The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06
ANTITRUST
 FIGHT LULLS New York Sees Lessen ing of Hatred. BUSINESS MEN HOPEFUL City Believes There Will Be
 Diminishing. Only One Out of Twenty New Yorkers Pay Taxes To support City, state And County Pre-RevoIution- ary Spot is Preserved By ,a Sentiment.
 

New York, Dec.,s 5-Representatives of big corporations here profess to see in recent events signs of a reces- sion in various directions in the wave of antitrust feeling that has swept over the country during the past few years and has led to the enactment of laws which the corporations declare have made 1t impossible for them to do business in certain states. While they are ready to admit that corporate business in the future is certain to be far more strictly regulated than 1t was down to the beginning of the recent movement for legal supervision, they are encouraged to believe that the ex- treme features of what they jesignate as oppressive Legislation are likely to be gradually modified. in application at least As an illustration of the moderatlng tendency they point to the recent re-admission into Texas of Swift and Company. the meat packers. who had been baFed from the state for more than a year. To be sure the application for re-admission was made under d Delaware charter. supported by an affidavit that the company was not a member of a trust and accom- 2 panied by the payment of . fine Al the same time. however, the finan- ,ciers point knowingly to the fact that so far as announced there has been no change in the directorate of the Ma tional Packing Company in which the Swifts as well as the other big Chicago interests ordinarily grouped under the general designation of the beef trust figure. The developments in this direction are being watched with tn- terest by the big insurance companies the farm machinery combination and others who have found themselves de- prived of en important field by the operation of the Texas laws
 The racentsregistration for the preHt- dentIai AleetfoffS together with the com billing of the tax list, have revealed some curious discrepancies and facts here. As a result of an analyslg oi these figures the city fathers are con siderably mixed. for while the rolls show SIS, 900 voters, the tax list num- bers only 100000 names. In other words less than one voter out of three and less than one out of every twen- ty of the entire population is tax payer. though why this should be no one has yet been able to explain That 41S,000 voters pay no taxes Is however, a matter needing explanation especially as this condition increases the amount paid by taxpaying voters bv more than 200 per cent. The pres ert average tax in this city is $603 pel capita. for those who pay it. while were it distributed among all voters, il would average only $ii7 a piece. IT any event, however, the total, which anounts to s120. 0.0O0,000 annually, mus be collected and the fact that only one out of three voters contributes tc if merely serves to give New York one of the highest tax rates in tht world In this tax situation is founc the chief explanation of the fact that New York is the most expensive city to live-in in the United States. WheT the fact is taken into consideration that a large number of taxpayers ara women who cannot vote the average amount of taxes paid by each votel Approaches the $700 mark, a very tidJ sum even for New York.
 The first school of its kind--oh' which will enable women to earn theii living in a specialized field has jus been started here. New York has al ready had various courses of tnstruc tion for the fair sex ranging from those which through culinary eduea ton and an initiation into the mys teries of babies, radiators, furnaces ant finance were calculated to enable woman to make e model wife for mor' men. to those which through highe courses of learning aimed to enabl' her to supplant him in the commercial field. The new course, however, whicl Is being carried on at one of the city high schools aims only to make woman proficient in her own field-particu iarly as a saleswoman. The course which lasts nine months. is largel! made up of laboratory work, that i nractical instruction in the art of sell ing anything from pins to pianos. T. the student making the largest sale snecial degree will be given, whil all who complete the course will ge dinIouas. A number of the large de nsrtnent stores have promised to em pIoy the graduates and the popularit of this novel line Of education shown by the fact that the age O n,niIs already enrolled runs from l yesrs the minimum, to S6. The Ion student of the latter age Is preparini to sell false hair.
 A determined fight-even in tn courts if that becomes necessary-i 4o be made to, save one of the relic of old New York. the property whic with all it's early setting still inVac ts known by the ante-revolutionar name of London Terrace. London Ter race. which was once a suburb of tn early city, Is a unique spot In Create New York situated in Twenty-fourt Street between Ninth and Tent Avenues and is the sole remaining ex elusive residence district in the terri tory which was once far beyond tn nity's northern boundary, but is now
 mart of it's downtown river front. is sort of residential oasis in
 crowded business section and is sur rounded by stores of every kind wit great trans Atlantic docks only tw blocks away. In spite of this, how ever, it has retained through two cen turies its identity as a district of old fashioned homes. The present lease are more than fifty years old, ante dating almost any others in the cit! and the occupants of the Terrace ar prepared to fight bitterly the plan convert the district into purely con mercial center by the erection of store VshaR- anaient houses now stand Tn