS BOOM KNOWN.
Rumor That Hebrew Regiment Would
Be Established Not Well Founded.
Business Men Organize to Redeem
Coney Island and Make 1t Respecta-
BILE.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Greater than.
any change city has ever known ie
that to be wrought in New York within
the next few years. Greater and more
remarkable than any enterprises ever
undertaken within a city are those not
only planned, but under way in New
York, and which will be completed
within that period. In some respects the
face of the city will be altered; in
many ways the tide of travel will be
turned. Buildings larger, more magni-
ficent and more costly than any others
in the world will dot the skyline, and
yet marvellous as will be the improve
ments above ground, they will not COM
pare with those beneath.
Nearly one billion dollars-think OF
iti-one thousand million dollars will
be spent in New York in this con-
structive work. This is almost one
half of all the actual money there is
in the United States today.
The mind can scarcely grasp the
wealth of money. that sum signifies.
Jersey, Queens, Westchester, The
Bronx, Richmond, the outlying districts
of Kings will be brought into the lap
of Manhattan; trains will speed be-
meath the great rivers; four bridges
will span the East river; every hour in
the day, from dawn to darkness, 50,-
900 or 100000 persons will be under
ground in New York, and yet there
will be no diminution of the traffic on
the surface or the elevated arteries.
Steam will be relegated to the past;
electricity will be the power. The New
Yorker will think no more of going
from New York to Yonkers than he
now does to go from the City Hall to
Fourteenth street.
Municipal Improvements have slim;
ulated the railroads to great endeavor;
the railroads by their enterprise will
/ stir all departments of energy in the
city.
No Regiment of Hebrews.
The attempt to form a regiment Of
Hebrews, which has now been taken in
hand, as a result of the recent riot at
tending the funeral or Chief Rabbi
Joseph, is bound to prove a failure,
it is said, for number of reasons.
A prominent officer of the National
Guard, in referring to the subject,
said: "All this talk about the forma-
ton of Hebrew regiment to become
part Of the National Guard is sheer
nonsense, and such an organization is
impossible. In the first place, the Ma
tional Guard is limited by law to $4,000
officers and men, and it's present
strength is 14,410, which gives very
little leeway for an increase in recruits
among the organizations composing it.
To add another regiment to it, under
circumstance
BILE, unless, Of course, the law was
changed to increase the force and the
annual appropriation, which 1t is safe
to say will not be done. Another poiT1A
worthy of note is that the regiment
cannot be formed and bear arms, even
as an independent body, as the law
strictly forbids it.
To Redeem Coney Island.
If the plans of several business men
of Coney Island materialize, that resort
will be-with the cooperation of the
poliee-a model of propriety next year.
A CORPORATION has been formed, and the
resort known as Sea Lion Park has
been purchased. 1t is proposed to tear
down all the buildings that now oc-
cupy the property, with the exception
of the dance hall and the Chute the
chutes," and replace them with the
best of the Pan-American features.
Frederick Henderson, who is inter-
ested in the proposed plan, when seen,
said: 1--WE propose to make the west
end of Coney Island the finest sum-
mer resort in the world. 1t viii be
clean and respectable"
The police, under the guidance Of
Capt. Knipe, already have started the
work of Kidding the resort of thieves
and gamblers. Capt Reynolds, of the
detective bureau in Brooklyn, is help
ing Capt. Knipe, and it is expected
large number of arrests will be made
early this week.
Owing to the large number of ar
rests that were made by Capt. Kn1pe
during the past week Of proprietors or
Raines law hotels for not complying
with the law, many of them are wear
ing troubled looks. A sharp lookout is
being kept after these alleged hotels.