Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-16
New York City Plans Novel
Bureau For the Unemployed
City formulating Plans to Solve Problems Of Getting Man
and Job Together

were acquitted, 129.942 convicted. with
b,217 cases still pending. The West
Forty-seventh street police station,
near the heart of the "Tenderloin" led
In the number Of arrests and sum-
monSes for the year, the total being
S,41S. OF the 1924 persons reported
missing, 7S6 were not accounted for.
of which 209 were. girls or women.
The report shows that 4,444 were ar
rested for felonious assault. sc for
arson and so for bigamy. Fourteen
hundred and forty-four children,
foundlings or lost children for whom
parents never called were turned over
to the Childrens Society.
"Nighthawks" are not the only birds
for which the lights of New York's
great white way have an attraction.
The recent cold spell caused many
'sparrows and pigeons to take refuge
on the electric signs along Broadway,
the great number of bulbs making the
air appreciably warmer. The birds
were discovered by the employees of
the electric light companies who were
sent to investigate the reason for the
dimness of many of the signs. They
found that the birds had clustered all
about the lights. On many bulbs birds
slumbered peacefully, and in some
cases the wording of the signs was
made almost illegible. Most OF the
birds which sought to warm them
selves on the bulbs were sparrows and
pigeons. A porter from one of the
leading Broadway hotels discovered
four sea gulls nesting In the sign
above the hotel The electric light
men estimate that the heat from the
bulbs though small in amount has
been sufficient to save the lives of
thousands of birds.
The lives of 41,000 babies have been
saved in New York city in the last
seven years by cooperating public and
private welfare agencies, according to
a report issued recently by the New
York Milk Commission. During that
time $4,000 babies have been born in
New York city. If the infant death
rate of the five years previous to the
beginning of this work had prevailed
there would have been 10000 infant
deaths instead of 100000 which ac-
tually occurred. On the other hand,
ii New York's low death rate of 1918,
one hundred and two per 1000 births,
had prevailed throughout the seven
year period only $4,000 babies would
have died of the $4,000 born. To
prove that this record is not due to
favorable weather conditions or other
general accidental causes the commit
tee publishes comparative figures
showing that while New York had
fewer deaths last year than in 1912,
the previous low record year, the num-
Philadelphia. Cleveland, st. Louis,
Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo, New Or
leans and Toledo.
1t is safe to say that "Old Smiles"
q rhinoceros, which is now the guest
of the city of New York, will never get
another chance to look on the whiskey
when it is amber All the animals in
the Central Park Zoo are going to
wear the white ribbon hereafter. The
head keeper promised this several days
ago after the thrilling encounter with
the rhino, in which he came as near
losing his life as he ever did in his
Iventuresome career. "Old Smiles
took cold and the keeper persuaded
her to forget her forty years of tenn
lperance and swallow pint or two of
whiskey. The following day when the
keeper entered her cage and tried to
remove couple of blankets with
which he had swathed her as an eX-
ira precaution against the cold, "Old
Smiles made a drive at him and sent
him skipping around the inclosure at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. The
keeper yelled for help. Another keep
er heard him and came on the run.
BY dint of shouting and causing di-
version, the second keeper induced the
rhino to stop in her mad rush. The
interruption gave the frightened keep
er time enough to climb ladder and
reach beam across the top of the
cage.
LONGACRE.