The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21

New York June 20--Seven continuous weeks of drought have been followed with dull and sombre clouds and heavy and copious showers of rain. Weather pro phets make bold, and say July and Au- gust will be of the broiler variety to bal- anee the cool spell. In anticipation of the hot spell Citizen Nathan Straus has made ample preparations to relieve the little children of this great city and, in- deed, of other cities, with his excellent milk stations. For twelve long years MT. Straus has been the friend of the children of the tenements, and so well has he worked for them that his name has be- come a household word. At the outset he met with some opposition. The mortality among children was one to six. Ten years ago 1t was 240 to 1000; it is now re- duced to 15S to 1000. In 1893 the straus depots put out SO,OO0 bottles and last year 1.2oo,000 This enormous increase in de- mand has been attended by marked de- cline in infant mortality.
 MT. Straus' attention was attracted to the abnormal death rate among children in Chicago. He wired Mayor Harrison that he would send a doctor in charge of his laboratory to inaugurate plant. He also generously offered to furnish a tenn porary apparatus and all necessary re- quirements for Pasteurization if the city of Chicago would agree to continue it. Mayor Harrison. in behalf of the health department accepted the offer and Mr. Straus ordered the counterpart of his plant in this city to be installed in Chica- go. Mayor; Weaver of Philadelphia, who is much Interested in the little ones Of Philadelphia, caused inquiries to be made as to the workings of MT. Straus' New York plant MT. Straus, hearing of it, made a similar offer to Mayor Weaver. It was promptly accepted, and during the hot summer of 1903, the little children of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago will have pure milk. Is this not noble work; one which is sound. sane and practicalI MT. Nathan Straus is entitled to all the praise that is bestowed upon him. His work entities him to rank with the great benefactors of this age.
 
 It is just begining to dawn upon some of the big men of the democratic party here that fusion victory this fall would be of most material benefit to the republicans next year; that 1t would very nearly de- stroy the prospect of landing New York in the democratic column in 1904 Mayor Low if successful. will undoubtedly CO., operate to the fullest extent possible with the republican party in the endeavor to carry the state for his close personal friend, the President. Reelected. Low, it is predicted, will prove himself to ke the ranlSest of partisans. His political future lies with the republican machine. and to maintain his position he will at the right time do what 1t commands. The present head of Tammany can easily F ake terms with the fusion democrats, and pressure is now being brought to bear on him to open the door of concilia- tion This is MT. Murphy's great orpor- tunity to strengthen his organization and render a great service to the democracy of the whole country.
 Hotels, and hotel life form 8 distinctive feature of metropolitan architecture and existence. The Astors and Goelets favor this form of investement and they have rut millions into buildings which vie with palaces in comfort, luxury and elegance. The latest of the new Hotel Astor belongs to the Astor estate. Will liam c. Muschenheim has secured the lease and the final work in de- coration, furniture and domestic arrange IT ent was done under his direction. The