Arizona republican., 1907-08-04

style for the sum of s1.OO0. Respect able citizens are planning to take mat
 ters into their own hands and to de- fend themselves by meeting violence with violence. Altogether il makes very pretty picture of hot weather conditions prevailing in the first city of the land. and lends weight to the charges that something is rotten some
 where. One thing seems certain. how
 ever. and that is that the limit has been reached. New York is ripe for a
 crusade against crime and criminals which should be long remembered.
 Chess players and the public in gen. eral who remember Europe's famous
 "automtic chess player around which scientific controversy ragged so fiercely f and which many experts dubbed fake or genuine before it was finally proven that the automation was no autOma- ton at all, but a clever piece of decep- ton. will find an interesting parallel in the autopatic checker player which came into notice here this week. As ! in the case of it's European prototype, ! much discussion has arisen from it. The automaton was invented by a con- tractor named Mansfield. who found
 money making in his line of business
 too slow. So he constructed the check | CT player which much resembled an
 automatic weighing machine with a
 checker board in front of it and a rub
 Der hand projecting from copper
 sleeve over the board. According to
 the inventor it was operated by cleo ! -1I ..faI,f sra play against it had to do was to drop a dime in the slot when. accompanied
 by a great whirring of wheels within,
 the hand would move the pieces | against those of it's human opponent,
 and as it happened. invariably win. | Mansfield figured that at least one per
 son out of ten played checkers and | that of these half figured that they
 were masters and could beat anyone or anything. The results justified his conclusions. for once the machine was set up at a pleasure resort people fell ocer each other in their anxiety to | contribute a dime for the privilege of being beaten by it. A silver flood poured in until a skeptic noticed that
 the rubber hand had curious way of twitching even when the machine was not in operation. With Machiavelian l cunning this rude person dropped in his dime, sat down before the automa- | ton and in the middle of the game | suddenly exclaimed Take back your
 men and we will begin over The au-
 tomaton obligingly took back its men
 and skeptical of the ability of any ma
 chine. even if it could play checkers, to act on verbal orders, the investiga-
 tor smashed it open and dragged from its inside a human operator. Now the
 people who paid their dimes to be
 beaten by an automaton are suing to get their money back.
 | New York with its annual budget of
 more than sJOo. 100000 or rather more
 than half the appropriation made ev- cry year by the federal government for 1 all it's branches would seem to be on its financial uppers. The city has lit
 orally been spending its money before it got it, and consequently in spite of the half billion which it disburses an nually finds itself in the humiliating position of being unable to settle few
 small accounts amounting 70 the mere trife of s3O0,000 or whereabouts. To
 make the situation all the more pain