The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29
GREAT RELIEF FUND
ALL GLASSES IN NEW YORK CON- TRIBUTE TO RAISING OVER e30o0,00o FOR SAN FRAN-
 CISCO.
stork Roosts Effectively in Bronx- New Yorlx's Spokesman Before the Senate-COmmerce Crowd ing MiIlionaires 0H Fifth
 Avenue.

SiOIA NOO8as ID
 New York's Spokesman Before
 the senate-ComSnerce Crowd
 ing MiIlionaires oH Fifth
 Avenue.
 New York, April 27.-During the past ten days New York has been busy rais- ing monster fund for the benefit of
 her stricken sister on the Pacific Coast
 and the probabilities are that the col-
 lections from all sources far exceed $3,000,000. The donations came from rich and poor alike, and for several days the city was turned into a great collection agency. John D. Rockefeller was one of the first to be heard from, with a check for $100,000. E. H. Har- riman gave $200.0o0. All the big com mercial and banking. houses contri- buted, the school children gave their
 savings. the churches took up special collections. The hippodrome, the cir GUS, and practically all the theatres gave benefit performances, for which actresses in automobiles raided the Wall Street district selling tickets In some cases as much as $150 was real
 ised for single. seat. popular ac- | tor raised several thousand dollars selling newspapers in the shopping districts. On all crowded thorough
 fares the familiar keep the pot boil ing" collection kettles of the Salva-
 ton Army, which are usually seen only at Christmastide, made their appear
 ance. and thousands of hurrying pass ersby paused to drop in their coins. Men and women in all walks of life contributed their time or their money to the remarkable manifestation of practical sympathy. Not least con spicuous of all was the man who enter ed the city hall laid twenty-five $1.000 bills on the mayors desk, and departed without giving his name.
 The San Francisco relief fund will i go down as the greatest fund ever | raised in the. metropolis in aid to a stricken city. Amounts previously raised were s200,00 flor Chicago fire of 1871; $50,o00 for Charleston, S. c. earth quake of 1886; $50.00o for Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888; $510.0o0 for Johnstown flood of 1889; $500, 900 for Galveston flood of 1900; s25,000 for Paterson N. J., flood of 1902.
 Among the five boroughs of New York city there are many rivalries, and each borough has some line of activity in which 1t claims preeminence. Thus the Borough of Brooklyn has long prid- ed itself over the fact that more baby carriages were to be seen on the streets | than in any other borough, this in spite of the fact that the crowded for eign population on the East Side of the Manhattan Borough gives it the highest birth rate. However, citizens | In the Borough of the Bronx, which | lies just to the north of Manhattan, | have always studied with great inter- est President Roosevelts anti-race sui eide opinions and rolled up hand some vote for him in 1904. Since that time the birth rate in the borough has ! risen steadily, and during the first quarter of the present year the rate l has passed that of Brooklyn. Worthy Bronx burghers now declare that the stork is roasting with them. From January 1 to April 1, 1918 babies were born in the Bronx. including nineteen pairs of twins. The babies continue to arrive at the rate of 125 per week. Last summer there were twenty-five christenings in a single church, the edifice being packed to overflowing with proud parents and friends. Ru- mors are afoot of Q movement to offer
 MT Roosevelt the presidency of the borough on his retirement from the | presidency of the United States in 1909. -+ .t@
 | New Workers are cheered by the fact | that at last the words of represen- | tative of the Empire States have been | added to the record of the momentous | debate on railroad rate regulation going l on in the Senate. This spokesman Is l no less person than Chairman Knapp
 of the Interstate Commerce Commission. | Recently the Washington Post printed l excerpts from the testimony of the in- | dividual members of the Interstate Commerce Commission before the Sem
 ate Committee on Interstate Commerce i in regard to the rate-making power and court review, and these exerpts | were so impressive that Senator Lodge requested that the article be embodied | in the Congressional Record. This has been done, and accordingly MT. Knapp stands forth as the only New Yorker whose opinion has come before the Senate since the Hepburn bill reached It. Chairman Knapp said 'I antici- pate that when decision of the Com mission is taken to court. under any scheme that you are considering, the l vital question, will be, Was the Com mission right in its condemnation of the rate complained of?" Again he said: "The carrier which is unwilling to accept the adjudication and order of the Commission, and wishes to review that, should have the right to review the condemnation of the rate complain ed of as well as the rate put in substi-
 tuition It seems to me that is within
 the range of justice" Similar express
 ions of opinion favoring adequate court
 review provisions are quoted from the
 other members of the Commission,
 whose opinions show a sharp con-
 trast to those of such radicals as
 Messrs. Hepburn, Clapp and Deliver.
 New York's drygoods district. which.
 not SO many years ago stretched along Grand street, now hopelessly far down.
 town. is at present crowding the
 haunts of the millionaires on middle
 Fifth avenue. After Grand street.
 Fourteenth street became the Mecca or
 shoppers; but for the past decade Twenty-third street has been the typi- caI thoroughfare for the big retail stores. Now, however, the stores are Ieaping up to Thirty-feurth street. AL ready one great emporium is in opera ton there, two others are in course Of construction, and S1,000,0O0 has just