The sun., 1905-09-07
The Autumn Outlook.


brings back to town the great body OF It's
people who have gone to the country
In search Of purer air and other rural
delights, or merely in pursuance OF
steadily increasing fashion. They are
glad to get back. They seize tho op-
portunity TO return which is furnished
by tho frat advent Of the nominal au-
t,lmn.
ThA year the returning September
crowd ID greater than ever. not merely
because the population Of New York
ia larger, but because the summer va
cation exodus from it was relatively
far more numerous. The facilities for
travel Of every railroad and steamship
limo reaching the town are strained TO
the utmost by the homecoming throngs,
whose return has been hastened, or at
least seemingly justified, by the au-
turnnal weather, By next week there
will be left in the country few citizens
Of New York who have not residences
there. Most of the people who have
gone to the country for their brief sum
mer vacations will have returned.
The return Of the hundreds Of thou
sands Of people to town makes the less
impression on the appearance OF the
streets and on tho travel on the trans
portation lines because the summer
brings in a great crowd of visitors to
take tho place Of the departed citizens.
That accession OF strangers has been
greater In the past month than ever.
Hotels were crowded in August, and
the volume Of business done in all the
marts OF retail trade WAS great. The
time was when that month constituted
a business interregnum. Merchants
rested on their oars waiting for an au-
turnnal revival Of trade. Now important
special sales Of merchandise, often Of
a more costly kind, are arranged for
August, and the great department stores
are filed with customers. There is no
interval of business lassitude. Tho
crowds Of August visitors are made up
almost wholly Of people who come to
New York with money to spend and for
the purpose of expending 1t, either az
wholesale or retail buyers, and they
keep the wheels of business running
with undiminished activity.
Wall Street, too, has no regular sea-
eons Of retirement from speculation.
The volume of business in the Stock
Exchange may be greatest in summer.
Wall Street reaches out by telegraphic
and by telephonic wires to every part
Of the Union, and summer rest in the
country does not by any means imply
cessation from speculative interest, but
may rather increase it. Satan ands
mischief still for idle hands to do.
Tho autumn opens with prosperous
indications throughout the Union. The
establishment Of peace between Japan
and Russia has removed the always
present danger Of other international
complications as the consequence Of
the continuation Of a great war. 1t has
simplifed the current problems Of finance
and commerce for the whole world.
We shall have more than a months
r>st from the excitements of political
canvass In this city, and when they come
they are not likely to be great and dis
tracing. The reelection Of Mr.. McCLEL-
Ian and Mr.. JEROME is on the pro-
gram. Whether fusion is brought to
pass or fails to be arranged, what issue
will be manufactured to bolster it up,
municipal ownership or any other whim
or quiddity, are matters Of no conse-
quence. The result will be the same,
whatever CUTTING or OpELL may at
tempt in order to prevent it,
Tho people of New York are not worried
over tho matter and they are not going to
he worried over it, for they have made up
their minds already that Mr.. MCCLELLAN
and Mr.. JEROME are to be retained in
the offices which those gentlemen now
hold with advantages to the town so
conspicuous. The outlook for the au-
tumn OF 1905, therefore, is happy.