Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-03-04
DINING IN M|DA|R
LATEST MARVEL
Of GOTHAM
REVOLVING CAFE 800
FEET IN ATMOSPHERE
Ten Thousand Crooks Lurk in
New York--The Interesting
Metropolitan Adventures of
Charley jackson of Montana.

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Charley jackson of Montana.
Especial correspondence Morning JournaI.J
New York, March 1.-'What will.
Coney DO next" is the perennial
question with which New York's sum
mer visitors greet some new marvel
at that World-famous resort bV the
sea. Dreamland and Luna park
have passed their first freshness, but
his ear the marvel will be there lust
the same. 1t will be a globular tower.
the biggest building in the world, for
which the first niece of steel was set
in place a feW days ago. The new
building will be 700 feet high and 900
feet in circumference-bigger than
The Hippodromc. Madison Square
Garden, the Academy Of Music, the
metropolitan opera house and the
New York thratcr combined. Be
side it the Washington monuments.
the Bunker Hin monument, the Phil
adelphia city han. the Park Row
building and The Masonic temple in
Chicago will look like toys. II viii
have eleven floors and 500, 600 square
feet of floor space, and on every
floor Will be all sorts of things to
amuse the millions who survive the
crush incident to q = cent fare to the
island. The ground floor will be an
automobile garage, together with var
i0us small concessions. just $50 feet
above the ground will be the pedestal
roof garden, a popular priced restau-
rant. vaudeville and roller skating
rink. At $50 feet VIII be the aerial
~hippodrome with a continuous four
ring circus. and "a miniature railroad
running aroun the circumference of
fno tower. But the greatest feature
uf an win be the revolving restaurant
and cate. 800 feet in the air. which
The leather unged bankers viii pro-
claim he ouIv one Of the kind in the
world II win be Twenty-Five feet
wide. with 500 tables and n seating
canacftv for $500 people al one time.
In il nne may cal ana drink and
watch the arand panorama of harbor
and cirv ana the background Of
wooded hills drift SLOWLY before his
vi.ian i'm The thirty minutes II viii
AXE the cafe to mple its revOIu-
rio. then. pursuc his wav-upward to
The grand ballroom. the scenic rail-
Uav ana various other novelties at the
256 foot level the observatory plat
form fitted with telescopes at 500 feet
md the United States weather bureau
and wireless telegraph station at 500
feet. There. If he have any breath
left. he may look at the stars and
stripcs floating another hundred feet
above him and eXclaim: "What will
Coney do novt?"
COleridge said: when | hin that
every morning in Paris alone, 80
900 fellows wake up and rise with the
fixed and settled idea Of appropriating
other peoples money, it is with re-
newed wonder that every night when
go home I find my purse still in my
pocket" That TO be sure. was lohs
enough ago to give the world a
chance for Improvement, but thefe II
aiill room for the disquieting state
meut Of Chief of Detectives McLaush-
lin that there are no less than TO-
GOO crooks and suspicious characters
i'm the streets OF New YORK Every
night the detective bureau pIllss ~
ave police records, and the next
morning magistrates set most OF them
free because there is no way I'm which
they may be detained under the Jaw.
Pickpockets are the most prevalent
type. Most Of them are young men,
many of them fairly well educated
ana of good appearance, and all of
chem Of the hardened sort and It Is
freely charged that certain detective
sergeants are giving immunity to
weii known roeues whose names have
Recently graced the columns of the
daily napers in connection with the
.barqes The New York pickpocket of
me nresent dav is credited with be
tng about the slickest human being
,r he fbieving fraternity. Diamonds
ana ,c,tcbea are ~religiously escheWed
nv tho exnerts of the profession, be
r5rsa of the risk Of Identification.
Inn nancy is not So easily traced.
petective sergeant sheridan, who has
80, I'm charge of the record room at
,,,t{c. -eodouarte for many years,
~ mar me thoroughly up to date
nicknorket has become so cautious
ana gkiUfnl that ne always makes a
nr,cticc ~ retnrning a rIfled peck
atbnot to tbe victims clothes. usually
.,rffed to lis former proportions with
s
- {
At,s, NJ ,nase Iipht fingered gentry E
.Sratvod Man, training as street !
MINIS 81 Fatber Knickerbocker has 5
,ma ~ No conclusion thar the way {
m'oLo gn,d citizons As to catch 'em /
,.Ia tbe,,ra very Young and start /
.,onnncnt i'm me right direction 10y !
',,,,, ,bo children of the city {
~ 80 49,, r,nral and nhysical con- i
VI l.H 49, ,.tc,r raining and +