Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-20
UNITED STATES TO ANNEX NEW
YORK
Aoohshn1ent Of Hudson Announced
FISHING in Observation-Disclosures
Frauds Worry Police Force.

Establishment Of Hudson Announced
Fishing in Observation-Disclosures
Frauds Worry Police Force.
New York, Sept. 19-Just three
hundred years after it's discovery the
city of New York is to become a part
OF the mainland of the United States
and the celebration of the three hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery OF
the Hudson River, which is to take
place at. the end of this month, will
also mark the elimination of that river
from the local transportation man.
For it is now definitely announced
that passengers from the west AMI
from Long Island will be able to reach
the heart of New York by an all-rAl
route before the first of the year asta
result OF the opening of the under.
river tunnels within the next few
months. In consequence the river on
which the first steamboat was run by
Robert Fulton, one hundred years ago,
and which has been crossed by hun
dreds of millions of travellers by
steamboats, every year since then. will
soon cease to be a line of passenger
travel. In word, Manhattan after
three hundred years as an island is
soon to be annexed, physically. to the
rest OF the country, and the great cele-
bration in honor of Henry Hudson and
his discovery of the river which bears
his name will also commemorate the
passing of the river. Trains will be
running through the tunnels, it is
stated, by December 1, and within
| few months of that date it is expected
that the under river service will be
handling nearly half a million pas
sengers day in the new terminal IF
the pennsylvania and Long Island
railroads, leaving the picturesque
Hudson River practically deserted
Within this station, which will be ia
| feet in length and 433 feet in width.
will be more than sixteen miles of
| tracks lying in layers varying in depth
below the street level from 80 to So
feet. The concourse alone is $40 feet
long, and 210 feet wide, and altogether
the structure will furnish a most re-
markable monument in memory of the
passing of the river, the 30Oth anniver-
sary of whose discovery is to be so
royalty celebrated by this city in a
few days.
Good and bad boys went fishing in
Harlem last Sunday. They didn't even
go to the river, but fished in a roaring
torrent of water pouring down Man
haitian Avenue from two hydrants
| which had been opened for flushing
purposes. Hardly had the stream be-
gun flowing before it was seen to be
full of fish, from an inch to ten inches
in 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 a
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 began to join in
| the sport One man caught eleven
which he afterward ate for supper. and
a little boy got fourteen. The fish
were mostly bass with some sunfish
among them, and their appearance ac-
counted 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
Croton without fishy additions. 1t
| seems to be up to the Water Depart
ment to explain whether it is running
an aqueduct or an aquarium.
There is always something the
trouble with the police. Just now it
| is the discovery that perhaps two
thousand of them are non-naturalized
| foreigners who are said to have OBJ
tanned their citizenship papers by
| fraud-and fraud so extensive that it
| is supposed to be the work of a big
| well-organized gang. who have been
making regular business of forging
certificates and making Americans out
of aliens by scores at a time. Fire
men and street cleaners are likewise
reported to be involved, and besides
municipal employees thousands Of
foreigners all over the city are as
serted to possess false papers. At
present nobody seems to know who is
responsible for all this, though the
secret service officers are thought to
have information that will cause some
revelations whenever it is acted upon.
| If the proportion of frauds found in
| the first hundred names on the police
| rolls hold good to the end, at least 20
per cent. of the force will 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 in
corporated here the laudable purposes
of which is ito make everybody
happy" And that it strives to bring
happiness within the reach of even the
least endowed financially is shown by
the fact that membership costs only
twenty five cents a year. The objects
OF the Harmony Club, as the new as
ISOLATION is called, are set forth in it's
incorporation papers as being, ito
harmonic people with themselves
their surroundings and each other; to
prove the value of a smile and song in