Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-14
MARSH LANDS TO BECOME
GREAT SHELTERED HARB0R
Ambitious Plans Calling for I'M.
menSe Expenditure to be
Spread Over twenty-five
Years; Traffic Problem

which are already under way is to
be put in order for the aceommoda-
tion of the 10, 600, 900 inhabitants ex-
pected by the year 1925. and so colos-
sal are the Improvements contemplate
ed that it may be more than fifteen
years before the 81 1000, 000. 900 which
they will cost is expended and the
work completed. The plans now taxi
ing form include betterments and en-
largements in nearly every field with
which the municipality has to do.
Perhaps the largest single piece OF
work is that which will supply the
city with an adequate harbor at a
cost of something like 500, 600, 900.
| Operations are soon to begin which
will ultimately lead to the conversion
of the shadows and marshlands OF
Jamaica bay into a sheltered harbor,
having an area of twenty five n a
quarter square miles and affording
hundreds of miles of wharfage. That
vast tract, half land and half water.
which is now given over exclusively
to the FISHERMAN and the holiday
fisherman, is to be dredged into a
harbor where a great fleet of the lar
gest vessels of the future may COM
.ortably dock. 1t is also proposed
that this new harbor of New York be
made the terminal of the 101, 600, 900
barge canal which is now being dug
across the state to link the Hudson
river with the great lakes. Additions
and changes equally important are
planned in connection with the city's
means of transportation. 1t now seems
certain that at the buster points
streets cannot continue much longer
TO cross each other on the same grade.
and it is already proposed to elevate
or depress one of the two intersecting
streets in such places. Eventually
the city will undoubtedly become one
of different levels for even now it is
almost impossible to cross certain of
the more important thoroughfares
and the only solution seems to lie in
providing one level for north and
south traffic and another for that
moving cast and west. Plans are al
so under way for new subways which
may cost $500, 600, 900 and Father
Knickerbocker will begin to accustom
himself this year to tunnel travel
under both rivers. Altogether the
changes now under consideration will
when completed, fifteen or twenty
years hence, make the future New
York as different from the present
one as it is from the city of twenty
five years ago. And even then 1t Is
unlikely that there can be n diminu-
ton in the work of house-cleaning the
city.
Although the coming of summer
would naturally be expected to bring
to the hearts of tramps, local
members of this ancient profession
are filled with gloom. According to
them the hobo business is going to
the dogs, and unless speedy steps are
taken for its regeneration it will be-
a pursuit even worse in char
acter than real work. These, at
least, were the sentiments expressed
by speakers at a meeting of tramps
from all parts of the world this week,
which really amounted to a discus
sion of the decline of the tramp busi-
ness as a profession. While the av-
age of the whole assembly was
only a little over 20, its members dis
cussed the situation affecting their
in various parts of the world.
The Kangaroo Kid" so called be-
cause of the long jumps he makes to
parts of the world, asserted
hat England was the best country
Tor members of this ancient profess
sion, declaring that nearly one-third
IF the population is either living in
Institutions or getting its livelihood
rom some form of charity. The
Pacific Coast Wonder" expressed
particularly gloomy views on the flu !
ure and gave the west in general a
poor reputation as a field for knights
If the road Another wanderer just !
from china warned his fell J
ows to keep away from hat country.
tramping as a profession ,
Gems to be on the down grade. some (
# those present even going so far as
o feel that it might become necessary q
o go to work, since the pickings I'm Z
he large cities are not nearly suffi- $
lent for the country's hobo army. I
That fashion as well as history is 9
n the habit of repeating itself is odd !
y illustrated by the fact that night :
APPS for women are now in style here. :
Tor are they the kind OF night-cap
ilitl toiilt1 III a hlipHf bhA thf ltaii I
hing, such as the grandmothers of
he present generation used to wear S
fhen they were young. 1t would
eem, indeed, that .here is no limit
o the latest thing in feminine head Il
car. in spite Of the varied creations
Or wear by day. But the return OF
he night-cap, however, cannot be n.
aid at fashions door. Formerly 1t v
worn to keep the head warm at ei
light. steam heal and furnaces being J.
omething of a rarity. and their re- 3
is due to an equally prac- !
reason. Its purpose o is TO -
Intimate a part of the cost of fire. "a
uent hair dressings, and while the Ii,
Tx, lace and linen caps are expensive b,
} purchase. they are said to be eco al
omical. For having ones hair di
ressed daily by an expert Is ex- =,
ensive. too expensive. indeed, for ~
ny but those with very large in N,
lmes. Nevertheless such daily
ressing has been held as necessary