Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-13

l
 , get Committee of the Board of Est
 mate has completed it's computation
 ot the amount of money it will talk to run the City Government of Great l CT New York during the next year The total is s171,505.7S7 an increase of more than SS,000, 900 over the buds J ct for the current year. This admin istration expenditure, which, in al probability, will be increased by ;
 trifle of about s50.000, before the ias word has been said, is many time.
 larger than that of any State in thu Union and greater than the total buds l cts of many foreign countries. Int I increase is practically accounted fol ! by two items, the amount required i to take care of the indebtedness o' | the city and the sum required tt
 make up the tax collection deficiency ! Next year it will cost the city $50 1 600.ooo to carry its enormous debt quite a respectable sum, which giyel
 fairly good Idea of the gigantic | sca,e upon which the City of New | York conducts its affairs One hun
 dred and seventy-One nnd one-hali million dollars Is a large sum. but II Is merely a small matter compared with the total of the sums which the chiefs of the different City de partments estimated as necessary for running their respective depart ments.
 The police department of New York. under it's new head has begun a process of purifying and civilizing Ch.sl-sewn. that picturesque, but crime-infected quarter in the Bowery district, which has heretofore given so much trouble to the authorities. The d amond denizens of that quarter, which for many years has been one of the great attractions for visiting siaht-seers, are a peculiar lot. Like all Orientals they are very uncommunicative and exclusive and scarcely anything about their doings and affairs ever reaches the outside world. At one time peaceful and harmless, they become extremely pugnacious at other times and their mysterious Tong wars are carried on with the reientlessness and bitter ness Of a Sicil.an or Kentuckian feud In recent years reyolvers have become favorite weapons of execution of the feudists. supplanting the knfe and hatchet of former days. But, unS fortunately the Chinese are excruci- atingly poor marksmen and nearly every time slime unpleasan1ness broke out between the tongs. the in discriminate use of rovolvers demand ed one or more innocent victims wh had nothing whatever to do with the feud. Attempts. to patch up the diff ferences between the hostle tongs proved futile and the authorities came to the conc usion that the only manner to protect the lives of inno- cent outsiders was to keep them out of Chinatown. It seems that the com panies which are running their tourist cars' to Chinatown hay been responsible for a great deal Of the trouble in Chinatown and also for much of tke vice in the quarter and they have been warned by the police authorities to refain from
 nedd ing with the affairs of the Gel estials.
 The owners of real estate in the lower part of Manhattan Island are mildly amused but by no means worried by the news that a man in etary rights in a plot of about twenty-four city blocks in the neigh borhood of Wal Street, between Broadway and the North River. The claimants is said to be the heir or one of the heirs of one Robert Ed wards. who settled in Manhattan Island in colonial days and purchas ed the land now claimed by his de | cendent The land in question, having ! an area of about s1Tty-five acres, 1, | valued by the claimant at $56, 900 900
 Lawyers are now engaged. investi
 gating the claims of the New Zea
 lander. who seems to have only the haziest idea Of the boundaries of ths | property claimed by him.
 The officers and the crew of tht
 Atlantic Transport liner Minnewask; | tAiC otuC
 day after a stormy passage, had ;
 rather exciting and strenuous tim,
 during that trip and the passenger
 were mighty glad to leave the shil
 upon it's arrival. The Minnewask
 carried part of a menagerie on he
 lower deck forward. including q fine Bengal tiger, a sacred" CO, [ and other large animals from tror I ical countries. During the voyag the tiger managed to break out c ! his cage and he made a fierce al | tack upon the sacred" COW. Naturs I y there was copsternation anon 9. the passengers and crew when it b a came known that the big tiger ha
 escaped from his cage and had tn
 freedom of the spwer deck. It r
 quired the combined efforts of tn 6 men and some members of the cre'
 to drive the tiger back to his cag and to secure him properly. Tn T COW which had been attacked an
 badly injured by the tiger, died fror
 her wounds. A day or two after ths
 incident one of the hyenas escape n from it's cage and caused some mor 2 cnsternation on board