The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
WORLDS GREATEST SCHOOL CITY
ny the most wonderfully developed

edIy the most wonderfuly developed
 flower.
 Unless present indications are all Iwrong, this city in the near future will have the first mono rail high speed rdad in the United States The Rapid Transit Commission is at present con
 stdering this project and for once the object of it's consideration does not
 belle the first part of It's tile Rapid
 transit such as this country has never seen will be the result If the road Is Iauthorized, for the mono rail Is capable Of sped of 12o miles an hcur and for the new project a speed of sixty five miles an hour including stops is pro- posed, so that Brooklynites through
 whose territory tho road runs will be given something of a surprise. Such speed of course. is only made possible | by the character of the road construc- tion, the single rail which gives I.ow- CT and acts as guide being elevated some distance above the ground, with the cars hung from 1t. The center of l gravity Is thus so placed as to make I an upset or derailment impossible. |, Cautiously enough ono of the most in- teresting facts brought up during the present discussion is the origin of the mono rail idea. Undoubtedly 1t was in- spired by camels. French army engi- neers doing construction work
 Coney Island has a new fish story. Like most others of it's kind 1t sounds bit improbable at first, but fortu- nately it can be verified any night. The story really is not so much about fish as 1t Is about the new bait which fishermen on the long pleasure piers are using with startling success. This new bait is nothing less than an elec- tric light. The wiley fishermen who perch on the piers day and night have discovered that the brilliant bulb has a great attraction for the fish. Several fishermen immediately secured electric light bulbs, plugs and wires and when no one was looking attached them to one of the many sockets in the pier, The light is suspended an inch or two above the surface of the water and a regularly baited hook thrown close to it. Curiosity does the rest, for the fish coming to investigate the light takes the bait and are pulled out. So easy is 1t to catch fish in this way, even on the most unpropitious night, according to those that have tried 1t. that lame mus cles from pulling in so many fish are almost certain to result if care is not OK xercfsed. Fish have been plentiful and overhungry this fall. which may ac- count in part for the success of the new bait. Meanwhile charitable inst- tutlonS pront py the Bopu hehihe' SiiiSS their representatives are siven free of cost all the fish they can carry away nom the heap that accumulates on the pier.
 new and surprising record for bank balances was establlshed by the Clearing House of this week More than SIS, 100000 in checks were declared by one New York bank at an actual cash payment to the Clearing House of 12 cents. Probably no more striking example has ever been offered to the Iayman of wonderful convenience Of the Clearing House system. On the day tr question the Clearing House sheets showed that ss,94e, ,2554O in checks of the depositors of a certain National bank had been turned in by other in- stitutions. Against these the bank had to show $s,04s,2 ,255.2S fin checks of other banks belonging to the Clearing House. Bv the simple process of paying over lz cents the bank cleared its account, which except for tho Clearing House system could have been accompiisnea onIv by the actual transfer of something
 rore than S1s,000.000 This 12 cent pay naent is the smallest percentage ot bal anca to exchanges in the history of the Clearing House.