The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

Indications That the worlds Greatest
 Port May Some Day be An Inland
 Transfer POint-The Emperor of
 Sahara, Man of Mystery Discover
 cd Here-ImprOved COnsuIar Service
 Means Millions to New YOrk-How
 Wall Street Jokes and Plays-Mak-
 ing Money by Pleading Guilty.
 New York, July 27-Is New York destined to become an inland city with European freight loaded and unloaded a hundred odd miles miles to the east ward? This is a question which boos
 up periodically with the chance Of pected that the metropolis is to suffer any geological upheaval which shall plant 1t in the middle of the state. but rather that the extreme eastern end of Long Island will be. made the Am erican terminus of transatlantic steam ship lines. It would be vast under taking to construct at Montauk port bearing the same relation to New York that Southampton does to London but 1t Is hardly more visionary than tun- nels under the river were considered ten years ago. Its great advantage would be in decreasing the time of the European trip by eight hours. The truth of the matter is that New York harbor is proving too small for its
  priation made this year as a result of the campaign waged so vigorously by the National Rivers and Harbors Con- gress, New York is only barely able to keep up with its needs. Without this assistance 1t would already be moving inland since even now its channels are not deep enough for the largest ships under construction. As an illustration of the tendency of the port business to move easeward may be cited the mill lions now being spent on Long Is- land harbors, whose commerce. already aggregates more than $20,o00,000 an- nually. Examples of private develop ment are also plenty, the most prom inent perhaps being the Bush Terminal property in Brooklyn with it's miles of docks, twenty miles of railroad and it's vast manufacturing. storing. receiving shipping and transfer plant forming an industrial center in itself where the manufacturer can lease any kind Of property wanted with assurance of good freight facilities. All these devel- opments, 1t should be noted, are to the eastward of Manhattan Island and if the present movement continues what is now the greatest port in the world may become little more than an inland city so far as transatlantic commerce. Is concerned.
 Jacques Labaudy, self styled His Royal Highness Jacques I. Emperor of Sahara. Europe's most troublesome and peripatetic ruler, after having vanished from the face of the earth for year thus causing much uneasiness in royal circles abroad. was accident ly discovered here this week, An em- peror in New York. even If the title be of his own making and his crown and throne, with which royal regalia he h lad hi oa1f tn al something of a novelty here. and with the silly season" at its height. the city has been delving once again into the strange history of the man whose career resembles that of a hero of
 modern fiction. Jacques Lebauby's father was head Of the French sugar trust, and he left great many million francs to his son, who soon de- veloped a fine faculty of getting rid of them. Firing of the ordinary means. however, he decided to found an em- pire and after casting his eye over the map concluded that the sour regions of the Sahara desert ought to be sweet ened by his sugar cured fortune. He bought throne and crown, organ ized a colonizing expedition. and sailed for Africa early in 1903 to establish himself as Emperor of Sahara. He never had a chance to sit on the throne. however, for European nations made so much trouble for him that he was constantly on the jump. He was har- assed by means of every known exped lent of international procedure. The local sheiks took pot shots at him. The French Ministry of the Marine. tried to bar the seas to him. Switzerland threatened him for recruiting Swiss colonists. France chucked him off the frontier and hordes of automatically | instigated doctors tried to have him committed for insanity. Things got so hot, even for Africa. that his Royal Highness Jacques 1 Emperor of Sahara. quit his kingdom, still che-ishing his project however and still retaining his title. On the latter point he was firm and it is said that he even re- fused to accept a check for a million francs because 1t was made out to Jac oues Lebaudy instead of Jacques I. Now after more than a year Of mys- terious silence this man of destiny has bobbed up again to make European potentates uneasy.
 So far as consular agents. the men on whom depend real commercial rep resentation. are concerned. New York is probably on account of its commer- cial interests the most important city in the country. Washington of course has its ambassadors and ministers whose sphere Is high diplomacy. so-