The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-17

uhto HI I1oAApAi prevailing TeSlQ- ence was Q detached house of two sto- ries. basement and attic.
 These. incredible as 1t seems to New Workers of today, rented for about 3l00 a year. So rapidly did the demand for them increase. however, that McKes- ney conceived tho Idea of building e lot of houses in a bunch" as he ex- pressed 1t, and as result to him more than to any other cause is due to dis. appearance of the single house. Today les than 10000 families in Greater New York own the houses they live in, and single dwelling of any size and pretentions is possible only for the very rich.
 Probably in no other way is the rap fdity of metropolitan expansion shown so graphically as In the development of the flat. which. fifty years ago, housed less than fifty persons in New York. and now provides homes for 5000 900.
 The startling discovery has just been made that the great majority of mothers in New York are imported from the old world.
 While the city has been congratulat- ing itself on the large increase in births. the fact has. been ovellooked that nine out of ten of the babies are the children of parents whose arrival In this country Is comparatively re- cent Investigation has shown that in twenty-eight blocks surrounding the most fashionable and exclusive part of Fifth Avenue only thirty seven babies arrived during the past year. On the crowded East Side. however with It's population chiefly of foreign birth, no less than 314 babies were born during the same period in an equal area.
 In this baby census Is found corrob- oration of the surprising charge that the majority of the city's mothers come from abroad.
 It is often said that New York is an un-American city. and If the ratio of births among natives and foreign CTS continues as at present there is every indication that 50 far as the make-up of its population goes 1t will become still more completely a for eign community.
 At the present rate of increase. with nine out of every ten babies born of foreign parents, the real American element in this city bids fair to be- come even less than submerged tenth.
 After remaining tightly in place for several months the Hid" is now on and New York is again comparatively q Is concerned.
 From time to time there comes from the mysterious source which New Workers have come to cali the man higher up"-though no one can tell who he is---tipa that gambling must cease. or that 1t may begin again Whichever form the message takes it seems to be regarded as authoritative by both police and gamblers. |. Now the word is that the .devotees of chance may resume operations and in consequence the gambling houses in the side streets off upper Broadway are doing a rushing business and their proprietors wear their oid-time look of prosperity. So implicitly do the gamblers trust the source from which permission has come to reopen that there Is little attempt at conceaiment.
 The publication of the names and lo- cations of the principal gambling houses along Broadway from Twenty Third to Forty-6eeond Streets has not caused them to close.
 Concerning one of the most noto- rious of these houses about which com plaint has, been mada without avail, a policeman said: that iS one of the places can't touch" u'ss+
 Whatever the mysterious source from which the gambling houses of New York are ruled. its power ap- parently is final and unqestioned, both by police and gamblers.
 
 New York has witnessed some sur prising feats in the way of moving large structures within the past few years.
 When 1t became necessary to move a skyscraper in order to make way for the new Times Building in Long acre Square, the building was taken apart removed to Q new site and set up again. The same thing was done with Dr. Parkhurst's church when 1t was forced to give way to the lofty Metro politan tower, and the church is now serving as Hebrew synagogue in Harlem. ...
 Most remarkable still, however was the task successfully accomplished this week og moving one of the citys many bridges, This was a big dFawbrtdge across the Harlem. Instead of taking 1t apart as has been done in the case of buildings which were removed, the bridge was lifted bodily from its piers, carried about an eight of 8 mile down the river on bargAs and set up on new foundations all within the course of q few hours.
 The preparations for the work had been going on for several months, but the actual moving which was accom- plished by building up supports on a number of barges directly beneath the bridge, fitting the structure from it's former foundations to the temporary ones with the aid of the tide and then floating 1t down to its new location, was completed in a single day.
 Longacrs.