The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
HUNDREDS OF TRAINS
MANY ENTER NEW YORK EVERY
 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Will Require a 4O0-SIiIe Lon string og 25,OOO Cars--DIsappenrance of Surface Lines Pre-
 Uicted.

New York, oct. .lo'--tSpeS'ai' tbe first af next May more than 3'ooO trains will enter New York daily, and the 25, 900 cars of which they VIII pc composed would if placed In a single train reach length Of nearly Tour hundred miles. dous possibilities of the new era or transportation in this city, generaliy referred to as the tunnel. era. one thousand trains will enter the city under the Hudson River every day and something like twice this numoer by various other subways and tuoes.
 Every thirty seconds will mark the arrival of a train and passengers can be poured Into the city at the rate or so. 900 an hour or million and halt A day Of course all this will necessi. tate the most remarkable termlhais ever conceived, and as result the city will have tremendous clearing houses.
 The intercommunication of various systems and the possibility or going almost anywhere without reaching me surface of the ground will make pos sible wonderfully complicated sort ing system for trains and passengers.
 Just how many hundreds of millions the final completion of all these plans will call for can only be suggested. But it Is known that the cost will be greater than that of the Panama Canal. s
 Engineers think that by the year 1920 the whole thing should be finished ana predict that by that time ferryboats will have entirely disappeared from rivers and surface cars from the city streets. But long before then 1t will | be possible to ride from California to l Montauk Point without once changing cars.
 
 The planning and discussion of his big game hunt in Africa which was President Roosevelt's chief enjoyment lsduring a, great part of the summer has ! been sidetracked temporarily on ac- count of his keen interset in the poli- tical campaign. His son Kermit how ever is devoting himself steadily and systematically to preparations for the 1 trip which he is to, take with his father. As was announced recently Kermit is | to be the official photographer of the expedition. To obtain successful pro- | tographs of wild animals and birds is | more difficult in some respects than to shoot them and young Kermit In under going a thorough course Of instruction l in this subject at the hands of Frank M. Chapman, assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History. | In this city. Mir. Chapman probably Is the most suceessfuf camera hunter of wild birds | and beasts in this country and he win l impart all the tricks of this dificnit art to the Presidents son during the coming winter Most of the practice work will be in securing photographs | of birds which require as careful pro- cedure7 as to secure Q Hook pleRaAnt" l likeness of An- elephant or tiger, sven 4 th6n9ls tt tsszay not pe- Sd dangerous.
 The PresIdent selected Mir. Chapman 1 as his sons instructor in the field of i photography as result of seeing the | collection of oyer two hundred suc- cessful photographic. many of lem very | rennarkable which are to appear in the 1 scientists forthcoming book Camps and Cruises of an osnithoiogIst" which has been announced by@Appleton's.
 A collection of the photographs se- | cured on the Presidents trip probably | will become one of the exhibits n the Museum of Natural History.
 The statements repeatedly made and generally believed that crime Is in- creasing in New York from year to year, has. no foundation in fact, ac- cording to Maynard Shipley. a statisti clan who has been collecting informa- tion on this subject for several years.
 While the number of arrests have increased 1t is shown that this Is due chiefly to the increase in the number of ordinances relating to street traf- fic and similar subjects and to stricter enforcement of these regulations. Nto- lations of these. arising often from ig- | norance or carelessness are not to be taken as evidence of increasing crim- ality Mir. Shipley foupds his conclu- sions on what he regards as typical crimes, such as highway robbery. He | shows that the average number or arrests for this crime have decreased steadily in New York for the past nine years, while in many other - cities. which he names. they have increased | with great rapidity
 In crimes of violence, such as mur- der and assault, there has been an in- crease which the investigator at tributes to the great increase of immi- grafton from Southern Europe.
 MT. Shipley has compiled a list of cities in which murder Is most fre- ouent placing the City of Mexico at serts, the distinction of having the largest number of homicides in pro- portion to population must be divided between Lexington, Ky. and Kansas City, Kan
 There is promise of revival of what the Bowery longingly refers to as "the good old days" when that fla nous thoroughfare was accurately de- scribed in a popular song as "a blaze of lights"
 At any rate, two historic Bowery places which have been in eclipse for the past few years have just been re- opened. One of these Is the restau- rant of Mike Lyons. just around the corner from police headquarters, where Theodore Roosevelt. William Travers Jerome and countless other well-known New Workers have regaled themselves with midnight meals.
 It was in Lyonss that many of the terms of walters Jargon originated, such as the description of poached eggs on toast as Adam and Eve on a raft. VI No waiter in this East Side Delmon- Ico's ever by any chance called things by their proper names in giving his orders The original proprietor re- tired four or five years ago and his successors failed to make the business a success.
 A few days ago Nike as the Bow cry knows him, reappeared on the scene and announced that his place was open for business again. that he had thrown away the key and that 1t never would
 he closed until his death
 The other sightseeing place that ha'
 been restored is Steve Brodies saloon
 which passed Into eclipse after the
 bridge jumpers death. but which i'
 gain the Mecca of rubberneck wagons
 and their passengers.
 Although the open season for fiie' af