The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-10-01
EMPTY SEATS
At Metropolitan nChurches
Since Golf Season
Has Opened
SOME NEW YOBk GOSSIP

oOWIG W. w puUN uUoout
New York, Sept 29.-on this Sum
day morning scores Of metropolitan
pastors and priests looked down upon
many rows of empty or half occupied
pews ana wondered why. On any
pleasant Sunday morning at scores of
suburban golf links players hurry to
the first tee from half an hour to an
hour before they can drive off In
one suburban town, Montclair, inhab-
ited largely by New York business
men and their families, there are
two eighteen hole and one nine hole
golf links, all OF them 80 crowded
Sunday mornings that foursornes are
not allowed Only n few years ago
that town had but one nine hole
course and playing was not permitted.
II is only on Sundays that extra po-
lice rrecautions are taken to prevent
auto-speeding on the roads leading
out OF New York, and only on Sun
days, the many tennles clubs near
New York restrict the number OF
visitors q member may invite. This
is to prevent overorowding. On Sun
day only the police patrol boats have
more than they can do restricting
excursion craft TO their. licensed num-
Der OF passengers On Sundays you
must tip the head waiter OF any
popular restaurant to secure q dinner
table, and half the theatres In town
give sacred concerts' made up OF
vaudeville acts, and play 70 stand
ing room only" One sometimes hears
OF the american Sunday" as opposed
10 the continental Sunday" but New
York Is not an American city.
With IFS bairralslng escapes from
death. with fractions cars smashing
through fences, It's spills resulting in
broken bones or worse, another OF
those abomjnable 24-hour motor races
wns concluded al Morris Park by elec-
trio light last night, cheered by fran
tlc thousands whose nerves had been
delightfully."- stretched and rent. and
torn by all that excitement and dis
aster II the foolish laws would only
permit, these same thousands would
pay fabulously 10 see men and beasts
fight In an arena and there would not
be an upturned thumb in the grisley
lot OF them. II has been noted In
this correspondence that the first
sign OF the abatement OF the popular
fly OF the auto ns pleasure vehl-
ele, has been shown on Fifth ave-
nue. and in the park. But with a oor-
tain class OF people II has It's posi-
bllity OF holding lis place in their
hearts until death do them part, And
death. is doing. the best he can 10
speed the parting Good old chap.
Some interesting results are noted
from the experimental runs OF cars
through the Belmont tunnel under
the East river. The tunnel consists
OF two separate tubes, and the cars
used fllled much Of the space as
safety allows. As they are run at the
rate OF thirty miles an hour the cars
act like the piston IN an airpump,
pushing compressed body OF air
ahead and drawing a swift current
after them. An examination today OF
the tube through which cars were run
frequently on Friday and Saturday
disclosed that air action bad dried
out the lining OF the tube 10 such
m extent never anticipated. II was
thought there would be seepage, and
condensation OF moisture from the
air which would keep the tunnel
damp. II not, actually wet, This win
remove some OF the prejudice against
Bub-riyer transit, 80 with the com
pletion Of all the tunnels the ferry
boats win largely disappear from
both rivers.
The prospect that Cornelius Van
derbilt and his brother-in-law o.
den Goelet viii go into the hotel
business with the Ritz Carlton COM
pany as associates recalls the cur
fous failure Of a prediction concern
Ing restaurants in that neighborhood.
The chosen Ritz site, as has been
noted, is al Fifth avenue and Forty
third street. One block above are
Bherry's and Delmonico's restaur-
ants. Soon after these latter were
opened, Forty-fourth street, west OF
the avenue and almost TO Longacre
square, suddenly began 10 house new
clubs. Then two great avenue clubs
the University and Union. went up a
few blocks north, This caused an
old and experienced hotel man to pre-
diet dire things for Delmonico's. for
each club exceeded its predecessor
in elegance and extent OF kitchen and
dining room.
"The restaurants IN the club dis
trlcts will have no patrons left" was
predicted SHERRY and Delmonioo
depend upon the club classes and now
every olubman has restaurant OF
his own" Just the opposite result
came true-the restaurant business
increased with each new club, Eyi-
IDENTIFY a great many men consider
club very desirable place-to come
from