The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19

New York, Jan. 1s-(Specia1.) )---The completion of the two subways. the one under the Hudson River, giving Manhattan rapid transit connection with Hoboken. and the other under the East River to Brooklyn, marked a tremendous step In s solving the traffic problems of New Yorlx's rush hour" crowds. All along the greater
 interest has been manifest d In the Brooklyn tunnel because the inconve-
 nience and difficulty in reaching home quickly has been more exaggerated for those whc depend upon the Bridge than the Jerseyites who took the nu-
 merous ferries across the Hudson. So
 delighted are the Brooklynites with the new subway that a tremendous crowd gathered at Borough Hall to
 greet the first train that was run on the regular schedule and the passen-
 gers were escorted through the streets by a brass band and under the glare of fireworks and torches. It is esti-. mated that about 15,000 Brooklynites will escape the rush-hour crush by us- ing the subway. and that further re- lief will be afforded as soon as the Manhattan end of the bridge is wi- dened, which Is now under way.
 The new marriage license bureau is doing rushing business. Only since
 the first of the year have New Workers who desired to get married been r.
 quired to take out license previous the marriage ceremony, and the re- suits have been that the City Clerk found his office poorly equipped for this extra work. Consequently at first as many as hundred applicants at time were kept standing in line await ing their turn and 1t is probable that if they had not been very much in love they would have been a very i'll natured crowd. However, the addition of extra clerks bids fair to eliminate
 the long waits. An inspection of the
 applications showed that many couples
 have a queer idea about filling out the
 blank spaces. Two couples last week
 in filling out the space set aside for stating their color, wrote "blond." while two others who said they were
 Russians wrote black" A comparison of statistics of the first week showed
 that Cupid was doing most of his
 work among the young, as there were
 very few couples past thirty Russia
 led all countries as the birthplace of
 the applicants for licenses, as fully
 third of all who applied were former
 subjects of the Czar.
 Flaw breaking Is the easiest and
 most lucrative of any business in New York" was the rather startling state
 ment made by Police Commissioner
 Bingham in his annual report, and
 that because of the ingenious lawyers
 and the technicalities of the courts
 that law and order were actually put
 on the defensive. This statement.
 coming as it did right on the heels of
 the agitation caused by the enormous
 increase In the number of crimes com
 mitted in New York. caused the Go-
 thamites to sit up and take notice, and
 it is probable that some steps will be
 taken immediately to better the con-
 ditions. The addition of police dogs
 to the force is an experiment that will
 be watched with interest. They are
 to be Belgian hounds. especially train
 ed for patrol duty in the suburbs. They
 are to wear muzzles. For the present,
 however, none Iof these man trailing
 dogs are to be used.
 \ One of the big apartment houses on the upper East Side of Manhattan is
 equipped with the most unusual corps