The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
BLUE LAW SUNDAYS
 FOR NEW YORK CITY

hHtchcTDOcAeT VIII nave SaDDatn as is Sabbath. and one which even the old blue laws could not outrival. The strict interpretation of the law does not allow anyone to engage in pleasure on Sunday. and not since 1895, when 40.000 people marched the streets to, protest against the enforcement even of the then existing laws. has the city been so highly wrought up over the loss of its Sunday amusements. |. Under the new law, Sunday will no longer be a day of amusement. Every theatre mick elodeum and moving pfct- ure booth is to be shut up tight. Not even sacred concerts will be permitted.
 In short, no performance involving the use of any kind of a stage will be al- lowed. and about the only thing left for the 900 residents and visitors who have previously patronized such
 entertainments on Sunday, will be to go to church.
 In the words of Big Bill" Devery.
 "the burg will be dead one on Sun day with nothin' doin'."
 There is considerable worry in many quarters as to just how the law will be enforced. If carried to the extreme 1t would mean that at least half the city would have to reform or go to jail. The part. for instance, which forbids- two or more persons-with painted faces to congregate in any place could. If stricly applied. make liable to arrest thousands of women who assist nature with touch of rouge.
 The match to see who shall pay car fares. to purchase soap aften ID o'clock Sunday morning, and a thousand and one other things arc barred. But there are many laws which are never enforced and while New Workers ad. init with humiliation that they may have to go to Brooklyn for amusement on Sunday for a time, tJere is gcn- eral hope that the lid will como off again before long.
 Tn spite of the fact that New York is ths most expensive city in the country recent investigation has proved con- clusixely that 1t is possible for man provided he is of good appearance and possessed of some nerve, to live very nicely here on nothing day. This does not mean begging but securing the necessities of life, together with luxuries. too, without the use of sim gle penny.
 A regular system. indeed, has been worked out by those who simply live
 by taking advantage of the various opportunities for getting things free. Commencing in tho morning a free shave can be obtained at any. of the
 places where barbers are trained. A
 shine can be similarly obtained for in some places special instruction is giv- en to would-be bootblaclxs who of course must have practice, Breakfast with fruit, cereal, coffee,' rolls and meats can be obtained in any large de- I pertinent store at the various demon strating booths. Lunch and dinner are | secured in the same manner in a laughably easy manner.
 After breakfast, one may read or | write and smoke in a comfortable chair
 In hotel lobby, the newspaper being nNllxT rk.~w+& 1 -N-. l obtained as samples from unsuspecting Greek dealers on the understanding
 that before ordering a special blend 1 the smoker as a prospective purchaser 1 wishes to test various tobaccoes. If lNthe penniless one has an inclination for
 music he need only go to any piano or | talking machine store in a similar role
 Transportation about the city is easy
 for so crowded are the surface cars
 that it is simple matter to ride with
 out paying. The municipal lodging
 house at night offers-a clean free bed
 and in the morning the person living q on nothing day may repeat the whole T appear too frequently In the same Father Knickerbocker has establish
 ed a worlds record for a roundup
 the food roundup incidental to vic-
 tualing the fleet of warships going to
 the Pacific.
 | Practically all of the enormous total
 of 8.6s5,9so pounds of food stuffs nec-
 essary were either purchased or con-
 tracted for here. The whole amount
 if placed in single heap would make
 structure as large as the Flatiron
 Building. In spite of this, however.
 the bluejackets are expected to eat 1t
 up in 100 days.
 The Ur0viSioninR of fhA fleet was
 conducted with considerable secrecy
 and as a result the size of the task has
 been little understood. New York.s
 whole available supply of canned to-
 matoes was used ,up In supplying this
 single item of 900,000, pounds. The
 beef item Is close to 100000 pounds,
 representing the product of 1,500 cat
 tie, which. If marched up Brodway
 from the Battery, would make a line I three miles long. Other enormous
 quantities which Father Knickerbock- CT was called upon to furnish are, po-
 tatoes. 100000 pounds; sugar. 1,40o. 900 poundsa flour, 1,300.000 pounds;
 cheese 10000 pounds; catsup. 2,400 gal
 Ions, and james $500 pounds.
 Everything else in the entire list was supplied on this gigantic scale and as
 a result New York's markets have been
 stripped almost bare.
  the average person here if confronted with the statement would probably in dignantly deny 1t as blot on the repu' tation of the city. But the tjitjak ii here nevertheless, and while he is no' liable to last long, Father Knicker' booker may find some consolation fl the fact that never before has he wis tied the United Statea-
 The strange visitor is not so for rnidable as his name might indicate being a lizard native to India, whei he works hard as a scavenger and ( consumer of mosquitoes. Great care Is always taken, however. by vessels loading there to exclude him from tf , cargo as his society Is not pleasant
 away from his native haunts. ever
 though he can outdo the chameleon ir changing colors.
 Just how the tJitjaks got aboard the vessel which brought them to New York is unknown, but get aboard they
 did in large numbers. Many were de- stroyed by the crew in the war of ex- termination which they waged. There were enough left, however, when the vessel they came on docked here tc cause a small riot on the part of the long shore population in their enorts to secure the strange lizards whose name they could not pronounce. New Jersey hotel men, 1t Is rumored are going to investigate the mosquito eating propensities of the tjitJak with
 the idea of making practical use oi