Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-05-16
NEW YORK LEADS WORLD
IN USE OF TELEPHONES
Over a Quarter Million in the City
Spanish Residents Of Metropolis
Celebrate Birth Of Prinee-Yale So
biologists Study the East Side.

New York. May 11.-(Special Cor
of The Republican,
New York, as the banner telephone
city of the world, having in the neigh
borhood of 275.00O telephones more
than twice the number of any other
city not excluding London, is natural
Iy interested in figures showing the
immense growth of this characters
tically American utility. A careful
estimate has lately been made by
statistician demonstrating that on Jan.
l, 1907, there were about 7,39S.0O0 tel
ephones. or telephone stations. to use
the technical term, in use in the var
ious countries of the globe. Although
no large development of telephone
facilities has taken place outside of
few highly civilized countries. the
New Yorker can hardly go to the most
secluded and unprogressive country
without discovering at least a few of
the familiar instruments which at
home enable him to talk to any part of
the United States. This country is
now, as 1t has been from the first, the
leading telephone country, Just as New
York is the principal telephone city.
In the United States at the beginning
of the present year were 5,06S,S00 tel
ephones, or 6S.5 per cent of all in ex-
istence. of these 3,06S,S00 are part
of the Bell system. Canada has about
10000. In Europe. according to the
best available information, there are
in the neighborhood of 100000 sta
lions or 27.1 per cent of the whole
number. The only European countries
whose figures for January /. 1907,
have yet been made available are Ger
many and Great Britain which have
respectively 67S.S55 and 4S1,01S tele-
phones. In the rest of the world. in
GLIDING the continents of Asia. Africa,
Australia and South America there are
not to be found more than 100000, or
about two-thirds as many as enable
the metropolis of America to conduct
its business expeditiously and without
friction.
Not since the days which Immediate
~ preceded the unpleasantness of '9S
has there been such excitement in
Spanish Manhattan as prevailed last
Friday 1t was the day OF days
Henceforth let no man denominate IL
unlucky. for had not the fates chosen
IT to be the birthday of an heir to the
throne of CASTLE and Aragon. At the
Hotel Muro, at the Hotel America. at
the famous little resort on Water
street, near Old Slip. where revolu-
lions without number have been plan
ned. in all the dingy little cafes along
the East River waterfront. wine flow
ed INCREASINGLY in honor of the auspici-
~h.ar 80 roff esl
sation was incessant, punctuated at
brief intervals by the musical clink of
glass against glass in response to fire.
quent toasts to the new king" Dig
nified merchants whose eyes CHANGED
to fall upon the first editions of after
noon papers announcing the happy
fact. straightway forgot that the West
Indian mails close at an early hour on
saturday. and hurried forth to spread
the news and share in the rejoicing
The lobby of the Hotel America when
the news first arrived resembled moth
ing else so much as a corner of the
Stock Exchange in bull market as
the excited dons chartered and ges-
ticulated. Even Sebastian. the gener-
al proprietor of the little "bodega" on
Pearl street recognized that fact, and
gave away five-cent cigars to his
countrymen as he impaired the glad
tidings.
Sixty young men who hope to be
sociologists when they grow up. have
returned to the sylvan shades of New
Haven after a night and a day of
strenuous observation on the Bowery,
with fifty-nine notebooks filled with
memoranda on the curious habits and
customs of the natives of Manhattan
Island. The sixtieth notebook got lost
in a tangle of pushcarts and other
desiderata at the corner of Or
chard and Rivington streets, and the
denizens of that neighborhood are in
possession of advance information
concerning themselves which cannot
fail to excite interest. The Yale ex-
plorers, personally conducted by Pro-
lessor Bailey. arrived in New York on
a most unsociological private car. and
as usual registered at Mills Hotel. No.
1, which Is supposed to be the life raft
to which the Submerged tenth" cling
when the storms of life overtake them.
Just where the night was spent. how
of the expedition: but the chop suey
establishments of Chinatown and the
lobster palaces of the Tenderloin
agree with the students in voting So
GEOLOGY a great study. The loss of the
notebook is the only untoward de-
velopment so far but there Is yet
time for others. 1t is recalled by those
who have not forgotten the experience
of two enterprising young men of last
years class, each of whom started an
independent investigation in the dis
guise which he considered best suited
to win the confidence of the investi-
gated. They met in a Bowery saloon
and speedily reduced each other TO
tears by the ornate tales of hard life
which they related over tall samples
of the poor mans beer, which tales
were subsequently, wrought into ella
borate theses against the day of exam
nation and there Professor Bailey,
with the aid of a microscope, discover
ed the real sociological value of the
incident.
Within the year just passed the 80
900 acres of cultivated oyster lands
within the confines of New York city
and along the shore of Long Island
produced 100000 bushels of the sue
culent bivalves, which were valued at
s1.S75.OOO Five hundred thousand
bushels were consumed in the hotels,