Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-12
new YORK CHAT.
Thousands Crowded Out
7.... Of the Schools. d
Americas Monte Carlo Passes
s; Out Of Existence.
Big mIsquitoes.-New York Police.
Bill Deyery Again.

New York, Sept. 11.-During the
school year just beginning Father
| kcinkerbocier will have to 20 down
into his not overly full pocket to the
tune of $3l. 641 ,323.15 for the education
of his youthful citizens. an increase Of
more than S6,00o00O over last year.
This enormous sum gives some indica-
| ton of the size of the school problem
| of the metropolis In this, the great
est center of wealth and commerce in
the country, the memory of man run
meth not back to the time when there
| we're enough seats in the public schools
| for all the children. More than 81 900
| new sittings have been provided this
year and yet it appears that out of the
c1ty's 10000 school children. nearly
100000, a number large enough to popu-
late many Il city, will be without ac-
colnmOdatiOns. Last year there were
| nearly 100000 pupils who could only be
accommodated half the time and it
seems probable that there will always
be school children for whom there will
be no school room, just as there will
always be strap hangers in the sub
way cars. One of the planks in Mayor
McClellan's platform was "a seat in
school for every child" but neither he
nor Tammany Hall, always strong on
pledges for new schools, has ever been
able to solve the problem. That there
may be room for legitimate economies
IN the spending of school money is in
dlcated by the fact that a sum of more
than SAL represents the amount to be
expended on each pupil this year.
relatively high figure. Certain persons
apparently had this fact in mind in
objecting vainly to increasing to 5000
the annual salary of the "Director of
Physical Training" Meanwhile the
rapid increase of the school population
makes it difficult to supply school facil-
tiles to keep step with the increase, to
say nothing of catching up with the
procession.
Americas Monte Carlo is no more
When Richard Garfield, New York
clubman, Wall street speculator and
collector Of fine paintings, hung out a
"for sale" sign at his Saratoga gamb-
ling palace this week it marked the
passing Of the only resort of the god
dess of fortune in this country which
could in any way rival the European
institutions where fortunes may be bet
and lost in a night. For more than
four years the famous gambling house
at Saratoga, where it is estimated
more than one billion dollars has been
Wagered in the last ten years, has been
loosing money according to popular
report. The cafe itself it is stated eos.
more than $4,000 year and the 5000
shrubs with which the buildings are
surrounded represented the investment
of considerable fortune. While it is
not generally known. Richard Garfield
more than any one else was responsible
for the rescue Of Saratoga from the OH
Gutenberg Confederacy. Ten wears
ago the once fashionable resort had
degenerated into a rendezvous Of chcar
sports and bunco men. 1t was Garfield
y. Wilson. .Jr.. and others, projected
and carried out the plans which made
the famous gambling place one of the
most fashionable resorts in America.
Fortunes by the hundred have been
won and lost there. many Americans
having lost 100000 in an evenings sit
sing. But stories of crooked games and
strange doingS began to be "hispered
and now Richard Garfield, Americas
king gambler. is reported as "broke"
and TO let sign occupies tho win
dowS of the building where more mil
lions have changed hands than any,
"h"~n e'~" I" the country outside Of
banking houses. 'fE4,s
That mosquitoes four feet long and
two feet high abound in the United
States will without doubt shortly be