Arizona republican., 1906-08-12
ELECTRIC HIGHWAY
 FOR OCEAN LINERS
in New YOrk's Brilliant
 New HarbOr Channel.

national government Is building for New York harbor a new channel to the sea which will be the most brilliantly lighted harbor channel in the world. 1 The new ocean highway will place New York a notch ahead of any other port in the world. It will eliminate the present tortuous course which yes sels of large draught must now pursue in leaving or entering the harbor. cut ting off, in this way, fully five miles of travel. The new channel will be eight miles long. 2OOO feet wide and forty feet deep. Throughout it's length 1t will be illuminated by two parallel lanes of light buoys which will be l equipped with lights of great intensity. In addition other great lights will be 1 seen high above the water and to the | navigator in his dark pilot house they will be so arranged that the lights at l the entrance and the end of the chan i mel will be constantly in line and when a ship rounds a bend the turning 1 l ghts can be readily held in place At night the new channel will be almost as brilliant as Broadway. It will cost | $32100O and is expected to be com l pleted inside of two years.
 l Chinatown. that may tangIe of vel | low mysteries which has long been one of the principal attractions for New York visitors, bids fair to disappear in a few years According to Paddy | Flaherty. mayor of the Bowery. 1 there are now only 5000 "Chinks'' in the district which harbored twice that many two years ago Of the 300 Am erican women in this city who are the
 wives of Chinamen. only about sixty I still live in Chinatown. The efflux 1 began with the tong riots two years ago. Peaceful Chinamen got frighten- ed at the frequency with which pistol
 bullets battered through the narrow streets at night. and they began nov 1 ing to other cities. The shooting in 1 cidents resulted in a flood of police men and detectives being sent into the district and the constant police espion- l age in the past year and a half has grown irksome to the celestiaIs. Then came the proposal to turn the district into a public park. Landlords. anti 1 cipating high prices for their prop erty. immediately put up their rents. and, after the project fell through rents stayed up. This also contributed 10 the exodus, for the Chi/Iman is , nothing if not frugal. Lost of the l Ch'namen are fleeing across the big i bridge to Williamsburg where a new l Chinatown is growing. But it will have
 little of the piCturesqueucss Of the old district with it's odd. dark alleys and narrow. crooked streets. The Italians l VII swarm in and fill the tenements left vacant by the retiring Chinese. ! who many years ago drove out the Irish population.
 Speaker Cannon, Congressmen Lit
 tlefield, Mccall Bartholdt and other leaders on whom war has been declar-
 ed by the American Federation of La
 bOr. are not to be left single handed
 to meet the onslaught of the hostile
 laborites. The National Citizens In-
 dustr.al Alliance Association the or
 ganizauOn which is conducting the
 fight for the open shop. announced at
 its headquarters here this week that it proposed to join issue with the Labor
 Trust as it denominates the Gompers'
 organizat on. President Post of the
 Citizens association says that no trust
 whether of labor or of capital. should
 be allowed to dominate the political af-
 fairs of this country. and he invites the
 IFS 100000 citizens not members of the ? labor unions" to join in opposing the
 efforts to inject the labor issue into . politics Meanwhile the public is
 tch'ng with considerable interest
 the progress of the first of these con gressional battles which is going on in
 the Maine district represented by
 Congressman Littlefield. with a view of reaching an opinion as to the real
 voting strength of the new labor party.
 New York would have had little to talk about save the heat during the past week had it not been for the con - ? troversy regarding the raid of Anthony Comstock. of the society for the sup
 pression of vice on the Art Students League. What reused the Constock- , ian ire was the current number of a
 magazine issued by the league in
 whcih appeared several figures in the
 nude. MT. Comstock does not profess
 to know anything about art. but to his . sophisticated mind. nude means lewd.
 Skirts and trousers" is the burden of ! his song and he would have pulled the Garden of Eden with great promp- T titude had he been alive at the time.
 But since the late raid all the a4tists
 In town have been vigorously pulling
 Anthony's nose so that that member
 may be in a way to lose its scent for the omnipotent nastiness.
 The Art Students League is conced- ed to be the foremost school of art in
 the country and men of international prominence are instructors there. Such
 a place is scarcely to be placed in the position of Bowery dive. But at the
 same time many persons who have no admiration for MT. COmstock's meth
 ods question the propriety of the league in reproducing in it's magazine
 studies in the nude which are not of interest save as mere technical studies to the students themselves
 The bakeries of the city have just
 been effectively muck raked." There are 274O of these shops in the five
 boroughs of the city which turn out
 100000 loaves of bread and SOOOOO
 cakes consumed daily. In these places
 16.OO0 men and 200 women and chil-
 dren under the legal age work. The
 large factories are models of Cleanl- less and LLa nE thair