The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-12
s.so.ooo. or an average Of IS among 10000

Small children influence the Faster busi-
meas more than any one would imagine:
In one Of the stores where small boys
clothing Ia a specially the manager pointed
few days before Easter Sunday. give
mothers q chance to get their offspring
boys or girls new clothes and that they
never fail to take advantage Of Il:
There are about seven stores which make
q specially Of ohildren's ready,to s,s Ear
extra business at Easter Then there are
at least hfty stores whose receipts are
swelled 5000 during the. same time. and
for the same reason. and 100 more that
TAKE In oo sdtrs Aow ihs onnssss
smaller shops that deal In small peoples
clothes will give . total Of sos 900 In this
count.
Church collections are an important item
u the az. 5as' srs Snnsfsd IN New
York which may be depended upon to put
q greater or smaller sum In the collection
baskets at the Easter morning service,
and these contributions, according TO an
unofficial count. represent never less than
$3.50 900. a..
In ten churches alone nearly one-half
OF this sum was given last year: twenty
gave g 900 or more each. and fifty gave
$500 apiece.
But gifts Of money are by. no means con-
one woman living on Murray Hill who dis,
tributes at Easter among women less well
on than herself 81 900 In cash presen IL:
Some Of the benefciaries are personal
friends who instead Of getting q twenty;
and bonbons, find In their morning mail a
check for SO. -,
This woman has many imtators, with
the result that at least $4,000 may safely
be put TO the cash gift account in the Easter
Ill n
and necessares Of different kinds to various
institutions at Easter. are also put down as
aggregating $500
Another phase OF the gift question which
must he included in the reckoning Is that
appertaining solely to candy, Easter eggs.
the simplest: all sorts Of counterfeit birds
and beasts which are pressed into service
for bonbon holders, and hundred and
one other pretty TRIES which en.erprisine
manufacturers have designed expressly Tor
the Faster trade.
One lsading Broadway candy house runs
$1,000 over it's usual NJ q ipts in the wee
pr q ding Easter, and this is only one OF
many hundr d stors Of the So me kind,
to say nothing OF the dozens OF depart
ments In as many big dry goods houses.
given over TO the same class OF merchan-
die. At a rough calculation $4,000 is
set down as the extra n ce ipts Of the retail
candy dealers and make r. OF Easter now
eltie 8 in Grrster New York for the five days
before Easter.
A dding all these different amounts to-
getM one gtts q total Of 81 900 spent
enormous sum, but one which undertakes
rather than ovt N stimates the situation.
But this Ia by no means all.
No sooner have tho vesper bells
OF Easter Sunday stopped ringing than q
train of enterta inments, mostly in honor Of
young p ople home from school and collie ge
Tor Eaeter week. Ia put In motioh-this Of
course In the more pross rous circhs Of
socit ~. There are dancs made doubly
exciting by a pie thora Of Easter favors that
cost q lot OF mont y; theatre parti,s, Iun-
CHI ons and dinners 20 lore. ia,
Money apparently is poured out IKE
water 80 give the Young ones the time OF
their life. II IL almost impossible TO know
the outcome Of these from dsh stard-
point, but this much II O rtain, that OF I've
four or FIVE hundred fe miles who make
a sps cialty Of Fast r. eL;t rta inmcnts more
spends L - than three or four hundred
dollars on them. Th n the re Is u gion OF
entt rita inme nj that cost i ~.
dings hive no place. They are In class
by themselves. And yet " has come 10
pass that no class OF entertainment Is more
thoroughly identified with Easter fcstiv lies
and Easter expenditures, and II II equally
certain that 10 reckon the amount OF money
the Easter weddings represent in with the
Easter expenditures will neoessitate tack
ing on something like % 100000 more to
the sum already named.
Every one OF at least twenty. Faster
weddings TO take place this week means
thousands Of dollars worth OF presents and
a tro,isseau that indicates thousands more.
TO Say nothing Of the incidental expenses
Of the ceremony. For example. In one case
90 magnificent and numerous are The
wedding gifts that the anxious owner is
,alkin a ~ ha WING them p1Aa rded niQht and
day by a trained corps Of detectives. In
that one case alone an enormous sum OF
money In represented
And besines the twenty notable weddings
there are countless others scheduled for
means a considerable outlay Of money.
THE clergymen's fees alone remarked
one man wh6has evidently studied the ques-
ton TO some purpose. will In the sum total
represent quite snug little fortune: