Arizona republican., 1906-11-28
|S4, ,0O0, ,00O WORTH
 Of NEW YORK MUSIC
There Will Be Spent in the Present Season Dollar Head for Each Inhabitant.

New York, Nov. 2S. Special Corres-
 pondence to The Republican)-Just
 about one dollars worth of music
 for every one of New York's residents is to be turned loose during the coming season; TOT
 the city with all the appearance of be- ing music mad, has completed plans for spending something between s3,OO0, 900 and $4,000000 on sweet sounds, vocal and instrumental The greater part of
 this fortune for which when spent the
 public will have nothing to show will pour into the coffers of the Metropol- itan Opera House during the seventeen weeks season beginning next Monday.
 The five regular performances a week will separate New Workers from sl2.-
 900 for each one, the seventeen Sunday concerts will cost 5000 apiece, and the special performances and benefits will
 bring the total up we'll above the mill
 lion mark. In other words. in this one
 play house alone, New York win 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 season at the Manhattan also.
 and if the tenor. of whom little is
 known. is anything of a success at
 least s750OOO will probably be spent there, for while one swallow can't make a summer, one opera star can
 make an opera season. Aside from the opera houses New Workers will prob
 ably pay out another half million of dollars at Carnegie Hall, where some thing like 175 concerts will be pulled off during the season. The ten Boston
 Symphony concerts alone will net s10,-
 900. The Philharmonic, however, car
 ries off the palm as a money maker ! since after paying its director 5000 for
 each performance it nets more than $50O0 on each pair of concerts. Other concerts and musicals will add another
 $500. 900 to the total of $4.0o0.000 which
 New York is about to blow in on mu-
 sic.
 New York has just taken one more
 step in the direction of assuming that
 the first position in the world of fin-
 ance so long occupied by London and
 contested by Berlin and Paris. a posi- ton of honor and power which have
 counted for much in maintaining the
 boasted English trade supremacy. now
 steadily and rapidly giving way before
 the advance of Yankee energy. The
 latest step in this invasion Is revealed | in the announcement that prominent
 New York financial interests have just ] established an American bank in Der lin with a capital of 25,000,000 marks. The chief aim of the new bank. n is
 stated, will be the promotion of com mercial and industrial relations with the United States and other countries
 of the three Americas. It is only in re-
 cent years that such an advance has
 assumed important proportions. Prac- tically the first move on the part of
 American financial interests in the di-
 rection of extending trade through fa-
 cilities 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 America. then acting as fiscal agent in the island for the United
 States government. replaced the sum- bersome and practically useless Span fish banking system by modern meth
 ods. Since that time. Americans have invested about s7.50O 900 in banking en-
 terprises in Havana. a single bank es'
 tablished in that city within a re"
 months having been capitalized at S5'-
 OOo. 900. Now Americans enjoy prac'
 tical monopoly of Cuban trade.
 Six thousand one hundred and seven
 ty three people living in one city bloct of five and one-third acres-that I: the record of the most congested ais trict in New York where human be ings literally pack themselves togeth' CT almost like sardines. This block E not. as might be expected on the lower East Side but on the West side ol Central Park. between Sixty-firs, ant Il Sixty-second streets. Altogether there are fifty one blocks in the city havlnt a population of more than 5000 each and of those thirty-seven are on th' lower East Side below Fourteenti I street seven on the East Side above Fourteenth street. six on the Wes Side and one in the middle, now called the Fifth Avenue Federation District Oyercrowdfng in the city is undeniabl, on the increase and the prophecy o New York as the living place of onll the very rich and the very poor is al ways gaining weight. For example, 1T 1900 the combined population the ffty-one most congested blocks
 was 132. .ss1. while in 1905 the numbel had increased to HESS, or nearly 5O,' 900. with more than 300 people to th' acre nothing uncommon. Of cours' rents are one great cause of congeste' population. for the laboring man can not afford the necessary space at tn present prices one expert investiga tor has reported four dollars per room per month for each room of hve room tenement as the lowest price which decency can be acquired. Wml the investigation showed that Sloe per year was the lowest adequate nv ing cost for a man with a wife an' three children. actual conditions shoy that in many cases families of this sig must live for far less. Thus does tn problem of preventing too great con gestion of population become daii more pressing.
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