The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-10
NEW YORK'S BUDCCIET
COST OF MAINTAINING THE CITY'S
GOVERNMENT WILL BE
s171,505,7S7.
Increase Of $s,0Oo,OO0 over Present
Years Outlay - New Department
Head Begins Purifying and Ciyiliz-
ing Chinatown-Dry Election Night
Is Foresbadcwed-R Real Estate Men
Amused.

ing Chinatown-Dry Election Night
Is Foreshadowed-Rea Estate Men
Amused.
/ New York November 6.-The Bud
get Committee of the Board of Bsti-
mate has completed its computation of
the amount OF money it will take to
run the city government Of Greater
New York during the next year. The
total is s171, 505,7S7. an increase OF
more than $s,000,000 over the budget
for the current year. This admins
tratSe expenditure, which, in all
! probability, will be increased by tri-
! fie of about $4,000. before the last
word has been said, is many times
larger than that of any State in the
Union and greater than the total bud
gets Of many foreign countries. The
| increase is practically accounted for
| by two items, the amount required to
take care of the Indebtedness of the
city and the sum required to make up
the tax collection deficiency. Next
year it will cost the city S50,600,O00 to
carry its enormous debt. quite a re-
spectacle sum. which gives fairly
good idea Of the gigantic scale upon
which the city of New York conducts
its affairs. One hundred and seventy
one and one-half million dollars is a
large sum, but it is merely small
matter compared with the total of the
sums which the chiefs of the different
city departments estimated as neces-
sary for running their respective de-
partments.
The police department of New York,
under its new head, has begun pro-
cess of purifying and civilizing Chi
natown, that picturesque, but crime
infested quarter Il the Bowery dis
trict. which has heretofore given so
much trouble TO the authorities The
Acknowledged denizens of that quarter,
which for many years has been one
of the great attraction for visiting
'sight-seers, are a peculiar lot Like
all Orientals they are very uncom-
municative and exclusive and scarce
ly 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 relent-
lessness and bitterness of a Sicilian
or Kentuckian feud. In recent years
revolvers have become the favorite
~ Of tote
supplanting the knife and Ratchet Of
former days But, unfortunately the
Chinese are eXcruciatingly poor
marksmen and nearly every time some
unpleasantness broke out between the
Tongs. The indiscriminate Use of revol
vers demanded one or more innocent
victims who had nothing whatever to
do with the feud.
Attempts to patch up the differences
betkeen the hostile Tongs proved flu
tile and the authorities came to the
conclusion that the only manner to
protect the lives of innocent outsid-
ers was TO keep them out of China
town. Il seems that the companies
which are running their tourist cars
DO Chinatown have been responsible for
a great deal OF the trouble in China
town and also for much of the vice
in that quarter and they have been
warned by the police authorities to
refrain from meddling with the at
fairs Of the Celestials.
New York will nave a comparative
s.,k- n
former years it has been customary to
issue hundreds of all-night liquor IL
censes for election night, but this year
Mayor Gaynor put a. stop TO this prac-
tice More than 200 applications for
such licenses had been received. most
ly from cafes and restaurants in the
Broadway district, but Mayor Gaynor
refused TO grant a single one. AS a
result tho only places which will be
open during election night will be
the regular saloons TO which all
night licenses HAD already been grant
ed
! The owners of real estate in the
| lower part of Manhattan Island are
mildly amused but by no means wor-
ried by the news that man in New
| Zealand claims to have proprietary
tights in plot of about "a city blocks
in the neighborhood of Wall street
between Broadway and the North Riv-
err. The claimant is said to be the
heir or one of the heirs of one Rob-
ert Edwards, who settled in Manhat-
tan Island in colonial days and pur-
chased the land now claimed by his
j descendant The land in question
having an area of about 60 acres, is
valued by the claimant at $4,000, 900
Lawyers are now engaged Investigate
ing the claims of the New Zealander
who seems to have only the hazies'
idea of the boundaries of the property
claimed by him.
The officers and the crew of the At
lantic Transport liner Minnewaska
which arrived in this port the othei
day after stormy passage, had
rather exciting and strenuous time
during that trip and the passengers
were mighty glad to leave the shiI
upon its arrival. The Minnewasks
carried part of menagerie on hel
lower deck forward, including fine
Bengal tiger, Sacred" cow and other
large animals from tropical coun
tries. During the voyage the tigel