The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-05

nsjsr. n r. always "the extra
ordirarv campaign" or "the most re-
msrrable New York ever went
lthrourh.a People who take their pol
Titles straight are amazed by the vaga-
ries Of this years mayoralty contest
| Here is wins. running on his own
hook. missing no opportunity to berate
the leaders OF the party nominating
him. getting no support whatever from
the Republican organization, and with
the Republican candidate for district
attorney trying his best to elect Je-
rome. Here Is Jerome, defying all the
bosses and asking for election, not SO
much on his own merits as by way
Of vindication of the voters them
selves from the charge that they were
boss-ridden. Here IL Mcclellan, forced
into an attitude of apology partly by
Tammany's failure to nominate Jerome
and partly by the Hearst spectre. And
here is Hearst himself making more
noise than all the other candidates put
calling for the municipafisation of
everything. without regard to such
minor details as debt limits and hui
man possibilities in general
There are all sorts OF deals between
Republicans and Democrats. Republic
cans and Municipal ownershippers.
Citizen Unionists and any one who
will deal with them. over Assembly
men.
Almost anything may happen at the
end of such a campaign. 1t Is only
safe to say that the record for scratch
ed tickets will be broken. And that
the straight ticket that gets through
in New York city after this will have
to be very straight indeed
Taking Care Of $4,000 Censumptives.
1t costs a lot of money to run this
town. In a two-houF sitting the other
day. the Board Of Estimate and
Apportionment approved expenditures
amounting to about $i5o.o0o,ooo.,
The new plans for tapping the water
supply of Catskills to the extent OF
SOC. 100000 gallons call for an outlay
Of e161, 00c,0a0. but, as the Water
Commission modestly stated, only
STA. 000, 900 IL needed Immediately" This
expenditures is expected to keep New
York In drinking water until 1925.
There are $4,000 consumptives In New
York city. and no place to take care
Of them. but at last 100000 has been
appropriated toward the construction
of a 100000 tuberculosis sanitar-
ium on Staten Island. Only 500 beds
are provided for In the plans, leav-
ing twenty-five odd thousand suffer-
ers out In the cold. Two million dol
lars sounds like a lot of money; 1t is
only a drop in the bucket IL New
York seriously intends to take care of
it's consumptives.
Along with these items was an APP
preparation of 100000 for school play
grounds, experimenting a 100000 APP
preparation few months ago. The
budget for the year approved by the
Board of Estimate this week shows
an expenditure Of about 100000 In
excess of last years expense account.
The Modern Pirate Comes to Grief
Dwellers along the Sound are i'm
mensely relieved over the capture at
Newport of the pirate sloop Dorado"
There was half an inch of paint on
the sioop's stern where her name had
been painted In and out during her
piratical career. Her cabin was liter
ally jammed with the loot taken from
the iordiy residences that line the
Sound from New York city to the Con-
necticut line and beyond.
From the pirates point OF view the
scheme was an ideal one. He would
run his craft close to land, make a
quick raid on the conveniently situa-
ted siiverwRre ashore, and get away
before the mbuseholders could find out
what was happening. This beats the
hardships and privations of .old-fash-
Toned piracy, but II was too good to
last. Captain jackson of the Dora
do" had to spend his money some time,
and on one of his Off days the unro-
mantle police nabbed his sloop. Jack
son himself is still at large.
Easy to Get Up n Lynching I'm New
York.
/ had a chance the other day to see
how easy 1t would be to get up a
lynching in New York. The spirit is
here right enough, but the police are
too numerous and too active to give 1t
free play
The motorman of crosstown car
carelessly demolished a poor old ped
dler's wagon, scattering his goods
along the track. Then by way of add
ing insult to injury the motorman
grabbed his controller handle and was
about to answer the peddlers pro-
test by knock on the head when the
crowd took q hand.
BY the time the police rescued Mr..
Motorman his clothes were In ribbons,
his hat hopeless wreck, blood was
leaking from half a dozen abrasions
on his face, and some two score active
youths were looking for new places on
his antony to land feet and fists. The
cops had to lock him in the car in
order to get him away from the crowd.
But for their time arrival there would
have been as clear a case of lynching
In Harlem as ever happened at the
most unenlightened crossroads.
Skiing Up Castro.
General Greene didn't surprise any |
one here very much when he told the |
other day how the asphalt interests in |
Venezuela had contributed to the cam |
paign expenses of General Matos, The |
Castro government has been pretty we'll |
sized UP by the American people before |
this
People who do business in Venezuela |
have two choices open to them: They |
can submit to blackmail by Castro, or /
back up the current revolution aiming |
to overthrow that gentleman, himself |
elevated to power by revolution. The |
asphalt company's property. already un- |
der nominal seizure by Castro, was /
overrun by the Matos revolutionists,
and there was every prospect that they |
would put their leader in power in Car
acas.
In almost any other State in the /
world the act of lending aid and COM
fort to an enemy of the Government /
would be the rankest kind of treason,
but the Venezuelans know themselves
SO well that they have a general am
nesty law covering this sort of thing.
Matos himself Is now hand and glove
with Castro.
About the worst thing that can be
proved against the asphalt people Is
that they fell in with the methods on
which business must be conducted in
Venezuela II property Is to be protected
from the rapacity of the Government
and the ruthlessness of the revolution
stS. who are ALWAYS raadV to levy on