The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29
COPS COUNT
 SQUIRRELS The Police Have a Unique
 Job. NEW Y0RK'S NEW CENSUS Skyscrapers That Are Now Being
 Built. Japanese Have Come To New Yerk To Study The Operation of American Hoteis On BrOadwAy-TAe Worlds Biggest Mirrors.
NEW YoRK's NEW CENSUS

New York. Nov. 2s--The most dif- ficult census ever undertaken is now being carried on in Central Parl--a counting of the squirrels which live
 there. Compared to if the intricacies Of the counting of the last mayoralty
 vote in this city pale into insigniff-
 canoe. However. the undertaking is made necessary to determine whether the Central Park squirrels are becom- ing extinct At one time these little
 animals, always 6 source or amuse- ment to visitors. became so numerous
 that It became necessary to thin them out with & shot gun. Of late. however, their numbers have been de- creasing. The automobile is held &C., countable for at least four deaths 6 l day since squirrels are being con- stantly run over It is also stated that race suicide is becoming as com mon among these animals as 1t Is among the fashionable residents around Central Park. chiefly because of the | fact that the squirrels are so plentt- fully supplied with candy and peanuts
 that they lay up nothing for the win ter. Whatever the cause, however, a
 dozen policemen have been given tho I compared to which putting salt on
 sparrows' tails Is a simple feat. Each policeman is furnished with a pocket
 full of nuts and another pocketful of colored strings. With the former he Is to entiee the squirrels SO that he can tie one of the latter about his | tall to avoid double counting. The men detailed for this peculiar employ ment have had to put up with a great many gibes from their fellow-cops ee- pecially since it was learned as a re- suit of their Iabors that the squirrel population was somewhere between | 76i and 41s20s. the two extreme figures
 turned in. Meanwhile juvenile N6w ! York is enjoying itself by watching | policemen trying to tie pieces of string
 to squirrels tails.
 This. city is apparently building
 mad. and as a result 1t has just set new record not only for this city but for any territory of equal size or population in the world. so far as building construction Is concerned. For the nine months just ended no less than 9,322 new building projects have been recorded having an estinat- l ed value of a1o7.096.077. In addition to this there are under consideration plans not yet recorded involving the expenditure of 0o,000.0O0 more. SO that altogether more than $500, 900, 600 Is to be spent in the erection of new structures in the city. Expressed in other terms this means that for every man, woman and child in the greater city an average of SIS is to be spent for the erection of edifices in whichs they work of live. The list which goes to make tip this enormous total represents undertakings of almost every sort. In point of size the buii6- ings protected for the Equitable Life and the new Grand Central station head the list. Each of these struc- lures will cost $10.000,000 The new municipal building which is to cost S7, ,OO0, 900 is a close third and then come the new office building which will occupy the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, costing s4.o00,O0O. the 100000 Pennsylvania railroad ter- minaI the new postoffice to cost $s.> 500, 900. the $2,000,000 New Theatre, and the new Borough Hall in Queens to cost Sl,000. 900. These of course are only a few in the long list. Indeed there are under way or contemplated sixty single building projects each or which will require si.000,o00 or more. A curious feature of this great activi- ~ Ia found in the fact that from Har- lem to the Battery less than one nun drad miles permits have been taken out for the erection of residences
 The apartment house in all its various forms is rapidly rendering the single dvveIline a tfing of the past in Man haitian.