The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-18

Is likely to be the top record which will be looked back to in future years when ehe ferry boat Is almost a curtoH- ity. The tunnels will take care ok most passengers and the growing dc" sire to clear up the North River insgen- eral will do away with taa pres ent congestion. Already a project IS welh advanced to do away with the anchorage grounds on the Jersey side of the North River, In order that the docking facilities In that territory may be better utilized The truth pf the whole matter is that New York@s be- ginning to realize that her water com~ meroe is not all 1t might be. Not only are other ports gaining in importance daily, but developments are proving that the harhor here needs q lot of lmT proving. Some definite plan will un- doubtedly be decided before long. since New York is expected to send strong delegation to the convention of the Ma tional Rivers and Harbors Congress In Washington on December sixth, and seventh, when the national policy to- ward water transportation is to be considered in detail. Much hope is felt here that this convention will result in definite measures for good, for with her own situation as an object lesson the city realizes that the time for tenn porizing Is past
 
 4 real Fagin, who like Dickens char acter, made a speciality of training boys to steal has just been discovered in New York, and with his discovery has come a flood of information con- cernIng his habits and methods whicn show them to have been as repulsiveiy interesting as those of his prototype of fiction. Stein, the real Fagin. taught pocket picking in his school which numbered nearly a hundred pu- pills, from which boys were reg llafly graduated when they showed the re- quired amount of proficiency as "dips" or pickpocketB. The training was not theoretical either. for in school when it was ralded was found compieto equipment for the education of pupils" There were coats hanging on dumntas in which bells were concealed, ard woe to the lad who bungled his work and tangled one of these signals. Va rious other dummies furnished varied training and as the boys grew more proficient they practiced on Stein or among themselves. Fourteen year old Hyman Grossman, who after being ar . rested gave information which led fo the discovery of Steins school. pcFed as it's star pupil. T was de only one de boss would let work wid him on de street." he said boastin&ly. Thers or
  on the streets with Stein, his rate of pay being 10-cents for each watch nEd 15-cents for each purse captured. Af- ter this as he naively admitted he generally put in few hours on nis own hook.
 With the paving or of election bets the last official transaction of the cam paign Is closed. The big blaeK safe In the Hoffman House yawned wide this week for the annual dough day" and the s66O, 200 looked up in i. for weeks pending election was distribut- ed to those who backed Mfr. Hughes The amount in the safe which is ln- nually made a repository for such money represented some 500 bets. or something like 1000 less than last year, when the money total. however was one-third less The fall bets were for considerable amounts while last year there were many of S25 and $50. The Hughes Hearst bets were made at odds all the way from to 1 to to 1. and the bets on Hughes plurality ran all the way from 10000