Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-05-20
NEW YORK ENLISTS ARMY
 FORPROSPERITY CAMPAIGN
Thousand Travellers To Dis seminate Facts Of Business Condition Inventor Of Flat-Houses Dies--Baby Famine In Fashionable District.

that m twenty ,ight blocks surruuso ing the most fashionabls and cxclassss e part of Fifth Avenue only thirty s~eesa babies arrived during the past yesr- On the crowded East Side, hoveves- with iis population chiefly of fosvsEp birth no less than 3l4 babies wcrs b~sW during the same period ip au eVnss arca. In this baby census Is fcuwd ess roboration of the surprising cbsrss ,aat the great majority of the ssfy's mothers come from abroad It is ss-- ten said that New Yorh is an un. Ansrrs can city and if the ratio of bisthss among natives and foreigners contsssrs. as at present thcrc is every iudsrstissN that SO far as the makeup 2f it's Fcv~ lation goes it will become still nsss' completely n foreign eomwunity- AS the present rate of increase, with s'ss' out of every ten babies horn cf ssvs'Gs" parents. the real Amcricas cIcmvst sss this city bids fair to become sssss less than . submerged tenth.
 The lid ls on.
 After remaining tightly in PIsc~ fss several months the "bd" is now ~ and New York is against comparative iy widc.opcn" town so far ns gsssh ling is concerned. F,e~ time to ti1ss there comes from that uiystericssr source whicn New Workers have eosss 10 call "th- man higher ap'- thsuet. no one can tell who hc is--tips thsa gambling must cease, or that it .p begin again. Which ever form the msS- sage takes it seems te bs ycagrded - authoritative by both pcsice s.p gamblers. Now the word m thst thw devotces of chance may r~sume oCrrs- ,ions and in consequence the Rsm6ainH houses in the side streets oG' sVRw Broadway are doing q rnrhinR buHsss- and their propvi.tors wesr tbsiv sb finn. look of prosperity. So impIssfuy do thu gamblers trust the source frcaa which permission has eome tO' recp~s' that there is little attempt ,stt, aoansss mept. The. publication, ,of etbe .nsms~ and locations of the principal samhiec houses along Broadway from Twensy third to Forty second street. has s~s caused them to close. Csnscrsiug ossr of the most notorious of th'sei bcusrfs about which complaint, has been, mad without avail, . policeman said, thss is one of the places [ .an't touch. -
 HN Whatever the mystehSu- carce frcss which the gambling hsvres sf Nee York are ruled, its pe~sr apparcnsf, is Anal and unquesiioned, both ''t police and gamblers.
 Moving . Budse.
 New York aas wiintsscd some sur prising fea,s in the way of moving large structures within the past fs~ years. When |, bocavas nses sary ts move . skyscrapsr in order Co make way for the new T,mrs building in Longacrc Square, the building ~ss' 1 taken apart, removed to new sitc snd set up again. The same thing was do"s with Dr. Psrkhprst's shpreh wbss 's was forced to give way 10 the loft Metropolitan tower, and the church ir' now serving as Q Hebrew synagogue q" Harlem More remarkable still, hs~ ever, was the task successfully aeeosS' plisned this week of moving one "f the city's many bridges. This was a- big drawbrdgc across the Harlem. Ira stead of taking it apart ~ hvs bssr' done in tho case of buildiuRs winch were removed, inc bridge was int~@ bodily from it's piers, carried about ss' eighth of mile down tse river ss~ barges and set up on new fosndsttcns all within the course of few houp The preparations for the work bsA' been going on for several months bss the actual moving wa'eh was acrcra plished by building up supports on S number of barges directly beneath the bridge, lifting the structure from i's former foundations Co the temporary ones with the aid of the tide and then floating it down to lis new location was completed in a single day.
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