The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-10

lish Lady in the chase is moro of a
 novelty. and besides Lady Helen does ! not intend to marry her millionaire 4 when she catches him, but simply to write him up. She has come to this country to gather material for her new | novel. which will deal with the Ameri- 1 can plutocrat. Most of our twenty four-caret New York plutocrats are abroad at this season of the year, but there are a few dozen assorted sec ond-raters left for the Englishwoman to choose from. She has ensconced herself at the Hotel Astor. in the midst of the district where the festive millionaire disports himself at night. and from there she makes occasional saiiies down to Wall street. where she watches the plutocrats forming trusts. knocking out competition and playing with the Yellow Dog. Lady Helen likes New York and says the skyscra- pars are "clever structures"
 Now that the price of ice in New York has been raised from thirty cents to forty cents a hundredweight. householders are beginning to realize that mild winter is not an unalloyed blessing. Father Knickerbocker pro- babiy saved a few pennies on coal dur ing the past few months. but his ice supply will cost him fully s2.oo0.000 more than usual between now and next fall. New York consumes close to 100000 tons of ice annually, of which the supply of the manufactured prod uct amounts to 100000 tons, so that If there Is a shortage in the natural ice the city connot make I'D its full quota. According to officers of the American Ice Company, unpopularly known as the Tee Trust, the rise in price is due to the fact that the warm winter caused a fifty per cent. drop in the supply and large part of the city's Ice Will have to be brought from un- usually remote points this year. More over. the Ice Trust asserts that. even with the advance in the selling price, it cannot make up the increased cost of harvesting the crop. However. tho Ice Trust stock has risen twelve points since January 1. a fact scarcely con sistent with these lugubrfous tales. and New Workers may take this as an in- dtcation that the officers of the com- pany are in no imminent danger of suffering from actual poverty.
 Police Commissioner Bingham Is nothing if not picturesque. When he tenk charge of the police force on the first of the year, he called all the off, ficers together and swore by the nine gods of war that he didn't care a tink- CTS dam for political influence The simple policemen were appalled, by such language, but New York simply laughed and decided that the new Commissioner was a great joke. This nettled General Bingham and he imme- diateiy put quietus on his campfire language and let not the miIdest cuss word slip out. But there is much to test the Police Commissioners pa- tienee. In addition to all his official worries. a horde Of newspaper report CTS descends upon him twice a day and bombards him with impertinent questions. General Bingham bore the fire quietly until a few days ago. when, after a particularly galling fusilade, he dropped his black pipe and cried out: ''Hell's delighti I can't be both- cred with all these small things" So New York has a new expletive. Inci- dentally 1t may be noted that one of General Ringham's deputy commits sioners resigned this week. stating as one of his reasons that his chief had sworn at him.