The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

New York Nov. 1l--The busiest agent in New York at present is the ! stork, for the birth rate here has risen to a point at which it has broken all previous records. Various of the bor- ought which constitute the greater city have held the record for high birth rate from time to time but that Of Manhattan has just set new figure which must even make old MT. Stork weary. In the district which com prises the lower or southern part Of the greater city a new arrival puts In an appearance every five minutes. or at the rate of 2ss trips every day for the stork. Tn other parts the rate fs almost as high, so that figured alto gether every sixty ticks of the clock sees an addition of one to the city's Inhabitants. Once every five hours and half some family Is made happy with twins: four times e month -the stork brings triplets and five times year quadruplets. Vital statistics fur ther show that while the birth rate has been increasing to an extent which gives every other family a baby once a year. the death rate has been steadi-
 ly decreasing. Last week a new low
 record was made in this respect with
 only thirteen deaths in each one thous-
 and inhabitants. This figure is con
 siderably lower than the normal rate,
 which Is between fifteen and sixteen
 per thousand While the highest birth
 rate Is in Manhattan the lowest death
 rate Is normally in Brooklyn. Mar
 riages have decreased about one-thfrd
 in greater New York. while suicides
 have greatly increased. both of which
 facts are attributed by Investigators
 to last years panic.
 With the smoke of election cleared
 away one thing ssems pretty fairly
 certain--that is that horse racing in
 New York has seen its best days. Only
 $50 persons attended the, last meeting
 at local race track which six monthsi ago saw 60.000. The old days at Sara
 toga when racing was sport and not
 a business, and when wealthy south
 srners and cubans vied in their hos pitality and entertainment are appaT-
 ently gone forever. But those extre- mists who have seen in the governors attitude in this matter what they cnose
 to believe the ruin of the biooded
 horse have had their eyes opened this
 week by the horse show. the annual
 event. which just preceding the open
 ing of grand opera marks the begin ming of the winter season. Two weeks ago. the Hotel Astor. Governor Hughes
 personal headquarters, was thronEed
 with persons upholding him in his declaration that race track gambling must cease. Cited then as the strong hold of the enemies of the horse. the same place this week has been throng- ed with admirers of this animal at- tending the fashionable horse show. Never before indeed has New York had such a show and the millions of dol lars worth of racers which have been shipped abroad since the passage of the anti-race track gambling bill mo- where near offset the increased value of horses exhibited st the show this year. Thus the great fear of persons who loved horses for their own sake has been removed by this assurance that the thoroughbred Is here to stay. One particular feature of this New York'g greatest horse show. was the great number of entries of woTnen's saddle horses, showing that society is riding more than ever. Tn compari- son to the carriages of the present day much interest was taken in the exhibt- ton of early vehicles. including tine coaches of Washington. Lafayette andi Lincoln.
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