Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-10-27

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lnns b.. sold With toll tickets
City purehaes Ferry.
In spite of discouFagtng experiences
With lis first municipal ferry which
was said 10 be losing money for "A
lone time nj the rate Of several hun.
dred dollars "A day. the city has pur,
chased another water transportation
line during the past week, This time
IL Is the Thirty-ninth street. ferry be-"
tween the boroughs nf Manhattan and
Brooklyn which has been acquired.
Since the building vi the bridges b.
tween the Two ferries of the greater
city. the ferry business has steadily
declined and the prospect Of the eaFtv
completion III several connecting
tunnels has indicated their business
would fall off still further In the near
future. The company operating the
ferry which has Just been turned over
10 the city h known to have been car.
rying on u losing business for some
time and In fact II Is generally re-
ported that II would have gone Into
the receivers hands except for the
timely appearance Of the city az u
complaisant buyer. T'hree"gasrters
of a million dollars Is the sum which
the city pays for the acquisition nf
what Is likely to prove a municipal
white elephant In spite of the fail
ure Of municipal ownership In other
respects 1t is painted out as being a
complete success In enabling the own
ers OF Improbable enterprises to un.
load them upon the taxpayers.
sends Cook to Prison.
An act of signal bravery, for which
ND award Of the Carnegie medal IL en-
peeled. was performed this week Gy
magistrate I'm the Lung Island ely
police court. who. when his own cock
was arraigned before him fof irias'
k,atinn ane aisordes's condact, se,;s
her to prison for ten days 20 t.ink II
ever The cook. who II said 10 be
petite and pretty. became excited af'
ter a convivial hour spent ON her af'
ternoon off In q .neighborlng beer gar
den. aud was found by the magistrate
standing on his front step delivering
an impaSsionate political harangue to
a group Of admiring street children
When she vas arraigned. the magis
trate, with an eye to the preservation
OF his domestic welfare. first suspend
aa sentence. The girl, overioyed al
her good fortune. stopped at a saloon
on her way home 10 celebrate hei
release. After her trying ordeal In
court she became so filled with en-
thusiasm that she resumed heI
speeeh.making. and within an houI
was hauled before her employer sec
snd time. The patience Of the magis
trate had been exhausted, however
and her commitment to the work
house ensued
Potatoes viii Go Down.
The potato growers of New York
state, whose crops supply nearly all
OF New York City's annual consump
ton of potatoes, are threatened with
unexpected competition by the pota
to growers of Aroostook county. Me
The completion of the spur of the
Bangor {, Aroostook railroad to tide
water at Stockton Springs. Me-, has
resulted in the establishment by the
Great Northern Paper company of q
water freight line between Stockton
Springs and New York. which viii
furnish to the Aoostook county pota
to growers direct freight connection
with the metropolis. Freight rates
will be adjusted TO enable the Aroo
stock potato growers to compete sue
cessfully against the potato growers
of the Empire state as a result o
which there viii probably be, fal
| in the price Of tubers.. ~.
| Destroying the Palisades. :
Public opinion has again beeI
aroused against the duarrymen of th'
Hudson river section Of this state b!
the recent incorporation at Albany o
a company to blast rock from the sid,
of Storm King Mountain. The form