The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27

New York, Sept. 26-Heureka, the
 "oner thing lacking to make oache- lorhood an ideal state, has been sup piled at last and bachelors, at least Tn Greater New York. will never again yield to the pressure of missing put tons. ripped seams in their underwear and holes in their socks. to sacrlnce their single -biessedness and become married. simply to have their wlie iook after the annoying little details or their wardrobe.
 It took a Chicago woman to solve the problem and to remove the last obstacle to successful bachelorhooo: Mss Gertrude Barnum. President or the women's League of Chicago. ana A well known settlement worker. con ceiveI the idea and carried 1t into practical execution in this city: sne first established the Ship Shape shop in an experimental way In connection with the Hartley Settlement House on West Forty eighth street and so great was its success, that larger house had to be found for the establishment on West Forty seventh street.
 "wardrobe repairs for bachelors l and maids, business and professional | women, husbands of absentee wives tired mothers. hotel guests. etc is the | legend on the sign displayed on the door of the establishment. which is | conducted under the direction Of Miss Barnum. It is an excellent institution. which gives employment to a number | of young women and will undoubtedly | furnish work and a fair income to many more. as the enterprise pros pers. The Ship Shape Shop" makes | contracts at $1 a month with bachelors. old maids. professional men and wo- men. etc, to keep their shirts, under wear, socks. stockings. etc. in good | repair. More important repairs and other work Is paid for extra accord | ing to estimate. Miss Barnum's idea | is undoubtedly clover and & blessing | to all bachelor men and women, but | 1t will scarcely meet with the approv- | al of President Roosevelt. It is real | ly antagonistic to his views on matri- mony and race suicide as it makes
 bachelorhood easier and more free | from cares than ever.
 | It is probably premature to speak | of the days of the horse being count
 ed. as the price of automobiles and | other horseless contrivances is still
 great deal higher than that of horsefiesh; but 1t seems quite likely
 that the days of horse racing are on
 the wane. There are many indications
 to that effect. What killed horse l racing? Several causes contributed to | the decline of that sport which has | been in favor for many centuries | Crookedness among the professional | horsemen, trainers. jockeys. etc. had | | horse racing. The abuses of the bet | ting ring also brought discredit upon | the sport and finally led to an at- | tempt to suppress the gambling fea- l ture of racing. But. with the gambling | feature eliminated, horse racing ceased | to be of interest to so large a per | centaee of the race-track patrons, that | the attendance at the races has | dwindled to the point of making rac- | ing unprofitable to the track owners as we'll as to the horse owners.
 This years, 'Futurity" was witness ed by only ten thousand people. while in former years, before the betting
 ring was abolished, 1t used to draw
 from thirty to forty thousand. But, | as in the days of Caesar the great
 masses insist upon having ''panem ct | Circenses;" and, if horse racing has | lost its interest owing to the elimina- l tion of the gambling feature. they l take to something else.
 | Baseball has largely profited by the impression of the betting rings on l New York's race courses and fully
 100000 witnessed the last four games l with Chicago at the Polo grounds on | August '. 8, 10 and II. Just recently | the Giants played the Brooklyn team | five games before a crowd of 60,000 l fans"
 | It has become quite common in re- 1 cent years to use race tracks. ordtnar- | fly intended for horse racing. for speed l tests and races of automobiles. NOW
 another use has been found for such courses. The old Morris Park race course, the historic scene of many a
 famous race. is the first to capitulate l to ultra-modernism It has been leas- | ed by the Aeronautical Society and will be used as the club site and test ing grounds of the society.
 l Where once the thoroughbreds strug- | gled for victory. monoplanes and heli- l copters will spin and soar and. occa-
 sionally tumble in the future. Some of | the old quarters have already been turned into machine and carpenter
 shops, where air craft of all sorts of | design may be put together.
 | Out on the field are two structures l from which single rails are laid across | the turf. This apparatus is to give l flying start to ambitious experiment. 1 CTS. The clubhouse has been converted | into the home of the Aeronautical So-
 ciety and its walls are covered with | photographs of airships and dirigi- l ble balloons.
 The schools of Greater New York
 are now In full running order and daily l about 640,000 chtldren-just think.
 about 25.000 more than the entire | population of Boston-will go to their
 respective schools to imbibe knowl-
 edge of things necessary and super | fuousIt is a disgraceful fact. that fully
 52.000 children will be unable to find
 proper accommodation and will be
 compelled to attend school but part of the day. Some old-fashioned critics
 say that 1t would be much better to
 use the money supplied by the tax payers for the building of additional
 school houses than 10 waste 1t on fads
 which benefit only few special teach
 CTS and are of no earthly use to the
 children. But, the fads have made
 friends in the Board of Education. and
 their ambition to keep New York at
 the head of the procession must be
 gratified.
 With a few exceptions. the opium
 dens in the Chinese quarter of the city
 have been suppressed by the police.
 Now 1t has been discovered that the
 strict laws against the sale and use of cocaine have been skillfully evaded by the fraternity of "dope-fiends." and
 that they had a number of places scat tered throughout the city. where they
 could obtain their favorite drug and
 give themselves up to the delightful effects of the dope" without fear of
 nolice interference. One of these CO.,
 cadne dens was pulled the other day l and a number of cocaine users and the 1 keepers of the place were arrested.