The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-09
Stray Topics From Neu0 York


 New York. Aug. s-tspeciaL)-The man or woman who spends the summer months in Mannattan is as a rule quite as enthu- siastic over Gotham summer resort as ne is to proclaim 1t an ideal winter home.
 This -is not due either to the fact that tnere IS SO much in or near the city in the form or amusement parks and cool roof gar oens but rather because the climate it. self is as cool as at many a summer resort and in addition there is the comfort of the home surroundings It Is to be remembered however that Manhattan is an island. swept by cool breezes. and while there are comparatively few shade trees the tall buildings serve the same purpose.
 During the recent hot spell the people in the city found 1t quite as comfortable, ex- cept in the oyer crowded tenement dis tricts as did the people who lived in the suburbs. Although thousands of New York CTS hurry away from the city on the first warm day in June and do not return until September. still there are many people who come 10 NewsYcrh for the summer months and take apartments vacated by those who do not believe the city tclerable during July and August, Among these are great many Southerners who find New York an Ideal spot in which to spend their summer vaca- tions.
 In one of the old ana historic sections of New York known as Greenwich Village there is place where they check babies They don't check them in exactly the same manner as theysdo umbrellas. but 1t Is pos sible for wifeless men and working mothers to leave their little ones here all day and be sure of getting their own child when they return for 1t at night.
 To be sure the place is only day nursery but 1t is run on the plan of an up-to-dste hospital and the children get the very best of care. The children are carefully fed according to formulas issued by the Board of Health. Everything in the way of amuse- ment is provided for the little tots. but they are made to take their maps regularly and of course have to be bathed and fed on scheduled time.
 father taking his motherless children to the nursery on his way to work where he leaves them for the entire day. Tn addi- tion to caring for the children the mothers are instructed in the proper way to care for their own little ones at home.
 one of the places that the out-of-town sightseer inevitably visits is the Aouarium. which Is situated on the lower end of Manhattan Island. It is visited by all claSses and by all races. 1t doubtful if any place attracts such . mixture of races ns does the Aquarium. It is the first place that the immigrant visists. for 1t Is free and near the foreign hotels and boarding places.
 It is not uncommon to have twenty thousand visitors there in day. The  is historically interesting. too, because 1t was formerly a theatre where Jcnny Lind made her first appearance.
 Manhattan has had a plague of insects this summer that has not only made the in- habitants urcomfortable but has kept the entomologists busy trying 10 classify the df- ferent pests. The first visitation consisted of millions of white moths that were at. traeted by the glaring lights of the Great White Way. The twhiteness of the insects only increased the general dazzling effect of Broadway at night, and so thick were the moths that people coming out of the the atres thought that there had been a slight fall of snow The moths disappeared after one or two nights having found the quiet and exclusion of Jersey preferable to. the noise and glitter of the Great White Way A few days later came an army of small black hump-back- ed hugs At least they were SO described by the Iaymen and scfentists in Gotham were completely stumped and haven't been able yet to classify the unwelcome visit DTS.
 These. too. disappeared and all was com fortabie with Manhattanites until an i'll wind from the Jersey coast blew a forrnid. able array of the common mosquitoes across the Hudson which set all Gotham scratch ing.
 The fourth and last plague has been A
 
 scratching. but these in turn disappeared leaving the famous. New York water-buK in sole possession of the city.
 New York is said to be rebuilt every forty years. The ceaseless tearing down and building up leave scarcely. a street undiS- turbed- Probably in no city in the world are great and massive buildings or points ok rare historic interest more readily sacrifia- ed.
 The ''house-wrecker'' fIourishes in New York, for an army of men are constantly employed to tear down what another gene ration has built up. The storage yards of the oldest firms of house-wrecksrs ara veritabIe museums There may be seen still in the debris sign boards and differ ent specimens of architectural ornamentR- ton that were familiar sights along Broad way fifty years ago.
 Historic relics by the ton which recall very vividly the architectural glory of the old city are piled about on every hand.