Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-13
ipeelal Correspondence.

opeClal correspondence.
n FEW York. Aug. lO.-What some
IN body has called the busy hum
v Of preparation is about all
that Is in evidence i'm New York
amusement matters for the current
week There are no fresh productions,
while the old ones IN theaters and on
roof gardens are running along at
peaceful jog, some drawing larger au.
dlences than others and all having set
tied down to remain as they are until
the general shutting up at the begin
ming Of the real theatrical term, which
IL stu some weeks off But il IL al
ready evident that when the starters
flag Is once dropped, so to speak, there
Will be plenty from which to choose I'm
me matter Of stage offerings. Every
theater, hall or other large apartment
available for rehearsal purposes in
all New York is being utilized at this
moment and there Is quite an overflow
OF companies spreading into Brooklyn
Jersey city, Hoboken and as far away
as Newark. Persons who a few months
ago were gloomily predicting, in the
mat there were not enough attraC-
tions to MI those playhouses already
completed, need not waste their time
upon further speculation. Desirable
dates IN all parts OF the United states
are az scarce now as az any period In
the countrys history, and the only
question that remains TO be settled
mas reference 10 the support Of the pub
llc at large during the coming season
as compared with that Of past years
i may be frankly said that most
amusement managers having their
headquarters here are not as sanguino
as usual \ year ago they were al
most unanimously Impressed with the
idea lhat they were on the eve of gath
erlng IN greater profits than In any per-
iod OF similar duration. But most OF
them We're very rudely awakened, and
prOht-taklng upon a considerable scale
was confined 10 very few individuals.
That experience served to lead up to
the present depression OF feeling,
winch Is supplemented somewhat by
me approach OF what promises 10 be
an uncommony active and stubborn
ly contested national canvass. More.
over, those managers who take pains
TO inform themselves regarding the
state Of the country, comment that they
can detect no change In existing condl-
tons upon which to base hopes for an
immediate Improvement But. as the
men IN this business are VIGOROUSLY bad
guessers In such matters, II may be
that there Is surprise In store for
them this fall and winter that viii be
quite az sweeping and much more graf
flying than the one they encountered
last autumn
II Is an old feature OF the year that
there are In New York at the present
moment vastly fewer visitors from 9TH
err cities than at any previous time IN
August within my recollection, or that
OF the amusement puryeyors and hotel
MOI, II Is during this month, under
ordinary circumstances. that the great
throng Of recreation seekers from the
south and west come 20 New York,
filling mp It's hosterles and packing its
roof gardens and other resorts. They
are not here just now. Perhaps they
have been switched on TO 81. Louis
and perhaps they haven't started at all.
AZ any rate as the grating colored
citizen In THE County Chairman" OBJ
serves, when he catches up with an in
tended Victim who Is lodging him: I'VE
miss your presence" The condition "
the hotel business on Manhattan ISL
and is illustrated in the experience Of