The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-01
IN NEW YORK
POOR MR. M'CALL MUST BE LIVING
 BEYOND HIS MEANS.
Wiies of the Publicity seekers-When All the Trees are Gone-Good, Old-Fashloned Dynamite-Mr.
 RyaM,a New Seheme.

Wiles of the Publicity seekers-When All the Trees are Gone-Go0d, ODd-Fsshioned Dynsmite-Mr. Ryan'a New Scheme.
 New York. Sept. 2s.-(special Corre- spondence.)-If misery loves company. then Jimmy" Hyde must be happier these fine fall days than he was carrier in the season. For 1t has become plain, since John A. Mccall and George w. Perkins, of the New York Life, have been on the Legislative Committees griddle. that regarding insurance meth ods of juggling with other peoples money, the half has never been told. That the high oficials of the big com panies knew what was coming to them and have been busy getting into their respective cyclone cellars Is plain rom the glibness of their testimony and the readiness with which they turn up the evidence--that will help their cause in any measure.
 Both Perkins and Mccall have some what overdone the willing to testiiy attitude. but Mccall was rather laying 1t on" when he voluntarily drew sucn dramatic picture of his own compara. | tive poverty. He says the greater part of his estate is his life insurance. ana he pays s25.000 a year for that. There were certainly only two horns to his dilemma. He either had made great deal of money out of insurance, whlcn 1t would be unpleasant to admit. or he had been living beyond his means. lie chose 70 run the latter risk.
 According to his statement he ought to be worth something like $30o,0oo. But his house at Long Branch and what Is in 1t must have cost more than that. Babylon with its hanging gar dens may have been bigger than shadow Lawn" but for sheer elegance 0F NohI had the better of 1t. Perhaps Babylon Is an unfortunate comparisn, for that was where the handwriting appeared upon the wall.
 Speaking of insurance revelations, announcement is made of the begin ming of active preparations for the per manent worlds fair to be opened in 1909, to celebrate the trtcentenniai or Hendrix Hudson's discovery of his riv- CT. The site chosen is Peekskill. ana already options on great lot of ground there have been secured. The unfeel- ing say that Peekskill hopes, in this wise, to make people forget that 1t was the birthplace of Chauncey M. Depew. Pa that as it may. the scheme Is big one. and the right men are back of it. When Governor Higgins gets back from Europe it will be pushed forward with vigor.
 
 wiIes of the Publicity Seekers.
 David Belasco. the playwright. the particular David who is making so much trouble for that Goliath. the The atre Trust, says he Is going to shock the 400" with play which shall DOT tray the foibles and follies of New Yorks fashionable set. Mir. Belasco has learned, better than most. the sweet uses" of the press agent: In few words his adroit dispenser of pub licity has chained the attention of every class. The fashionable set dearly loves to see itself; the rest of the world Is infinitely curious about the "4o0's' fol- bles Every chambermaid will cut down on her novels and save up to see MT. Belasco's play. It simply shows what a science publicity has come to be, and in these days nobody Is above it.
 This for another example: rather we'll known author was talking with his publisher the other day about a new book which they had on the way.
 oh" said the publisher, one thing I forgot. You must set about getting the proper people to damn it. You can attend to that better than 1 can"
 Damn it?" said the author. alarmed, for hes S new author.
 Yes. damn it-roast 1t. That's the only way to make book go now. The public doesn't take any stock In praise
  like other advertising. But if you can get the book artistically damned and start discusson with some good peo- pie to help It along, l don't see why you shouldn't awaken curiosity enough to sell a hundred thousand. The book'n stand 1t all right. It isn't bad book at all." ~.:
 Good OId-FashiOned Dynamite.
 About once a month a wonder story is published about some brand new high explosive which makes all its predecessors look like Chinese fire crackers. To judge from the description published of some of these agents one might suppose that a charge or two of them would suffice to blow Russia off the map. There is something about these hyperbolic tales. however. that seems effectively to tickle people with money to invest One of the easiest pieces of fnanciering Is to get capital for a company to manufacture such death dealers. The first thing that is blown up Is usually the fac- tory, and the next is the company.
 Most of the inventions of this sort are merely some varied combinations of chlorides, picric acid or other we'll known explosive ingredients. which the makers of good old-fa fashioned high grade dynamite and gunpowder have tried and discarded long ago as utterly unsafe. The standard explosives are still strong enough to knock almost anything sky-high, and can be used by people who have decent under standing of them, practically without danger.
 One of the most enlightening things about New York, in these days when blasting for new foundations Is going on everywhere and at all hours of the day and night, is to see the freedom