The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-25
Hlgh Life in New Yorlk.

Louisville Courier-Journai
 The never-ending protest of New Workers against the oppression prac- to the fore. Of course. 1t will avail nothing. The ticket speculator has been, Is and always will be. The vic- tims will continue to submit to being fieeced out of double prices for tickets, the public that every effort Is being made to eliminate the middle man of the curb. and the skin game" will prosper uninterruptedly. The ease with which theatre tickets. and many other luxuries and necessities are sold at two or three times their value in New York Is due to the fact that the first American city is the great American playground. The "come-on," as the per son from the provinces is called in tho Tenderloin, is in the American Rome for a short time with every intention or making 1t howl, regardless of expense It may be a long time before he can aeain leave Keokuk or Bloomington to enjoy the dazzling delights of the Great White Way. concerning which he has read so much in the New York news papers and in countless magazines which exist chiefly to advertise motor cars and New York. He does not pro- pose to let his normal. Homegrown ideas of thrift stand between him and the success of his celebration. He can economize when he returns to the province whence>he comes. and 1t will be a pleasure to Nhim to recount his high-priced adventures and open the eyes of his fellow-townsmen by men tioning sums that are out of proportion to values received. from the stand point of the stay-at.home: The prodig- ality of the transient ts responsible for sthe imitation of the values of thea Ire tickets, hotel rooms, club steaks and the like in the metropolis. The burden falls not upon the man who IS Awa !. but upon the man who spends the bet ter part of 365 days there once year. It is because it Is the national play ground that New York Is not good place in which to live. except Tor per- sons who have made large sums of money, there or-efsewhere. and are not annoyed by the two-price system upon which the city operates. The ticket speculator Is only one of the many out ward manifestations of the system in New York. In smaller city, visited by comparatively few persons bent upon enjoying life for a brief time without regard to cost, the ticket specuiator would become the victim or his own the drama would stop at home rather than be defrauded. But when man arrives in New York from the middle of the continent or the other side of ticket and ticket at s3 or s5 does not appeal to him as being sufficient to cause him to forego the pleasures Of the evening. If the .'come on" pays, ss day for hotel room which would cost him e2 in Louisville or Kansas City or Omaha. # matters littis to him. He can afford to live at the rate of SIS .000 year for q few days ba- cause he is going to live at the rate of S, 900 or $1,500 for the rest of the year. New York has great deal of >pieasure as well as profit out of over. charging the provincial, but the pro yinciaI does not particularly mind the robbery, since 1t can not last. The toIxe--and it 10 rather grim one--is limited and whose residence in New York is, permanent. While the provin ciaI dances ''his little hour or two" the New Yorker must pay the piper every day.