The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24

majority of those in America and tha | Is in the quality of the cooking. If Europe finds 1t necessary to i'm port American bartenders. the United States is compelled to import French
 and German chefs so that honors are
 easy in this respect.
 New York is now the gateway foi
 more than a third of all the grain which Is exported from the United States.
 This fact has come as a surprise to many persons who were not aware of the big part that this city plays in the agricultural business of the country The statement Is supported by Govern the Department of Commerce and La bor show that over 100, 100000 bushels Of grain are now received at this port every year for consumption and ship. ment abroad.
 The months of heaviest exports are now over. but the flood continues to pour into the city. It bids fair to be increased in the next ten days by the arrival of record shipments of wheat and corn from the Western primary markets following the opening of trans portation on the Great Lakes. The size Of these shipments is an interest ing commentary on the volume of the actual grain which is represented by the transactions nn the Chicago Board of Trade and other exchanges.
 The recent movement set new weekly record of grain shipments from Chicago. Over 19,000,Oo0 bushels of cereals will have been shipped iron, that city alone by the end of the month.
 All the available vessels on the lakes have been pressed into service to carry the grain from Chicago, Duluth and other ports. Not all of this huge out out of grain will reach New York. how ever. as some of 1t will go to other Eastern points for milling and exports.
 The death of The" Allen, the West ern gambler. who for thirty years successfully defied the efforts of the police to close his resorts, removes the man who, for years, held the title of the wickedest man in New York"
 Whether he deserved it Is doubtful In fact. his friends insist that the "wickedest man" was an altogether dif- ferent Allen and that "The" received the appellation through a confusion of names.
 By most New Workers, he will be re- membered for the division caused by his warfare with successive police captains who raided hIs place as many as hundred times in the course of a year. but never succeeded in putting him out of business. He retired vol untarily two years ago.
 It is an interesting commentary on the supposedly enormous profits of gambling places that after forty years as a gambler Allen died a compara- lively poor man.
 There Is a procession of expositions in New York that extends from one years end to another's, but perhaps the oldest of these is the one that has been holding forth in Madison Square Garden during the present week. It is called a Parents Exposition" Its most interesting exhibits have been of exceedingly lively babies calculated to drive all thoughts of race suicide from the mind of the visitor All the most scientific appliances for the successful upbringing of young sters have been exhibited and lectures have been delivered by experts pre- of interest to members of the Newlywed family.
 Appropriately enough. the presiding | genius of the affair is represented by | the huge figure of a stork carrying a | baby suspended from its bill.
 Longacre.