Arizona republican., 1910-10-16
NEW YORK PLANS FOR
 TWENTY-FIVE MILLION
Experts Figure that Gotham's PopuIa. ton In Forty Years Will Exceed that of the United States in 1s5o-other Interesting
 Subjects.

New York. Oct. 10.-(Special corres- pondence to The Republican. )-As a
 result of the first steps in the organ iZation in this city of the "25, ,000 900 in 1850 Club" New York expects soon
 to embark on the most studenduous
 plan of municipal development ever conceived. In spite of the fact that this city with nearly 5,O00,000 popula-
 ton has still to concede first place to London, it is figured by experts that before another decade Is ended the
 order will be reversed and the great ! est city which the world has ever
 known started on the way toward a population which in forty years will exceed the total population of the whole United States in 1850. While the present area of the city would | accommodate 25,000,000 persons at the rate of only S3 to the acre, while
 many acres are now occupied by 2,000 persons and some by 5000 and 4,000 it is already realized that a proper distribution of the population will be one of the most difficult problems in the future. As a result of this has come the incentive to the organiZa- tion of the 25,000 900 club. That this figure is borne out by actual cond- tiOns is shown by the fact that nearly $200,000,000 has already been spent this year in new buildings Practically all of them, whether office structures apartment houses of tenaments. are of the sky -scraping order which lends color to the statement that twenty years from now the only buildings of I.- T.. the residences of multi -millionaires That a large number of this class will live far above the ground is evidenced by the erection of an apartment house in which the cheapest suite will rent for s25, 900 a year. Likewise the high est club quarters in the world are nearing completion on the twenty ninth stories of another sky-scraper. If the flying machine becomes a com mercial success before 1850. 1t is in deed probable that a large part of the predicted 25,000,000 inhabitants of the city will never set foot on the ground.
 A regular tidal wave of virtue seems to be overwhelming Father Knicker
 booker and if things keep on as they are going next New Years day will find him with very few sins of any great magnitude to swear off. Race track gambling, for which he has long been condemned, has been done away with and now comes the word that gambling of all other kinds is to cease by the first of the year. While the great majority of visitors to New York may not realize 1t, the fact re- mains that the opportunities for gambling on any kind of a game of chance have for decades far exceeded those of any fabled mining camp. More than one thousand resorts in this city, it is reported on good au- thority, are given over to every sort of game which affords an opportunity for separating a victim from his mon- ey. Now, however, conditions are to change and as a result of the activi- ties of the grand jury and the district attorney, gambling houseowners have seen a great while light It is re- ported that as a result of the confer ences which have been going on In which the biggest gamblers have taken part that these men will voluntarily close their establishments before the end of the year and depart to other fields. Should this end be. achieved as now seems probable, New York will for the first time in a century be rid of any form of gambling except of course, that which goes on in Wall Street.
 Although no bills have yet been rem dered there seems to be considerable speculation as to the source from
 which the money will come to pay off the medical attention which Mayor Gaynor received as a result of his
 shooting It is pretty generally un- derstood that the, figure covering all
 expenses, including hospital, physi- clans and nurses charges will amount to at least $25,OOO. But whether the bills will go to Mayor Gaynor or to