The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-03-30
ERICA EXTRA ! AG.AN1
.-v SPENT IN 4 way II 2 I
.nazEs FOREIGNERS.

sea Millions Wear FOR Millinery
.,srs-s25.o0o,0co Tor Winter
,.,s in caIiforaia-a4ge Sums
YEAH c.,ebrs4ioas-NeH YORK FRS:
7rse b Extravaganza
n.rine more money than any other
y ar sou Americans proceed 70 aqUanogI
iollan b way that makes loFe::',iyIs ol1..y
SAT- MI extravaganza take innnAefao-e
! fv rn,ing the racing season they bet a
! ov1 alon dollars every tay-and lose
ed = of it. American women spend
otivj mt 100000 a year for feathers %
-, in their hats, and small boys get
/ tn early start as spenGtAritts BY
tilwa] wandering $1,000, 600 month for pea
pnkp and popcorn ,.,..
ieadl} The people OF Chicago spend sloo'7oo
road ey week in going to their theatres
a they spent more than that sum
me,x fall on the series OF championship
levatE N games. A New York firm reports
rail J sale Of $4,000 worth. Of rugs for
% !. = mans house, Philadelphia jewel
2 ba sold 100000 ruby 70 complete
. M vonlan's collection Of jewels, ana
moi a comes New Yorker who spends
MOOO for site for private resi-
isnei Ne
,teank he annual expenditure il this conn-
~ for little things like golf sticks and
con. M is 100000, and soft is new
,st NE here. When it comes to specu-
,,o. loo Americans are the easiest OF easy
atha rrks. During the last twelve
oon, uaths the get rich quick element in
a. ! United States has invested enough
hr,,d ny in wildcat mining schemes 10
Coo OF the government debt.
The Atlantic liners have suites ot
u, ns which cost $1,000 a voyage III
CO. summer, and these apartments new
!, !. lack for occupants. Americans are
=, NO. nationally eXtrayagaLt in their
= i; reIs In Cairo, Egypt, the manager
The largest hotel reports that -
ora rnnt of his guests are Americans.
Lt $4,000 Americans 80 ID Paris
,uo ~ year.
I'll he keepers of the great shops and
kXts Of the French metropolis would
u dull times had struck them if the
money Of the Yankee spenders
: nd stop falling on their counters.
de Sans tourists are SO generous
their expenditures that in most parts
We world the natives ask them just |
mich again as they do travellers
other countries. Bead sellers and |
- vendors in the West Indies know
Yankee will readily pay a half |
" Tor an article that Britisher |
b il p'' ''@'>'N '0i " ''''
~. ~ Americans squander untold mil
/. ~ On travel in their own country.
nirJ esumated that the tourists spend
~. u,OVO in southern California every
NH, 80 Inc number of people who
~. Niagara Falls during an ordinary
between 10000 and 800 600. and
M, 7aH when many excursions are run
~. distances the number OF visitors
~ eds million.
~ ne amount Of money spent here by
!, al eeflsts is incalculable. They spend
8 way from So to $4,000 apiece. The
~ slmate may seem very high, but
n, 9 people come with their retinue5
N, svants and take whole suites. or
I'm ga suites OF rooms in the big no
NJ. aad make large purchases Of brio
.,s les furs and curios $1,000 does not
eng thing
= ~ iellowstone National park, with
"a 1ural wonders and beauties of
~ attracts upward of 10000 visi-
=. year, the majority of whom
nom east Of the Alleghanies.
ao lare to and from this park to
has 1sntseers means almost as much
en- as trip to Europe. The Yo-
~ e Valley, inaccessible as it is. is
" y SVOO slghtseers yearly, near
Cd whom come from great dis
ri olume of travel to Colorado has
mi q 80 rapidly during the last
nars that although carpenters
fof gen kept busy through the entire
Ige bdilding new hotels each sum-
hd = accommodations of the state
% - 70 the utmost. During the
10 some sixty conventions were
~ Denver.
iol MOS Of travellers 60 down the
|. ce every summer and thous-
os lock to Florida in the win
s1aoosh Asheville, N. c., is not
s.. ason as one of the great ma
wi nov places it is now attracting
are ,s''ors every year.
ani are enthusiasts for expo-
er. celebrations and conventions
he q Louis exposition one morn
ifs s0ur Of newspaper men and Of
talking about the money
NJ g been squandered in this conn.
- expOSitiOnc raaau.. ,,