Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-10-27
ANOvEL Scheme
IODRAW VOTERS
SENTENCED HIS COOK
.sssass Ensisisd to Carnegie Medal
New serk's enormous Consunp'
tion of Fooo proauets. - Pr'sate
kusp Race Ccarse.

New York. ocl. ?7.-The eclipse o
the .,lttical spell binder Il the cart
tatg variety In foreshad0Sed by '"''
aauu,ion. by the poltiical parties :"
the present campaign. of the o'osFain
ana phonee gaph 10 tmo'ie soeerS wa"
na,rao,ie enthusiasm. This step sup
mites whatever Of comedy was pre-
ytnusly lacking in the campaign " T.
liam r. Hearst first Tesorted to 'his
device by talking into phonos'ap'
and posing before d biogfaph ma
oh,no This Was found by his mana
gers 10 be such a fetching h"S""E
tha, the Hughes campaign managers
aee,a.d 60 follow suit. and Tor me
las, week scores Of eart.taii speakers
of hoih gides, chosen With view ''
fhs Volupe uf their voices. have oe""
shouting day after day into promo
yranh cylinders which have been dis-
trfhnted throughout the state f"r 'he
de,eetation and education og the F"'
raj voters who win cast tue deeiaihs
ballots up the state When the first
announcement Of the adoption OF the
monograph by the Hearst leaders
came. 1t was suggested that the su'
periority Of the phonograph speecn
over the fiyst hand Grafton. hot from
the lips Of the spell binder, lay In IN"
immunity OF the machine from defeat
I'm controversy. Hnwever true this
observation may be II applies 10 one
side as well as I'D the other. The nex'
development We may look for is the
organization of the Political Cart-Tail
Orators Mutual Protective associa
tion. with the Hon. Bourke Cochran
as president.
what New York Eats.
According to figures eumptled ~
. fhe AGRICULTURAL department OF Cor
neil university, New York consumes
1900 600 eggs per day. At the rate o'
eleven dozen eggs a year far each hen
IL would require ten million hens tt
supply the annual consumption ol
eggs alone. The herd Of s56os hisf
grade cows necessary to supply ih'
333,sS0 gallons of milk and $4,000 gal
ions of cream consumed in New forh
per day would require pasture equa
in size to the borough Of Brooklyn
The borough OF the Bronx. which
comprises forty square miles. would
If farmed. grow only about half tht
10000. .0o0 bushels of potatoes and on
ions necessary to supply New York I
demand in that line. Central Part
would have TO be turned into an i'm
mense corn field to produce one ea'
of roasting corn per day for ever,
man, woman and child in New York
for a period Of twelve weeks eact
year. Governors Island. which has
about sixty acres of unused land
would serve only to supply cucumber
10 the city. This would leave tbs
borough of Queens, which has a tota
of l24 square miles. and a probable
waste area of 70,400 acres of unim
proved land. to furnish the wheat ant
corn. The statisticians find that near
" three times this amount of lane
would be necessary TO supply the me
tropolis with breadstuffs. For but
ter. of which there is an enormous
daily consumption in New York. a
much land as the total of New York.
unimproved areas would be necessar!
for the pasturing Of the cows to I'll
this need. One impressive fact showI
by the figures Is that New York coul'
not subsist comfortably for NOR
than forty-eight hours If, by SOM
catastrophe. the city were to be GU
off from the rest of the country.
Private Auto Course
One of the most important piece
of news to the pleasure towing publi
= Of this country is the announcement
made this week that ID company ha
been formed and viii begin at ono
the construction of a private autonie
bile course on Long Island for tn
continuation of the Vanderbilt GU
races. The course win be approx