The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-10
AN INVASION OF PIrrsBURGERs
 WATCH THAw TRIAL.
1Gusterinx an Army of Farmers---Judge Dinnesn Champion Beefsteak
 Eaters-Commercial Bodies
 Push Rivers and Har- s bors Bfil

:. New York, Feb. s.--One of the most Interesting developments in the trial of Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburg for the killing of Stanford White last sum mer. has been the international im- portance imparted to the case by the sources from which witnesses and friends of the accused have been drawn. In addition to Thaw's own family and two or three medical experts. the num- Der of Pittsburgers in town excelis all previous records. They overflow every hotel in the city, apparently, as well as the boarding houses on West For ty-fourth and West Forty hfthf Streets, .which seem to be popular stamping ground for these unwilling to go 10 more expensive quarters. The Hotel Astor in Longacre Square has five times as many guests from the smoky City as at any other time since its opening and the same thing is true of many other leading hotels. San Francisco, Chicago and Boston have each furnish ed one or more of the principal charac- ters in the trial; Thaw,s personal coun- sel comes from New Orleans; his sis- ter. the Countess of Yarmouth, has ar rived from England. while his mother, Mrs. William Thaw, has hurried home from Paris to be present at the trial which involves the life. or. at the very least. the liberty of her son. An army of several hundred artists, reporters and special correspondents drafted from the ranks of lady novelists and sensational writers generally, and rep resenting the newspaper press of the entire country, have crowded the court room from the beginning.
 The Bureau of Information and, Sta tistics of the New York State Depart nF off Iy 5O,000 laborers will be required on the farms of the State this spring, and through it's office In this city IS put } ting into execution a lsevel plan, which, in a small way, proved highly suc- cessful in supplying the demand last year. The Department has been ad- vertised extensively both in New York and in Europe for agricultural labor CTS, and. as consequence, is in daily receipt of numerous applications from men. both single and married, who are anxious to work on the farms of the State Many applications have been re- ceived from Holland and other Eu- ropean countries where whole families are willing to emigrate if assured of farm employment here. Many imni- grants seaching New York are at once engaged by the Bureau of Farm Elm pioyment. Last year the Bureau plac- ed 4,I71 farm laborers and hopes this year to increase the number to the 50,- 900 which will give the farmers of the State a chance to sleep nights. But an investigator who day or two ago listened to twenty eight appeals for as- sistance in two hours spent on two blocks on Fourteenth Street, all of them from men "out of work" and then recalled the numerous appeals of phil Rnthropic and charitable organizations for funds with which to assist New York's Army of unemployed, wonders why it should be necessary to adver- tise in Europe for laborers to relieve . situation within ten miles of Broad way which is little better than that of Kansas at the time of the wheat harvest.
 New York has good deal of legal talent which has acquired something more than local prominence in more than one field of honest endeavor. Some of 1t is indigenous to the soil and some has been transplanted from less favored localities; bpt, as rule, the contest for supremacy is between scions of the good old native Dutch and Irish stocks. with the honors pret- ty evenly divided. Just now the Irish are claiming a new champion in Judge Thomas P. Dinnean, who has succeed ed in slowing away in his midst ten juicy beefsteak at a single sitting, thus breaking the record of ten pounds made by ex-Mayor Van Wick several years