The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-20
LATEST IN NEW YORK
is 100000 Market Place For Push
cart dIere--Ncvel Excuses OF
Policemen-What the Big
City Loses Every Day.

III pass the foreign mails from Europ'
and the east intended for the Unitet
States. III ordinary times ii come:
Fin &; the rate of $500 bags a week
! In rush seasons, like Christmas Of tht
Easter Just past. there are 1000 o.
1860 bags more. The bulk OF the
Canadian foreign mail both outgoing
and Incoming. also passes through the
| New York postoffice i'm bags.
! When Europeans write to Austria
liza. most Of their letters pass through
New York and are sent in bulk to
San Francisco then by steamer To
the Antipod Il These figures how
lever. are insignificant when compared
with the volume Of domestic service.
/ Bctweea 3e and 1880 Il. m no fewer
j3han 10000 letters are drop Il into
he boxes at the main postoffice or
brought ia ny carriers.
/ In the J, asan the total reaches
550.aa0 for the three hours, ANA this
does not include parcels, n wspapers,
land bags OF magazines or circulars
| ia bluk; neither does il include the
mail serv CO 81 ha bor5ugas of
BIooklyp. Queens and Richmond
where separate Offices arr maintain
Eed 10 handle the outgoing MAD
alone force cl $40 men Is repaired
u Tie general post0ffiee. Las year
he of2ic handled l,o5L.l9660G piece
of mail in the mailing division and III
I239,3f7,gSG pieces III the delivery Az
partment, ali increase Of nearly TO per
cent over the previous year IN the
mehoy ord division si30oa0.oo was
transferred In l@feaa0o transactions.
Novel Excuse Made BY. Policemen.
EseF since the flrs4 step in the 81
roetlon Of police regulation were TAX
an by the city III 1854 tAe gentlemen
.of the night-sticl have been inventing
excuses for dereliction from duty If
is not surprising, therefore that De
putty Commissioner Hanson who acts
Ias iriaE Judge III the force. som tine
has great difficulty III distinguishes
truth fiji ri fiction ga the simple hy
Eotaesis chat truth III the strange
'ndor such ci cumstances injustice
Is some ines dane in spite Of RE bes
Intentions, is ii the case Of slia iris
Datrolrian wh3 WAS fined ten DAYS
pay for being found on post AMI in 4
saloon in spite of the solemn as
ton that he had fallen asleep while
pacing his beat and thinking Of {
One lrood Of chickens at bomg. on
TO wake NJ and find himself in 4
anomalous position.
On he other hand the officer who
excused his absence from roll can
WITH fhe Flea that he had been kent
awake all night BY bran nw baby
was dismissed without as m ch as q
reprimard. while his brother officer
was fined one days pay for getting
married without permission, under the
rule Of the department which requl
es that all chang in social condi
ions must he reported promptly an
a severe rem manl also fen to The lol
Of q vnmesteT on The force who e%
planned q two hours absence ~ say.
ing taat he had be married only Il
few months and found it extremely
difficult TO say la eoodbye 80 q
gery afroclionate wife Bsainstorm "
The 10 cst excuse invented. but hat
was 80 promptly met the very first
time by dismissal from the force that
il is not likely to become popuiar.
TIE Nan Behind the Pushcart.
The man behind the pushcart has
long been a picturesque elsment ~
New York stree life with his move
able stock # books. necktles. shoe
strings cheap engravings. fish veg
tables frui-. or othCr small commodi
ties Of real or fancied utility. and his
dir Of abject poverty. Individually h.
has been dcspised and condemned -
a n isence. an obstruction TO traffic
in the congested streets of The East
Side. where most Of TIE 5000 push
carts congregate and . rrenare tc
hoalth as we'll Col ctiseiv De has
been a lone of contention In the Jaws
of the health iho police and ths
street citaninr departments. though
serving the purposa Of doubtful NTH
ITS as q medium for graft Of various
kinds and furnishing much needed
exercise i0 the COPS who pursue him
from one beat ~ another
Now he promises speedily io Dc
Nv lop into a full grown and arrocan.
monopoly Already be has passed the
siege Of trade unionism as the Uni
teI Citizens Pushcart Padd'prs' Ass0-
ei-tilD. and Has organized himself IN
.o "a corporation for tho purpose 81
bHlidlag what ne believes win be IN
model market Of the city. which is 70
cover an entire city block with
hEge- twosiory structure as big as
I Madison Square Garden. on ton Of
which viii be roof garden. Two
million dollars is the esfimat d rost
and fiae"ag has been pledged. II is
aid hy a prominent Jo~-i-e '-7nise-
Five hundred dollars W. b. he cost
n stall In The new market
Some Of these aiers are Tery