New-York tribune., 1909-08-29

met with accident after he had gene about
thirty miles from the starting point. and chose
return. He says he will try again. Wilbur Wright
has promised 20 make flight in his biplane IN this
city In connection with the Hudson-Fulton annivsr
sary.
III Fulton and Hudson could only see that - ex-
claimed Busy Man. Anything startling from the
people who vet affect that contraption which will
soon only be used by the slow and the timid-I
mean the automObileT'
''They Killed one man and hurt several others at
the Brighton Beach racetrack. and they wound up
the speed carnival the new course AZ Indiansp-
oils" replied Constant Reader by killing three
persons In addition to the four told you Of last
Saturday. Two spectators among the last
batch Of victims
Until all these speed maniscs take To flying"
said Busy Man "it would seem as n the safest
spot from which 20 view automobile contest
would be the deck Of airsnip. ANY more people
oeen killed In the McKees Rocks strike against the
Pressed Steel Car Company
Al least five weEe shot 10 death in one night
between strikers and state constabusry.'' replied
Constant Reader and the Department OF Justice
AZ Washington began an investigation of charges
of peoraEe which had been made against the s,eoI
company on behalf Of some OF tho strike brea <ers
Charges Of cruelty on the part - officials toward
inmates Of the House Of RefuEe on Randaiis
Island were sustained. after Investigation hv Gov
eTnor Hughes More than ore hundred vp,,nr --s,,
and boys arrested fer roNGyfs,, in tns sub
ways and elevated trains and more than s,,,rA
of them were sentenced 10 terms ui tho Wa.. h.se
on Backwells Island Il estimated that oS-
Ing TO the tardiness in building new public schools
which has characterized Msyor McCleIlan's adnlin-
istration than Sc 900 chIldren viii be ,bia "a
get only part-tme instruction in the approaching
fall and winter"
only a great city could have sixty-six thousand
children more than there were seats for" said
Busy Man, "and great city ought 10 he ashamed
Of IT,"
THE number of school children increases b,,
about seventy-five thousand each year resumed
Constant Reader, land Controller Metz predicted
that our total population would exceed six MILL
ions by 1920 The Tax Board published figures
showing that IL will collect upon total assessment
for real and personal property of over st. 900 0 600
this year. Compilers of Chicago's new city di
rectory estimated her population at 24576Oe The
Mikado of Japan offered Father Knickerbocker
three hundred cherry trees. TO be planted I'm our
parks"
Does he think we raise little George Washing
tons in schOols?" queried Busy Man What
has been heard from Theodore RooseveltY'
Mr. Roosevelt reported have shot an
elephant near Kenya, in the British East African
Protectorate."
81 thought the Republican party had done so
much for T. r. that he could find IL in his heart
to shoot elephant" grunted Busy Man. How
about Mr.. Taft?"
THE President asked the Interior Department
to furnish him with fun record OF the case in
voving the coal lands IN Alaska. concerning which
II Is charged that questionable methods have been
pursued by certain department officials. He let
the War Department know that he did not want
the army 10 exceed eighty thousand men, all told
some criticism Is ahoat that the army is being
used for money making purposes by promoters of
country fairs and the like who able TO get