The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-11
SPREADING OVER
MUCH TERRITORY
People Leaving Congested Por-
ton of New York for Homes
in the Suburbs.
sHONTs HAS BRIGHT IDEA
.NTI.sU!cIpE BUREAU OF SAL
WALTON ARMY.

Ssvr York. March W--EnOugh people
ii, move out of Manhattan this year to
.ate dozen new cities. Sites for more
,hsn a score of such towns have been
'.apped out along the rapld-transit sub
CAV lines which viii be in operation next
e,,1,H,er. and it is estimated that 5G0000
osople will grasp the first available OPP
rortunity TO desert Manhattan flats for
55oore comfortable and cheaper homes in
antlving districts. What is known as the
metropolitan area now extends well up
;afa Connecticut, embraces all the Access
ssble portiOns of Westchester county. the
northeTn half of the state of New Jersey
and the entire western end of Long
Island Last year suburban real estate
operatofs and builders invested $500 900 coo
h This territory and erected 1900 dwell
irgs and SEQ flat houses, with accommo-
dsijons for approximately $4,000 people
- far plans have been filed for additional
structures to be completed this year at
c0sf of $50, 600 900. Yea this huge outlay
s only a part of the billions which are
being spent TO prepare outlying districts
for the spreading metropolis. work
which will cover years of the most in
tense building activity Three hundred
and thirty-eight thousand people. ii is es-
timated, will be provided with homes by
the building operations of the ensuing
wear at a substantial reduction in rents
which now, for the poorer classes. fire.
quently average as high as 50 or 40 per
cent of their incomes. because of the ne
cessity for crowding within committing
distance Of their employment
Shonts Makes d Discovery.
Theodore p Shonts, to whom the task
Of solving New YorIs transportation
II president of the Interborough-M Metro
patan railway system. has made the in
tsTesting discovery that passengers are
being wedged into the ears so compaetly
that it is impossible for them to get their
hands down into their pockets. and that
hence the company is losing more In fares
than it would cost to furnish and main
tain adequate facilities. This is believed
10 be an argument which will appeal 10
Mr. Ryan and Mr.. Belmont with some
force just as soon as Mr. ShOnts can pre-
pare the necessary diagrams and draw
ngs and a few reports to substantiate the
statement. In the meantime figures oh
tanned by a subcommittee OF the ReDub-
lcan county committee. which has been
investigating the matter. show that in
the first nine months of 1896 the company
took in u.700,o00 cash fares more than for
the same period of 1870. They also show
that while traffic was increasing at the
rate Of 1,300.OO passenger q month, the
number Of cars in service was reduced un
til in December but LIS cars were run,
as against :. 80 cars five years asO, when
3Gs SO4 273 fewer passengers were carried
than last year. In ten years the traffic
of the elevated and surface lines in the
borough OF Manhattan has increased
from 400 152 80 cash fares in 1897 TO 1907
Isl .e33 in 1905. and last year showed an in
crease of approximately fourteen per cent
over 1906.
Wild Career Cut Short.
A little crude of method. perhaps. as
might be expected of a -noTice.--but dis
playing promising signs of developing
into a railroad magnate or the president
Of life insurance company at the very
IL - n
cruelty nipped IN the bud. Xxi is 13 years
old which unfortunate number may ac-
count for his bad luck. Until last We'd
nesday, when Justice Wyatt of the chill
dren's court sentenced him to two years
in the New York juvenile asylums ex-
elusive resort for young men of tender
years Xxi was leader of the famous
Whyo gang of youthful high~aymen
who haunt the East Sixty-fourth street
Businesses Like a true disciple of Dick
Turpin. he always led his trusty band TO
prey upon the wealthy Once and again
he led them in daring and successful raids
upon the giided scions of the rich who go
TO school in the aristocratic neighborhOod
Of West End avenue. whence they re-
turned bearing much spoil in the way of
skates. hockey sticks and red sleds, ieav-
ing the enemy dissolved in such tears as
Hood Wall street the morning after Mr..
Hartman has acquired control of a few
railroads. But the third time the stern
visaged fate. IN the guise of a fat cop.
lay IN wait Tor the daring band, and a
trescherous bit Of ice precipitated the
plunder-laden Xxi into the arms of his
pursuer. Xxi steadfastly refused to tell
the names of the lads who we're with him.
and announced that even IL he got a life
sentence he wouldn't -squeal. When he
heard his sentence he remarked. Well.
dis is easy. I sure links ] gifts &c ref.
but / amt got no kick comm" Judging
by the records of other East Side des-
peradOes who have been sent 10 the juve-
nile asylum the chances are good that
Xxi will be turned to a more useful f
less spectacular career than that of high
vayman.
High Class Pensioners.
The official report of the police pension
fund for the year ended Dec. 81, 1885,
which has just left the hands OF the
printer. shows that several of the higher
class pensioners. who retired with the
reputation of possessing large fortunes.
are still drawing large sums from the
iund- In the long list of pensioners which
includes a great number OF widows a
score OF more Of cniidxen. AVG Ga re-
tired members of the force. there are
a lew names which were once a power
IN the city's affairs. not only as 10 po-
lice matters but in other directions as
Well There is. for example, former IN
spector and ex-Chief Thomas Byr1es.