The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-08


 Another Fight for womnn's Rights.
 No week passes but what the news papers have to tell of some woman who in defense of a little property right. usually inherited is making a vigorous war upon the minions of some progress sive real estate. telephone or railroad corporation. Singularly enough, 1t is almost always a woman, and usually a single woman, who does this sort of thing. The latest of these Is Miss Le Hon. whose solitary house stands in the middle of the space which the New York Central Railroad is about to occupy with It's great terminal station.
 From the beginning. she has defied the railroad to move her out. They have offered her money. but 1t wasn't enough. Now the matter Is going to the courts. and the lady says she will never budge until she gets $100,000. The chances are that the house will fall down about her ears before a jury ever brings in a verdict, for the tremendous blasts of dynamite used in the excava- tions have made its holding together a matter of serious doubt. All this. the shattering of her building and the shat tering of her nerves as well. are set down in the claim for damages which she urges against the company
 A man would have read the history of such cases clearly enough to have taken something better than the nor. mai price and live happy ever after, but that isn't a woman's way.
 Driving the City to Municipal Owner
 ship.
 The wind seems to have been taken out of the sails of the Municipal Own ership League in a measure by that far-sighted and practical political in- stitution. Tammany Hall. Tied up to a dock in the North River are two or three of the handsomest ferryboats ever seen in New York Harbor They are awaiting the completion of the slips at Fort George to begin running over the route between the Battery and Staten Island. Tammany has it's eye on other ferries, and depends upon the excellence of the Staten Island service to reconcile the public to its acquisi- tion of more properties.
 There can be little doubt that the re- sumption of these franchises by the city will meet with favor. for the boats which far many years have been con- veying thousands of people between Staten Island and New York have fall en into state of dilapidation which Is enough to make a passenger without an insurance policy shudder and lie awake nights. If the telegraph, the telephone and the trolley cars ever become as decadent a s the Staten Isl and ferry, municipal ownership will carry New York City million to one
 \ Blow SOftened.
 Statistics published by the Bureau of Labor show conclusively. and with an abundance of detail. that the price of living has been advancing yearly at terrifying rate. There Is a consis- tent advance In the price of every staple article of food. Beaps. beef steak. eggs. bacon. ham, almost every thing that the plain people use, have gone up with jumps. And while this has been happening the figures show that the wage increase. although there as been an increase. has not been by any means proportionate to the climb ing cost of sustenance.
 These discoveries officially announced are calculated to cause considerable disturbance among the working classes but the terror which they create Is ap ito be diminished when one reads that this country manufactured dur ing the last fiscal year 7.6S9,337207 cigars. 3,36S.212.249 cigarettes. about 21, ,00O, 900 pounds of snuff and some odd million pounds of chewing tobaco. Al together we burned up. 1t is figured 300. .000 tons of the weed.
 This discovery will soften the bIou to the male American. but the house. wife, who has to make over her ola clothes and convert yesterdays corned beef into chicken croquettes for to- nights dinner. will find in it material for a few brief remarks.
 Italians Make Trouble.
 Tn connection with the recent kidnar