The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
GREAT SUMMER EXODUS
 BEGINS FROM NEW YORK

ties reported to the authorities. New Iork had quiet Fourth of July. With every year 1t is more and more the tendency of residents 70 get outside the city on that day. Az usual, Coney ls- land captured the larYest contingent year. hospitably- welcoming 100000 vis- itors and the S1,000,0o0 that they spent in their holidaying. In sn this vast gathering there were no serious acci- dents and scarcely a case of tntoxica- tion. . remarkable showing as those who remember the old Coney will ad- mit The greatest excitement of the day was afforded by a mule that acts as understudy to one of the equine parts in the Feast of Belshazxar." The mule was called upon to carry King Cyrus into the BabyIonian throne room, but after seeing the handwriting on the wall .he kicked fh three of Bell shazzars ribs, laid low five Coney Is- land Medes and Persians and finally leaped through O partition into the dressing rooms of a neighboring show, "The End of the World" He fell among a large group of young women who take the part of angels in the per- formance and who happened at the mo- ment to be preparing to go on the stage and thus to be in accepted heavenly attire. Apparently believing that the title of their play was about to be realized. the angels fled in every direc- tion. but with poetic justice the mules neck had been broken.
 ! In connection with the recent decis- ion of Judge Swan in the case of the so-called fish trust'. of Chicago. some interesting information has been com piled ip reference to the national con- sumption of sea food. It is shown that hA oP Av,na k-- leaving out of account the seal and salmon fisheries of the Northwest amounts to s5O,oo0.Ooo year. Of this great amount nearly one-quarter Is represented by the oysters and clans of the New York market. The Great Lakes are another important source of supply producing about 3S.ooo.ooo consumption of nearly 1000. .O00, 900 pounds the amount handled by the fish trust" during the year concerned in the litigation was less than 5O.00O.- 900 pounds. nine-tenths of which was purchased in the open market. A "trust' that controls only one-fortieth of the business in an industry and only one-five-hundredth of the production is not likely to be regarded as a se- rious menace.
 When William Travers Jerome made his spectacular campaign for re- election to his present office in 1905, running independently in open defiance of both the established parties, admir- CTS of his pluck in all parts of the country sent in contributions to his campaign fund. There were said to be nearly a hundred thousand contri- hutors altogether, many of them anon ymous. When election was over and the public prosecutor had been tri- umphantly returned to office, there re- mained on hand $4,551.6S. A regular political party would simply have car ried over the balance to the next cam paign, but this Mir. Jerome could not do. Neither could he return the money to the donors. since. with few exeep- tions. he did not know from whom it came. For the past eighteen months, therefore. the District Attorney has put in some of his odd moments won dering what he should do with this money. This week he finally decided to carry out in a general way one of the