The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-17
Our New York Letter.

been done by a negro named Butler.
Our New York Letter.
There are 100 women in New York
city who spend $35, 1000 year for
dresses. There are $4,000 that spend
$4,000 each, and 5000 that ,spe. 1
S5, 900 piece. The average annual
cost of the New York woman's cloth
ing is S295. This is not large sum,
but is the figure on which balances
the thousands who do not spend $40,
and the scores who spend S35, 900.
A dress for the latter costs more
than the entire expenses of the fam
lily of the former.
AS high prices as $4,000 for sable
fur, $40 for hat, S12 for shoes are
paid. Many of the women have rs
hats a season, a dozen pair shoes,
etc.
Ball and dinner dresses cost these
high livers $500 to 81 ,2G0 each, and
they have more than one.
The reader must not picture in the
mind that this represents the city as
a whole, while the number sounds
large, yet there are so many others
here who exist on the $40 to $500
outlay for clothes, the extremists
are as single pebbles on the seashore
among the sands.
An interesting study is the list of
''lost and found" articles appearing
in the papers daily. In such a mass
of people these articles reach thous--
ands daily, owing to the rush and
hustle of the city as its millions of
souls go hither and thither at the
rapio New York gate. One woman
left on the car a "grip,' containing
SIZE, 900, yet took care to take with
her a suit case in which perhaps was
SIS worth of wearing apparel. A
man lost one of his shoes, how he
failed to miss it causes wonder, but
not to the mind of a resident; the
latter knows it is possible TO lose
and not miss even a limb, if painless;
so absorbed must be the mind while
in the great vortex. Thousands car
nv lunch boxes, these are lost by the
hundred. Shows what must be on
ones mind where he forgets his
lunch. Eye glasses, walking canes,
umbrellas, love letters, pocket books,
even babies are among the lists at
times.
Your correspondent is just back
from a trip up in Connecticut, the
State of Yankee ingenuity" made
famous by the wooden nutmegs"
that were made and put on the mar
ket, palmed off on the public for
genuines. Thrift and enterprise are
visible on every side, fourishing fac
tories, beautiful homes, good roads,
fine farms, all going to show the
energy of the populace. -.
Slow going Southern sections Ut
there are any Lefty would do well to
ride through Connecticut for inspi-
ration. One thing is noticeable, say
what you please of the South's farm
hands, they can plow straight rows.
the Yankee plow-man is deficient In
this, but he drives the plow at a
faster gate which may account for
this.
In the North the mule is seldom
seen, the OK never. The superior
intelligence of the horse is the rea-
son. In the congested street sec
tions, the mule would not penetrate,
wind around, get through as the
horse.
Drays are not used, as elsewhere,
huge trucks carry the enormous
loads, the writer has counted one OF
these carrying 200 barrels at one
load.
The finest draug ght and driving
horses of the world are brought and
sent to New York because of the de-
mand for such here and the big
prices they bring.
The city's population is made up
of perhaps 70 per cent "out of town
born. To bring man down from
his lofty perch you have only to get
him to talk and thinking of his child
hood days; home, mother. Recollec;
tions of the past cool the heated
brow, quiet the raging mind, still
the rushing limbs, and with the
knowledge of its effect the writer fre'
ouently practices this to see the effect;
it is a weapon to use, a means to
reach an end, a wedge that '.splits. "
In the Bowery mission, the first
thing that arrests the eye on enter
ing is a placard, "How long since
you wrote mother?" All the songs
sung, prayers uttered, sermons de:
livered, combined do not do the gooo
this placard does. 1t brings the mar
to a halt, instantly mellows his hard
ened heart, prepares it in a more
receptive attitude. Take a seat neal
the entrance, watch them as they
enter, study them as they read it
the effect is soul moving and upllft
ing. h: w. FINLAYsoN.
45O Broadway, New York.
New cotton mills are to be erect