New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-16
THE PEOPLE WHO SPEND MONEY.
NETWORK is FULL OF THEM AGAIN. AND
THEY ARE SIGHT FOR SORE EYES.

While the frequent reverses and the occasional
obverses OF British arms are stirring Brltish
finances to such depths TO bring all the mun 10
the top and while Wall Street undergoes a niue
sympathetic disturbance. II is pleasant 10 see no"
New-York for the most part goes about It's pusi-
ness with determination than mas oeen
noted before In a long time
Ney-Yorkers seem bent on having a merrier
Christmas than they have had before IN a numper
Of years say, since 1891. If this Is not inc e@ao.
date, perhaps the oldest inhabtant VIII not minu
debating letter correcting the error anyway IL
has been long time since the streets were so iu'i
OF people, the shops full OF buyers. the CITY 30
full OF visitors and the hotels so full OF guests II
is hard to say how the condition of the theatres
should be interpreted with reference TO prosperity
the lack OF 1t. Big crowds in the theatres might
be supposed indicate general prosperity and law
ishness Of expenditure. and the other hand gen.
eral prosperity at just this time o, the year might
be expected to send people to the shops and tire
them out. that they would not care for the
theatres in the evening. and 50 small audiences
would indicate the same thing as large ones. AS a
matter OF fact, the theatres doing as well as
is always most inauspcious one for them, and
some of them are doing better than is regularly
But there is no doubt that the hotels full and
that means business 1t does seem as IL New-fork
ought to have enough hotels after a while. but the
the hotels DO or a little faster It seems absurd
that a visitor cannot come into the second city OF
the world at almost any time and find pillow and
washsand for hire. but visitors come fast that
It is positively hard to build hotels fast enough to
keep up with them. There is enough for them to
do and to and 10 buy and to eat but the trouble
is In packing them away for the night.
The exhibitions in the shops and in the streets
are worth seeing. They not all OF people from
out OF town. NEWCOMERS are supporting one
anothers business interests nobly, and money Is
not only coming into town. but is changing hands
after 1t gets here The street cars are good
gauge Of the amount Of stir and movement and
business that is going They more interest
ing to see than they are to ride in 1t Is good fun
to other people crushed together like box
of figs, but 1t is not pleasant to be one Of them
And yet burghers and strangers alike, must pass
from place TO place, and. not being angels the
most Of them. they must traverse the intermediate
space. For the reason they become con-
gested. angels. no doubt. never do.
There are these Inconvenience about II all. and
perhaps few more, but the whole IL is a de-
light to people walking boldly into shops again
and buying things. with no look on their faces as
II they were sacrificing bread when they buy pict-
sugar for their tea when they buy books
The air now is OF population that can have what
1t wants without more than reasonable fear OF the
consequences The population has been good
while i'm getting back to this felictous state. but
It appears to have arrived now. May II get into
It deeper yet, before 1t gets out.