Arizona republican., 1912-01-14

| ings mys;criously disappear.
 ! only fourteen million n.cliels now
 stand between this city and the com ] p!ctipn of definite arrangements for ! much needed additions Co it's sub way system This is the amount. 1 representing tho fares or about forty | thousand passengers daily that moa- [ sUres the difference between the rc- g"uators representing the city and i the Interbornugh subway lines as To [ the average rate of earnings C. be used as a basis of payment to the operating company on its present ! inve ,tmcnt The present subway has ! long been crowded beyond it's normal capacity and strong-arm-d guards are employed to pack passengers in- to the cars. slrdinc-fashion. during 1 the rush hours. The officials of the company insist that the return t0 be permitted to them on their invest ment should be based upon the mum
 ber of passengers at present which rurs close tp a million a day. The municipal representatives contend that there is an abnormal congestion which the new construction is in- tended to correct. InasmuCh as the difference of opinion has been mar rowcd down Co x700.000 a year there is hone that an agreement will be reached ultimately The history of every new transportation line opened in New York in th" past has been that it has been crowded from the beginning without apparent diminu- tiou in the pressure on other routes and it s.ems probable that this will h" the ease with the new subways
 IT. the annual flood of reports of lus ness concerns. city departments and public institutions that is pour ing a. cataract ot figures upon the public at present. there is one that gives the New Yorker unquestionablc assurance that business conditions are improving and prosperity re- turning This is the statement of the activities of the city's marriage license bureau for 1911. During th- twelve months nearly 55O0O licenses Co wed were issued by the bureau Tp be exact lGg.I5 hearts decided to beat as 5451S The significant point is that this represented a gain of more thar 5000 marriages over the previous year. The busiest day of the entire year was the last one. December 20. when I2G licenses were issued within two hours. indicating that the glad New Year is the fav- critc time for taking the plunge into matrimony. Irasmuch as the city eNacts toll of one dollar for each marriage license issued. and the cost of operating itSs bureau is only about twp-nfths of this, Father Knicker- booker enjoys an annual tribute oc over $30.00o from the successful ef- forts of Cupid. In view or the facJ that 1912 is a leap year it is con rdcntly expected that still further gain will be shown in the business "f tn" marriage bureau at the end o' the twelve ensuing months
 Tho alarm that prevailed for sev- eral days among members of the AL imory club and other men about town against whom claims have ac- C'unulated that they object to pay ing has been relieved by the opinion rendered by the corporation counsel of the city to the sheriff that hc is without authority to appoint women deputies. When Sheriff Harburgar. who is q warm advocate of the suf- fraEc cause as well as Tammanv leader. took off ice on Jan I he inn nediately announced that he intend ed to surround himself with dozen or more stirted deputy sherffs and mentioned several society leaders as probable appointees. The men with l constitutional objections to paying ! their debts have become adept at re- 1 polling the advances of polite | strangers of their own sex. but the | thought that they would have to be | m their guard lest every woman in ! massive willow 2lumed hat and hob | ble skirt whom they chanced to meet , might thrust q formidable legal doc ment upon them was almost enough | tc cause them to surrender and pay up. Now, however the city's legal has come to their rescue by holding that women deputy sher- ifs are not permissible under the laws of New York and there is con sequent relief along the great white way
 LONGACRE