Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-09-04

me railroad is comparatively simple.
and the disposal of rainfall amount
ing in a year to a quantity equal TO n
good-si2ed lake is m engineering pro-
blem which is giving all sorts of diff
ticulty, The existing sewer systems OF
an the five b~oroughs, which consti-
tute Greater New york. are at pres
ent greatly oVertaxed. The plans from
which they were built were based on
formulas in vogue forty or fifty years
ago, These early formulas make pro-
vision for rainfall At a maximum rate
of an inch an hour. 1t frequently hap
pens today hat three inches OF rain
will fan in IN hour. and as a result
the city engineers are faced with the
necessity of providing storm eve ac-
commodations capable Of caring for
a flow as large as that of many naNi-
gable streams. Paradoxical as it may
sound the city today is spending hun
dreds of millions of dollars to get wa
ter by its new aqueduct supply sys-
tenn and is faced with the necessity of
spending an almost equally large
amount to get water out of the city.
Loud walls Of protest over the man
ner in which the new customs rules
at this port are being enforced are
heard with the arrival of practically
every steamer from abroad. C%uriouSly
enough the officers of the great ocean
liners seem to have felt the burden
most heavily and the recent expert
VnCes of some of them have stirred
up all sorts of criticism. Many of the
experiences under the new rules are
remarkable, such for instance as that
of Captain Turner of n of the larg-
est transatlantic craft. ON the last
arrival OF his vessel here. the captain
was accompanied by his fourteen year
old niece, who, as she went ashore
with the captain was ntbbling a cake
of chocolate which she carried in her
hand. on reaching the gate at the end
of the dock the pair were stopped by
a customs Watchman ana informed
that the chocolate could not be taken
ashore unless duty was paid. The
half-eaten cake was confiscated and
the captain returned to his ship VOW
ing vengeance Just what became Of
the chocolate appears to be uncertain.
In another instance as the home com
crs were leaving their vessel a Gust
oms officer saw what he though to
be a new white silk handkerchief
sticking out of a passengers coat
pocket. and it was not until the owner
had returned to the customs desk and
paid duty on the article in question
that he was allowed to bring it ashore.
ON the same day the second officer
of a steamer which had Just dockcd
started for a short stroll ashore With
a light overcoat thrown over his arm.
He. too, was stopped ana told that he
would have to pay duty on the Goa or
leave it behind. The matter would
have ended in blows had not a friend
informed the officer that if he put the
oVercoat on the customs people could
not Interfere with him. such proved
to be the case and so the coat went
ashore. The lot of the returning ocean
passenger has never been a happy one,
but the new customs regulations re-
sulting in such cases as these would
seem to indicate that it is now to be
even more productive Of trouble.
The real cost Of dental work, as re-
vealed at a hearing before the state
board of charities, is calculated to
make people think that their legs as
wen as their teeth are pulled when
they sit in the chair. The Manhattan
Od|ontological society was asking for
authority to start a ~dispensary which
should charge an average of only 20
cents a treatment, including Filings,