The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-30
Stray Topics From New York

It has recently been estimated that
 New York is spending for municfs pal improvements nearing completion. under way, or planned for the future. one hundred million dollars. In this estimate the running expenses of the city for the smal1sr improvements have not been considered. Only the great bridges. parkways, schools and other public buildings have been included in this summary, and 1t is probable that a great deal more will be spent be- fore they are completed. Amazing as these figures are, they seem only a slight indication of what will be ex- pended by the coming generation on municipal Improvements. The gigantic new water system alone will cost $162.-. 100000.
 One by one, old New York CTS see fa- miliar landmarks demolished to make room for some new structures. Prac- tically all of the old tavsrns and inns have been torn down to give place to sky-scrapers and the comfortable old brownstone mansion of a few years ago has been converted into shops. One of the last to disappear of the few remaining landmarks is an old shop tower, situated near the City Hall. It has been a familiar object to the thousands who cross Brooklyn Bridge daily, and has always been one of thee sights for those who are seeping inter esting historical objects. However. the tower has to be torn down 10 make room for the new Brooklyn Bridge loop and all efforts to save it have proved futile.
 ! With an unusually large number of autumn weddings, the horshe show at Madison Square Garden. the opening of the opera season and the approaching wedding of of Miss Vanderbilt to Count Laszlo Szechenyi, society has kept un- usually busy this fall. Of course the coming wedding of Miss Vanderbilt is the one most talked of event on the social calendar, and it has an unusual interest members of European nobility that are interest because of the distingu- ished coming across the water to attend the ceremony. It is a matter ofconNider- able speculation among the social set as to who will be the next American heiress to become engaged to a foreign nob1eman. As there will be number of young unmarried men with titles at the Vanderbilt wedding, 1t will be no great surprise to society if some one of them returns to his home with the promise of the hand of an American heiress.
 The medical profession has been very greatly stirred up over the plan of the city to build one very large hospit- al on the site of the present Bellvue Hospital; for 1t is believed by great many that 1t will be impossible to care properly for the invalid poor under this arrangement There has been a move- ment set on foot to have q much small Ter central institution, and then erect chain of small hospitals, scatter ing them about the city. However, there are those who favor the single in- stitution. so that the matter will be- carefully weighed before anything definite is edone. It looks. however. as though there would be plenty of time for discussion, because the city fathers have announced that the work will not be started. until the financial Situation is much improved.
 The magnificent new library of J. Pierpont Morgan on East Thirty-sixth ha fa an addnd nf