The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-18

termed By Its critics tse greatest gam
bling center In the world. IL only q
question of time, is the prediction OF
experts who base their claim on q
careful study Of existing conditions.
While they admit That the speculative
operations with which Wall Street is
Unidentified may continue undisturbed
indefinitely, these experts assert that
the time Is not far distant when Wall
Street win be as far out of the real
city as was an upstate community.
Very naturally New York cannot ex-
pand to the south. east or west, unless
the bay or the river be filled in. as
was suggested by Thomas A. Ediston
some years 40, and for this reason IT
his been steadily growing northward
until Its center, once at the extreme
southern limit OF the city. is now at
Forty-fourth street and travelling on
at the rate of three city blocks a
year, or q mile in every tire years.
At this rate the business center Of the
metropolis before twenty-five years
have passed will and no matter what
improvements may BIO made In the
rapid transit system there seems to be
some ground for the belief that the
city will not continue to maintain its
financial centre in an outlying district
widely separated from Its other lines
Of activity. How real this possibility
of the natural Establishment of Wall
Street Is may be seen from the building
record of the Bronx the territory ly-
ing north of the Harlem River. Dur
ing the first six months Of this year
no less than s22.eoo.ooo has been ex-
pended for new buildings, sum great
er than that covering the whole pre-
ceding year.
While the lost and found articles re-
ported from different parts of the city
aggregate millions OF dollars yearly
and include almost every conceivable
kind of property from babies to grand
pianos q new record In this direction
was established this week with the dis
coyery in Harlem Of a vagrant street.
car line, for which no owner can be
looted. The line in question is about
not connect with any other street car
system and so far as can be ascertain
ed no cars ever run over II. Apparent
The Imported Devil.
ly its construction never was authoriz-
ed by the city authorities. Those who
have tried to trace the history of this
orphaned street railway in the heart
of Greater New York believe that 1t
was built by the old Sixth Avenue
Railroad to prevent a rival line from
obtaining a crosstown outlet. The
Metropolitan surface system but the
officers Of the latter disclaim all res
possibility for the parentless line
Residents along the streets traversed
by this missing link in the local trans
portation system are now petitioning
the city authorities to tear up the
tracks which are of no use to any
body at present.
The devil-and q real live devil at
that's soon to be on exhibition here,
securely confined in q strong steel cage
The character in question is not, how
ever, the person generally depicted
with cloven hoof, horns and tail. but
a four-legged one captured In Tas-
mania. This Tasmanian devil Is not
such an undesirable citizen as his name
might indicate. He belongs to the
barger family and comes to the Bronx
Zoo as a member OF the weirdest ami
NAL party which ever reached the port.
When those new animals are settled in
their new homes this city will have the
largest and most complete geological
garden in the world not even excepting