The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05
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 as a result Father Knickerbocker has come to the conclusion that it is high time to get rid of some of them There will be no gem eral slaughter in the streets of the city. however. in attaining this end since the an- imals are in the Zoo and will be sold to the highest bidder.
 with snakes particularly the city is well stocked since there are more different kinds of them--reai ones at that--on hand today than in any other city or state for that matter in the country. To be exact there are just 1s4 different kinds of rep tiles In Father Knickerbockers domain at present. ranging from the innocuous garter snake to the cainan of the Amazon river which In it's native element has the pleasing habit of devouring human beings whole.
 These snakes constitute one part of the exhibit at the Zoo. which. according to the report just issued. is in the total number Of ! living specimens exhibited the largest in stitution of It's kind in the world. The num-. Der of creatures of all kinds totals 4.os& while Berlin. the second city in this re- spect, has nearly 800 less with total of s.i49. London. the world largest city fs a poor third with only 2.s7s living speci- mems. It is estimated by tho authorities that the New York Zoo contains nearly mile of snakes. This of course. is only an estimate since for obvious reasons many of the reptiles have never been measured.
 The whole important and valuable colony ranging fr slss from mice to elephants and from humninG birds to eagles is cared for by & regularly organized staff with daily medical inspection and the best of sani- tary housing That New Workers apprs- ciate the collection is evidenced by the fact that more than million and quarter persons visited it last year. the greatest attendance for any single day being ss.oss.
 sensation has ben created in chipping circles here by the anouncemant of q well na arr NrInda0nA of the present generation will cross the Atlantic in twenty-four hours on steamers a mile long.
 The architect in question bases his prsdic- tion on the advance of the last hundred yearA since statistics show that during the last century the growth of transatlantic steamers from Fulton's 1s0 foot boat has been sfx fold. Following this line of pro- gression which naval architects assert will hold rood for the next ten decades. the present record holding vessail sto feet long will have evolved into a liner nearly mile in length.
 While at Che present the maximum num- Der of passengers that can be carried by the largest steamships Is something like 5000. the year 7oos. according to this pre- diction, will sss steamers carrying soo.ooo passengers across ths Atlantic in thirty hours, tt being estimated that by that time the speed achieved will be at least 100 miles an hour.
 Pefhnpm the most surprising feature aside from the size of the future vssseis as pre- dicted by naval architects based on cold ffrirAa e the tremendous power that Is required to drive these future isviathans. While 70. 900 horse power ts developed by the liners at present, 1t is figured that another century will see this total increas- ed to tho absolutely astounding sum of i2.- o0o. ooo horse power. carrying in addition to the s0o,eo9 passengers some fifteen million tons of fr3iehK The Bulk fof . vesasi of this aize may be seuse6 by tha etatement that 1t win be S40 feet wide. ana sac in height.
 Altogether the monsters which viii carry future generations across the Atlantic in a day and a half or less. will be of proper tions to staxger the present imagination.
 Actually. however. the prediction of thair coming involves no wilder flight of the im- agfnatian than the prophecy of an soo-foot liner capable of crossing the Atlantic in four and a half days would Have been con sidered by those who saw Robert Fulton start the first steamboat up the Hudson . century ago.
 Although Broadway is known aa the .Great White Way Fifth Avenue e soon to outstrir 1t with the characteristic ap- pelIatIon of the "Interrogetive Thorough fare" At least that will be it's title if the organization known as the Fifth Avenue Association succeeds in carrying through It's plans to havs stationed at every corner of the cftys most aristocratic street ushsrs who will &nswer all questions.
 The idea for sueh set of ushers Ia that they shall know the avenue as an elevator man knows the building in which he works Ito be able In short to answer all ques- tions as to means of transportation. location of stores and offices and their occupants. Tn short this novel usher of 6 whole city street wsil be able to usher people to the points which they are seeking out just as aa.z .a... er seat. For the services of these men, properly uniformed and labelled and in- formed, the Association itself proposes to pay instead of asking the city to do so
 Strange as it may seem, moreover. 1t is expected that they will benefit residents of New York more than visitors, for # has been ccncIuniyely shown that the out-of- town man knows more about the city than does one of its own residents.
 The new service is proposed particularly for the benefit of shopDers along Fifth Avenue and if successful, may be extend ed, notably to Broadway whose diagonal course and irregular numbering renders 1t the most difficult problem in the city to those unfamiliar with it.
 The movement bids fair in fact. to sup ply New York for the first tims in the history of the country. with what may be called ''civic ushsrs"
 MT. Hartman has at last achieved a record as the wtekadest man in New York, according to the police court records. The Hartman in question. however. is one named Bill. and no relation to the famous flnancIer.
 His claim to the title of ths wickedest man in the metropolis is based on the fact that he, Bin Hartman, at present in du- rance vile, has a whole page in the police court bIotter devoted to his misdoIngs--a record. 1t is said. never before equalled in the annals of petty crime in the city. able when 1t Is known that this, the cham picn bad man of Father Knickerbocker's town Is only twenty-onA years old.
 The escaDade which completed Mir. Bill Harriman's pedigree the police blotter comes near being his last, since 1t involved nothing less than an inebriated attempt to steal an automobile. Bill or Mfr. Hartman. aa he prefers to be called. observed the ma chine on his way home early one morning. with a yell he sprang into the drivers seat. yanked a lever and started a wild ride which ended only in Q police cell. With htis last commitment. however. he broke all previous records.
 Mr. BIiI Hartman appeared to be sx- tremely contrite the next day though sen- sibIe of the burden of his name.
 T bet they fine me enough to build Q street" said he. but that won't be as bad as if they named it after me"
 The newest and strangest profession in New York is that of modelling modeIs."
 Eighty-eour per cent. of all ready made cloalxs and dresses worn throughout the country it Is asserted. are fitted and worn on a few score of specially trained women h khta cffy.