Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-09

present remarkable features of deCora-
ton ami illumination There may be
Il limit 90 thc multiplication of public
dining facilities required by New York,
but there is no indication that it is
likely to be rta chcd for many years to
come.
The question OF air franchises, a term
now unknown, is likely in the near tu
turc to become one of serious impor-
tancc not only To this city but the
whole United states, and one which
win eventually have to be settled by
the SUPREME Court of the United
States The matter has not to do with
slyscrapcrs as might be expected, but
viii the fast approaching realization Of
the practical air ship. Neither has it
to do with the rules of the road for
such craft but with the much mor@
scri"ds Fundamental problem of theit
right to fly over the land of any OBJ
jctting person. Indeed the old expires
sion free as the air. would seem -
need rcmodeling. for investigation
show; that tho air is not free at.all-at
least no; for airshipS. Under both tn =
old Roman and The English commo /
law, upon which Our code is founded.
an owners title to his property Is con
coded to extend from the center of TIL"
earth to the infinite heavens. S1lcr
being the case man has no more right
to llv over the land owned by anOthcr
persons than he has to dig tunnel
under it. The right To travel over a
city in an acropiare would appar' Mt =
seem to be as taxable as the right >
run an automobile on its street.
Similarly the operation of q line of aii .
ships would seem to be subject to 4
air franchise ar charter as is that OF /
street car linz. The coming of IT, i
airship will bring up other equal d
complicated problems most of them IL
volving the need of air POLICE. WIZ =
out such an agency smuggling woul
become simple, while immigration LAW ;
would he only dead letter. AltC-
gather the development OF air cr'h .
promises to bring up some very Dell
cate problems. and also TO establish IN >
commercial value of air.
The actual deportation Of allen sili
victims OF the International traffic II
"whitc slaves" reccntle exposed b
United States District Attorney EdWll
w. Sims in Chicago. has given imml-
grafton 1UluOTltiGS tl New VI n Gil 80
sight into the condition which Nh
Sims found so appalling that he began
a campaign against them IN the
Chicago magazine, Woman's World
Yourg Immigrant women, if unaccom-
panied, are constantly made the pre-
of procurers who. it seems. are con
stantly hunting for girl victims, hunt
ing them at docks. railway stations
and trains search is being made FOR
five Frenchmen who are said to have
acted as agents of others in France
who carry on the villainous traffic IN
girls. selling their victims into slavery
worse than death AS result OF the
stir created by the Womans World
articles by MIR Sims. followed by the
references TO the traffic made by Secre-
tarv Straus of the Department of Com
merce and Labor. the vigilance of the
immigration officers has been re-
doubled. The case of Alphonse ana
Eva Defour, who escaped to France
from here, shows the profits which
have been made by the procurers. Tor
they forfeited a $4,000 bond In
Chicago. The Dufours, the Duvals. the
Michels and the LARS have been work.
ing together, according to the state