Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-31
MANY TH0USAN OS
WORK NIGHTS IN
NEW YORK
of White Light Cafes
Causes Sportive Element to
GrumbIe; Big Job to Feed
After Rark LaborerS.


Especial Correspondence to Morning Journal
New York, July 25.--That many
thousands of New Workers work and
eat at night while others sleep, play
or drink, was shown here today in a
careful census of the dark hour work
ers, which the mayor has just had
compiled as a guide TO the rights OF
the all-night resorts. To feed and
refresh the crowds that labor from
dusk till dawn is the true function of
the night cafes, according to the city's
head, who is recognizing for the first
time in Gotham's history the labor
ing rather than the leisure class ia the
problem of the Great White Way.
While peevish hordes of jewellers are
now thrust out of a score of gilded
lobster parlors early each morning by
the mayors mandate, food and drink
are still waiting for the night toilers
at a dozen of their established relief
stations. Though the closing of the
white light cafes Is causing the sport
i've element to grumble, the new move
to make night convenient only for
those who have real business in il is
meeting with general popular favor.
FOOD Fraud.
Pecks that are pecks and pounds
tina are pounds are today being put
within reach of the patrons of the
small food supply dealers, who are
coming TO find out that they have
been pretty constantly victimized by
baskets, barrels and bottles that
boosted more bottom than contents.
While a new and active commissioner
of weights and measures is every day
prying into these trade customs"
that have apparently served to starve
New Workers out of the full food sup
ply for which they have paid, the
stalls of g%rocers, butchers and other
victuailers ali over own are besieged
by buyers who demand every ounce
and pint to which they are entitled
In all the fraud of the practices that
are being exposed in food supply
here, it is being shown that city folks,
not farmers, have had to handle the
gold bricks of short weight and mean |
Air Apparitions.
Dipping down within a few hundred |
feet of the gaping crowds of the upper
Tenderloln. the second night hawk
airship in the last few weeks has set
all Broadway a-flutter today over the
possibilities of soaring through the
bright lights in the upper air. Sell
dom has any event so startled and
stampeded the night throngs OF New
York as the recent n~octurna flights
of daring aeronauts. From every cafe.
bar and gambling den
thousands of patrons have poured
under the heavens leaving checks
unpaid, refreshment untasted and
ever winnings uncollected. In the
wild rush to see and hail the heaven
ward voyagers, the frantic enthusiasts
have completely overturned the Great
White Way, and today the whole talk
of the town focuses upon the weird
apparition of sky sailors at the time
of ~Broadway's busiest whirl.
Family Fancy.
Watching young Willie Vanderbilt
plodding with the workers To his new
desk in his father railroad offices
New Workers are TODAY making This
the marvel of recent times
For years the people of this CITY have
observed the young millionaire solelv
as the chief dare devil of the auto-
race course. TO which he has
devoted enough energy and time "a