The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
BAD OLD NEW YORK
ONE PERSON FOR EVERY TWENTY.
Metropolitan City Of Tents--Mayor Dunne vs. Mayor McCieilnn--New Yori<'s Opinion If Brynn--The
 Mosquito fa Commerce..

New York. Sept. S.--According to current official report, nearly 200,000 persons were taken into the custody ot the police In New York last year, or one arrest for about every twenty per- sons in the metropolis. This was 22,500 more arrests than during the previous year This big figure may mean that the metropolis Is very wicked or simply that Police Commissioner Bingham is holding down his job with both hands. It cost the city nearly $11.h00,000 ts maintain Its police department. The number of males arrested in proportion to females was about four to one. The percentage of natives of the United States was only S7. Russians (includ- ing Jews) gave the police the most trouble. and 21.0e5 of them landed in quod- The Irish were next, with 14,2TS. Of the arrests. 44.0S5 were for intoxi- cation. The great pumber Of arrests for petty offenses is interesting in the light of recent police incident. Three poor Greek peddlers had been arrested in Bronx Park charged with the awful crime of selling peanuts on Sunday. The magistrate, in discharging them. told the bewildered Greeks that if they would only open a pocl-room, or rob bank. or make away with millions Tn insurance funds, the police would never modest them.
 t5 New York's remarkable summer tent colonies are now breaking uI. During the season just drawing to 6 close. some 5000 inhabitants of the metropo- lis have lived under canvas. Many campers have lived in the little colony under the Palisades of the Hudson, or or the beach at Staten Island, and about four hundred tents have clus- tered about the mouth of the Shrows- htaf the largest camping colony, verita- ble city of tents. has been maintained at Rockaway Beach, within the city limits. Here more than a thousand tents have been maintained during the summer, and the little community has established new phase of metropolitan life. The campers have reduced housekeeping cares to the most primi-
 tive simplicity. On getting up in the
 morning. the inhibitants are within few steps of the ocean for a morning plunge in the surf. They spend most of the day in their bathing clothes l leading sort of semi-amphibious ex- | istence, and men. women and chl,dreu are as brown as Indians long before the season ends.
 The. visit of Mayor Edward F. Dunne of Chicago. who came to New York last week to study the charter of the | city for pointers for a new charter he | Is desirous of securing for Chicago, Is | interesting in that the Mayor of the ! Windy City reiterated his devotion to the idea of municipal ownership. New York has not been impressed with the fact that the public utilities In Chicago
 have greatly benefited by municipal ownership administration in that city. Mayor Dunne's remarks attracted all I the more attention in that Mayor Mc- Clellan was soop to return to the city after making careful study of mu- nicipal ownership operation in some Of the principal cities of Europe. Mayor Mcclellan does not agree with Mayor Dunne on the municipal ownership question and states from his personal observation that municipally owned public utilities In the cities abroad do not give service comparable to private ownership.
 Now that Mir. Bryan has come and vanished into the West, New York has had the opportunity to think over the impression he made on that warm evening when letters of fire under the big gflded Diana on the dome Of the Madison Square Garden blazoned forth the mystic words
 MILE CHAMPAGNE
 This insignium simply signffied that while Mile Champagne was tho his> trionic attraction on the roof garden,
 
 great naIi below. It is fact that the crowds that thronged to the Garden to hear Mir. Bryan on this occasion were not nearly so great as when, ten years ago, heralded as the Boy Ora tor of the Platte" he made his initiai appearance in New York. Then the throng overlowed far out into Madfr son Square. while last week there was room for 5000 more persons in the Garden itself. On the former ocea- slon, however. MT. Bryan was curi- oslty, and New York hocked to see him just as 1t fiocked to see Dowie or Prince Henry. A Boy Orator of the Platte was a new show. But as statesman, who has just toured the world, Mir. Bryan furnished no curtos- ity, for scores of New Workers return from such trips every week. MT. Bry- an's reception in the metropolis was scarcely a New York reception. IL was engineered largely by men rom other cities and strangers Tn town were in the majority at the Garden. The big meeting caused no diminution In the theatre audiences or the Coney 1s- land throngs of that evening.
 Rut New York, aside from all poe litica1 considerations, has really warm place in it's heart for Mir. Bryan per sonally The town admires his honesty and persistency. And it is very un- usual for New York, with what has been called its parochial snobbishness, to give any serious consideration to parsonage who halls from as far away from the Hudson as the great Nebras- kan. Tn 1896 Father Knickerbocker G. garded MT. Bryan as a political freak, but now he is much more "one of us" than Alton B. Parker ever was. That worthy gentlemany by the way, who ran for President only two years ago. has been effeotually swallowed up in New York. There was no mention of him in all the speeches at the Bryan reception and he was not present, though the leaders of Democracy from all over the country wero there. IL looks. indeed, as if the Sage of Esopus had qualified for life membership in the Down and Out Club.
 A New York man, William A. Wood bury, has at last found a use for 8 | mosquito, the bane of all the suburbs 1 of the metropolis. and he declares that | the much-maligned insect should be | cultivated instead of eradicated. The | gentlemen in question has a summer home on Long Island where the little | pests-or blessings-abound in great I One friend may say to another: Come | whenever you please and as often as | you choose. and read my books | in this library" greater Kindness can hardly be shown to | struggling student or a young girl | growing up in a bookless home than thus to accord her the freedom of