The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14
NEW CRAZE HAS
 HIT NEW YORK It is to Make New Jump
 ing Record. RECORD NOW SEVEN NILES But This Was Made With 2
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 New York. reb.1s.-Ths longest jump, CT rather series of jumps, ever made aggregating s5.260 feet or trife Isss than seven miles, may take place here next June. Furthermores thls remark able Jumping feat will not De In distance, but in height. in which class the record is now less than six feet and one-half. The proposed jump, therefore, win exceed the existing
 mark some Eve thousand fold. This
 remarkable jump. if it really takes uiace. land all that is lacking is the consent or the proper authoritiesl
 will not occur as a part of any athletic
 games but in connection with me opening of the new HlRckweiPs Island Bridge over the Bast River, on June lz
 A mania for jumping on this prso9e
 at It's opening seeIne to have seized New York since no less than s3b per sons have alfeady made application for perfnisslon to make the jump Into the river at tho opening oeremoHles' An fhA clear space between the bridge ana the surface ok the river Is leV feet the total length of a1i the jumps would sk,ase feet. The elaseiaeaeion of the zss perscna who have expressed | a dessra .sS make this jump at she carnival ln connection with the cpen- AH& OK kH8. Dk3&81. ESNS&fD rSttsSk - interesting 0gures. One hundred end afxty-aight of the applicants are pro- fessIonal jumpers and divers. looking I for free advertising. thtfty-1onr gre freaks twenty-four are perena whose | only avocation is jumping whenever and wherever the opportunity onsrs while nine desire simply to commit suicide. Thirty of the applicants are women, whose ages range between l eighteen and thirty-two. So lar ae l the committee In charge Of the bridge | opening has not become enthusiastic over these applications and tt is p9ss. 1 lhYa 4ha4 nii may be denied and New | York deprivsd of e spectacle resem' bling human snow sLorm.
 < TmfAoEm Are Tare&.
 Hereafter the taiior's bill Is Co take l it's place on an equal footing wish ths coal bill, the grocer's accounts and the
 butchers charge as obliEauons that must be met with reasonable prompt ness. That at least was the dectston of the Merchant Tailors' National Ex- change representing leading islerphant | taiIoYs In all parts of the country at itn annual convention here this week. | The tailcrs declare that many men, even among those of. wealth and busi- nsss prominence. have madS ie their habit to lot their accounts with their Gailors run for months or even years although they could not think of do- | ing this in the case of any other neces- gity Ithat they might purchase. Even | the comic papers. they complain, have made jokes of the way in which trust | ing tailorn are "ntung' by delinquent l cuatomere. To put their bugineas on au equality with other important in- dustries in this respect the national or- ganization of the es-bullders has | estahlished au extensiva credit bureau which will make 8 business Of seour- | ing the prompt collection of the bills | Of it's uaembera and their protection | from professional ''beets~ of whom it
 is said that there are several thousand | in the country. These men make # 2
 practice 10 change the scene of ehetr 1 activities frequently. running up heavy l bflis in each place they vigit. Hence
 forth their operations will be restrict
 cd. iS not stopped entirely. by the fact
 that the taiiors credit ~bureau will warn ! it's member ag&inet them. Now that the taiiors have adopted the mathods of commercial age about the only re- maininw victims Of the man who dis
 likes to pay bills apparently are the
 doctor and the minister.
 semSanw 0ut Chinese.
 The most wholesale deportation of Chinese ever attempted will take place 1 this week when the largest and at the aaIna time the most curious passenger 1 list in the history of this port will become a matter of record with the sailing of a British steamer for the Far East In point of numbers there | will be 5000 of these passengers. far
 more than the largest boat now afioat can aecomEnodate Tn point of euriosi-
 ty the passengers are probably in their entirety the strangest cargo which has ever left any port. Not one of the e.- | 900 will either eat or occupy cabin or l akearaRe place. since each and<aif of | them are dead. Some indeed have been
 dead for several years. and all Of the
 900 gre ChinAnien whose remains are being taken back to their native land | for final interment even though some of them have been buried here for so long that only a few bones remain. Every few yearaI shipment Of this
 sort is made as a result Of the belIet I current among Chinamen that 10 gain l f,lture peace they must be. buried with their fovefafhers. As a result parts ol kthis strange cargo have been arriving I in New York for weeks from every | part of the country east of the MiBsis' sippi river. The 5000 silent passsn- aers gre packed between decks. anu will be transported without trouble unless some of the Chinese sailors be- come excited about ghosts. Friendi and relatives will meet the steamer oE its arrival in China. in much the samt manner as though it's passengers were alive and each body will be taken by them to that spot in the Empire where
 its ancestors lie.
 Hare aRG Tsftosses