The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-11
LANE OF LIGHT
THROUGH HARBOR
New York to Have a New
Channel to the Sea at Gov
eminent Expense.
CHiNKS LEAVE CHINATOWN
REPUBLICAN, FIGHT ON LABOR
PARTY.
CHlNKS LEAVE CHINATOWN
Especial to The Herald.)


government is building for New York
harbor a new channel to the sea which |
VIII be the most brilliantly lighted |
harbor channel in the world The new
ocean highway will place New York |
notch ahead of any other port in the !
world. 1t will eliminate the present |
tortuous course which vessels of large |
drausht must now pursue in leaving |
or entering the harbor cutting off, in
TINS way, fully five miles of travel |
The new channel will be eight miles |
long, 1000 feet wide and forty feet |
deep. Throug bout its length it will be |
Illuminated by two parallel lanes of |
hight buoys, which will be equipped |
with lights of great intensity. In ad- |
ditlon other great lights viii be seen
hlgn above the water, and to the navi- |
gator in his dark pilot house they will |
De so arranged that the lights at the !
entrance and the end of the channel |
VIII be constantly in line, and when |
the ship rounds a bend the turning |
llShts can be readily held i'm place. |
AT night the new channel will be al |
most as brilliant as Broadway 1t will |
cost 1921 900. and is expected to be |
completed inside of two years.
Gotham's Chinatown.
Chinatown, that may tangle of yell |
low mysteries which has long been one |
of the principal attractions for New
York'S visitors, bids fair TO disappear /
in few years. According to Paddy |
Flaherty, mayor" of the Bowery, |
there are now only 5000 ''Chinks" in |
the district which harbOred twice that |
number two years ago. OF the 800 |
American women in this city who are
the wives OF Cinnamon, only about
sixty still live in Chinatown The eff |
fiuX began with the tong riots two |
years ago Peaceful Cinnamon got |
frightened at the frequency with which |
pistol bullets pattered through the mar
row streets at night, and they began |
moving to other cities. The shooting |
incidents resulted in a flood of police |
men and detectives being sent into the |
district and the constant police espiOn- |
age or the past year and a half has |
grown irksome to the Celestials. Then |
came the proposal to turn the district |
into a public park. Landlords, antici- |
pating high prices for their property, |
Immediately put Up their rents, and, |
after the project fell through, rents |
stayed up. This also contributed to |
the exodus for the Cinnamon is moth |
ing if nit frugal. Most of the Chinese |
are fleeing across the big bridge to |
Williamsburg. where new Chinatown |
is growing. But 1t will have little of |
the picturesqueness of the Oil district |
with its odd, dark alleys and narrow,
crooked streets. The Italians viii |
swarm in AMI fill the tenements left |
vacant by the retiring Chinese. who |
many years ago droYe out the Irish |
pt pulation.
Fighting the Unions.
speaker Cannon, Congressman Little |
field. Mccall. Bartholdt and other |
~l,r,, 4
clared by the American Federation of |
1 abor, are rot to be left single-handed |
TO meet the onslaught of the hostile |
labOriteS. The National Citizens In |
dustrial association, the organization
which is conducting the fight for the
open shop, announced at its headQuar
tiers here this week that it proposed to
join issue with the labor trust" as
IL denOminates the GOmpers OrganiZa-
tion. President Post OF the Citizens
association says that no trust, whether
of labor or capital, should De, allowed
TO dominate the political affairs of this
country, and he invites the rs, 900 900
citizens not members OF the labor
Unions to join in opposing the efforts
to inject the labor issu into politics.
Meanwhile the public is watching with
considerable interest the progress u
the fight of these cOngressiouS. battles
which is going on in the Maine district
represented by Congressman LItjle-
field with a view to reaching ar opAI-
ion as to the real voting srrllSth of
the new labor party.
Eruption of Comstock.
New York would have had little to
talk about save the heat during he
past week had it not been for he con-
troversy regarding the raid Of Anthony
Comstock of the Society for the Sup
preston of Vice on the Art Students
league. What reused the CcmstOckian
ire was the current number of maya
zine issued by the league, in which APP
peared several figures il the luce. Mir.
ComstOck does not profess To know
ANYTHING about art, but o mis- sophisti-
Gated mind nude means lewd, skirts
and trousers" is the burden of his song,
and he would have pulled" the Gar
den of Eden with great prOmptitude
had he been alive at the time. But
since the late raid all the artists in
town have been vigorously pulling An
thongs nose, so that tina, member may
be i'm a way to lose its scent for the
omnipresent nastiness. The Art Stu
dents league is conceded TO be the fore
most school of art in the country, and
men of international prominence are
instructors there. Such a place is
scarcely to be placed iii the position of
a BOWery dive. But at the same time
many persons who have no admiration
for Mr. Comstocks methods question
the propriety of the league i'm repro
ducing i'm it's magazine studies in the
nude. which are not of interest save
as mere technical studies to the stu
dents themselves
East Side Filth.
The bakeries of the city have just
hean effectively 'muck-raked." There
are 2.74O of these shops in the five Dor
oughs of the city, which turn out the
200 600 Ioaves of bread and 100000
cakes consumed daily. In these places
1G. 900 men and 200 women and children
under the legal age work. The large
hake factories are models of cleanli-
ness. and the manufacture of their
product is accomplished with the prop
err observance of sanitation and the use
of the most approved equipment. But
under the crowded tenements on the
east side are to be found foul dens
where the sunlight and fresh air never
penetrate. where, amidst dampness and
yermin and filth indescribable, men
and women, half naked and often hor-
ribIv diseased or deformed, toll day and
night i'm the steam and CRIME, making