The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-21

New York. April 20.-Six million uoi
 lars for pleasure in q single day! That Is the Saturday average of New tork Great White Light district which ex- tends from Fourteenth Street to Fifty- ninth street along Broadway and for g. block or two on either side. Within this restricted area eve two opera houses. fifty-two theatres, sixty-four hotels, 232 restaurants. ninety-tnree clubs. saloons on nearly every corner, and flower stores 3eweiry stores. de- partment stores, candy stores, hat shops, soda water fountains and m almost endless number and variety of other places designed for spending money. It is the greatest amusement center in the world the spot where every good American hopes to squan- der a few dollars before he dies. Ev- cry New Yorker, every wealthy Pitts burger, everybody else anywhere In the United States who wants to make a noise with his money brings 1t here. From noon to midnight on Saturday Broadway is thronged with the best dressed people in America, all in their best clothes, all spending money. All the theatres give two performances, always to packed houses, and there IS hardly a restaurant where it is possi- ble to get a table Saturday evening without ordering 1t in advance. The items of expenditure on recent Sat urday included, $1,24o. 900 spent in the swell restaurants. of thts quarter, s1,- 46o.o00 for jewelry, $1s.20e for soda water, $1,s72.9o0 for sure enough drinks. s13s, 414 for theatre and opera tickets. balls and daoces. s61,000 for clothes and furnishings, $51o.2oo for trinkets. souvenirs and picture postal cards. $S5,000 for flowers, $4S0,0o0 Tor car and cab fares and automobile hire, $4o,oo0 for photographs. s124.60o for tips to walters, xS2,800 to manicurists, s66.ooo for billiards. bowling and pool, and s45,00o for candy. while ss3.750 went up in tobacco smoke.
 Down on Avenue A in this city, E. H. Hartman has a group of several hundred friends who are not to be moved in their allegiance to him by any trifie like dispute with the Pres ident of the United States over the details of a campaign fund These friends are the members of his boys club" and their friends. The notions of these youthful hero worshippers concerning MT. Hartman are some what vague; but it Is a popular belief among them that he is . much greater man than the President. anyway, and that he could have paid all of the bills out Of his loose change. had he been So minded, just as he does for their club. It isn't matter very much talked about. but whenever this ex- tremely active man gets tired of play ing with railroads and the none too docile bulls and bears of Wall Street. he runs down to the club for an hour or two with the youngsters in the handsomely appointed club house which he has fitted up with the latest and best of boys club paraphernalia He has systematized their athletics. orRa- nized inter-settlement contests, gives them play every yeal, to which fash ionable folks go. and after the play treats them to banquet at one of the Dig restaurants. This year the ban quet was held at Sherry's on Fifth Avenue. He ain't what would call hne lookin' man." says one of inc boys. but bet he kin put up a good fight" =. 'N.
 T solemnly bind myself that I will give my vote and suffrage as l shall Judge In mine own conscience may best conduce to the public veal, so help me God" That Is the old time "Freeman's oath" with which the Pilgrims of Mas sachusetts Bay Colony In 1884 affirmed their loyalty to the public veal. It sounded little archaic, perhaps, from the lips of 2.o00 first voters on New York's East Side. the very stronghold of machine politics. But 1t was given WAbA TcdQuhnC0 mat brought astonished policemen to the scene to discover what 1t was all about. The occasion was the Voters Festival' given in historic Cooper Union last week under tho auspices of the Peo- ple's Institute. The novel institution was borrowed from Boston. where it has been an annual event in Faneuil Hall, that older forum of the people. for a number of years. Special signifi-
 
 New York politics, inasmuch as 1t is the definite expression of an attempt which the Peoples Institute for a num- Der of years has been making to or- ganize from the masses of East Side population a sort of public conscience, always with effective means at hand for making its promptings heard. So far this season the attendance at the various meetings of the Institute has numbered more than 100000 persons. and their unqualified condemnation or fndorsement of important measures is something which legislators have learn ed to regard with respect
 When Uncle Sam announces his regu lar semi-annual clearance sale, all roads lead to the Public Stores at Washington and Christopher streets. where bargain hunters of all sorts and descriptions gather, from the habit of Fifth Avenue in search of laces and jewels to the East Side junk dealer who hopes to find an honest profit in moro modest purchases of hardware and old clothes The importations. at the port of New York fo- the past six months have been extremely heavy. and for the month of March broke all previous records. Consequently 1t took two days of last week to dispose of the accumulation of unclaimed and con demned merchandise, which included such miscellaneous articles as maca- roni, old clothes, wines and cigars. mineral water, fly-catching apparatus. photographs. glass ware, wooden shoes, asphalt, preserved fruit, ce ment, and nearly everything else made Or used by man. to the appraised value of many thousands of dollars. Lot No. s5, a package of digestive tablets val ued at $100, which some philanthro- pist in England had sent as a gift to John D Rockefeller, was sold for ten cents Three bottles of hair tonic which a German chemist had destined for the same illustrious consignee brought $1.50. while Consul, the moth eaten stuffed champanzee. which figur- ed prominently in a Newport banquet some years ago, fetched $33. The greatest bargain of all, however. was tho abandoned airship of Santos Du- mont, built tn be shown at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, which was knocked down for $s0 to a Brooklyn man named Green. who disclaimed any relationship to Darius Green of famous memory, but thought the machiue might afford