The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
IMMIGRATION RUSH
 TAXES ELLIS ISLAND

whose offices are located at 1s6 East 18th ton. however small. since if life is to be saved immediate help is the chief requisite.
 The feast of the Passover will be cele- brated by Jews over the world this month. and the people who are busy making prep arations for its observance are working day and night There is much ceremony and many quaint observances connected with the weeks festival but it's best known tea- ture in New York is the vast quantity of unieavened bread, the baking of which has kept hundreds of people employed for months in forty bakeries on the East Side. No baker tells his neighbor how much he turns out; but there are 100000 orthodox Jews in New York. and an average consump- tion during the week of ten pounds for each person would mean 100000 pounds, or some 35. 000 barrels of flour. Many bak- cries have been working for six months on the product which will be consumed in single week. and there is one five story establishment in the city where nothing is done all the year except to manufacture the crackers which are used in lieu of bread during the Passover season. It's output is sold not only to dealers and consumers in thi ciytbut all over the United States as we'll. besides going in large quantities to Cuba. Porto Rico and all parts of South America
 New York consumes more canned goods than any other place in the country. The neat packages and attractive labels are 50 well adapted to the narrow confines of life in a flat, that 1t seemed as if a kind prov 1dence had designed them as perfect com plements to each other The half disclos- ures which accompanied the agitation over the pure food bill in Congress, however, induced sort of wistful curiosity to know what actually went with the label when it left the cannery; but when it was announc- ed some time ago that the National Pack CTS Association proposed to show this through the medium of an exposition to open In Chicago on May 1, and to come to New York sometime in the fall. anxiety on the subject subsided and sales of canned goods resumed their normal proportions The later news that the big Chicago pack CTS have so far evinced little disposition to enter exhibits. however, revives the suspic- ion that boneless chicken and. other delica- ceis may not always be of strictly legiti- mate percentage. Perhaps the shadow of the big stick behind the White House door falls more heavily here, perhaps the packers of this section of the country have less to conceal; but 1t Is the general opinion among them that the exposition will be a good thing and that they will be there--with the lids off the cans-when President Roosevelt presses the button which will open the ex- position.
 A permanent national building to cost fourteen million dollars. wherein to house a national theatre, a national library, national art salon. banquet hall. and an exhibition hall and luxurious club rooms for each of the various State societies having headquar- ters in New York, is the ambitious scheme propounded by these Sons of Elsewhere for the education and uplifting of the native Gothamite. MT. William H. worden of Michigan modestly admits that he is the father of the movement. which was first discussed publicly and enthusiastically at the recent annual dinner of the Michigan Society at the Hotel Astor. An interstate