Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-28
NEW YORK HAPPENINGS.

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PLAN TO STOP THE KILLINGS ON
BROOKLYN BRIDGE-NEW CITY.
GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE
NEAT SUM ON HAND.
The Biggest Police Quarters In thu
World. Organization Of Thieves.
Root Doesn't Want to Be Gov
ernor.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.--New Yorlrs
next big event will be the Fashion
Show which opens In Madison Square
Garden next Tuesday and although 4
Will attract nothing like the attention
that the yacht races attracted. 1t Will
be Of suficient moment to cause many
visitors TO the races to stay In New
York . week or SO longer than their
originally intention. The distinguish.
Ing exhibits OF the show viii be the
models OF Worth, Felis, Paquin and
Mayer. the famous French couturieres.
It will be the first time In the history
Of the country that these dressmakers
have exhibited here.
or all the methods devised to re.
lieve the crush at the Manhattan end
Of the Brooklyn bridge during business
hours which has caused 80 many fatal
accidents. the Poulson plan seems
most practicable and may eventually
be adopted. This plan provides for
running the bridge trolley cars around
the terminus on only one loop In sec
lions Of lve cars. The cars stopping
on the north roadway viii discharge
passengers and then will be hurried
" sent owe the loop to the south
roadway, where steps will DO made to
receive passengers travelling Brook
onward. The chief advantage claim
ed for this method Is that II will serve
to keep the incoming and outgoing
crowds separated and relieve all sem.
blance OF . Jam.
II Tammany succeeds In obtaining
control Of the city government at tho
polls next fall. II will receive a lega.
cy Of $780, 900. 5000 from the present nd
m~inistration. for despite the increase
Of t1f3,0 1000 In the city's debt limit
Comptroller Grout Is going ahead %
cautiously that not more than $43, 0O0.-
600 Of the appropriation win be spent
on public improvements. This means
that the new administration will have
100000. 900 at It's disposal and the fu-
sionists are using the fact ais argu-
ment for not %intrusting this powcr for
large expenditures to nm organization
that has proved SO recreant In the
past.
The Merchants association has join.
ed the crusade to prevent cab drivers
from ov~efchafsing visitors Who arc
unfamiliar with the fare regulations.
A pamphlet Is being distributed, emil.
tied Legal Rates OF Faro for Public
Hacks" which gives the official rates
for cabs or coaches. whether engaged
by time or distance. or otherwise, II
Is also stated IN the pamphlet that
any n suffering from an %overcharge
should make a complaint against the
offending driver and forward II to the
association.
New York. which already has 20
many magnificent public buildings.
viii in the near future. probably have
the finest police headquarters In the
world. The sinking fund commission
II reported TO have In contemplation
. nve-story semisteel skeleton struc-
ture. covering the area bounded by
Grand. Center and Broome streets and
Center Market Place. Tho walls Up 10
the third story will be Of bun Indiana
limestone and beyond that brick. The
whole win be surmounted by three.
domes, the central and chief dome be.
Ing It's feet above the street level
On the NTH floor there will be sepa
rate prisons for mon and women. The
cells r 10 be o. steel and The esii.
mated cost OF The building Il hair !
million dollars.
Much has been written about the
perfect organization N the befears
and thieves Of Nov York, but that the
bands Of criminals employ. beefars ~
advance agents is a new feature Of
their nefarIous methods Or operation
II has been discovered by the police.
that a class Of thieves known az aycgg
men" secure Information MS TO dwell
ings, business houses and factories
through the professional beegars who
30 ahead, presumably TO solicit aims,