Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-26
NEW YORK ENJOYS
l.OLD FASHIONED
I THANKSGIVING
RETURN OF PROSPERITY
JOYFUlLY CELEBRATED
Big Town Invaded by Horde of
Gamblers; Pikers Flock Ho-
tel Lobbies; Gossip From
Gotham.


New York, Nov. 25.-With the cost
of feasting rising to record height
and the money to feast with flowing
in more freely each day. Gotham to-
day enjoyed an old fashioned Thanks
giving day, the like OF which its peo-
pie have not known in many a year
Now that two of the leanest years in
history are put well behind them, New
Workers. are just beginning to count
the profits of returning prosperity, for
the lack of which the last two days
of public thanksgiving have made q
sorry showing. Buoyed up on this
general wave Of confidence the price
of foodstuffs for the present celebra-
ton this year threatened to reach
the high water mark. Tons of tur-
keys were being held for holiday fig
ures ranging well up from thirty to
thirty-five cents a pound. Miniature
mountains of cranberries and other
vegetables needed for the spread were
offered at gilt edged prices about the
big amrket places of this town. For
' all its expensive trimmings, however,
the Thanksgiving table vas this year
surrounded by the kappiest crowds
thai have been mustered here in half
a dozen years.
Secret SHARES.
Spreading by stealth through the
secluded hooks of the best hotel and
residence sections, the gambling game
in this town is today reported to be
hidden far beyond the reach of the
most inquisitive public authorities.
Not one of the principal palaces of
chance that flourished in the old days
Of Tammany rule are at present in
active operation and apparently the
days OF the old guard of notorious
gentlemen gamblers are ended here
for all time. Though these conspicu-
Gus mares are now apparently swept
away forever, the web Of the gaming
spider is known to have been secret
ly spun through hundreds of back
rooms and corridors of the best hotels
and night resorts Of the upper tender
loin. A small army of fly-by-night
gamblers have been found to infest
every lobby in the white light dis
tricts. and the victims of their secret
wiles are being caught by scores each
night.
Tooth Tinkcring.
Tina the teeth OF only three percent
of all New York's school children
are in sound condition is the verdict
of a council OF dentists. through
who's efforts free tooth treatment has
been begun at several points in this
city today. Gross neglect of their
masticating machinery is theatened to
spread disease and death through the
poorer quarters of this town. the dem
tai experts declare. and every effort
will be made to waken the youngsters
as well as their elders to their inn
mediate need for tooth tinkering,
Though rows of dental chairs yawn,
free of charge, for the accommodation
of the children of the tenement dis
tricts in the clinics that nave just been
established, the people they are in
tended to a V are fighting shy of the
new proposition. Even the tooth
brushes that the dental be%nefactors
are handing out are being received
with some suspicion by the young
beneficiaries No one expects to sec
the dentists drillings made popular
here even to the owners of the most
neglected sets of teeth.
Police Packing.
To root up the central system of the
police force from its old headquarters
in Mulberry street and transplant il
without a hitch into its new building
a mile uptown is a problem that is to-
day perplexing the heads of the de-
partmcnt here. For months the prep
arations for this unusual shift of po-
lice centers have been made in the
great structure which New York has
spent many years and much money
to erect for the proper housing of its
bluecoats. Caravans OF trucks bear
ing the belonging of the bureaus of
headquarters are daily transferring
their loads Of files, furniture and po-
lice paraphernalia to their new home.
Elaborate arrangements for re-cen-
teripg the police signal system with
out the loss of a second are already
under way. When his new focus for
the force is opened at the end of this
month. II is hoped that no part of its
important activities will have been
seriously disturbed.
~Suffragettes Seen
Making a holiday for gaping crowds
of idlers, a squad of militant suffra-
gettes are today roaming the public
squares of this town. trying to sell
copies of a magazine setting forth
their cause. Thus far jeers and in
dulgcnt smiles have rewarded the eff
forts Of these vigorous women, whose
every step has been logged by a cur
ious and often rude throng of men
aud boys. No attempt is apparently
being made to convert the crowds OF
female suffrage through the sale OF
the printed doctrine. Downtown New
York is always ready for street diver
sion. and for this purpose the inno-
walton is proving chiefly welcome.
IE Y0U uAVE pR0pERTY