The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-16
NEW YORK'S
FOREIGN CITIES
CONTAINS A SERIES
OF COMPLETE ALIEN COM
MUNITIES.s
A Push-Cart Ticket for the Presidency
Dead Fish In New Works. Cof-
fee-City Picks Up S1,20O.9OO
Good Graft I'm Chcl-
sen Park.

bration of the feast of st. Mary. In
| the evening the streets were gay with
Illuminated arches. There was a par
| ade with colored FIRE and bands. fire
balloons were fioated, and in one of
1 the squares was set up a huge pink
and silver and gold altar to the saint.
before which a. reverent throng con-
| stantly passed and upon which scores
/ OF candles burned. How unlike New
York." remarked the New Yorker. A
few evenings ago. happening to stroll
south from the old aristocratic quar-
ter Of Stuyvesant Square, he found
| himself on the edge of a teeming
Italian section in the streets of which
the celebration he had seen in Italy
was being reproduced, Illuminated
| arches. fire balloons, parade, altar and
| all. He mingled with the throng, and
| so far as the faces he saw and the Ian
guage he heard were concerned he
In New York, embracing as 1t does
men of all nations, all races, all creeds,
every holiday and feast day in the
world Is celebrated by some portion of
the population. New Workers who do
little exploring about the city do not
realize that 81 per cent. of the popu-
latfon Is foreign born, the metropolis
contains succession of foreign cities
The aggregate of all foreign born and
those of foreign parentage In New
York is 2.339.S95. New York is the
largest Jewish city In the world with
about 100000 Hebrews During the
feast of Rosh Hasanna on September
20, business will be at standstill over
large portion of the East Side and
for over mile along Broadway in the
section beginning with Canal Street
and ending as Astor Place New York
contains within a few thousand as
many Irish as Belfast and Dublin to-
gether.3 more Germans than Munich,
more Italians than Florence,s nearly as
many Russian as Riga, nearly as many
Austro- Hungarians as Prague and
more Norwegfans than Christiansand.
Mr.. Bryan Is retired from the lime
light of Presidential possibilities. Pres
ident Roosevelt, If he finally decides tn
run again. had best beware, and can
didates like Messrs. Shaw, Fairbanks,
Taft and Hearst had better take to the
tall timber. The Pushcart Pedlers of
the East Side are out with "a ticket
which they believe will sweep the
country. The ticket is: For President.
Police Commissioner Bingham; for
Vice-President. Deputy Commissioner
Rhinewine" Waldo. The proclamation
OF these new candidates followed the
announcement that Commissioner Binp-
ham and his deputy had ordered the
police to forget the Sunday law SO far
as the pushcart men are concerned and
look the other way when the pedlers
are selling things. The pushcart men
wish to sell on this particular Sabbath
because during a part of the week
they VIII be ide because of the feast
or Rosh Hasanna. Sigmund Schwartz
President of the United Pushcart Ped
lers' Association of Greater New York
and Ifnnan Haddie Nose Lippman are
the Original Bingham Men At a
meeting of the Pedlers' Association an
announcement that Mr. waldo's name
was originally Rhinewein waldosky
evoked tremendous hysteria. 1t was
suggested that the Pedlers give Com
missioner Bingham a diamond studded
cane and set of diamond shirt but
tons, but frugal afterthought changed
this to set of engrossed RESOLUTIONS
IN red. green, yellow and pink letter,
ing. with bunch of wax flowers tied
to the frame.
Residents of New York's unnsr West
side have been getting frae mud baths
Ior the past few. weeks and thew have
NOT oeen enjoying the treat. AS soon as
the tub they are unable to see the hot
tom. For drinking purposes they have
been compelled to purchase water ar
the drug stores OF course the Depart-
ment OF Water Supply has been deluged
win letters from indignant citizens.
ana AFTER Its high priced bacteriologist
sat on the problem for many DAYS. 1t
was recently announced that ''tbe
water has an unpleasant odor. due to
microscopic vegetable growths. but IL
is perfectly safe for drinking nur-
poses West Siders were probably little
treasured by this bulletin, as. in their
experience. the microscopic vegetable
growths" include fish, both dead and
alive eels and various water bugs II
IS unpleasant to find a dead eel in ones
bath or a dead fish in ones coffee. 90
the West Siders are up IN arms. In ad-
oltion, during the past few months
Dig water mains in the city have burst
three times doing great damage. On
one OF these occasions a portion of
Fifth avenue was turned into a lake on
another a billy section of Harlem was
transformed into roaring torrent, and
on the third the Subway was flooded
for hours. The Fifth avenue inunda-
tlon occurred on Sunday. and as no
Water Department Officer could he
round In the town, the flood grew for
hours until the firemen were able to
shut 1t off. On the two other occa-
sions 1t transpired that the department
engineers didn't know where the water
gates of the mains were located Now
York considers such lessons in the
political management of public utiIi-
ties rather expensive.
Controller Metz is a proud man these
days. He has just found $1,000, 900. not
for himself. blu. for the CITY, The
money is in the shape of real estate in
the neighborhood of Coney Island.
There the local gas company had re-
Gently been trying to buy some land in
order to erect a big gas holder. bat
the company has experienced some diff
nculty in getting clear title to por-
lions of the territory It required. This
state OF affairs started a shrewd real
estate man investigating and he dis
covered that large portion of the ter
ritory really belonged to the city Years
ago John Y. McKane, the big political
boss, was overload of the territory and
Whenever he wanted money he would
sell patch of city land But he never
gave any title to these real estate
parcels, as indeed he had no valid ripnr
to. and now after many years the city
claims its own again.
When the hand organs grind out
Waiting at the Church." in a crowded
section of the lower West Side. tho
population sings 1t to the words of
Waiting for the, Park" Whey have
been waiting a long while. When
three commissioners condemn property
for the proposed Chelsea Park were
appointed in July 1905, the district re-
toiced, for a few green acres amid Pbe