The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13
NEW YORK
 IS CROWDED Yet Baltimore IS More Thickly Settled. TIE SKYScRAPER SECTION The New Plan to American
 Saloons. Museum Goes ont Probing For white whale Which is Badly Needed-The Government
 Has Turned Matri-
 moniaI Agent.
BY LoNGARCE

New York. June 12-Twenty years from now the ground area of lower New York will not afford even standing room for it's occupants. The conges- ton of population in that part or tnls city know as Manhattan covering the site of the original settlement extend ing from the battery northWaru 10 the Harlem River. has already become so dense that were the whole of 1t to die at once the territory in which 1t iiVes and works would not afford suincleht space for dts burial The population per acre of Manhattan is now 10 which is more than five times that or any other city in the country.
 Were this population housed in one story buildings the average amount or ground per person would pc a pot sixteen feet square. But as the aver age height of buildings in this terri tory is practically eight stories, the average size of the ground per inhaoi- tant is the incredibly small area of thir- tv-tWo square feet plot four rect py eight In spite of this congesQon' however. greater New York as distln- guished from Manhattan IS not e ne most densely populated city in the country. That title belongs to Balti- more with 29 per acre, while greater New York with 20 per acre comes after Milwaukee with 2S and St. Louis with 22. How rapidly the cohBestioh in MannaIIa0 may DS C8POShCo hO crease Is indicated by the values or its real estate In this respect two new records were set last week. The first established a new high record Tor Fifth Avenue property lot havins been sold at price amounting 10 so4' 900 a front foot, or $270 square Ioot A value considerably larger than that represented by an equal area covered with fifty dollar bills. Only forty years ago this same property sold for one-twentieth of this price. The sec ond record came as the result Of the leasing of piece of uptown property for 14S year. From these two factors ii is evident that the desire to snap up property for long terms together with It's rapidly increasing value, soon reduce the average amount of ground per fnhabitant to less than the space necessary for standing room.
 New Liquor Remedy.
 An interesting plan intended as a stop toward the solution of the liquor problem may shortly be tried here It will consist of a series of cafes or ganized on the model of the famous German beer gardens where only malt liquors and light wines will be Ssold. There are at present a number Of places in New York, especially in those sections where the German element predominates among the population where this class of drinks makes up four-if of all the sales, but even in these establishments other liquors are kept in stock and are served to customers who may order them. The new proposal which comes from in- vestigators who have been studying the question of the saloon in its rela- ton to social conditions seeks to sep arate the dispensing of alcoholic bev- erages into two distinct branches on the theory that most of the disorder and the evil conditions charged against saloons arise from the consumption of s'hard" liquors. The liquor dealers