The Cairo bulletin., 1907-03-02
.O|N|NC IN MID
AIR NEXT MARVEL
GOT HAM TO HAVE A WONDERFUL
REVOLVING CAFE 800 FEET
nv THE AIR.
LATEST IN NEW YORK
Is Playground to Save Street Ganins
Montana Man Has Time
in the Big city-10,ooo
Crooks Live There.

New York March What viii
Coney do next?' is the perennial
Question with which NV York's sum
mer vi itors greet some new marvel al
that worldfamous resort by the SEA
And it always is a marvel. Dreamland
and Luna Park have passed their first
n shnesa, hut this year the marvel
will be there just the same. Il will b.
globuar tower, the biggest building
the world, for which the first piece
Of steel was set in place a few days
ago. The new building will BIS 200
feet high and 900 feet in corcunfer
ence-h bigger than tho Hippodrcme.
Madi on Square Garden, the Academy
of Music. the Metropolitan Opesa
House and thu New York Theater
jcombned Besides it the Washington
| Monument, the Bunker Hill Monn-
ment. the Philadelphia City Hall the
Park Row Building, and the aMsonie
Temple In Chicago viii look like toys
II viii have ii floors and 5oe0a0
square feet OF acor space ana on
every floor win be all sorts Of tlIing
to amuse the millions who survive the
crush incident 10 a FIVE cent fare 10
he island The ground floor will be
an automobile garage together vita
various small conce sions. Just l5o
feet above the ground WI be the pa-
destal roof garden. popular priced
restaurant, vaudeville and roller skat-
ing rink,
AT $50 feet vii b. the aerial hippo.
drome with a continuors Touring
circus. and a miniature railroad run
lining around the circumference OF the
tower But the greatest feature Of
| al will be the revolving restaurant
land cafe 300 + ct in the air, which
tho leather lunged barkers Will pro
claim the only one Of the kind in the
i RI rid Il win be 25 feei Wide vita
500 tables ard seating capacity fog
| 2.500 people at one time.
In it on may eat and drink AMI
watch the grand panorama Of harhoe
lnd city and the back ground of wood
I'd h lis drift slowly before his vision
IN the 30 minutes il will take the ca e
10 complete its revolution, then pur.
sue his way upward to the grand ball
10 IN. the Genie railway and var
| ious other novelti at the $50 foot
! level the observatory platform fitted
with telescopes at 500 feet, and the
| United States Weather Bureau and
wireless t legraph station at GOO feet
: I4a lBff hN
may look at the stars and stripes float
ng another hundred feet above him
| and exclaim What viii Coney do
IneXt?'
10000 Crooks in Gotham.
Colerdgl said When thing hat
every morning in Paris alone 80 o0o
fellows wake up ana rise with me
fixed and settled idea of appropriatiug
other peoples money, il is with re-
lnewed wonder that tyery n ght when
/ go home find my purse still in M
pocket" That to be sure. was long
enough ago to give the wcrd a chance
! for improvement hut there is still
room for the disquieting statement Of
| Chi of Detective Mclaughlin thar
there are no less than 10 00a crooks
land suspicious characters in the
streets of New York Every right the
/ Detective Bureau brings in from 10
TO 100 of these men who have p-liee
p cords. and the next morn ne tha
magistrates set most OF them free be-
couse there is no way in which they
may be- detained under the law.
Pickpockets are the most prevalent
/ typ- Mos of them are young men.
many Of them fairly well educated
and of good appearance. and all If
them of the hardened IT. and il IS
/ freely charged that certain detective
I sefgeau are giving immunity TO " r.
! known rogues whose names have re-
J Gently qracei the coiumns Of The daily
papers in connection with he charges.
The New York pickpocket Of the prs
ont day IS credited with being abon-
/ 'he slicsest human being 10 the thiev-
ing fraternity Diamonds ard watches
are relizi0usly eschewed by th1 ex-
/ 0er.s OF the profession because of the
/ risk or idenufica,icu bgt money Is not
so easily taced. Detective Sergeant
1 Sh rid8u. who haa ben in charge u
! he record room az police headquarters
+ for many years, SAYS that the tho
l8ehly upfodafe pcknocEet has he
come So cautions and ssillfui ihat he
I always makes a practice Of return
: ing a rided poke book % the vietim,7
/ clothes. usually stuffed -o its form
Proportions with paper
Playground fo- oauiis.
Most Of the light fingered g1ntrT
received their trai-ing as street gam
isns So Father HnicEe7uocker has
some 10 the conclusion that the way
make ed citizens Is 70 eaten Ell
/ ahne they're very youne. and stazs