Arizona republican., 1913-09-16

out of mischief. To transport these enormous crowds is a large task, but
 the handling of the mountains of baggage carried by the incoming
 trains is even a more herculean
 task. It is estimated that more than
 10000 pieces of baggage were handled
 Cn Labor Day at the Grand Central
 Terminal alone.
 It is a mighty fortunate thing for
 many women who frequented the
 beaches in and around New York city
 that the New York beach crowds are
 accustomed to all kinds of weird
 bathing costumes and do not seem to
 mind them. Atlantic City is not so
 very far from Coney Island, yet the
 crowds bathing there seem to be a
 great deal more fastidious and con
 serVative in their notions as to the
 rropriety of feminine bathing cos tunes. The wife of a hotel proprietor Of Burlington, N J, visited Atlantic City the other day and appeared on the beach in costume which would scarcely have caused ripple of sur prise at COney Island. She wore a bright purple bathing suit with a short skirt which was slit on each side from the hem to the waist. The other bathers. strange to say all men, were greatly shocked. They began to crowd around the woman, probably to allow the shock to soak in proper ly In a few minutes the woman was surrounded by a mob of several hun dred men who gave expression to their moral indignation by throwing handfuls of wet sand at her offensive costume Of course, the woman be came scared and after few screams
 she tainted and collapsed. The life guards came to her rescue, carried
 her to the beach hospital and then
 escorted her to her hotel to protect
 her from the crowd of men still lin
 Gering on the beach.
 over on the east side, in the con
 gested Italian quarters of the city bomb outrages have become so com mon that nobody setms to pay much attention to them excepting, perhaps.
 the persons who may be injured or whose property is destroyed by an eX- plOsion. In Coney Island bomb ex- plcsions are not vet of common oc- Currence, notwithstanding the fact that Coney fN'ms the center of d large Italian settlement. The other
 day the wife of an Italian grocer in
 Coney Island found q bomb to which
 q splutterirA fuse was attached, in
 front of her husbands store early in
 the morning. She alarmed the whole
 ueighborhood with her screams which
 was rather fortunate, for the commO-
 tiCn brought another Italian woman
 to the scene who had lived on the
 east side of Manhattan until recently
 and so was used to bombs. Without hesitation she jumped on the fuse and stamped out tLs smouldering glow which in a few moments more would l have reached the explosive in the bomb and caused the destruction of the little grocery store.
 Notwithstanding a number of ar rests and convictions for incendiarism during the past year the number of incendiary fires in New York city fs steadily increasing. According to the expert opf.ion of Fire Commissioner Johnson fully twenty-five per cent of the 14,571 fires X@hich occurred in the city last year were deliberately plan ned and executed by incendiaries.
 Only in 36 per cent of the fires the
 cause could be ascertained with any
 degree of certainty. There were many
 hundreds, perhaps thousands of fires
 of suspicious character and 1t is
 quite probable that percentage of in cendiary fires was nearer fifty th.n twenty-five
 The boxing fans of New York did not display q great amount of con sideration for the boxing professioon nor did they show much galIantry for the fair sex when they rough housed' a young and handsome wo- ! man. said to be engaged to Jack Britton, the lightweight boxer, who wished to witness the Moran Palzer prizefight at the St Nicholas Rink For some reason the young woman appeared in male attire among the crowd which was assembled in front | of the gates of the rink, waiting to | be admitted. Her sex was easily discovered and the discovery created quite q sensation. The men, young and old. crowded around the young woman and police reserves had to be summoned to eXtricate her. Followed Ey hoOting and yelling crowd Of men and boys the girl was taken to the police station on West Sixty eighth street Later she was ar raigned before a magistrate under the | charge of masquerading in the garb | Of a person of the opposite sex but after the magistrFte presiding at the 1 court had heard her explanation, he dismissed her with a warning.