The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1907-05-30

tion piers. There are now seven OF
these piers scattered along the water
front between Harlem and the Bat
terry and one in Brooklyn, where both
the old and the young of the citys
most congested districts gather nightly
throughout the summer for a musical
entertainment which thoroughly at
for these concerts number fewer than
! fourteen pieces, and some of them
brass bands. None of the bands hired
tests the generosity of the taxpayers
and the excellence of New Yorks
include Twenty-Five. At each of the
eight piers these concerts will be
given nightly until the second week
in September including 112 concerts
each, or nearly a thousand in ALL Last
year the cost to the city of this series
of free entertainments was $51, ,348, and
this year the figures will not be less.
But they include only a portion of the
aggregate of New Yorks free summer
concerts, which far exceed those of
any other city in the world. There
are two free concerts weekly in Cen
tral park, and dozen or so of the
smaller parks will share hundred or
more concerts among them. Alto
gether the net total outlay for this
species of free entertainment for the
mass of New York's residents will be
not far from 100000, and the free
concerts Of the other half Of the year
cost at least as much more.
The man with the bale hook is not
the unskilled laborer OF popular esti-
nation That is why the big steam
ship companies have had so much diff
ficulty in handling freight during the
strike which has already cost them
several millions of dollars, and why
so many liners have sailed away with
holds half empty or still filled with
the same goods which they had
brought across the sea. For practi-
cally all ships, New York is a final
destination, where one entire cargo
comes out and another goes in. AL
cargo all of one commodity like the
sugar bags and flour barrels which
are handled by Italians at the Brook
lyn docks, Is comparatively simple;
but to stow a cargo of general mer-
chandise with neatness and dispatch
and at the same time so securely as
to insure the stability and trim of the
ship in a heavy sea, are matters for
an expert. Tramp steamers and wind
TANNERS which find their way to New
York hire some of the many steve
dore companies to take charge Of the
work, but the big trans Atlantic lines
operate their own steyedore service
AS soon as the pier lines are made fast
on an incoming liner the stevedores
are over the side, and from that mo-
ment officers and crew have nothing
to do with the hold until the captain |
mounts the bridge for the outward |
voyage. When the strike assumed |
serious proportions, nearly all the big |
companies telegraphed their western
connections To divert grain, provisi0nsl
and other bulky through freight to |
other ports; and 1T is likely that BOs-
ton, whence the White Star and Gu
nard lines have d fine service to Liv-
srpool, will profit permanently at theI
expense of New York In this respect. /
When speculation forces the price
of wheat above dollar bushel, as 1T +
has done recently, 1t means that thel
population OF that portion /
" the city east of the Bowery, be-
sween Chatham Square and East
Tenth street, are confronted with d
serious problem There Is no section
'f any other city In the world where
people I've In such confined quarters.
Here, Id d single square block, there
ire about 5000 people~a city in It
seif--livlflg In many instances In