The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-28

CepI TOT the ohclt Appedio"SS -. s"> city as . complaisiant buyer. Three quarters of . million dollars is the sum which the city pays for the ac- quisition of what is likely to prove municipal white elephant. In spite of the failure of municipal ownership in other respects 1t is pointed out as being a complete success in enabling the owners of unprofitable enterprises to unload them upon the taxpayers.
 An act of signal bravery. for which no award~of the Carnegie Medal IS expected, was performed this week by a magistrate in the Long Island City Police Court. who. when his own COOK was arraigned before him for intoxi- cation and disorderly conduct sent her to prison for ten days to think 1t over. The cook. who Is said to be petite and pretty, became excited atter a carnival hour spent on her afternoon off in a neighboring garden. and was found by the magistrate standing on his front stoop delivering an impas- sionate political harangue to group of admiring street children. When sne was arraigned the magistrate, with an eye to the preservation or hrs do- nestle welfare. first suspended sen = tence. The girl. overjoyed at her good fortune, stopped at a saloon on her
 
 ter her trying ordeal in court she be- came so filled with enthusiasm that she resumed her speech making. and within an hour was haled before her employer a second time. The patience of the magistrate had been exhausted however, and her commitment to the workhouse ensued.
 The potato growers of New York fa Wb Sunnlv nearly all of New York citys annual consump tion of potatoes. are threatened with unexpected competition by the potat , growers of /Aroostook county, Maine. The completion by the pur of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad tn tide water at Stockton Springs. Maine. >has resulted in the establishment by the Great Northern Paper Company of water freight line -between Stock ton Springs and New York, which will furnish to the Aroostook county potato growers direct freight conner- tton with the metropolis. Freight ratecs will be adjusted to enable the Aroostook potato growers to compete successfully against the potato grow CTS of the Empire State as result of which there will probably be fall in the price of tubers.
 Public opinion has again been aroused agaist the auarrymen of the Hudson river section of tais State oy the recent incorporation at Albany cf company to blast trap rock from the side of Storm King Mountain. The forming of this new company is dut to the successful efforts of the Inter- state Palisade Park Commission in busting the quarrymen .:om Rock Mountain. which has already been ir- reparably defaced. The Guarrymen are evidently determined to continue the vandalism by which the Hudson river scenery has already been great ly injured, but in their last movs they will probably be checkmated by hte State engineer. whose >plans pro- vide for a spur. of the System of State roads to follow the river line Of storm King and Crows test noun tains. These two peaks are outside of the Jurisdiction of the Palisade Park Commission, and unless the State engineer can put an end to this new blasting project. the public spi.
 ited citizens of New York and New Jersey. who have already made pos sible the Interstate Palissde Park. will have to take further steps and appeal to the Legislature to preserve storm King and It's sister mountaip Gro Nest. 1.ongacre.