Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-09-19
GOTHAM NEWS LETTER.
MANY SUBJECTS DISCUSSED.

civil administration. yet the fact re-
mains that 10000 children are proven.
ted from attendance upon the school
whicA opens next Monday because OF
an inadequate supply Of buildings for
the purpose. There Is in this regret.
able condition OF affairs the poor ex.
cuse that the fact was unknown or
that recent immigration is responsible
for a.. During the iast school year
more than 90. y children wer, exclu-
died from school benefits and the bull
ding operations began ami we're inter
rupted because OF the strikes. The
same Teason--st TlkCs-is given this
year for so many unfinished school
buildings. but II is not accepted by all
and It is a powerful argument against
the much.heralded advantages OF
Greater New York City that such a
condition OF anairs should exist.
The denomination OF Seth Low by
the fusionists OF this city IL gener-
ally accepted fact. Opposition TO him
within the ranks is restricted to two
factions whose chief complaints seem
90 be that they failed TO secure as
many places under him as they con.
sidered TIER due Republicans have
expressed themselves unqualinedly as
favorable TO Mr.. Low, declaring that
a. was due the man as well as the
city that he nave future opportunity
20 confirm his policy. Tammany,
thought upon the opponent of Mr..
Low has not yet crystalized. but IL is
felt among leaders OF the party that
slow haste is advisable, IL being thor
oughly agreed that none save n very
strong man can hope to win against
the present mayor.
Never before, say those long famil-
lar with police business, has the
bonGsmans industry gone on so ex-
tensvely and with such openness as
now. These professional Daiiers flock
around the renderloin station In
West Thlrtieth street like vultures,
the numoer OF them having increased
surprisingly recently. The people
bailed out by thesl bondsmon are us
ually the victims OF police raids and
IL is alleged that the bondsmen are
tipped of by the police in order to
be near the scene as soon as the pris-
oners are taken TO the station.
The feverish energy with which the
residents OF New York go about their
work is exhibited not only in stores
and Offices but on trolley cars, the ele-
waited railroad and on ferry-boats. II
Is customary 10 SEE men reading on
the cars everywhere, but you nave to
come to New York to md half the
passengers on a car correcting type
written manuscript. numming over
music scores. counting up accounts in
little memorandum books or on the
back Of an envelope and porting over
shorthand lessons. Persons studying
foreign languages read ,hem aloud on
the cars, and NOBODY appears to pay
any attention to them except visitors
from other cities, who are not accvs-
toned to see such ostentatious in.
dustry at home.
While New York is distinctly cos
mopolitan, there are no less than
twenty different colonies within the
area OF Manhattan. each representing
foreign-Dorn community. For In.
stance on lower Washington street
one tlnds Syrians to the practical ex.
clusion OF any other race; on Jane
street are the Greeks from Sparta
Chinatown is a few hundred fee,
away, a little higher on the east side
is the Yiddisn colony ana so on with
hs. al Al
tic inhabitants. The public schoo
eliminates quickly the mother tongues
of these several peoples, for 1t is sci
dom that children over ten years ole
employ the language OF their mothers
and fathers in talking.
New Workers who can afford
spend less than half OF the year Il
their city houses. They do not com
back from the country until December
except for a weekly trip TO the orer
or theatres; then In February O
March an exodus Is made TO tn
south after this follows the Euro
pean trip for sixty hays or tire
months, when they return 20 occup
their summer homes in the noun
a4AiF Nt HE1l inc Sfd tilts ANkdl
country houses are sufficiently nei
to the city for the men to go back an
forth but from July TO the middle
September, business men are large
out OF the city and there Is much IA
ing off in business as the result. III
protracted summer absence is due
the intense heat OF New York dur;
July and August especially, and n
quently during September, but Il
reason Is not so plain for the mgr
ton to southwark during the whit,
for New York winter weather is n
severe and will compare favorab
with any climate OF the country
the same isothermal line
One who has not visited the slur
OF New York city can form no &C
ception OF the condition Of affairs ,
listing there. There are no shanti
or rookeries and instead one sees 4
ement houses OF from four TO sew
stories. light, pleasant. neat and
tractiye In appearance. The stree
the kept clean and lighted at nle
by electricity or gas. One OF the b,