The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
NEW YORK MOURNS
THE DEATH or THE FOREMOST
 AMERICAN.
Political Excitement Growing in In- feustty and ls Likely To Get To Fever Heat Before
 Election Day. s

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 New York. June. 27--Like a pail. the sad news of the death of Grover cleve- land has fallen about this city today. While everyone who knew and prtzed the grand old man of the Empire State had feared the worst since his recent confinement down at Lakewood. the general public were unprepared for the blow. All New York City has rubbed elbows more or less intimately with this great son of its State and no man was more widely or popularly appre- ciated here High and low. New York CTS have universally listened to and respected the words of the aged statesmen and his death has today left many a man without an anchor to presence of Grover Cleveland will be soreiy missed here in every walk Of life.
 with. Roosevelt just establishing summer headquarters across the river. Taft whirling back and forth to his Yale celebrations and Hughes head ing the ratification rallies this town has today become a live center in the opening activities of the Presidential campaign. All Tammany is astir with the preliminary rush of selecting war medicine and paint for it's big braves to hit che trail to Denver. while Dem ocratic leaders of National and state size are buzzing on the benches of the Hoffman House 1t Is many years since the campaign furor has engrossed Gotham as it does today and all signs promise no let up in the political whirl till the frost comes. Never in the hfs- tory of this metropolis have conditions been more mixed or uncertain than they are here and throughout the Elm pire State today where both parties feel that this year there is field well worth fighting for. The outcome of the battle which they have already begun. they believe, will tell large part or the story on election day. ,.t.,,
 Outside of Wall Street and the pen nv-pitching rings of the nswsboys. New York stands today as barren of betting possibilities as any village Tn the land. Every one of the ghded gambling houses. every pool room ana gaming joint of any description has been closed tight as drum under sudden streak of surveillance by the police. Out at the track grass grows rank over the betting ring and dust anr cobwebs only occupy most of tho seats. An army of disgruntled sports hang idly about the barred doors or the palaces of chance or seek some out let at the base ball bleachers. For the time being the game of feecing the piker Is dead. the word has gone forth, and the goddess of chance has been chased far away beyond the Is land. No one can predict today just what the outcome of this record re" strictlon will be. The, gamblers al- ternately talk of migrating to other fields of endeavor or going into the al lied professions of burglary and strong arm practice. The only way to take . chance thes days is to ride over Brooklyn Bridge or the subway.
 Right in the heart of Manhattan Island a breeding retreat for wild fowl has been discovered this week In the absolute seclusion of Swan Island, a tiny isle on the lower lake of Gen. tral Park, families of mallard ducks and Canadian geese have established for themselves one Of the "sanctuaf- les" with which the National Associa- ton of Audubon Societies is urging all America to save it's bird life With the metro0olis rumbling all around them these biFds have trustfully nest ed in the center Of the thick foliage of this remote speck of land and begun to hatch their little broods for migration next fall. How these wild fowl ever happened to locate here or how they managed to escape the nur. derous fire in the States where spring shooting is still allowed. Is mys- tery to the ornithologists. The Audu. bon workers are watching with interest the future of this confding delega- ton of the dying races of duck.
 After solid days and nights of sleep and rest. the "old guard'' of the press telegraph operators have begun to tumble into town from their strenuous siege at the Chicago convention. Ev- cry man of this picked band of key jogglers is specialist. highly trained and long experienced. To shoot by. code more than a million words a day out over the wires to the ends of the land is a job which calls for seasoned vet erans. and the men who got away with it have no superiors in the world. without the loss of a comma. or the change of a letter. these craekerjack press operators can send 4.oo0 words Of almost illegibIe copy to the hour.
 Hour after hour and night and day. this "cld guard has handled at this pace the story of all the big conven- tions within the memory of the present people of Park Row. They never trip or tire, and their performance Is often better worth the telling than the tale of some conventions.
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