Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-02

eAcuisions, iree clsais, lree peer. pro-
misses of work. for young men and
serves the purpose of giving the people
OF The district a good time while IL
lasts. -.
The blow has fallen. There is
gloom on Park Row and the Bowery.
Beef an has been raised from the
ancient ten to fifteen cents and patrons
OF "beaneries' are dismayed. For the
benefit of those who may never have
dlned at these places, it may be ex.
planned that beef an" means a small
peice of corned beef and a more or
less generous supply of baked beans
served on n plate, with two slices
OF bread and you can help yourself to
butter. AN advance of fifty percent
in the price of this dish which consti-
tutes the principal meal of tens of thou
sands of persons, comes in the nature
of a pubic misfortune and all is due
to the wicked Beef Trust.
One hundred thousand people now
visit Coney Island every Sunday.
There is every reason why the char.
acter of the place should be improved
and there has probably been some i'm
provement in the moral condition of
the place, but there is still room for
greater improvement and this fact has
just been declared by a committee of
representative men and women who
made ii a special duty to visit the re-
sort and study the exact conditions
there.
New York now has the biggest Office
building in the world. with twenty
stories and over 1,500 rooms. There
are more than 5000 occupants. 1t is
the building at the corner of Broad
and Exchange Place. The tallest bull
ding in the world is in Park Row and
is known as the Syndicate building.
1t is 346 feet high from curb to cornice,
with t~wenty-six stories above ground
and one below.
The seventy-first Regiment of the
local militia has outlined an interest
ing trip for mex May. The members
are thinking of visiting Cuba. and
making a tour of the memorable battle
fields there. The party is to be limited
to $50 persons and the Vigilancia, the
steamer transport used by the seventy
first during the Spanish-American wal
is to be chartered for the trip which
will last eighteen days, including a
stop at Santiago, also n at Nassau.
Theatres will soon be almost as
numerous in New YORK as saloons are
today with the difference that the
amusement gained at the majority will
be more wholesome. Five new play
houses are to open their doors mex
month and five or six other theatres
that have been rebuilt and enlarged
will be ready to admit the public when
the season opens. There are a dozen
other new theatres in contemplation,
most of which will be opened next
year.
There is considerable speculation
over the probability of the revival of
Saratoga as a fashionable resort. AL
ready the exodus has begun there for
the racing and polo seasons Mr.. and
Mrs. Payne Whitney (nee Gertrude
Vanderbilt) will spend the greater
part of the month there, as also will
w. C. Whitney, while others who have
arranged to stay there are Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Gould, Mr.. and Mrs. Fox
hall Keene and numbers of other
equally fashionable folks.
In order to attract tourists to Ger
many this summer, the German steam
ship lines are giving wide publicity to
the German exposition at Dusseldorf.
Americans are told that this exposition
will give them ar opportunity to com
pare German industrial methods and
achievements with those of America.
Impure Drinking Water