Bisbee daily review., 1911-03-26

NEW YORK, March 25.--The 'mov ing picture business" which has as sumed enormous proportions through out the country during the past few years. has reached a stage in New York. which, in the opinion of many citizens, demands immediate atten ton and a thorough reform. There are more than roo moving picture houses in New York City, and all of them do a fairly good business. Most of the houses, especially those scat tered through the slum and the subur ban districts are in small, poorly ven tilated rooms and the shows are uh deniably rotten. In many cases they are so bad from an ethical stand point, that the Chrildrens society has started a campaign against them and proposes to induce the state legisla ture to pass stringent laws for the reform of this kind of entertainment
 Say Regulations Absurd.
 It OnAAEAH VI lAlS iiONAIk HiNAuAt houses contend that the absurd regu lations of the show business in New York City are responsible for lac existing state of affairs. The license for conducting a moving picture thea Ire costs only S25 a year, bur the show place must not contain more than 800 seats. The license for any house containing more than 3o9 seats costs $500 a year, sum greater than three show place could afford to pag But, with only 299 seats in their place the owners of moving pie ure houses cannot afford to give a gooI show. lasting an hour or more. They must make their performance shcrt so as to be able to refill their place sev eral times to pay their expenses and a fair profit The owners of these small places do not deny that their shows might be improved a great deal, but contend that it is the fault of he regulation which limits them 10 299 seats.
 Sewerage System Defects.
 Dr. George A. Soper, president of the Metropolitan Sewerage commis sion, has given out some interesting and rather startling information con corning the state of New York's sew craze system and its effect upon the waters -of-the East River and the Long Island sound The facts pre- sented by Dr. Soper would have made interesting reading during the recent controversy concerning the relative merits of American and English oy sters. The defenders of the English mollusc would have been only too pleased to avail themselves of the arguments supplied by Dr. Soper's statements. He found that, owing to the action of the tides there is practically no flushing action in the East River and the Sound. As a re suit immense quantities of poisonous sewage float for days in the river and bay close to public baths, bath ing beaches, and the oyster beds of Jamaica Bay, from which 1000, ,000 bushels of oysters are brought to the New York markets every year. To think of it-sewage fed oysters, Hor TOT
 Reunion in the Bowery.
 The great clan of the unwashed and unkempt denizens of the Bowery district had the exquisite and, prob ably. not fully appreciated pleasure the other night of meeting, face to face. for the first time in history, the great and only Frederick Town send Martin, the recognized leader of New York's most exclusive social set, MT Martin. whose life is devoted principally to society matters and functions, but who dabbles, in his NNNSNNAasNlNNNN>ANyNSNN