The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22

Hearst Is running oi HIS o"h tiSs' and platform, unencumbered or unald- cd bv any regular party endorsement the outcome will furnish a pretty fair line on what a ten year crusade against ca pital. by a capitalist, in the capital istic center of the Nation, has been able to accomplish.
 High City Rents Boom Suburbs. Nothing Is more astonishing, nothing is causing more uneasiness just now han the almost incredible increase in
 ts in New York. Figures recently , shed have shown the increase In
 of subsistence to be far and
 A.r than the increase in sal-
 meats and groceries are
 cheap when contrasted to the
 Il tower advance in rents.
 Flats. even in Brooklyn, and not the most desirable parts at that, which five years ago were easy of rental at $40 a month. are held now at s75 and | $50. In New York 1t Is worse. Nobody who has hunted for apart ments in Manhattan has any longer any doubt about the profit to be made from the sky scraping hotels that are chasing one another upward. The cheaper houses and flats are getting ex- pensive just as fast. The relief for all f this has been found. heretofore, in | are not tabooed and where. until re- | cently, houses could be had at living | prices. Now even that avenue of es- | cape is being closed. The country owners have got wise," and in all the | towns, good or bad, around New York, I rents have advanced at least third In | the past three or four years.
 1 The real outcome of all this Is not apparent yet, but one of its temporary | results is a rich harvest for the real | estate companies which are building up suburban sections on the installment plan.
 Business Barometers show Prosperity. There are two streets in New York which are absolute barometers of trade. Not Broadway and Fifth Avenue. These will be crowded, as will be Sixth Av- nue and Twenty-third Street, in times when nobody is selling and nobody buying much of anything. But when West Street is chock-a-block with heavily loaded drays, from early morn l until late at night, and South Street docks have no ships rnoored to them, 1t Is clear proof that American business is booming.
 When times are hard you will see a | regular forest of shipping along South Street, big and little vessels, waiting through weeks, sometimes, for car 1 go, and eating the hearts out of their owners with demurrage charges. It Is not so now. When a ship moors In | South Street nowadays it is to take on a load that Is more than ready for 1t, and get out in the shortest time pos | sible.
 On West Street, where goods are un- loaded for the South and Westbound | trains and the transatlantic and coast | steamers as well as Hudson River craft, mounted policemen are having | the time of their lives this October. | Street cars are stalled half the time, | and foot passengers are wishing their | insurance was doubled. Every railroad | is suffering an absolute car famine, and the hardest thing in business now is | to get shipment for the goods that have been sold.
 Beware the Police.
 Every now and then newspaper
 of ,f"a eternal CT justice comes along who fancies the best way to show his inde- lpendence is to take sides with some.
 nDs t6Sf buriy G institution, the New York police. A certain MT. Thorp has ap- peared to testify against the brutality
 of Max Schmittberger and his men,
 who made a negro resort called the Ron Ton look like a bunch of kindling-
 wood-"in the performance of duty.
 Mir Thorp saw a great deal or bru- taIitv, and went to the hearing of po- lice headuuarters to testify about 1t.
 All the other witnesses including those
 who said they had been clubbed, had
 chosen the part of discretion and failed
 to appear leaving him in the lime- flight. MT. Thorp is an Englishman still obscessed, no doubt, by the ideal
 of the London bobby" It Is too bad
 that in England MT. Thorp never met
 the late stephen Crane. Crane go,
 auixotic, too, and took the part of a
 renderloin damsel named Dora, went
 to headquarters as Mir. Thorp did, to
 testify against the police who. he said had wrongfuly arrested her.
 Nobody who ever knew stephen Crane particularly the men who knew aim in Ceba, doubted that the author of The Red Badge of Courage" wal sand to his finger tips. But after : short time Crane went to England tC
 live. He said very little about it af
 rewards. merely that the man wh(
 ran foul of the New York police was { fool. Cranes knightly notion of wha was due to a maiden in distress expa triated him. Let us see if Mir. Thorp'i idea of justice eventually restores al errant subject to King Edward. Is Roosevelt Tanning DOwnf It is said that Mir. Roosevelt's in .ervention in behalf of modified foot eaIl has already began to bear frui coachers and father confessors' h. summoned to Washington to lunch an' talk the matter over.
 It Is not to be supposed that tn Presidents feeling on this subject is il any wise parental. or that the fact 0 his eldest having been bunged up fl an unsuccessful attempt to make th