Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-25
WAR NOW WAGEO
ON THE GREAT
WHITE WAY
THOROUGHFARE
IS TOO BRILLIANT
Claimed Electric Signs Menace
City's Safety Extirpation Of
the Loan Shark Evil Is
Planned,
Especial Correspondence Morning Journal

Especial Correspondence Morning Journal
New York, Jan 22.-War Is about
to be waged on New York's pride and
JOY, The Great White Way that sec
ton of Broadway extending northward
from Heralu Square .or d dozen blocks
or more and comprising the citys prin-
cipal hotel. theater ana restaurant DIS
trict. It would be more accurate to
say that the war Is being directed
! against the characteristic feature Of
the world-famous street for the at
tack which is being made by the Mu-
nicipal Art society ON B~roadway's brill
liant illumination Is based on the fact
that il is too brilliant. According 10
the censors of municipal aifairs artis-
tic who compose the society, the huge
electric signs contributing to the glow
which turns night into something more
attractive than day in this part of the
city not only violate the dictates OF
the canons OF art but are a menace in
cast of fires and likely to be them
selves the cause Of serious confagra-
tons. It is pointed out that IN the re-
Herald Square theatcr fire the fire.
men We're hampered in their work by
the many wires feeding the big cleo
trio signs that covered the front OF the
building White the agitation that
fiti1 htth ~ wv 10 ih'fN -
some restriction in the size ana ar
rangement of electric signs 1t is high
" improbable that New Workers Will
submit to any change that will rob
the Great White Way of It's browning
glory or cause Broadway to be no
longer The street Of a million lights
The women who proclaim them
selves %suffragists and s~uffragettes and
alA. I,rA.- 1000 .r.v.~ AAft.4- l.rA ~
ing the past few mOnthms. under the
leadership of some Of the female agi-
tators imported from England, where
they have succeeded in making things
uncomfortable for members OF Par
liamcnt ana In providing extra labor
for the police. are no longer to have
things entirely their own way. Oppo-
sition to their plans has taken form
among other women who feel that the
position Of womankind generally on
the subject of the ballot is likely to
be- misunderstood as a result of the
Of the suffrage advocates. They
organized a movement in opposi-
zion to the suifragists' demands under
the name OF the National League for
the civic Education of Women with
such prominent women as Mrs. Grover
cleveland, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs.
lRichard Watson Glider, Mrs. Gilbert
-. JULIUS. AiIEt IiilAI liN'HAts W lRa
Eleanor q. Hcwet. Mrs. ROssiter John
Mrs. Hiram Sibley. AIRS. Dnvid II
Greer, wife of the bishop of New York.
Miss jeanette l.. Glider and Mrs
schuyler Van I%icnnsclacr among it's
officers, and are conducting an active
campaign through the medium of lee
ana pamphlets TO show That the
great majority OF women do not de-
sire TO vote and that they can accom-
.ft.t. ,afgrt4g sgrtuIIX ty,lI QYffRntft Tho !
This flank movement seems to {
somewhat dismayed the militant
of ballot box privileges ana
g rapidly enlisting The support OF
women who feel that their
.eN is being discredited by the per-
Of the sufragettc agitators.
Probing of the loan shark evil has |
lot stopped with the recent report OF J
Russell Sage foundation. which 2
hOwcd tnas In New YOrk as high at r
.755 per cent annum was charged by v
ne salary "a tribe In every part \
II the country the agitation against
evil is being taken up. lnforma-
secured by NJ. b. Wellington of
the Legal Aid society OF Chicago In
preparation for a national o~rganiza- r
ion equipped to pull part II not all Il
teeth 81 the loan sharks, shows n
hat one institution of a semi-philan- 4
rophic kind In Cincinnati, called the '
'~itizons' Mortgage Loan company. has +"
ucccssfully COPIED by competition with !
loan sharks The method adopted {
~ Massachusetts provides that an as
ignmcnt Of wages under S2OO to be
aid must have the consent OF the
vie. hut the loan shark has devised
n Ingenious plan to cvade that law I"
man comes into the loan company i'
...- en- H. an..aaf.u aAflN ~
or s212.9s. the S225 being 81 for b
the loan, authorized by .
and twenty-five cents for in !.
crest. also a legal rate bv statute. The y
orroucr also assigns his wafcs for .
21n. and the mount being oyer 5000. I,
oes not need tho consent OF his wife v
check IL then drawn on n bank. pay u