Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-01
ROUND ABOUT NEW York.
RippIes on the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis.

Metropolis.
Occasionally there comes to the average
American citizen. who has no combine Of
bis own, a bunch Of news which lends
vitality to the belief that greed works out
It's own destruction. The greediest OF
modern combines. the American Ice com
pany, which doubled prices in New York
last year, has overreached itself and begins
to feel the pinch Of poverty. Those rare
June days. so cool. moist and depressing,
played havoc with the income Of the Ice
trust, and for the FIRST time In its odious
career It was obliged to pass the usual
dividend on preferred stock. This is taken
to mean that the trust is on its last legs.
Ex-senator Hill, in his Tilden club ad-
dress, spoke OF political conditions this
year as resembling those OF 1882. when the
democrats swept the state" says the cor
respondent OF the Philadelphia Ledger.
There are, indeed. certain points Of re-
semblance. The year preceding President
Garfield was assassinated, and was sue
ceeded in the presidency by a New York
man, Chester A. Arthur, just as another
New York man succeeded another Ohio
president last year. Then, as now, there
was q republican governor and q repub-
lican congress. The democratic party had
long been out Of power. Three years be-
fore Tammany hall had bolted the state
ticket, and John Kelly ran as an independ-
emit for governor. He was near the end
Of his leadership OF Tammany. In like
manner Richard Croker has retired from
the leadership and Tammany is in q state
OF DISCRIMINATION. But here the similarity
ends. In 1882 the republican governor was
defeated for denomination, under circum-
stances which created a profound dissatis-
faction among republican voters. This
year Governor Odell is to be renominated
without opposition. In 1882 the star OF
Grover Cleveland rose In Buffalo. Just at
the time that that Of Samuel J. Tilden
was gradually declining. Today no sue
cessor Of Cleveland appears. No new star
In the democratic armament is ascending.
There are dissensions in the republican
party now, but not such deep a chasm as
separated the stalwart and half-breed fac
lions in 1881. Then Cleveland was elected
governor by nearly zoe, 1000 plurality but
nobody believes that 1t is possible for any
such political revolution to take place this
year"
The cost Of government In the city OF
New York as compared with that Of other
American cities has been very clearly shown
in diagrams prepared by the Merchants as
ISOLATION. The outlay for maintenance and
operation In 1900 Of Chicago, Philadelphia,
st. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland,
Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee
was $115, s3S, $40, an average Of SIS per capita
Of population. Thu outlay In New York was
sos, 673, 277, an average Of $31.62 per capita.
Only one other city-Boston-cost per capita
more than New York. The diagrams show
that thirteen other cities maintain their
police, their parks, their sewers, their
streets, their lighting and their ire depart
ments at a far less cost than New York
does.
Another Aston hotel, to be named the st.
Regis, is rising at Fifty-net street and
Fifth avenue and is to outshine any hotel
yet built in a city OF ~palatial hotels. The
furniture alone will cost 100000 and the
furnishings Of a French chateau valued at
5000, 900 is included in the bill. Through
out the house the main trim and furniture
will be in Circassian walnut, together with
vermillion and rosewoods and white and red
mahogany and satinwood. This item is
800, 900 more. The trim OF the rooms and
the furniture will be Of the same woods.
Every room in the building will be harmon
lied in color, in style, in tone and in gen.
eral effect.
On the second floor the state apartments,
as they are called, will be furnished equal
to any palace in Europe as far as rare
woods are concerned. The style chosen Is
that Of the period of Louis XIV. The nve
rooms in the suite will cost for furniture
alone $25, 900 and the cost OF furnishing the
bedroom is $4,000.
On the first floor, where the restaurant,
cafes, palm garden and ONCE are to be, the
ornamentation is in caen stone, in intricate
patterns Of high class carving.
The palm garden will be furnished in
Persian style and the hangings will be Sc
lected in Constantinople.
Throughout the hotel the corridors will be
finished in white marble, costing $3.50 900.
Elevator shafts and the entire basement
and endorsement occupied by the kitchens
and the machine rooms are covered, in
GLIDING ceilings, with white thing. the cost
of which enters into the thousands OF dol
lars.
In Belfast, Me-, the linens for the ST.
Regis will be made according to special de-
sign. This item causes an expenditure of
$50, 900 and the silver. OF American manufac-
ture, near equals that sum.
Royal Worcester crockery. also made of a
special design in England, will be used. The
bedding, exclusive Of the linens, has been
selected in the United States and is the
finest manufactured
For the single expense of plumbing-all
the baths are rooms de luxe, with large
windows-the amount Of 5000 900 has been
set aside.
From the wine vaults and machinery room
in the sub-basement to the seventeenth
story the entire building will be an exhibit
ton structure as regards its magnihcence.
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