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tween the East river and Long island
sound safely navigable. Now a railroad
bridge is to be thrown over the blasted
| spot. connecting Long island with the
/ mainland II Is to form the coupling for
the New Haven railroad system and that
Of Long island, and supplements the Penn
sylvania's entrance into New York and
Brooklyn The three systems are under
| one control practically dominating the
railroad situation locally az well as north.
| south and west from the metropolis The
Hell Gate bridge and approaches will cost
! $50 100000 On the New York side the struc-
ture begins in the yard Of the New Haven
road at one Hundred and Forty-second
street and proceeds by viaduct to the
shores of the Bronx Kill. The XIII is
crossed by q bridge of the lift type 800
feet long, to a viaduct that runs south
ward along the eastern shore of Rsndall's
! island to Little Hell Gate This viaduct
| Is about 5000 feet long.
second bridge 1000 feet long crosses
to Wards island A viaduct traverses
! Wards island 1900 feet to the shores OF
| Hell Gate. Hell Gate itself is spanned by
bridge 1000 feet long when the Lons
Island shore is reached the four tracks
which have crossed from the New Haven
roads yards run southwark TO the Sunny
| side yards on viaduct. Here connection
may be made to the Pennsylvania stg,ion
in Seventh avenue. Manhattan. or with the
lines running out into Long island.
AS passenger trains will go direct u the
I entrance of the Pennsylvania tunnel in the
| Sunnyside yards 1t will be possible to
transport passengers without change OF
cars from Quebec to Florida.
| A most interesting example OF the use
of finger prints in the detection of Grim
inals has occurred in New York. safe
was robbed and finger prints were found
upon the inner surface Of the door. The
| police believed that the robbery had been
committed by some one in the establish
| ment, and they took the finger prints of
every one Of the 200 employees and COM
pared them with a photograph Of the
marks on the safe door One, and one
only, was found to correspond, and though
the negro porter thus identified was i'm
plicitly trusted by his employer, he was
Immediately put under arrest. II other
evidence be found to convict him this will
be really a great triumph for q system that
has not yet been taken quite as seriously
in this country, in spite of, or perhaps be-
cause of its ingenious applications in
romance.
Activity in road making all over the
country, for which great sums were ex-
pended last year, Is summed up in a con-
densation OF state highway reports just
given out at Albany.
New York spent about Ss,000.000 and
plans to spend nearer S90oo,000 the coming
year. New Jersey built at cost of more
than $825,OOO with contracts of about $780,
900 not yet completed. Repairs and mainte-
nance amounted to more than $1.400,000.
Pennsylvania spent considerably more than
81, O00. 900 on roads with contracts of $780,
900 not completed. Ohio had construction
and repair bills of nearly $4,000. with
work aggregating $4,000 still to be fin
ished.
The total expenditures of other states
we're as follows; Arizona, 100000; Cali
fornia. BESIDES completing three out Of
seven state roads. voted SIS 10000 for a
state highway system; Colorado, 81. S96, 900;
Connecticut 81, 800 900; Delaware 1901, 900;
Georgia 5000 900; Kansas, $50, 900: Maine,
1920, OOO Maryland, 1,I77. 600; Massachusetts.
$3.50, 900; Minnesota, $4,000 Missouri, $780,
OOO New Hampshire. $500 1000. North Caro-
lima. $500 900; Rhode Island, $4,000; Texas,
s7,OOO,OOO with estimates for about So, 900 900
in 1911; Utah. s125,OOO; Vermont, $4,000;
Virginia, $S5O.OO0; Washington, $500, 600; West
Virginia, 81, $50 900; Wisconsin, $2OO0.00O
Rebellion has broken out in the Jones
family. It has become so numerous in
New York City at least that the supply
OF given names long since gave out, and
so many have come to bear the same name
throughout that great confusion results
One of the many William Alfred Joneses
has accordingly gone to the courts for re-
lief from the name Jones altogether. He
has been allowed by Justice Greenbaum
to take the name OF William Alfred Far
mington on such representations as the
following: Your petitioner has also suf-
fered many handicaps in business by rea-
son OF the fact that his name is a very
common one, and it would be to his H.
nancial advantage to change II to one not
so universal. For some years past, es-
pecially since residing in New York City
he has been greatly embarrassed and in
convenienced by reason Of the fact that
there are so many persons bearing the
same full name, and as a result OF this
your petitioner has been greatly troubled
and inconvenienced in a great many ways.
particularly in that his mail il constantly
mixed up and delivered 10 other persons
of the same name, and that he is con-
stantly receiving other persons letters.
The delay and miscarriage OF mail has
caused your petitioner to sustain consider
able financial loss"
Practically every box of lemons brought
into the United States now carries to its
consumers a protest against the high rates
in the Payne-Aldrich tariff on lemons Be
ginning this week, the fruit importers
stationed men with stencils or all the piers
where shipments or lemons arrive and they
will print on each box a pithy protest
against the tariff rate
IF lemons were free this box would cost
you A.26 less" is a favorite stencil Others
are: THE tariff is Squeezing me" Revise
the tariff and get me cheaper" IF the tariff
squeezes me much more I won't come
here" and The tariff Is making us sour
on the United states"
Sk-yearold son OF American parents, |
with a good Irish name, but speaking only !
German, is Elm O'Shaughnessy. son of
Nelson O'shaughnessy, former secretary |
OF the American legation in Vienna Lit |
tie Elm was born in Berlin, and on the |