The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-07
FUTURE
ENERGETIC EFFORT MADE FOR ITS
 REVIVAL.
City Election in New York is New Eleven Months On and Plans
 are Being
 Laid.

| far the fiercest attempt at political 1 ever experienced has today been be- 1 gun in this city by the local Demo- | cratic leaders, who are already facing with fear the city election eleven long lmonths ahead. Centering about the l willy Croker and the resourcefuI Mur- | phy scores of prominent politicians of every degree of Democracy are fran | tically scheming for the rehabilitation | of the local party forces that are still scattered and paralyzed from the snatching of their stronghold by Taft. The dragging of Jerome out into the | limelight as a receptive Moses st the recent Croker banquet is privately acknowledged today by these men to | be the first fruits of, their desperate i struggle to right and re-enforee their | battered machine in this city. By hook or by crook they are determined to rally to one standard every shred of l Democratic strength in Greater New York against the coming campaign. Unless a fresh touch Of enthusiasm and interest can be supplied within | the next six months. the Tammany | leaders at present believe that the city may easily slip from out their grasp. l Gotham will see more mighty political pulling this winter than she has in ! many a year.
 Treasure TrOve.
 For the first time since this city has been threatened with the loss of the art treasures of the late Charles T. Yerkes by foreclosure of the myste- rious mortgage upon his famous gall lery. some slight stir has today been made by the authorities here toward putting in the public's claim. That the dead magnate had intended his price less collection to enrich posperity as part of the public museums of this city seems evident to those who are now looking into the matter. Tardy l action by the controller. or corporation counsel, may yet avail to secure these are gems to the city from which they are apparently slipping for a compara- lively insignificant interest payment. As lovo of art has never yet proved much of an incentive to the ofiice hold CTS of this town, however, 1t seems much more probable today that private purchasers will eventually gobble up the masterpieces of Yerkes and bear them away forever from all chance of becoming a. public enjoyment.
 Public Peril.
 That life and limb are now held in constant jeopardy by the press of traf- fic in every thoroughfare on this isl- and is today being called to the att tention of the public by a score of runaway ana IuA~UNCE aCCtQ6nIS InAI have occurred within the last few days. Most conspicuous if these is the serious mishap which the elebrated surgeon McCosh met in broad daylight on one of the quieter uptown streets. For a dozen years or more the sight of this famous operator driving his pair of horses steadily and skillfully about the streets has become a fa- miliar one to New Yorkers. With all b (a awrarlAneaa and caution man, McCosh fell foul of the highway impediments at last and was picked up barely breathing. Hundreds of other veteran horsemen are today pro- claiming the streets of town unsafe as a driveway and many a motorist refuses to take his car into the jam Of downtown traffic. On the poor pe- destrian the brunt of the danger falls harder each day of the season. Caring for ChiIdre1.
 While greater gatherings may have been held here this week in the inter- ests of grown-ups, the friends of child welfare the country over have en- acted with supreme interest the annual conference of the adult workers for the little citizens of the George Junior Re- publics. who have mapped out another years broad work from this city to- day, The continuance of the self cure of hundreds of youngsters, gone wrong at the start of life, depends on the annual efforts of the many friends of this movement in the Elm pire State, from which tiny republics have been spread to California, Mary land and Connecticut. Though the im- press of the times that are past has today left the pinch of poverty upon the workers for the children at Free vile and elsewhere, 1t Is believed that good times for these boys and glfis, who are being given their only chance to right themselves. may be brought back within the smaller republics as we'll as outside New York has a warm spot in it's heart for her original George Junior Republic. and today it need not look here for support In vain.
 Costly CarpetIng.
 That J. P. Morgan has just covered twenty-five square feet of the floor of his Murray Hill mansion with some S1U,OOO worth of Chinese carpeting, has not unduly startled the metropo- lis today. This railroad magnate has a way of divertlng his divided re- ceIpts into rich and rare house trap pery that has for years set every art collector hot on his trail. The brown stone palace to which this rare rug has gone is the apple Of the stout old dnancier's eye, and no one doubts that he would pave it's halls with gold if it were shown him that this were the proper artistic caper. One princely rag of carpet more or less Is a mat ter of little moment to Morgan. though its price would seem a fortune to most of the men on Manhattan Island.
 Mead.