The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-15

ne Americans are the most extraor
binary race Of spenders that ever lived
haVlng more money than the people of
any other nation, we proceed TO sauan
oer it IN way that makes foreigners
oizzy. There is no question but that
we spend more money in the evening
Tor run than the rest of the world lives
on during the day. Our unheard of ex-
traVagances take innumerable forms.
during the racing season we bet a mil
hon dollars every day-and lose most
OF 1t. Our women spend about four
millions year for feathers to wear
on their hats, and our small bows get
an early start as spendthrifts by squan"
derng million dollars month for
peanuts and popcorn.
The people of Chicago spend 100000
every week in going to their tbeatcrs,
and they spent more than that sum last
fall on the series of championship ball
games. A New York firm reports the
sale of $250,000 worth of rugs for one
man house; Philadelphia ieweier
sold hundred thousand dollar ruby to
complete one woman s collection of
Jewels, and now comes New Yorker
who spends TWO and half millions for
site for private residence. The an
nual expenditure in tins country for
little thlngss. like, golf sticks and balls
new game with us. When it comes to
speculation we are the easiest lot of
marks that ever drew the breath Of
life. During the last twelve months the
get-rlch-Quick element in the United
states has invested enough money in
wildcat mining schemes to pa yoff the
Government debt.
Extravagant Travellers.
The Atlantic liners have suites of
rooms which cost $4,000 per VOYAGE in
the summer and these sumptuous apart
ments never lack for occupants. Amer
leans are exceptionally extravagant in
their travels, When I was in Cairo,
Egypt, the manager of the largest no.
tel there told me that 20 per cent of
his guests were Americans. Fully 80,
600 Of our people 90 TO Paris every
year. The Keepers of the great shops
and resorts of the French metropolis
would think dull times had struck them
If the easy money of the Yankee spend.
ers should stop falling on their coun-
ters. Uncle Sam s tourists arc so gen
crous in their expenditures that in
most parts of the world the natives ask
them Just as much again as they do
travellers from other countries Bead
sellers and curio vendors in the West
Indies know that Yankee will readily
pay half dollar for an article that
Britisher will hesitate TO purchase for
shilling.
The Americans squander untold mil
lions on travel in their own country.
Los Angeles has over 10000 rooms for
rent and they fill up every season. it
is estimated that the tourists spend
s25, 100000 in southern California
every winter. The number os people
who visit Niagara Falls during an or.
dinary year is between 100000 and
100000, and during years when many
excursions are run from distances, the
number Of visitors to the scene of this
great natural wonder runs over n mil.
lion. The amount Of money spent here
by the tourists is incalculable They
spend all the way from two TO two
thousand dollars apiece. The last esti
mate may seem high but when people
come with their rctinuc of servants
and take whole suites. or several suites
of rooms in the big hotels. and make
large purchases of bric-a brac. furs and
curios at the bazars, a thousand dol
lars don 7 last long.
Mountains Attract Thousands.
The Yellowstone National park, with