Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-04-01
FEASTING AT
$500 A PLATE.
New York Has Expensive Dinner Craze.
Lucullus Would Not Be In 1t There.
Interesting Memories Recalled by The
Passing of the Alpha Club.

I Following the example Of the steel cor.
pora,ion in making public q complete
rcpJrt Of it's financial condition and the
declaration of its virtual head in favor
of the policy of public regulation, the
greatest public utility corporation In
the world, tho American Telephone and
Telegraph company in its annual re-
port JUS. issued, takes a similar stand
on both Of these subjects. As is we'll
known this is the controlling company
Of all the Bell telephone interests with
their total capitalization Of over half
billion dollars. Speaking Of the fail.
urc Of telephone competition this OH
cial u,terancc Of the company declares
that the contention that there must be
public control IL there is not TO be com
petition is q reasonable one and adds
that there is no objection to such con.
troll IL il is Independent, intelligent,
considerable, thorough and just" re-
cognizing a. does the Interstatc Com.
merce commission in its report recent
ly issued, that capital and enterprise
are entitled TO fair reward. This
amounts practically 70 an endorsement
Of Governor Hughes reeomme ndations
to the Legislature Of this state. The
big telephone company has also taken
up the idea of a physical valuation Of
property az an essential 20 intelligent
public control and has had an appraisal
made Of the plants Of all it's subsidiary
companies NJ result of which IL APP
pears that those are worth $34,00O,000
more than they are capitalized at. With
the three leading corporations in the
Countrywide Steel trust, the American
Telephone 4 Telegraph company and
the Pennsylvania railroad, in line for
public control and publicity Of accounts
that policy has gained powerful friends
in the quarter where it was least ex.
pectcd.
The greatest bag Of game birds on
record has just been made. not by New
York sportsmen but by the members
Of New York's fish and game com.
mission. This famous bag totalled more
than 1900 birds Of which 5000 were
plover Of the lap wing variety, 2,472
golden plover, and = rufAed grouse,
more indeed than the famous sage Of
Princeton, Grover Cleveland, has ever
been able to kill in spite Of his well
known sport loving proclivities. These
birds which were seized in a cold stor.
age plant where the wardens were
forced To work for hours at tempera.
ture far below freezing will net pretty
penny in the shape of fines, since the
penalty for each bird seized is $50 or
more than 100000 in all. II remains
to he seen, however, whether these
fines will ever be collected. The cold
storage bird is not the only one either
which is achieving prominence in New
York AZ present. The bird of the barn.
yard variety, otherwise known as the
great American hen, is doing her best
for Father Knickerbocker with the re.
suit that eggs strictly fresn and not of
the cold storage variety have been
pouring into the city at the rate Of
about 10000 daily. Four eonseeu.
tive days recorded receipts Of more than
44,OOO,OOO eggs, or enough 10 supply
them literally to every one in the great.
er city for breakfast each day. The
busy bee Of tabled fame Is literally |
| not in IL with the transformations hen.
whose product has now reached the
proud eminence at when banks are
willing to lend money on it, Mean
time New York is gloating over the
sSlden drop in the price of eggs
amounting to nearly twenty cents
n dozen.
Father Knickerbocker who spends |
tl,OOO'0OO every day on drinks which
are not soft, in his innumerable thirst |
parlors, now numbers one out of the |
multitude which is unique in that it |
might with propriety be called model |
saloon. First Of all no customer can
obtain more than three drinks. That
Is the absolute limit and to any wao
show signs Of previous imbibing none
at all are sold, Neither is liquor sold |
to women which in New York means
the loss of much trade. Still more sur |
pris'ng in the light of the general
practice here IN the rule which absolute
ly forbids the cashng of pay checks,
the idea being that taey should be