The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17

. hnnch but it also furnished one of tho most valuable fsh on record, elnce Color hgures that his catch of ssinkle denizen of the deep was worth &z00v. He has had the ish stuffed and pasted above 1t the torn bit of paper which gave him the hunch.
 In spite of the fact that. 1t has been repeatedly aaid that there are no new issues in politics, the present campaign in this city has furnished the excep- ton to the rule since for the nrst tune on record automobiles are causing aii sorts. of campaign diseussions. This IS due to the fact. which ha: been recent ly brought to light, that 1t cost Father Knicherbocker 9sas.ooo last year for the up-keep of the 100 machines in use In his various department4 Since the average price of these cars was about g. 100. there has already been all sorts = discussion as to why 1t should cost e3,1O0 year. or about 1i0 per cent of their original cost to maintain them in running order. All sorts of accusations as to graft, municipal joy rides and the like have been made already and so fierce h the light growing that politi- cal events this fall may yet be charac- terixed as happening in the year of the automobile campaign.
 An Elephant Financier.
 While New York has long been fla nous for the number and methods of It's financiers, never until this week has an elephant entered the charmed circle of high finance. Hereafter. however, Congo. one of the elephants at the Bronx Zoo. will have to be included in the list which contains such mighty names e Morgan and Rockefeller. Of course Congo's operations do not run into millions. but he has the theory. ance he is able to get the public's money without working and without putting in any capital himself It was something like year ago that Congo's financial experience began, when his keeper placed . bank in his cage. and taught the animal to beg coins from visitors and to deposit them in the bank. Ever since then he has been fa- nous for this accomplishment and the sums which daily were deposited in his hank have grown to considerable pro- portions. His share of the reward has been an occasional plate Of ice cream and he soon learned the purchasing power of money. Apparently. however, Congo figured that the deposits in the bank belonged to him and not to his keeper, and as other persons have done in the past, he decided to appropriate them for his own use. When his keep CT went to his supper the night before last he emptfed Congo's bank of It's contents, according to his custom. On his return to the animal he chanced on four urchins. with a half-flled bag of green applies. squabbiing over the di- vision of so cents. His suspicious aroused he hurried to the elephants cage to find his charge suffering from pain In his stomach. It was ex- piained to the bewildered keeper that | rknr~ yor ba d ta& &r, at the cage and that as often as they gave Congo an apple he gave them in turn a coin. Although the keeper had emptied the bank. before leaving. Con- go had succeeded in getting several de- posftors during his absence. Instead of putting the money in the bank as here tofore, however Congo had apparently decided to Invest it all for himself Whether the resultant stomach ache will deter him from similar specuia- tons in the future remains to be seen. He has plainly, however. learned the ways of high finance. and at cost considerably less than that paid by hu- man beings, attempting similar prac- tfces.
 A new record in elevator travel was established here this week when with in seven days six cars in single build ing tota1ied 900,000 passenger miles Expressed in other terms this means that had all the trips during the week been confined to single passenger in one car he would have travelled dis fance equal to thirty-six times the cir conference of the earth. and in a length of time which would have put J11les yerne's hero in the shade. The record was made by. the six cars which run to the top of the Metropolitan tower. Each. car avenged twenty five n,fIea dafIv and carried f. GOO passefa- gers or 25.000 passengers miles per ear. There are nearly four miles of cable in the six elevator shafts which are 5s5 feet in height. s.ss -.s..,s.s.s
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