The daily gazette., 1876-01-18
WILMINGTON, DEL, JAN. Is, 1875.

CdEBhlNG NOTE5.- u ne we" lOTA
Graphic has been making some calcula-
ii ons as to the money that will be eI-
pended at the Centennial, and con-
cludes with some cheering notes which
we wish we could assure our readers
were well founded in solid logic. But
it seems to us that the Centennial will
furnish no solid basis for prosperity. 1t
looks rather like the people would lose
the time and expense consequent upon
attending it, and to that extent the
country would be the more extravagant
and wasteful. We hope it may be other
wise and that all that the Graphic says
may be true.
There is but one way in which we look
for any great financial benefits from the
Centennial. 1t is in the hope that it
may have the effect to turn the tide of
emigration again to this country and
that richer and more educated class
may seek homes in the new world, bring
ing with them abundance of money as
well as education and industrial habits
CAoulh bhio bC tuC CuSC, Lhe cueCD6 Oh
the Centennial would soon be felt and 1t
would largely repay the expense that
will be incurred.
1t has been estimated that million of
visitors at the Centennial will e1pend
S100 each. and the Graphic makes the
inquiry, what will become of this $780,
100000, and then proceeds to answer its
query as follows;
l, Much Of it will be spent on the
railroads-enough to give them better
business and greater profit than they
have had for four years.
., The hotels will profit largely-not
only the great establishments of Phila-
delphia and New York, but also the no.
tells at the watering places. Our visi-
tors from Europe, as well as the people
from the west, will not content them
selves with a trip to Philadelphia and
New York, but will want to extend their
peregrinations to Niagara, the Thousand
Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Lake George,
Saratoga, the White Mountains, New
port, Long Branch and Cape May. 1t is
safe to say that all the great summer
hotels will do better business during the
coming season than they have ever
known.
3, The retail trade in the east will
profit very largely. Those who come
from Europe will take back souvenirs
and Yankee notions of all kinds. Peo-
pie from the West and Canada will pur-
chase gifts and goods from all the famous
retail stores to take home to their rela-
tives and families as mementoes of their
Centennial visit.
4, This business will gain, as it were,
an extra season, rs the money will be
circulated during the summer time,
when usually there is little or nothing
to do.
5, But an immense number of minor
industries will also be stimulated by the
effect of the Centennial, and the trades
will in their turn be benefited by it.
Merchants and manufacturers who are
wise, already in thousands of businesses
are devising schemes to set tempting
wares before the visitors, and hundreds
Of thousands of workers will be en-
ployed in preparing the necessary goods
for the Centennial market.
Away, then, with croaking Let us
look hopefully on the future. The coun-
try Is rich i'm everything that makes
National prosperity and wealth. The
stock market is already beginning to feel
the beneficial influences Of the prosper
Gus year that is before us. Everything
promises well.
The Philadelphia Chronicle says, the
Graphic is mistaken in regard to the
numbers expected at the Centennial. In.
stead of one million, the presence of al
least five times that number is antici-
pated, and should its estimate of then
average Ibe correct, there will be $500,
100000 to be distributed instead of one