The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-18
TAMMANY HALL AT BAY
SELDOM HAS TIGER BEEN so HkEtD
 PRESSED.
Millions of Dollars ana eashousands of Men Thrown Into New York's Municipal Cainpaign-Too
 Many Holidays.

New York Oct. 17.-6Special )-By far ths hottest campaign that has con- yuised Gotham since the days of Dew fery and the ''red light' crusade. is just getting into full swing in this city today. Seldom has 4Tammany Hall, in all its stormy history. been driven to defend itself at bay as savagely as the fighting forces of the Wigwam are now beginning to repel the solid array of the anti-Tammany phalanx.
 Millions of dollars and thousands of men are today actively at work in this death struggle for the mastery of the richest city prize in the world, and the next fortnight will see the town campaigned as 1t has never been in all the annals of politics here. Tons of literature, squads of speakers and whole acres of posters are already star Ing New Workers in the face at every turn of town, while the nights are filled with the swift rush of the candidates from end to end of the island. With Hearst in the field and Tammany fight ing for its very life blood, neither com edy nor tragedy will be lacking in this record battle for ballots.
 Heaps of Holidays.
 Struggling to make up for the en- forced holidays of the past celebra- ton weeks, the employers of this town were sorely yexed over the new "Co- lumbus Day" that crept into the cal endar last week for the first time in history. Eighty-six solid days of rec reation are each year supplied to the workers here in ordinary, holiday, Sum day and Saturday doses, wage payers declare, while, with the regular sum mer vacation of two weeks more. ev- cry employe has always had round hundred days of leisure.
 With considerably more than a quar- ter of the whole year devoted to recre- ation already, the men who must close down for legal holidays are taking the new day for Columbus celebrations with a very bad grace. That 1O1 days of likeness in every 365 Is too many, is not the verdict of the general public, however, for the wage earners out here.
 Barren BIeachers.
 After spending more than a million dollars to flock by the turnstiles to the baseball grounds here. the people of New York are today JNt waking to the fact that the national sport Is ended and the strange pigskin gods of football are calling for their following. For the thousands of night workers in the metropolis who scarcely miss a dozen league games In all the six months of play there is coming a sad awakening to the fact that the Giants, ,' 'Yanks"~ and all their visiting crews of play fellows are now to be put in cold storage till the green of the dia- springs sun. Though neither band of the baseball battlers from Gotham has won its way very near to champion ship honors in the season that Is being respectfully closed, the popular inter est in the great American game has not Tagged one whit. There are class es. races, creeds and colors by the score that divide the people of this metropolis; but on the baseball bench- es they sit and root as one man.
 Plaster Puzzle.
 About several tons of plaster slapped into some semblance of a statue. the eav crowds of Longacre Square In the lobster belt are this week gaping with somewhat more interest than they usu- ally show over a cabman's fight or a raid. Someone, for some reason. has somehow placed this thing of start ling size and symmetry in the vortex of the Great White Way. and the pub lie has been left to puzzle out the an- swer Beyond the fact that this pyra- mid of plaster Is intended to represent a woman, with some sort of an alle- Rory about poor, slandered New York, no one has been able to learn the why or wherefore of It's existence. As the greatest joke that Gotham has enjoyed in generations, the weird plaster pile is proving a huge success though 1t Is hinted that someone may have intend ed something serious in foisting 1t upon the public eye.
 Squads of Singers.
 Like homing swallows. the songblrds of the grand opera stage are hocklng from the incoming steamers this week to nests nicely lined with the green backs of the prospective patrons of the forthcoming season. Seldom has this city seen so many and so high saia- ried a crowd of stars consigned to this port to fil the cast of the winters op- eras. If this early influx of talent is any indication. Gotham will enjoy through the coming cold months a great abundance of this costly enter tainments