The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-24
BUNCH OF
GOTHAM GOSSIP
HOW NEW YORK SPENDS MANY
MILLIONS TO HAVE ITS
EARS PLEASED.
GREAT FINANCE CENTER
May Soon Be in the Big Metropolis
Congested City Blocks--Famous
Land Mark Torn AWay--For
New Buildings.

New York, Nov. 23-Just about one
I dollars worth Of music for every one
Icf New York S residents is TO be turn
ed loose during the coming season !,
Iof being music mad has completed
plans for spending somthing between
$1,000 600 and $4,000000 on sweet
sounds. vocal and instrumental. The
greater part of this fortune for which
when spent the public will have moth
ing TO show will pour into the Golfers
of the Metropolitan opera house dur
ing the seventeen weeks season be.
& ming next Monday The five regu
lar performances a week will separate
New Workers from $4,000 for each
one the seventeen Sunday concerts
viii cost $4,000 apiece, and the special
performances and benefits will bring
the total up well above tho million
mrak. In other words in this one play
house alone New York will spend
every week enough TO pay the salary
| of the president of the United States.
! to say nothing Of the vice president
and half a dozen senators. And this
! is only one item. There is to be an
opera eason at the Manhattan also
and if the tenor of whom l'ttle Is
known, is anything Of success, at
least S750,000 will probably be spent
there, for while one swallow CAM
make summer, one opera star can
make an opera season. Aside from
the opera houses New Workers will
probably pay out another half million
Of dollars at Carnegie Hall where
yomethinG like us concerts viii be
pulled off during the season The teu
Boston Symphony concerts alone will |
net $4,000, The Philharmonic, how
eve: carries off the palm as q money |
maker, since after paying its director
$1,000 for each performance ii nets
more than $4,000 on each pair of con
certs Other concerts and musicals |
will add another $500 600 to the total |
of si09O,000 which New York is about |
to blow in on music
Worlds Money Center Soon.
New York haa just taken one moro
sep in The direction of assuming thaf
first position in the world of finance |
30 long occupied by London and con
tested by Berlin and Paris a position |
Of homer and power which have count
ed for much in maintaining the boast
ed English trade supremacy, now
steadily and rapidly giving way before
the advance Of Yankee energy. The
latest step in this inya ion is revealed
In the announcement that pr9minen
New YORK. financial interests have just
establ shed an American bank in Ber
lin with a capitalization of 25,000,000
marks. The chief aim of the new
bank. it is stated. will be the promo
tion OF commercial and industrial re
lations with the United States and 9th
er countries of the three Americas
II l. only in recent years that such an
advance has assumed important pro-
portions Practically the first move
o nthe part Of American financial in
terests in the direction of extending
trade through facilities afforded by
the establishment of American banks
in foreign countries was made in Cuba
AT the close of the Spanish-American
war when the Trust Company of Am
erica, then act ng a. fiscal agent in
the island for the United States gov.
nrument, replaced tho cumbersome
and practically useless Spanish bank
ing system by modern methods Since
hat time Americans have invested
about $500 600 in banking enterprises
IN Havana. a single bank cs ahlishe1
N that city within few months hay-
ing been capitalized at S5.0pn0U1. Nov
Americans enjoy practical m mop
ply Of Cuban trade.
Badly congested Streets.
Six thousand one hundred and sc,-
people living in one city
block of five and ane-third acres-that I
IS the record of the most congestel }
district in New York where human
)eings literally pack themselves to
sether almost like sardines. This /
llock is not as might be expected m
he lower Eat Side. but on the West
: de of Central Park between Sixty /
irst and Sixty-second streets Alto.
ycthcr there are ffty-onc blocks i'm The
'ity having a population OF more than
'.po0 each. and of these tairty-sove7 {
ire on the lower East Side below
70 rteenih street. seven ON the East
Side above Fourteenth street. six on d
be West Side aud one in the middle
irea now called the Fifth Avenue
Federation Districts Overcrowding
n this city is unden ably on the in
.reare and the prophesy Of New YOr
IS the living place Of only the very I
ich and the very poor is always gain
ng weight. For example IN 1900 the
combined population of the II most