Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-11

ever, season by American tourists abroad.
1t was discovered that the aggregate WAS
enormous. The financial figures began
with 100. 900 tourists at the lowest average
OF 81 900 each, or u total OF loo, OOD.U
After much newspaper and oven maya
zine discussion general consent simmerei
the sum down to 500, 100000 for $4,000 peo-
pie. Evon then tacrc WAS O holy hold ng
up of hands at the thought of such
sum going out OF the country, squan-
dered abroad, and lost 10 us forever.
Not all OF It, pretty good slice OF each
tourists average 81 900 goes tor passage
money on the steamers, all of which pay
Immense sums right III this city and over
in Jersey for labor, wages. salaries. coal,
provisions and So on, winch come out of
the steamers business. Many OF these
ships provision. coal. liquor up, cigar up,
and ice UP for both the out and return
VOYAGES. because these supplies can be
furnished better and cheaper here than
abroad. In this way millions are spent by
the steamers. companies, stewards. officers,
crews. and ali hands " every year, and the
year round. too, not merely during the
rush Of summer travel. The moment pe0-
pie whose practical experience IS limited
to the handling OF u few hundreds or O
very few thousands everS year begin 10
talk about almost incOncelvaDle sums they
with amazing arithmeticai facility. The
supposed fortunes OF Gould, the Astors,
the Nanderbiits. and 50 on. are turned
over" IN some shape or other, with the
utmost ease, every day IN tho week. by
people, too, who will worry for week how
they are going To pay $50 rent for their
cheap Hat next month. So in bowling
over the many millions spent by tourists
abroad, these frig htened ngures do not
stop TO consider what an immense number
or these annual gadders are business men
who 60 10 Europe 10 make arrangements
by their purchases and importat,ons for
the spending Of an immense amount OF
money right here III this city.
TIE ovERsHADowiSq BUsINEss.
Some of the friends OF Mrs. William
Astor. aunt OF william Waldorf, nave sym.
path,zed with her over the unkindness Of
her inconsideIate nephew i'll building his
new hotel 80 As 10 make her adjoining
residence a. gloomy aud dark as a dun.
geon. But II she doesn't like il she can
get out, or get further up town. This over
Swallowing business ls chronic complaint
everywhere up town. Hotels, club houses
and big stores constantly are making close
by honesteads almost unInhabitable, and
also making their owners quito un.
happy. One of the most amusing ia.
stances OF late years was when tho West.
Minister Hotel was butt In east Sixteenth
street. The retired merchant. owner OF an
adjoining two-and,one-halt-stosy house IN
Irving Place. wouldn't sell out or get out.
So the hotel built around bim. leaving his
little house and small backyard down at
the bottom of all immense brick hole.
Then the old gentleman began business.
He kept man busy over in Jersey,
out on Long Island. and up In Con.
necticut buying him Shanghai roosters
rs tall as Q -four barrel. With the
first dawn of day the hoarse Growing Of
these roosters down IN that deep shaft was
deafening. There was no sleep In that
hotel till those roostsss had been Quoted