Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-20
NEW YORK MUST HAVE
FOOD FROM OUTSIDE
StatisticianS Say People of
Metropolis Would Starve if
Trains and Boats Stopped.

NEW YORK. March 19.-That
starvation will threaten .;.e ni:..ions
of people on Manhattan Island. il
floods. strikes or snow blocks should
ever cut off their outside food supply.
is announced by statisticians who nave
been making study CT ,ae subject
in this city. According 10 the re-
suits Of this investigation. New York
ers can store within the city's limits
only ration enough TO last the com.
munity for eight days at most. IL no
further food should be forthcoming
from the farms outside. While over
one billion pounds of meat are found
to be consumed each year by New
Workers. together with billion and a
half of eggs. 7S4 .359.600 quarts OF
milk and almost five million barrels OF
-four. storage room for even a week $
share of such gigantic food supply is
known to be scarce on this restricted
island. With these startling facts in
mind. the people of Gotham are today
casting about 10 learn what possible
cause could ever cut of their vital
connections with the outside world.
Boodiess Bonnets.
Threatening to blight the crop CT
Easter bonnets that in a short time
must bud forth on the avenues. five
thousand makers of their straw and
braid foundations are today talking
strike TO the horror of the milliners
Unless these artifcers of the basic de
signs of women's headgear come TO
terms. the creators of the oyerlaid
effects will have to disappoint hun
Greds Of thousands of fair Easter
Sunday paraders. In addition to their
labor trouble. the miliiners are this
year facing a growing protest against
the trophies Of bird butchery with
which they have went to set OF the
charms OF the most gentle and tender
hearted women of this town. Since
the Audubon workers here have
shown the horrors CT this trade in the
aigrCtte and other piumes. tina; are
torn fom the bloody backs OF dying
mother birds. many a woman has re-
fused to have her new church bonnet
made a cause for such cruelty. Now
that the milliners are able TO prepare
the discard plumage OF the good old
barnyard fowl to ornament the best
Of boancts. New Workers are hoping
that the other relics OF barbarism will
II last die out here.
Courts cIosec5.
Never in the history Of this town
have the criminal courts been clogged
as hoPeieSsiy as they are today. with
hundred and City cases blocking
the calendar and a jail full of the &C
Cused pleading for a hearing While
the men Of the district attorneys
new stan are scurrying aboat with
some show q expcdi;ing the long and
complicated cases left by their pre-.
!Secessors- 20 be tried. the judges sit
scdafeiy. and the laws delays seem
20 paFaiyze the whole cumbrous ma
chiucry C. trial To BE- even accused
cf crime Is punishable BY months Of
Imprisonment IN the dreary Tennis.
according 20 the recent results Of this
system here. and yet no one has yet
psopC sed a way TO procure relief from
!. injustice More courts must be pro.
v'dcd for this metropolis soon. the
judges agree. or the prisons viii
overflow with the victims 81 the pres
cHt criminal crush.
Pulpit Periis.
l Calling this metropolis tho grave
sard 90 Ministers leading laymcn a.
well a. members 70 the CLERGY are TO
cav starting an attempt to improve
conditions which they declare menace
Tho iife and hcalih - the heads n
charchcs here. Thar the maddening
vairi % Inc town - felt even in the