The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-15
GOTHAM FEARING
VEGETABLE FAMINE
UNREASONABLE WEATHER AND
HIGH PRICED LIMIT SUPPLY
or GARDEN TRUCK.
LATEST IN NEW YORK
10 Plan Of Nordica to Build ! Yankee
Beyreuth on the l4udson--Giris
Taking Places ~ Office Boys
of aLte.


I New York, June IA There HI haris
! IL single class 81 producers throag'i-
onts the country that does nof feel iii
4 greater or lass extent the aftracliOgs
3o fthe New York marke. The sup
4 Ipiies which pour In from every sairee
| tion MIST first Of all keep rive fons
millions cf people and the result Ii
THAT the entfe country must he ran
sacked To meet the demand. This year
the supply of fresh vegetables has
been unusually short, owing Hi saaa
unreasonable weather which has pre-
fvaiIed All over the country during THE
last six weeks, and dealers III anl
around Washington market say that
New York N menaced by Il vegetable
famine In consequence.
| Many truck farmers on Long lslani
/ and II other territory tributary
New York are plowing IT'D the early
| lcrons which we're nIpped III the MAY
| frost and are ether planting them
anew or are pevoting their aiteu ioa
10 other crops. Garden products frpa
New Jersey and Long island whia.i
usually begin to come In by GILL; iast
| week In May, have not vet yet spaar.
eG and the prospects are that they
viii net be seen until the first Of JNly
Meanwhile prices which are high
now will DO still higher and the MAR
tunate New Yorker who mas barely
escaped from the clutches of the coal
trust will have TO continue To worh
overtime In order supply his table
with garden truck.
Goney's Golden Harvest,
Every community has Its character
Iisfic industry Its factories, its flsitArl
he's, Oh its farming interests but Eo-
lney Island is unique ID that " merely
has its amusements, and its inliabi
tanss are supported BY them Yes
Iconey Island Is a city In Itself, and 4
wealthy city at that. The season
begins officially on Decoration nay
land IL in fluI swing about fifteen
day, outside Of The occasional holiday
while Saturday afternoon aud evening
bring OH the wage earners wi b
money to spend. II the season be hot.
every evening during the week win
have It's Gam of sightseers, outos
town visitors and money winners at
the race tracks. some of whom win
spend ten or twenty liars, Others ten
or twenty cents. The average ex
penditure, taking into account young
and old, rich and poor, certainly ave.
ages not less than two dollars per-
son.
Thus If there be only 100000 peo-
pie at the island. il would mean an
income of at least $400 GOO. On fine.
warm Sunday there may be 100000
visitors. and there are likely to be
len good gnD,0O0 Sundays in the sea-
son. resulting in the receipts otss4.-
600, ,000 A good week might easily
equal two or three big Sundays. and
even II It bring noemore than $500.
OG0. ten Of them world make $so0e.
000 and bring he total up q $i2 Ooe.
O0O for moderately good season
Sometimes the season is loneer thaa
fifteen weeks. and every week a pros
perous one Coney's business men,
who are always praying for fine wealth
er say that a good season ought 10
leave at least se000o.0eo at the is
land
Nordies's Yankee 5eyreuth.
On the eve Of her departure TO-
4 rope. Nine. Lillian Nordica, the
prima donna announeed to her
friends i'm the musical world her in
tent on to devote large share Of the
great fortune which she has made
With her voice 20 the founding OF an
ins tuition for the perpetuation Of op-
era in America. which viii follow
closely the lines tarsn by Riehard &
Wagner in founding thegreat operate
institution al Bevreuih- For this par.
pose she has already purchased 4
twenty-acre tract u land overi oking
the Hudson river and convenient tn
New York. ou which will be ercetest
during the next year an aoperatie in
siituiion which Is expected TO iaks
its place as one OF trf erealesi 1T lN'
world.
According 10 the preliminary plans
the bu ldings Of the institute vi
cover frHy four acres. outside Of Eh1t
is 10 be called the Lillian Nurlica fe--
tiral House where the greatest artists
In the world will produce the MaE-
ner operas during the summer t =
the inteinion that mis- heater shait
le % every Way an exast reproiuciion
o. the theatcr erected by Riehari
Wagner and noE maintained By MS
widow. Besides The production Of
opera he Institution viii Be tse home
Of a musical college of he first rank
Here aspiran.s for oper1tic hono-s
uay aevoafe their time 30 The sluiS