Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-09-10
NEW YORK'S SCHOOL
ARMY NUMBfRS7 900
Fifty Thousand New Sittings But
Twice That Number Still UnProvid-
ed for-Passing of the King Of Gam
bIers.

This enormous sum gives some indica-
I 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
were enough seats in the public schools
/ for all the children. More than 1000
new sittings have been provided this
year and yet it appears that out OF
the city's 100000 school children, near
lly 100000. n number large enough to
populate many a city, will be without
Accommodations. 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 subway
cars. one of the planks in Mayor Nc
Clellan'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
indicated by the fact that a sum of
more than s41 represents the amount
to be expended on each pupil this
year. a relatively high figure. Certain
persons apparently had this fact in
mind in Directing vainly to increasing
to $1,000 the annual salary of the "Di-
rector of Physical Training" Mean
while the rapid increase of the school
population makes it difficult to sup
ply school facilities TO keep step with
the increase. to say nothign OF coach
ing UP with the procession.
Americas Monte Carlo IS no more.
When Richard Garfield. New York
clubman. Wall street Spectator and
collector of fine paintings. hung out
"for sale" sign at his Saratoga gam
bling place this week it marked the
passing out of tho only resort of the
goddess Of fortune In this country
which could i'm any way rival the Eu-
ropean 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 esti-
mated that more than one billion dol
lars has been wagered in the last ten
years. has been losing money accord
ing to popular report The cafe itself
ii is stated costs more than $4,000
year and the $1,000 shrubs with which
the buildings are surrounded repre-
scented the investment Of a consider
able fortune. While il is not generally
known. Richard Garfield more than
any one else was responsible for the
rescue of Saratoga from the old Gut
tenberg Confederacy. Then years ago
the once fashionable resort had de-
generated into rendezvous of cheap
sports and bunco men. II was Cam
field who. with William c. Whitney,
Richard T. Wilson, Jr.. and others.
projected and carried out the plans
which made the famous gambling
place one of the most fashionable re-
sorts in America. Fortunes by the
hundred have been won and lost there.
many Americans having lost 100000
in an evenings sitting. But stories OF
crooked games and strange doings be-
gan to be whispered and now Richard
Garfield. Americas king gambler. is
reported as broke" and "to let" sign /
occupies the windows OF the building
where more millions have changed
hands than anywhere else in the coun-
try outside Of banking houses.
That mosquitoes four feet long and !
two feet high abound in the United |
States viii without doubt shortly be /
from France Indeed the mos /
quito of New Jersey is in a fair way /
to achieve international fame. thanks /
to the assistance of some wag during 1
the visit to the city this week of the 1
Congress of Zoology. |
such an august body as the |
congress made haste to visit the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History here. /
and naturally its foreign members |
We're astonished to see in that insti- /
tuition mosquitoes as large as calves 1
with the sign above them STUFFED |
specimens captured in New Jersey" |
The discovery of these gigantic insects I
by one of the foreigners was the signal |
for ageneral gathering and many notes |
We're taken which will doubtless later |
APPEAR In France telling OF the enor- /
nous size reached by the New Jersey /
variety Of mosquito. The insects which |
excited so much attention are, of /
course. only wax models which have |
been magnified scores of times and dire !
are the threats which are made against |
;he person who attempted the deception J
should he be discovered. The models |
In question, however. have taken two I
years to construct and are so natural !
IN every detail that only their size dis
them from the genuine ar
ticle. To foreigner, of course. with /
no means OF knowing whether or not !
the exaggerated stories concerning |
New Jersey mosquitoes are true, but |
deception was not impossible.
As result of the alleged "crime |
wave" and in answer to various at
tacks which have been made on the |
of the police department. |
Commissioner Bingham has just had |
prepared a report showing the pressing /
need for more blue coated guardians of /
the peace. The figures covering twen-
ty-six cities of the world are new and |
and show that while New
York had one policeman for every sos |
residents in 1896 IL has now one for |
only every 643 residents. The meaning /
of these figures is made clearer when |
ii is understood. as stated in the re-
port, that the average of other cities
is one officer for every 425 persons.
thus leaving New York about 50 pei
cent shy on metropolitan peace pro-
moters. That New York ratio is not
4 1T. 4.