Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-08-31
Leon Rosebrook in New York.
New York City, n. Y,
Aug. 20, 1906

DN"i l. bih7' Out duu All.
You have been asking me about
prices, rents and salaries in the east.
S" l will try to give you little idea of
salaries, etc, etc, IN comparison with
San Francisco and Portland.
am playing five hours a day and
draw s25 per week. The same Job in
San Francisco is $50.
Musicians on Coney Island draw SIS
TO $40 week and work eight hours n
day. Such work in San Francisco Is
S23 week and only five hours day.
Room rent in New York is So a week
for by box that San Francisco
landlord would be ashamed to use for a
clothes closet. good front bedrc ON
is $S to $40 a week. An apartment
in an eight-apartment house is S42 a
month for seven room apartment.
You can get the same number of rooms
in fiat (Which is the same as an apart
ment in San Francisco) for 500 to S25
month. Ofcourse You can 90 cheoror
than this, but you can't get anything
for less than that in a decent part Of
town,
On Broadway you pay dollar for a
meal that you can get for so cents and
even 80 cents on street one block from
Broadway.
When you walk down Broadway you
can see half dozen small stores that
have failed and gone bankrupt, rent be-
ing so high
1t is about 30 degrees in the shade
here, and in the Subway (that is the
underground street railway it is from
5 degrees to 10 degrees hotter, and the
Subway has a very poor ventilation
system, so you can imagine the condi-
| tiou of the air down there about 4 D. m.
Everything is pennies here. If a bill
of goods comes to $4.97 you pay $4.97
and not S4.95. Papers are cent and
cents each. Ferry passage across the
East and North Rivers is 3 cents. You
can go to Boston by steamer for Sl.75.
When left North Adams, Mass. |
Went around by way of Albany, N. Y
From Albany the railroad runs right
down the east side of the Hudson Ri
YER. 1t was beautiful trip, but was
too sleepy to appreciate it. left North
Adams at 2 a. m. and laid over two
hours and half-.-from 5 a. m. to 7.30
a. m.
open in Maryland with the show /
90 west with. They carry about fifty
people and two carloads of scenery and
baggage. 1t is musical comedy COM
pany. NV wife will play the leading
soubrette parts.
We 90 by way of St. Louis and tho
southern states TO California and the
show (but not us) go back east by Den
yer and Ogden. have had enough of
! the east.
If you could only see some of the
groceries here! Fruit for instance.
Watermelons here so cents; in Califor-
mia the same size melon 10 cents or at
the most 20 cents; peaches 2 for
ceuts; pears 3 for 10 cents and some
3 cents straight; oranges cents and
some 4 for 25 cents; butter 35 cents
pound, best grade 40 cents; eggs 81
cents, best grade 30 cents; chicEens,
dressed, 81 for peund one. The on
ly thing that is cheaper is clothes.
can buy a suit of clothes here for $l5
that will cost S22.50 in San Francisco.
OF course these prices are compared
to San Francisco prices before the
earthquake.
just word in regard to North Ad-
ans, Mass, and will close: North
Adams is town of $4,000 people.
There is a mill there called the Arnold
Print Works, manufacturing cloth.
They employ over half the town. In
other words, they employ $4,000 men
and women Their factory covers over
, square miles of ground. | mean their
buildings and not one building. There
is state law in Massachusetts that COM
pels you TO give all your profits over
certain figure to the state, and to avoid
that the Arnold Mill owner tears down
and rebuilds his buildings and adds on
more ground all the time.
Oregon is good enough FOR me and
when | go back west will never leave
there. would give week S salary for
a box of Oregon apples. The poor devil
that goes east is going to get soaked.
Give me Oregon and all its rain land
it rains just as much here in summer
as it does in Oregon in winter.) We
have thunder storm every three or
four days. LEON E. RosEBRooK.