Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-10-13
NATIONAL AUTO
RACING COURSE
FUTURE RAcES SHOULD BE
HeLo ON COURSES GUARD
ed eV TROOPS
CLOCKS SHOCk CLERKS

"eo,,ty k.ne" Thought H'mss'f
Mastyt Proposal for CosS'H
men, esnk -Hushes hom'hes.
<,~ N"ph. o. 4. A> ~n eth" If
the "n,...,r,trl s,trc t"r IN" Ns'''t';
ht Cnp ~Awh ~a> ~"m an i~'n+
Island tAy' Saturday M Wagn't II"
presenting France. comes >'@s''
lion from J~flc, san de Monte 1hAn,'
>ou chairman of the facing t"'"Id
,ha, IN fnt1l,. similar tacCS, II 'hm IN
This CpunIry. muHt h" hcih upon
courses guarded lN troops, {" els"
u,s,n pil.at. roads TIL, establish
m,.ni nC a ulisat, CuuTS'' IL sufficient
i.n.th =. enable the facets 10 r"'"'
the required disianc" ~ appt"A'ma'"
Is 3nu miles In ten or mne laps u
W.Il within the Tang" m posslh!lhy.
MA. l., fore. haA It hrn dcn"nNtt"t
ID 90 W hat "At"m enthusiasm Tor
antpa4nlhlr racing prevails Probably
The. n,t,,I furCpiul object lesson which
the. public has received Of this wah
1h,. attendance uf nearly Onr million
ut In + 1unA 1T the Vanderbilt cup rae"
Tie, lnArvri oI Ih,S'' races has BEEN
and always viii h,' that in spit" o! IN"
g1rat element Ut danger attending
them. both to III" IACtI and The $r"
la,or sp few fatalities actual! occur
In spitr of the h0Ir" oppressed hy
MANY p,, hOns ut the death 0f On" Nic
TIM of saturday IA"''. this ac'td"h',
together With the INJURY Of several
other spectators. has caused no per
ceptible change In public opinion To-
garding the popularity "f an'om"h''"
speeding as a sport.
Thought Himself Martyr
The possibilities of the human
mind In the matter "f self l""titic"'
tlon for crime is aStonishingly illus
trated In the solemn announcement
made In the newspapers here that
Al Adams. policy king. who was con
vlc,ea and declared by thc judge 10
he the meanest man In New fork'
and who killed himself last week
actuouy died In the belief that ne
was martyr Tho few defenders
whom Adams has taken the public IN
to their confidence and state that nm
m the moment 0f his death Adams
believed firmly that the policy game
which he ran, and which took t""d
from the mouths of the needy. ami inc
last pennies from the packets ot nun
dreds of victims Of poverty. was
lesitimat. business. and that he he
lieved himself. in spite OF his c"nNi"'
tion and Imprisonment. TO h" as re-
Spectable as many Of those who con
tributed to his downfall,
Shocks City Employees
Comptroller Metz, who's" f'anhn"sS
In criticising the city's methods OF
doing business has frequently caused
commntion, gave terri
hle shock to the employees in his q"
partment by threatening Ia install
time clocks and TO dock the salaries
of employees for tardincss on arrivals
The idea Of insisting that man VII"
works for the city should hc required
10 be on hand the sam" as hnSin"HH
man. Ia one that the veteran mflcr
holders cannot grasp Pay day is the
only time when II Is felt necessary
to be prompt The statement has
been made frequently that II private
business were run a. the cltN'S hnSl,
ness IL, 1t would result in bankruptcy,
That is th., reason given by most Of
the prominent men who have been
with the Way city ?tfairS
are run for their opposition t" city
oneratiOn OF street cars ur "'"''}lc
lighting systems.
forgotten institution
An almost forgotten ihSfhu''"N
which oncc held an important rlac"
In national finance was recalled TINS
week by a proposal made by the cham
her of cnmn"rc" for the establish
ment of central bank in which
the government would be- Interested
This plan was tentatively Su@e'stC"
in a general report dealing with pres
rnt monrtar, rluhlcnts This llca VA
first evolved by Al, Nan'"l Hamilton,
l'G >nAlS a&n Who rrop"s' Il n plan
fnl the rStahliShn4, III ot III" bank
of The United States ia h,' similar
in constitution ~ th.' BANK 0f Enc,
land \ chattt1 tnr This bans WAS
passed hy congress despite the nnp0si
ficn nf j. ffrtsnn Madison and FL,
lnund Randolph aud when taken :"
the court the act WHS sustained Nv
Chief u, tie. N;t' shalt T. V..> ,t:h
IiShci in rhiIa1"'phia with a capital
IF ton million dollars. of which the
took one fifth. The
stock nf the hank was ver-suhscriOch
,x,1 hO,,r. nFt,r ,h, ts1ni-, yrcro C,,.,,.