The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-04
Manhattan, Joined to Brooklyn and Jersey, No Longer
 an Island.
CHILDREN BEGIN CRUSADE
Millions Spent by Out of Town Buyers Gives Laugh to
 Pessimisn.

weaving new populations into the roof of this metropolis. Already at the touch of these tubes whole regions Of Jersey countryside are springlng up into full-fedged suburban sections | Minutes only stand now for the miles of ride and sail that formerly made | access to the city a wearisome pll- grimage. Fuss and ferriage has to- day been eliminated by the big bores, and anyone may arrive at home or or flee, direct and dry-shod. The subter- ranean traction octopus. which Will | soon stir nightly in every direction, to-day holds the land across both rivers in live claws; the Brooklyn ten tacle already joined to the subway spine of the island and the Jersey one soon to be grafted on. For all the celebration that has stirred the crowds of Gotham, people are just waking to 1 the true significance of this latest tri- umph of the engineering surgeons over Nature. Manhattan is to-day no longer an island, and the great stream which awed Hendrickson Hudson has bttll pl uSlltu dSlut llht d NhbMCb'
 Peeps at Pain and Pleasure.
 Social sweldom is still upset to-day over two events which have just brought before the pubic eye in sharp contrast the inner life of half dozen of the families of preferred Knicker- booker stock. The crowd grinned when young Robert l.. Gerry led Miss Cornelia Hartman down to city hall for marriage license the other after noon. Up on Millionaire Row the crowd whispered and choked next day as William Burden followed the body of his young bride away to the ceme- tery. Less than year ago. the anti nuptial parade of the smart set about the old Burden mansion kept the on- lockers aflutter by it's gay awnings raised for young Burden and the popular Miss Rives. The same social celebrities followed the funeral plumes out through the curious press of people the other day; and soon many of them will again be dancing attendance at the wedding which has just been heralded at city hall Pity for Burden and pleasure for Gerry are only surface sentiment with the out siders that forever press up to have a peek within the social whirl. The rul- ing passion of the crowd here Is only overweening curiosity, that drinks in every flash of the life and death drama of the inner circles. To-day thls has been satisfied for a time.
 Childrens Crusade.
 10 marshal the thirty thousand school children of Greater New York into a lfe-staving corps for the birds that Ait, fewer and fewer, by the city's boundaries each spring, is the object of the Audubon workers here to-day. | While it Is the farmers, and everyone living out over the length and breadth of the continent, who will reap the direct benefit of shielding tho feather ed crop guards from extinction, 1t is believed that even the children among the chimneypots and cobibles of the metropolis can do their part Every bird that wings safe and satisfied over the great city will make willing worker all summer in riddling some | farmland of insect pests, the children | believe, and they are determined to speed them on with all the shelter, | food and drink that they can provide over the hard city stretch of their l journey That the children of the outside country are not sitting idly by fin this work, which they have taken up where adults failed. is proven ev- cry day by reports from little workers which are reaching the headquarters of | the National Association of Audubon societies at Al Roadway here. Every section of the country seems to have it's active army of bird guards, as well as this city.
 Buying Brisk.
 Spending some hundred millions along the wholesale blocks of Broad day. many thousands of buyers from every town in the land are to-day giving the laugh to pessimistic New Workers. For eyes sore from scan ming panic stories, this sight holds forth a sure cure, Even to the iaun- i diced vision of the Wall street crowd this advent of the real business men of the continent is shedding new light on fife Here these men surely are. and that they are buying bounti- fully is just as sure. What they buy they say they can sell; and the or ders are for high-class stuff that means plenty of ready money among their customers. Business New York ! 4o ho brig chering visitation and talk of the times is full of hope and strength.
 Modern Morgue.
 While the first steps are being talk en to-day to supplant the old morgue, over hy the decaying walls of Bellevue hospital, all New York Is breathing a sigh of relief No nastier nest of graft. ine1iciency and general gloom | than Bellevue ever was suffered to a<- ist as a city institution; and of Ill its l horrors the morgue was most grde- some. For years a vampire horde i undertakers has hung about the low, weather-stained structure ready to bounce and prey upon tho sad state of its visitors Inside conditions were even less pleasing and the ordeal vas made of more than ordinary horror That a modern morgue is at last to represent the metropolis. set in new and sanitary surroundings at Bellevue. is something which was due this city ten years ago
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