Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-08
Fifty thousand New Sittings
Provided for Opening Day
With Hundred Thousand as
Vel Unprovided For.
THIRTY-0NE MILLION A
YEAR FOR EDUCATION
for Present Year Show.
Increase of Six Million Over.
Previous Record, With De-
mand Still dissatisfied,
Especial correspondence Morning Journal.

mand Still dissatisfied,
Especial Correspondence Morning journal. |
New York. Sept. 4.-During the
school year just beginning, Father
Knickerbocker will have to go down
into his not overly fun pocket to the
tune OF S31. 641,323.75 for the educa-
ton of his youthful citizens, an in
crease of more than Sc. 000. 600 over
last year. This normO sum gives
some indication of the size Of the
school problem Of the metropolis. In
this, the greatest center of wealth and
commerce in the country, the memory
of man runneth not back to the time
when there were enough seats in the
public school for all the children.
More than 1000 new siutings have
been provided this year, and yet 1t APP
pears that out of the city's 10000
school children, nearly 100000, a
number large enough to populate
many a city, win be without accom-
mOdatiOns. 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
viii be no school room, just as there
will always De strap hangers in the
subway cars. one of the planks in
Mayor McClelland's platform was "a
scat 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 prob
lem. 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 Sal
represents the amount to be expended
on each pupil this year, a relatively
Ifab fFg4fr4 tFaYfufn marianne ANNA p
entity had this fact in mind In object
ing vainlV to Increasing 70 $500 the
annual salary of the director Of ply
steal training" Meanwhile the rapid
Increase Of the school population
makes il difficult to supply school ia
%cilities to keep step with the increase,
TO say nothing Of catching up with
the procession.
Americas Monte Carlo is no more.
When Richard Canheld, New York
clubman, Wall street Spectator and
collector Of fine paintings, hung out
"a FOR sale" sign at his Saratoga gam
bling palace this week it marked the
passing IF the only resort Of the god
dess of fortune I'm this country which
could IN any way rival the European
institutions where fortunes may be
bet and lost in a single night. For
more han four years the famous
gambling house at Saratoga, where II
is estimated that one billion dollars
has been wagered IN the last ten years.
has been losing money, according to
popular report. The cafe itself, II Is
stated, cost more han $4,000 a year,
and the $1,000 shrubs with which the
buildings are surrounded. represented
the investment of a considerable for
While it is not generally known [
Richard Garfield more than anyone
was responsible for the rescue OF
Saratoga from the old GuttenberE
confederacy. Ten years ago the once
fashionable resort had d-egencrated
a rendezvous Of cheap sports ana
hunco men. 1t was Garfield who, with
William c.. Whitney. Richard T. VIII
Jr, and others, projected and
carried out the plans which made the
gambling place one Of the
most fashionable esort in America.
Fortunes by the hundreds have been
% and lost there. many Americans
lost S100. 900 in an evening
But stories OF crooked games
and TRANCE doings began To be Wits
pered and now Richard Garfield,
Americas king gambler, IS reported As
broke" and a Ito let" sign occupies 4
he windows Of the building whore
more millions have changed hands
han anywhere else in the country
outside OF banking houses.
That mosquitoes foul feet long and
feet high abound in the United
viii without cub be shortly |
exported from France. Indeed. b |
%nosouito of New Jersey Us in "a faif II
vas 10 achieve international fame
hanks 10 the assistance Of some wag 1
tho visit 10 the city this week 4
II the International congress Of scot
,logy. Naturally such an august
iody as the congress made haste to
.isit the American Museum of Natural
history here. and naturally its foreign
member were astonished 90 see in
Institution mosquitoes as large as
with the sign above them
specimens captured In Ne~
The discovery Of these gil
antic insects by n of the foreign
rs was me signal for a general gath
ring and many notes were taken
.hich win doubtless appear In. France
ailing Of the enormous size reached
IS She New Jersey variety ut mos
uito. Tho insects which excited 80
luch attention. are Of course. only
AK models which have been magni-
scores Of times and dire are
which are made against thc
erson who attempted the deception. |.
lnuld Dc discovered. The models in
1rsfiun. however. ga 1874 taken two
lars Co construct. and are 80 ma
OBJ every detail that only then
q distinguishes them from the gene (
article. To a foreigner. ~ course.
ith no means of knowing whether OF I
10 the exaggerated stories concern
- New Jersey mosquitoes are true (
& decertion was not impossible.
As a result 81 the alleged "trlmr z
ave- and iu answcr e. various at-
rks which have been made on the
rafemenf al the police department f.
bingham has just had 4
eNlred "a report showing the press \
Tor n Blue coated guardians ~ 4
e. peace The figures covering fufl- Z
e cities ~. fhe world afe now HnH :
resting and show fhaf while So
- tlu 2 puicrmau lur ts
n-ldents u lNaN. F has nnN Yua q
: only every 64a residents The -