The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27

equal to that for England. Other countries rank in the following order: sweden. 2s.s0l orders totallinE ss4o- ssa.2I; Austria 17,01s orders. totalling totaliing s2ss s.s12.4s; Hungary 12lS00 orders. totalling $Ss2.ss5, 24s orders. totalling s299sS12.43; Hun gary i2.6O0 orders, totalling $2s2.s52- .ss; Russia 12,4s4 orders. totalIins sies.17s.13; Norway. lo,i4o orders. orders totaling slos.1I6.42; France, zS20 orders. totaltng t4e,l02.s4.
 New YoRIE's Growth.
 Is New York becoming westernized7 That is the conclusion of many obser- vers who point to the increasing promi- nence in business, professional and literary life of men from the western states. For example, this city has seen a Weritable western literary inva- sion this year. An unusual number of books by western authors or deal- ing with western life are numbered among the best sellers while the nest popular and successful plays produced during the past year have come from the pens of westerners, Eugene Walter and Augustus Thomas being the eaost noteworthy examples. Naturally en- onRh the pictures of western scenes and chaFaeters drawn by those those who have grown up among them are more accurate than the brand of western fiction or drama produced by men who never penetrated west of that the East had an opportunity to be- come familiar with until within the past four or five years. Whether or not 1t is true as sometimes charged that New York is unpopular In the west 1t is certainly the case that the West and everything western enjoys a very great popularity in New York at the present timey A case in point in which western book by western author is In greater demand in this part of the country than In the West itself David Graham Phillips Joshua Craig concerning which the publishers announce that the advance orders have been heaviest from such places as New York, Washington and Boston. PaFti- cular curosity has been aroused by tais book because the career of it's, hero follows So closely that of one of the most prominent United States Senators who was a boyhood friend of the young Indiana author and who is pFotrayed 'in an intimate but not alto gether iattering light.
 Probably the queerest, as 1t was the most unexpected Christmas present in the city, was the donation of sixty street cars to the poor. and the pro- letariat which formerly howled in anger because. of the transfer abolish ment is now bowling In joy over the presentation to it of these cars. These vehicles however, are not cars in which the possessors may rida but superannuated types of construction which the East Side has been allowed to break up for ire wood. New York. so long without an adequate supply of cars, now literally has them to burn. For a whole week the city has been amazed by the peculiar spectacle of cars being chopped up by East siders to be carted home in the shape of kindlinE wood. The fuel has gone where it is need most and it has been eagerly grabbed carried away chiefly on the heads of Italians, at the rate of a dozen cars a day. As fast as one ear was demolished another was hauled forth and turned over to the tender meFrFes of the mob.
 The only part of the cars which is not given over to the public Is the motors. As they could not bo burned there is no lamentation on the part of the people They have gobbled up literally consumed-these cars at an astonishing rate. single hour has been sufficient to make a car disap- pear absolutely since sixty minutes after each one was hauled from the barn there was not a trace of 1t loft. Trucks, window glass interior metals and fittings have all disappeared all most in the twinking of an eye. Out side of their value for fuel on account of their wooden construction the greater part of each car has gone to junk dealers by whom the metal Is turned into foundries. and the shades, seats and flooring sold to East Side tenements. Altogether the gift of sixty cars to the poor was a Christmas present as welcome as it was unexpected.
 New York's ReaOurses.
 New York is the most wasteful city in the world, according to the figures of a noted economist. From these figures 1t appears that this city throws into its garbage cans every day en- ough food to feed the whole city of Paris. or to have relieved any of the more important recent foreign fami- lies. This surprising waste is of two kinds. according to the economist in question. The first is ignorant waste which inclues the throwing away every day of all sorts of valuable articles. In the ashes for which tt has no further use. more than &10,000 a day is wasted since in the 5O.00O tons of this matter which it daily turns out there is more than 5000 tons of fuel. Could any one collect the eggshelis which the city puts in it's garbage cans each day. he would make maks fortune since they