Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-12-31

SPEND THRIFT NEW YORK.
X Peurs Forth Millions for the Things \
Consider Fun.
This New York Of ours Ia an over
rich, over-lazy, luxury-loving big town
Poor folk and rich folk alike work
hard. burt goodness knows they play
hard too. In New York money Is made
faster than In any other metropolis on
earth, but when the purse string -
loosed. how the dollars fiy!
II the aggregate wealth of the Great
er New York were divided pro rata
among Its 100000 inhabitants, the
share Of each would be about $500.
This IL the largest per capita OF wealth
shown In any city In the world Rich
est Of all cltdes, 1t IL the most luxurious
as well. In the items Of wine, beer
and spirits, cigars and tobacco In VAR.
GUS forms, theatre patronage. pleasure
vehicles and fine horses. cut flowers
and ornamental plants, European trav-
Ell, diamonds, jewelry and bicycles,
there Ia annually expended In New
York the colossal sum Of $185, 600, 600,
or about $53 per capita. The unit Of
comparison Is the figure representing
the total population, or the embodi-
ment Of $3,500,OOO. Accepting the ar
gument Of the prohibitionist that all
manner OF malt, vinOus and spirituous
beverages are luxuries pure and sim
pie. 1t would appear that a total OF
$1OO,OOO,O00 Is spent on the beverages
that cheer and also inebriate. or this.
total $50, 100000 is paid for lager beer.
1t represents 3,750,0OO barrels of thir-
ty-two gallons each, or one barrel and
fraction over for every man. woman
and child on Manhattan and Long Is
lands.
The $4,000 600 that pays for the
wine and spirits consumed in the me-
tropolis towers over the contIasted
luxurles. New York Is essentially the.
home of the wine opener, and stall
clan connected with the leading whole.
sale liquor dealers newspaper says
that one-fOurth Of all the wine import
ed from Europe and made in .Califor-
mia Is swallowed on Father Knicker-
bOcker's island.
Next In the scale Of luxuries is to-
bacco. The figure of $3O.OOOOOO il.
agreed upon as approximately correct
by manufacturers and experts in the
trade. 1t may be subdivided in this
wise: Cigars, $17,6OO.OOO; cigarettes,
4,OOO.OO0; smoking tobacco, $4,000, 600,
and chewing tobacco. $1,OOO,OOO.
srhApo 10 hxrf mn I'D, ~
purchase of trotters in New York.
There Is no place to trot them. Some
day there will be n speedway on the
banks Of the Harlem; some day we will
see 1t. but Notwithstanding the fact
that most fourth and fifth class towns
have more true 'boulevards" than can
be found within the limits of the
Greater New York, the annual sales Of
high-bred roadsters, trotters and pac-
ers and thoroughbred saddle horses,
averages, according to the testimony
OF the veteran William Easton, 81
100000 annually. The traffic in car
rage horses and pleasure vehicles of
all sorts will aggregate twice this
amount and the harness makers, feed
>tA', eAVOAaSs LaihCiS, CtSlCuulcH,
fOotmen and stable boys swell the to-
tai of expenditure to $15.OOO,OOO.
The annual sales Of diamonds and
jewelry have been known to reach
$50, 100000 in a singel year, but that
was in the good old times Of which we
hear so much now but did not appreci-
ate ut the time. A conservative esti-
mate by Maiden Lane and upper
Broadway dealers place the local sales.
at $20,00O,0OO.
The complaint Of the socialistic agi-
tator that the American makes his
money at home and spends 1t in Eu-
rope Is partially borne out by the fig
ures. The sales Of steamship tickets
at this port alone amount 10 $4,000. 600
annually. The agent of one Of the old
est transatlantic lines states that at
least % per cent. of this amount Is sold
to citizens Of New York who go abroad
for pleasure. The amount Of money
taken out Of New York for this one
luxury alone Is conservatively estimat-
ed at $2O.OOO,OOO.
There will be sold In the Greater
New York during 1897 not less than
10000 bicycles, which may be aver
aged at $50 each, and there is a Good
81. 100000 more.
New Workers are theatre going lot
as is shown by the fact that full &c.
O0O,OO is annually passed into the box
offices of the places of amusement, in
which this city abounds as does no 9TH
er city in the world.
New York must have flowers on all
festal occasions and at all social func-
tons. The more out Of season the
flower the more imperativefy does New
York demand It, and for the gratifica-
ton of this most luxurious Of appetites
she pays every year round $500
000.-New York Journal.
A Quaker City Marvel.