The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11
NEW YORK'S CARPASSENGERS Each Day Over 4.000.-
 900 Ride. DEATH OF THE FROG He Was HOO Years of Age
 Then.
THEY LED IN THE WORK DEATH
Roosevelt's Double is Glad That the Former President is Away on
 Ills vacatfon--seme of His
 Experiences Are Related.
BY LONGACRE.

New York. April io.--From the first figures of the kind ever auth henticaiiy compiled. the fact has just been re- yealed that the number of persons who patrontxe the city's street car lines every day is practically equal to the whole population of New York, the number being more than 100000 car ried every twsnty-four hours.
 In tho course of a year figured on this basis. the local transportation. lines will carry 1.42s.s47.s40 persons or something like eighteen times the to- tai population of the entire United States. During the last three months of 1908. the time covered by the re- port of the Public ServiceA ComndIs- sion. Father Knickerbocker's bill sor street car fare amounted to the small sum of s1z7ss.0ss. or S5,es2.sss every month. Figured on this basis, the to- tai for the current year with no fn- crease over that of the last quarter of 1908 will be s71,1s2.so2. Expressed in nickels this means that 1is.sss.s5s of them Are taken in every month. and u423.S47,s+o every year--enough if laid edge to edge. to reach f2.0oo miles. or nearly half way around the earth. Piled one. on top of the other. they would make a column 1000 miles fin height, equal 10 10000 Washington, monuments placed one above the other. The different lines which share in this enormous total vary from the largest. with gross earnings of te.Tss.sss. to the smallest with si.s0. As the operating cost in this case was t1Ss. this line showed a deficit for the year of s151.1o. a freak statement in New York's mil iion-d dollar transportation bill.
 The AEed Eros.
 The eity's. oldest citizen. named Methuseiah. and aged HOO years. has just died. and as a result. the Zoo. where he resided. 10 in deep mourning. Der he was discovered by mining man in Montana in pocket or cavity in the rock 800 feet under ground. Me- thuselah was promptly sent to the local Zoo with affidavits relating to his discovery and geologists and na- turaiists decided that he was at least l,1O0 years old. practically LIHli or which time had been spent In his un- derground prison tn . cometoss state once he was installed in the zoo, aIter his long incarceration. Methuselah be- gan to develop tendencies not entirely In Keeping with his age and dignity. Ee had been occupying his new auar- ters for only . few weeks before he escaped one night and presumably went out looking for au afhnity. He must also have found her legal pro- tector, for when he returned next day he had lost one eye and was consid- erably frayed about the edges. While he was old enough to have profited by inc lesson, he did not do 50. and a few months later went a-wooin9 again
 He returned badly battered up ana from that time to the day of his deatn he never ventured forth again. The last experience seemed to prey on his mind, bringing home the fact that he was not as young as he used to be- At any rate, he steadfastly refused all food. even the choicest flies, and with all the friends of his childhood gone. gave up the struggle and passed into history and alcohol--in the latter Of which at least he will be preserved. His place will be taken in part by new what Is it. an animal which looks like 6 monkey, news and splits like A cat and eats bugs. ofncially this freak is classified as slow lenaur--a rare member of the monkey family and the first of it's kind ever brought to this country.
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