The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
New York Has $50, 900 Pupils in Her
 Schools.
surpasslne Any 0ther City In The worId--Conviction For Murder In- frequent-sls,oOe For A CarnattOn--
 The Proposed Mono RailrOad To
 Make Two Miles A Minute

New YorK, Nov. 30.---With the smgle exception ol Russia, tnvre IS no haLlVu la Lne wor1u whose stanuIng army equats in numbers the army nade ul or those Wno attend lnsIIIuuons ol iearning in New York. Not SIX cities In rne UniLed states nave a population equal to 1t for the latest rgures snow mat no less than 5SO,U9O pupils arc enrolled at the various scnools of the cIty. This total is roughly equal to the present population of St. Louis. Baltimore, or Boston. It exceeds by more than 50.000 fhe peace army of Germany and is two and one-halr times as large as that of Great brtraln. The total far surpasses the school attend apee for any other city in the world. Not even London can compare with New York in this respect. At the pub- lie schools the tctal register is 1889. with an average attendance of more than half a million. Aside from these there are 10000 high school pupils in Manhattan and the Bronx. and 1000 in Brooklyn. Then there are the pupils in parochial schools. eS.000 in all, as we'll as those receiving instruction in colleges universities, night schools, or from private teachers. A decidedly pleasing feature is found in the fact that as the percentage of school at tendance increases the number of those without instruction, either through tru- clines. the point now being very nearly reached at which there is universal ed- ucation within the official school ages in New York.
 With the Thaw trial looming close ahead. the ubiquitous person who backs his assertion with figures as proof pos- A h busy with his pencil As q result he has discovered that reckened by the law of averages based on the records of the criminal courts of the country. and without reference to the merits of the case the chances that Thaw will be convicted of murder in the first de- gree are only six out of one hundred. In other words, out of every one hun- dred persons against whom a murder indictment is returned by the Grand Jury, only six receive the severest pun ishment of the law, while ninety-four percent manage to wriggle out of the clutches of the district attorneys office to q greater or less extent Of the ffty-five persons indicted for murder in the first degree since January first. orly three convictions have been secur- ed out of the fortv-nine cases tried-- showing over which New York cam n0I GuInu6eE tp any EfGdt EANGuls NH~ pecially since in Chicago during the same reriod sixty out of 1f2 persons indicted were found guilty as charged "a record for convictions of better than flftv-nine percent Of course New work takes a grain of comfort in the fact that her indictments were only half as many as Chicago's, but there the matter stops. The figures would seem to show that while twice as many
 E,. oz here, about nine times as many con- vietions are secured In the western citv.
 Fifteen thousand dollars for new fIower,-that is tho record over which New York. always after biggest or the most expensive in any line, is proudly palpitating at present. According to report. a local fancier in the line of floral beauty has just acquired brand new carnation at the trifling cost of 415,O00. This price. 1t Is said, gives New York the record for such an ex- penditure At the time when the fam ous Lawson pink became the property of Thomas W. Lawson, it was claimed that it cost him $30,000, but those on the inside who were acquainted with the deal, say that the price was really not one third of this amount Previous to New Yorl1s record breaking pur- chase, the highest price ever paid for a carnation was probably the s10,000 given up by a Chicago firm for the new famous Fiancee variety. Despite the big price paid for 1t. however. the Fianeee was almost q complete fail- ure. as was the Mckinley which creat- ed furore a few years ago. While little is yet known concerning the new SIS, ,000 Winona, 1t Is believed that it's value will be found in It's size rather than in it's color, since previous att tempts to create popularity through the latter have not been particularly successful. The principal effort of hybridists at present is for increased size, and next to the chry- santhemum the carnation is undoubt-