Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-04-15
TO TEAR OFF YOKE
OF The MOTOR
MAN|ACS
People of New York at Last
Reused to Determined Action
by the Death of Score Of
Child Victims,
Especial correspondence to Morning Journal

Especial correspondence 10 Morning Jouruall
New York. April 10.-For the first
time in the history the people Of this
city are today beginning q real strug-
gle to tear OFF the yoke wish which
the motor maniacs have always har-
messed and driven them. reused at
last by the death toll that It score Of
child victims have paid to the Moloch
Of reckless motordom within the last
few months, a vigilance committee is
Just taking up With an iron hand the
traffic outrages of the inccssant joy
riders. In a stern spirit as ever ac-
tuatod a sheritf's posse after out
laws. this body of leading New York
ers is preparing to catch. prosecute
and send to prison any and every
man who disrcgards with his auto
mobile the law of life in the thorough
fares OF this town Many a millionaire
is today deep in the black books OF
these crusaders, ana one fresh Of
Tense from their high-poWer cars is
regarded as sufficient warrant for
criminal prosecution. For years the
autos of the speed maniacs here have
strown the streets With their MUIR
dered and manned. while the police
seemed paralyzcd. with the better
element of automobiles and all the
people arrayed today behind this
movement, public safety and sanity
appears in 4 fair way to be restored.
Memorial to Martyr.
Before the flowers fade over the
grave of brave Joe Petrosino, some
perpetual memorial to this martyr of
the city's service win be reared by the
hundreds Of thousands Of people from
every class who are today agitating
such a movement. From the whitest
Whiskercd magnatc of Wall street
down to the most grimy %bootblack,
every inhabitant Of this cosmopolitan
island is eager to pay tribute to the
li~on-hearted detective whose funeral
has touched deeply every heart. mol
one is ready to let the lesson of Pc
trosino's f%aithfulness unto death so
unrecalled to future generations. and
any plan to commemorate it by some
substantial monument win enlist all
Ncw York in its support 1t viii De
many a long year before New York
crs forsct the man whose remains
the whole town turned out to honor,
Women Workers.
Not since the revelations of the red
light crusade have the women of
Gothcm been SO aroused as they are
today over the Payne proposal to tax
by any higher tariff every family in
the land for tho cotton stockings that
every one must keep buying. Mass
meetings, to which thousands of work
ing girls flock, are being conducted
by leading club women on almost
every evening in all parts Of the Is
land. while the fathers Of the fam
ilics of this metropolis are joining
trade and labor organizations in pro
test against raising Il duty to create "A
trust in his everyday necessity. the
houseNiv ives are humming their indig
nation ut a thousand and onc gath
crings of their sex. ON the propo-
sition to give to a favored few the
power to charge trust prices to the
poorer women and children Of the
land New Workers are speaking with
no uncertain voice.
Spanning Space.
NIBN NJ ~ N'''
have manncd the steel skeleton of the
rising Manhattan bridge are today
celebrating the final strokes which
have just brought the tips OF the span
from either shore to touch together,
hundreds Of feet above midstrcam OF
the East river. Los thar a year ago
the first wire strand was cast from
top to top of the huge towers that
face each other only a few blocks
abovc tho line of the veteran Brooklyn
bridge. Day by day the supporting
cables were woven and, beam by beam
their pendant spans of steel advanced
from both sides out over the water.
Today. the immense metal projcc-
tons have met, true To the sixteenth
IN inch. and been riyctted into one
complete arch from shore to shore
Within the year it is hoped To- lay
open this latest giant bridge ana make
one more stretch Of dry land over the
face OF the water.
IamislIcd Fans.
with their brown and hearty band
Of BAH players just returned from
the South. Now Workers are today ON
edge for the opening battle OF the
i'lB lta5uc 'aHlpdlbh hVi Ah' GUAM
pionship. while there has been some
food for the fans in tho reports OF
the training trip which Is now ended.
and army Of baseball rooters arc
hungry for the sight and sound of tho
national sport. which has been denied
them through a cold. cruel winter
The first crack from tho Giants bats
viii start an eager uproar all over
town that will not down TN this
years championship is won OF lost
for Gotham.