The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-19

 and Gomorrah class New York is al most hopelessly an ungodly city. de- clares Rev. Charles F. Aked, widely known as the pastor of the church of which John D. Rockefeller Is the most prominent member.
 Dr. Aked has startled the somnolent quiet that usually doscends on Fifth pointing out in an article which Is to appear in the August number of Ap- pleton's magazine that church mem bership in this country in proportion to population has fallen off 5000 per cent since the first half of the last ceh- tury. It Is highly significant in pr. Aked's opinion that this loss of posi- tion among the churches has been a progressive one.
 As he puts 1t. if their gain in pro- portion to popxlation during the first half of the century .s represented as eighty. during the second half it Is rep- resented by twenty, during the past twenty years by four. and during the past ten years by one. At this rate 1t is easy to figure out the time when church pews will be entirely tenantless.
 Di. Aked makes the unqualified as- sePtion that If the present course of events continues the churches not only of New York but of the rest of the country as well will have to close tn cir doors within another century. He frankly ayows that the church is re- garded by many persons as back number" and he seems to agree that this view Is justihed In many Instances. for he says that the churches must change their methods or they will be abandoned entirely.
 The athletic English divine who breaches every Sunday to the greatest aggregation of wealth gathered In any one church in the country proposes to follow up his first assault In Apple tons with other red-hot attacks on the ineffieiency of the churches themselves.
 New York is going to build a State prison which will be a veritable palace of crime with all the modern conven- fences. It win include many of the features which contribute to the suc- cess of the city's biggest hotels, and in every way will be jati so tempting that It Is feared that many crooks will be moved to adopt the new prison as a permanent home.
 Sing-Sing is famed in story and has sheltered more notorious criminals than any similar institution in the country. but now 1t Is to be superseded by a $2,000.000 structure on the oppo- site side of the Hudson.
 For months a committee has been searching for a site and the one chosen is, 1t Is claimed, unrivalled in location even by any summer hotel. Around this $2,o00,000 establiahment will be d mile-long stone wall thirty feet high, on top of which 1t has been facetiously proposed to Install apromenade q which In criminal society would correspond to the famous board walk at Atlantic City.
 One of the advantages of the new site prominently mentioned in advo- cacy of It's selection Is Highland Lake. which, within a stones throw. affords fishing and boating, There is 10 be library more fully stocked than that of many city. and a series of vaults for the safe guarding of the vaiuables of convict inmates. Whether these vaults can be used for the storing of plunder with which 6 criminal may get away. pending his release, remains to be determined. Music. hot and cold baths and telephones are only a few of the minor features.
 Altogether this new center of tha most exclusive life of the criminal 4o0 Is expected to prove 50 attractive that the police declare there will be Al IItfYe diticulty In making the arrests which will lead to an opportunity to obtain a suite in it.
 ~ iS now expected that the greatest point of interest about this eitv vrils soon be the revolving house which Ia to be constructed by a New Yorker out on Long Island. "
 Ihis newest thing in domestic con- struction. which in its own field will be more of a novelty than the fartv- story skyscrapers are in theirs, ia to be so built that 1t can be turned around at the will of the owner. Any room In th0 nY- .sxn-- v can be brought to beneft by the shade In summer Or the sun in winter. The wind will blow and the sun shine in any apartment as the owner may wish.
 This strange house which is to be either round or octagonal in shape, will be mounted on ball bearings with the motive power furnished by electric ity. All that 1t will be necessary for its owner to do to face any point of the compass will be to press button. Its construction will be built on the plan of a railroad turntable and the builder has promised that 1t will turn without noise or jar. There will nec- essarily be many novel features.
 Altogether the house, which exclus- i've of land will cost about $35.000, will for a time at least be one of the great est curiosities in this part of the coun- try. The owners has already been hooded with bids for exclusive rights as to pictures. exhibition purposes and the like. The man who Is going to live in this novel house. however. takes matters very calmly. explaining that he is only building it because he can see no reason for always gazing on the same outlook from each window, and being roasted or frozen in any particular room as the wind and sun may dictate
 It is now expected that this first re. volving house will be completed next spring.
 If there ever was a vote which could absolutely be controlled by one man, that vote is the Teddy Bear vote, and the man Theodore Roosevelt.
 Washington the manufacturers and vendors of Teddy Bears continued to believe up to the last moment that the President would find the nomina- tion thrust upon him. In such an event of course there would have been a tremendous demand for furry imi- trations which have come to be accept ed as the Roosevelt emblem.
 The result of the nomination of Taft was to knock the bottom out of the Teddy Bear market. until there is just about AS much demand for them as there was for railroad stocks during the panic last fall. Manufacturers who had been busy turning out goods in anticination of Roosevelt's nomination found themselves overloaded and be- came bulls in the Teddy Bear mar kat Dealers who had been equally certain of a third term immediately began to attempt to cancel contracts.