Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1910-07-17

NEW YORK. July 16.-Although
nearly two weeks have elapsed since
the first safe and sane" Fourth of
July in New York's history the con
troversy on the question still con
tinues. The opponents of a safe
and sane" celebration Of the great
national holiday are still grumbling,
but the advocates of the movement
for a quiet Fourth now have figures
to back up their contention. They
can point to the fact that the num-
Der of casualties in this city on the
Fourth OF July of this year was only
about ten per cent of the casualties
in former years. The same may be
said Of the losses by fire due TO the
careless handling of fireworks In
view of these figures IL is difficult TO
see how the opponents of a safe
and sane" celebration can maintain
their position unless they believe in
the theory that the proper celebra-
ton Of the day requires human sac
rifiees.
The curb brokers in Wall street
and on Broad street have been doing
a land Office business in 'phony"
mining stock and other unlisted
stock of similar insecurity. The pur-
chasers were mostly negroes who
were eager TO invest" their winnings
on the big prize-fight in Reno on the
Glorious Fourth. There is certain
humor in the fact. as these brokers
had bet heavily on Jeffries and would
have suffered a serious loss had 1t
not been for the colored winners who
returned 10 them in the form Of in
vestments" all they had won, which
more than made good the losses the
brokers had sustained by their
wagers on Jeffries.
For many years attempts have
been made from time to time to rob
New York City of its most beautiful
and priceless geb. Central Park. Ac-
cording to the audacity of the plot
tiers the holiness of the plots varied
considerably. Some of these fiends
contented themselves with advocat-
ing the introduction Of certain new
features which they considered or
pretended to consider as improve
ments, while others more bold. open
" recommended TO divide the park
into building lots and sell the latter
for the benefit Of the city. The lat
est project is to the effect of trans
forming Central Park into some sort
of Coney Island amusement resort
for children. This attempt to de-
stroy Central Park has aroused a
great deal of opposition and II is to
be hoped that means will be found
of preventing the carrying out OF
this dastardly plan. Already an or
ganization has been formed for the
purpose of defending the integrity Of
the park against the vandalism OF
certain public officials who have lent
sheir support to the preposterous
plans advocated by the enemies Of
the park.
A quarrel over a single penny led
to a murder in Hoboken the other
day. A man from Nebraska, who
stopped at a hotel in Hoboken while
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on which he had secured passage
for Europe. put a penny in the slot
of an automatic music box in the
dining room of the hotel. but the box
refused to pour forth the expected
ragtime tune The Nebraskan be
came indignant and upbraided the
German porter The lated explained
TO him that it required nickle and
not a penny to set the mechanism
of the music box in motion but
that explanation did not satisfy the
man from Nebraska. He became
abusive and when the porter threat
ened to put him out, he pulled a
revolver from his pocket and shot
the Porter dead. The murderer left
the hotel but was arrested after
a short time and win be held for