New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-22
The Writer of This Article
Found Many Things of
Much Interest and
Value at the Exhibit.

MONG the attractive shows alonE
Y our brightest highway this season
L n is one away down near the loot oI
Broadwav-No. 800 TO he exact. It's wen
worth double the price Of admission, when
is free They call it the budget show, per
haps because DO demonstrates the fact tha'
New Yorks debt has Grown so his that
We can never throw il olive can't even
nudge it. Here they tell YOU just what Is
done with some of the money YOU pass
over 10 the city authorities-if you happen
70 be a taxpayer. II YOU aren't taxpayer
Won can look on anyhow, and be thankful.
This may account for the fact that a ma
ioritv of persons who attend the show are
lads still in the golden age of indiscretion'
or women TO whom. as you know, has not
vet been generally accorded the sovereign
low of suffrage. though they may ne
heartily taxed when found in the posses
zion of any property.
There are a great many things 10 see Al
the budget show and great many o'he'
interesting things that have 10 do with city
government which form no part of the
eisplav. only the longcomings Of the
different departments have been ano''eu
places among the eXhibits-but there Is
vast invisible show Of our municipal snort
comings that present themselves TO the
minds eve AS YOU stand IN the broadway
exposition and listen TO the tramp tramp
tramp Of fellow citizens.
First we have the visible show.
There is q great deal to it-so much mat
n crowds three floors, one of them a paSe-
ment. Everything shown in the exhibit is
a model Of it's kind. The policeman VINO
poses AZ the entrance is the sort OF
policeman that the revived Mr.. GIBSON
would draw making a safe passage across
a crowded street for one of his pen and INK
perfectos. He is nothing like the large
rough person that tells YOU 10 beat II OF
run the risk Of being run in when you are
irving 10 get close enough 10 fire 10 eaten
q falling brick on your head. lie couluh
belong 10 the same force with the drolI one
we heard about tho other day who' WhIe
IN his full uniform and fuller condluoh'
stopped two girls on busy corner anu
made witty, though somewhat lhsuluhs,
remarks TO them But come over here
as they say in "Alexanders Ragtime Baho
there IS so much else to see that one cant
stand admiring a police symphony IN due
and brass all the afternoon.
The FIRST floor exhibit IS a wilderness OF
MANS and charts and such. II there Is any
,hino ss intensely uninteresting as a chart
Z, 70 a diagram-and there are acres oil
diagrams. too. You know the kind-they
are suread al over a desert Of good White
naner and each one IS just like the last
one You may he looking at the August
seiemographic record for the Borough OF
Richmond. or the wabbly lines may REFER 10
Tho yearly fluctuations i'm the corn output
of the prisoners farm ground on Black
wells Island. Twenty feet away YOU can l
ION tie annual record Of arrests at the
7ootb street police station from the amount
NJ sewer construction that the ever-chang-
inc wears furnish the farspreading Bronx.
And for that matter you are seldom moved
IA stem a few feet closer and investigate
Every now ana then you come across
niece OF mural information that hits you
.o,,ore between the two eyes For instance,
ne learn that Brooklyn, scoff at II as we
NAV reyile It's rubber plants as We WILL
has n population larger than the combined
c,dzenry NJ the beanful Boston, the murKy
pittsburgh and far Frisco. This informa-
,,on IS furnished for the delectation OF
natriotic Kings County readers ana Man
battanites may read around II they
prefer.
There is sometimes variety in the Vlstas
~ ,nans For instance here you may have
a map all stabbed in different places WIN
sr4sn and red headed pins; while just De-