The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-18
UNCLE SAM TO
ANNEX NEW YORK
Practical Adjustment of Hud.
son River Announced Tor
This Year.
GOOD FISHING IN THE.5.TY
UNIQUE ASSOCIATION FORMED
TO MAKE ALL HAPPY.

New YORK. Sept I-.-y.s- ..- years
after its discovery, the city of New
York is 10 become a part of the main
land of the United States, and the Cele-
bratiUn of the three hundredth auniver-
sary of the discovery of the Hudson
river, which is to take place at the end
of this month, will also mark the elm
ination of that river from the local
transportation map. For it is now def
nitely announced that passengers from
the west and from Long island win be
able TO reach the heart of New York
by an ali-Tail rtute before the first of
the year as a. result of the opening of
the undeT-TiVeT tunnels within the next
few months. In consequence, the river
ON which the first SteaWb0dSt was run
by Robert Fulton 100 years ago, and
which has been crossed by hundreds of
millions of travellers by steamboats, eV-
cry year since then, viii soon cease to
be a line of passenger travel in q word,
Manhattan, after 300 wears as am island,
is soon to be annexed, physically, to the
rest of the country, and the great cele-
bration i'm honor of Henry Hudson and
his discovery of the river which bears
his name. viii also commemorate the
passing of the river. Trains will be
running through the tunnels il Is stated,
by Dec ]. and within a few months of
that date it Is expected that the under
river service viii be handling nearly
half million passengers a day i'm the
new terminal of the Pennsylvania and
Long Island railroads, leaving the pic
tuTeSque Hudson river practically de-
serted. Within this station, which viii
be IA feet IN length and ABB feet i'm
width, viii be more than sixteen miles
Of tracks lying i'm layers verying I'm
depth below the street level from thir-
ty-nine to tfty-eight feet. The con-
course alone is $40 feet long, and 21O feet
wide. and altogether the structure will
furnish a most remarkable monument i'm
memory of the passing of the river. the
three hundTedth anniversary of whose
discovery is To be so royalty celebrated
by this city I'm a few days
Good Fishing.
Good and had boys went fishing i'm
Harlem last Sunday. They didn't even
go TO the river HGt hshed in a roaring
torrent of water pouring down Manhat-
tan avenue from two hydrauts which
had been opened for flushing purposes.
Hardly had the stream begun flowing
before it was seen 10 he full of fish,
from an inch to ten inches i'm length.
and 'all alive, o." The news of this
pisCatOrial prodigy rapidly spread, and
scores Of boys and girls came running
from all directions TO share the spoil.
They cared not d straw for their Sunday
clothes, but plunged into the rushing
waters and scooped out the fish by the
dozen. Both the open hydrants kept
belching out fish, and older people be
gan to join i'm the sport. One man
caught eleven, which he afterward ate
for supper, and a little boy got four
teen. The fish were mostly bass. with
some sunfish among them. and their APP
pearance accounted for the unpleasant
taste the water has had for some time
past, People enjoyed the fun more than
they did the reflections TO which it gave
rise for on the whole one prefers his
Cr0ton without fshy additions. 1t seems
to be up to the water department to ex,
plain whether it Is running an aqueduct
OF an aquarium.
Trouble With Police.
There is always something the trou-
bic with the police Just now il is the
discovery that perhaps 1000 of them
are non-natUralized foreigners who are
said to have obtained their citizenship
papers by fTaud-and fraud so extern
sive that it is supposed To be the work
of a big well-organized gang, who have
been making a regular business of forg-
ing certificates and making Americans
men and street cleaners are likewise re-
ported to be involved, and besides mu-
nicipal employees thousands Of foreign
ers all over the city are asserted to pos
sess false papers. At present nobody
seems to know who Is responsible for
all this, though the secret service Off
GERS are thought to have information
that viii cause some revelations when
ever it is acted upon. If the proportion
of frauds found I'm the first hundred
names on the police rolls hold good to
the end, at least 20 per cent of the force
viii be found disqualified; but as yet
this is not proved. But certainly after
this it will do no harm TO follow the old
wartime principle-"put none but
Americans on guard"
An organization has just been incor- /
porated here, the laudable purpose Of
which is Ito make everybody happy"
And that e strives to bring happiness