The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-07
Estimated It Will Be
 10000, 1000 in 1850,
WILL BE NATURAL INCREASE
City of Brooklyn Will Have
 100000. x,
The Queer Story Of Lawyers Stevens, Who Was Also Client and Witt ness-Dental Operation On
 Had Alligator's Tooth.

New York, March 6.-In a little more than one generation from the present day, that is in 1850, this city, accord ing to the figures of experts, will be not only the largest in the world but one which in population will surpass anything now dreamed of Engineers who have been compiling data in this connection assert that at the half ceE- tury mark New York will have pop twice the present population of the whole State.
 These figures are based on the growth for the last 119 years. that is, since 1790. In 1910 1t is estimated that the population will bs 4.S10,000. which will have increased to 100000 in 1920, to $500, 900 in 19JO, to 13.700,000 in 1s4o and finally to 1s:25o,000 in 1850. Of the five boroughs' which constitute the greater city, Brooklyn, 1t Is fig ured, will then be the largest with 7,- 900, 900, while Manhattan. the portion of !. the city below 125th street, will have 2,000. 900. or practically no more than at present. The Bronx, to the north of 125th street. will have 4.o0o.- 900; Queens to the eastward of Brook lyn 6,O00,00O, and Richmond, that is staten Island, 250,000. Where this to- tai population of 19,000.000 will carry on its business Is a good deal of problem, and Its transportation VIII necessitate the heneycombing of the whole area with subways and tunnels It appears probable indeed that the proposal now under consideration to install continuous moving platforms Tn the subways will have to be adopted. It is somewhat easier to figure where this enormous population will live nF fha engineers by whom the the figures have been com piled states that within the present limits of the greater city there are at present available 172,o00 acres of land, not including parks or swamp lands This area could accommodate the whole population at the rate Of a lit- tie more than one hundred to the acre. a figure (which while 1t might mean congestion in rural districts Is no. where near the limit for skyscraping apartment houses and flats.
 An Alligator's Teeth.
 TYnkering with the teeth of full grown alligator would seem to De about the last thing that a sane man would attempt. Neverth eless that was inst what was done at the Zoo this week when several dental surgeons got busy with the teeth of Bosco, a twelye-foo long and exceedingly say age alligator. The reason Tor treat ing Bosco was not because ne had toothache but because of his murder ous tendencies. Within the last two weeks he has killed five other alllga- tArs by sinking his teeth into theif brains through the soft spot which ex- ists in the skulls of these animals. Accordingly it was decided, not to draw hut to trim Bosco's teeth with which he had been so busily repaylng tbe erudee he has held against his whole tribe ever since Nose, com nanton bit off one of his legs some time ago. The first attempts to coriai Rosco were highly exciting and result ed in his knocking three keepers Into his pool with a blow of his tall. lie was finally lassoed, however, anu dragged struggling into the dentist chair. which in this case was an iron barred cage After he had been tickied with a twelve-foot crowbar he open ed his mouth so wide that piece or timber could be slipped h. Then he was bound securely on a~gang- pIahh with ropes two and one-haf inches thick, Taking hack saws the men De- gan to saw off his teeth twenty -foui saw blades were broken before the oop was finished, but Bosco finally went hack to the pool unable to continue ms career of murder. For those persons who have had experiences with dentists and who may have pity for poor Bosco' inc Curator of the Zoo says that there are no nerves in an alligators teeth and that there was no suffering.
 The vagaries of the law, its prac- tices and administration were Illus +ra+ed here this week In case WhlCLi so far as can be learned Is unique Tn tba history of the local bar one man, a local lawyer named Stevens, appear ed before jury in the triple capacity o| nlaintiff. attorney for the plaintir