The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-30
palladium Specially

New York, Jan. 3O.-According to
statistics collected by the immigration
committee of the Congestion Com
mission appointed by Mayor Gaynor
|overcrowding in the densely populat-
ed sections of Manhattan has increas-
ed during the last five years rather
than diminished, as many thought.
Those who have never visited these
overcrowded sections of the East Side
can scarcely form an adequate idea of
the state of affairs existing there. A
careful house-to-house canvass ex-
tending over 122 blocks of that Sec
ton, established the fact that these
blocks contained a total population of
312.O42. OF these, 106,S91, or 1925
per cent, were Americans, while $685.
Isl, of 65.75 per cent, were foreign
ers. Thirty-six nationalities, races
and countries were represented, with
374 of unknown nationality. The num-
Der included 94.O3S Russian; 80. 479
Austrians; 2S,943 Italians; 1O,0S4 Rou-
manians; 1925 Polanders and 1858
Hungarians. The houses within that
lSio"uCu are tCuC-
ments, unsanitary and with small
rooms. 1t was found that in many
cases single rooms are occupied by
two to five persons, in direct violation
of the ordinance which provides that
there shall be not less than 400 cubic
feet of air space for every minor under
twelve years of age. Nearly all the
Lea 4S>
in air space. Similar conditions were
found to exist in the Italian and other
foreign quarters in the Bronx.
The discovery of gold in paying guam
titles in Duchess county has caused
considerable excitement here and hun
dreds of men have abandoned their
work here to prospect in the Pawling
mountains. 1t is reported that gold
hunters are swarming over the noun
tains in the hope of finding rich vein.
That is not the first time that gold
finds have been made in the noun
tain districts of this state, but in most
cases the game was not worth the
candle. The recent discoveries. how
ever, seem to be of more substantial
ed nature, the rock assaying from $46
to $1S6 of gold and silver per ton.
This find has caused a revival of the
old story of the lost Benson mine. Ac-
cording to that story a man named
Anthony Benson, who. at the time of
the Revolutionary war, lived near
what is now Matteawan, would disap-
pear from his home several weeks at
a time. When he returned he would
bring quantity Of gold dust. 1t was
believed he had discovered a deposit
of gold so rich that he could not ex-
tract the metal from the rocks by the
simple process of washing. Benson
was killed at the storming of Stony
Point, taking the secret of the mine
to his grave.
Joseph Sinclair. a business man, liv-
ing on Amsterdam avenue, had rath-
er peculiar and decidedly un pleasant
experience the other day. He crossed
the path OF an approaching automobile
to jump on surface car at Broadway
and Seventeen street and reached the
step of the car just as the automo-
bile whizzed past. There was q sound
of ripping cloth and Sinclair yelled.
He was not hurt, not even scratched,
but the machine had neatly removed
the entire rear portion of his trousers.
1t was cold. also embarrassing. Sim
clair darted into the car. Half of the
passengers were women. Some shut