Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-29
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.

Der %, 1905.
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RippIes on the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
stenographers and typewriters engaged
in taking down and printing the testimony
given at the life insurance investigation
have nearly completed as large task as
the craft has undertaken for many year.
The investigating committee expects to
close public sessions on Saturday. Then
will follow sitting Of testimony, the review
and the recommendations, Some idea OF
the Job may be gained from the statement
that the testimony fills over 1000 pages.
The investigation has yielded longer rec
ords, 1t is said, than any similar proceed
ing ever held I'm the country. The official
stenographers, who average from 30 to
225 pages a day. each of typewriter pages
containing so words, have filled more than
1000 pages altogether in the nfty-three
sessions held thus far. The 10000 mark
was reached last Tuesday afternoon.
As the bid Of the state was 80 cents
sheet. the cost of the stenographic work
to the committee will be in the neghbor-
hood OF 5000 or $1,000 before the investl
kdllon ufNl SdNuIudN. AlNti NildN
there will be further expenses in connec-
ton with the preparation Of the report for
the Legislature and the total outlay may
not fall far below the original estimate Of
H25oO.
The testimony. as It is now bound up
In typewriter pages. makes a pile as high
as a mans waist when It Is stacked up az
compactly as possible on the floor In
printed form It will I'LL ten or more vol
umes.
Some facts about the capitalization and
the immensely OF the traffic of the three
Manhattan railroads (the IL, subway and
surface lines) that are now under control
of the Belmont syndicate may be of in
terest just now.
Though these roads, placed end to end,
would reach only a little over 500 miles, yet
altogether in year, they carried 1,OS6
S3I,IT0 passengers, whereas all the passen-
gers carried on all the steam roads of the
United States numbered only lis, $50 for
the last year reported by the Interstate
Commerce commission. Passengers per
mile we're 1O4.l9s on the steam roads and
about OOoOOO per mile on the nickel-col-
lecting machine, which may soon be under
one mans control. as the larger part of it
Is already
1t is within truth to say that the divi-
dend-paying stock and bonded indebtedness
of the companies now combined falls little
short of the Si0o,Oo.0oo Of New York City's
net funded debt The average capital per
mile of the three combined roads is about
tenfold the sS0.sS6 per mile for the United
States.
Off all atr Il,nn
is restaurant which serves 1900 women
daily within two hours. On Park Row an
all-night lunch room of invincible respecta-
bility has a daily average of 5000 women
patrons, some 1000 of whom are served
any time from 6 y. m. to ! Il. m, without
being subjected to comment, criticism or
undue observation. An exceptionally at
tractive young woman, whose home is on
Staten island and who works on one of
the Park Row morning papers. has taken
her midnight luncheon al this place on her
way to the l O'Clock boat for months with
out meeting the least difficulty or incivility
Farther up Park Row. at the corner of
Chambers street, there Is another restaur-
ant which feeds its scores OF women nightly
as well it's hundreds of women daily
over on Broadway is place which crowds
an average OF 200 luncheons for business
woman between the hours of II and 4
The price of seats on the New York
Stock exchange has made a new record
with every successive sale in the last fort
night. In November the high price was
$4,000; two weeks ago SIS 600 was reached,
and since then prices have climbed in
5000 jumps in response TO an unprece-
dented demand up to $4,000 At this rate
the privilege Of trading on the floor of the
big marble building in Broad street is
worth to the 1900 men who compose the
exchange membership the enormous total
of s102, 800 600.
Brokers are now predicting that the price
will reach $4,000 before 1t goes any lower
and the hope seems reasonable. This year
on change is well under way to break all
records Already the bond transactions
have passed the billion mark, totaling UP
to the close of business Saturday Sl.Ol2-
526,42O In 1901, the great boom year, the
bond transactions were. in round numbers,
1899, 10000 The total shares of stock sold
in that year were 265.5OOOco. To date in
1905 the total is 255, l54.
Going down town on the rear platform of
a Fourth avenue car the other day were
two sightseeing Englishmen, and wedged
in behind them a laborer whose features
bore the cast of the Celt.
1T is striking" drawled one of the Brit
ishers to the other. how many of these
fireproof buildings one sees in America
that are not fireproof at ALL" to which his
companion readily agreed and went him
one better by declaring that not "A single
nreproof building existed in the city.
And that's where you are wrong" vol
unteered the lrishman, aggressiyely. Sure
l know one meself. cause ! worked on 1t.
"Ah, my fine fellow said the English
man, turning around, maybe you can give
us the name of this remarkable building?"
The jerome Park Reservoir" said the
freshman.
In the hearing in the Harlem police court
of William Hays, chauffeur for Mrs. Mar
Gus A. Hanna, on the charge of speeding
her automobile too fast, the fact was
brought out that the police on the upper
West SIDE have evolved an original and
unique method of timing machines that at
tempt to do" more than the law allows.
/ Bicycle Policeman Hickey, who made the
arrest, swore that the machine in which
Mrs. Hanna and Mrs. Mary Phelps were
| riding was going down Lafayette boule-
! ward at the rate OF twenty-five and one