The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-10
NEWS TOPICS IN
BUSY NEW YORK
How Metropolis Will Celebrate
Memory of Explorer and
Inventors.
AER0PLANE OF THE FUTURE
cUPiD's ACTIVITY SHOWS RE-
TURN OF PROSPERITY.
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New York. Sept 9.-Probabiy never
before in the history Of any city has so
much money been Iavished on a single
civic celebration as will be expended by
New York during the final days OF this
month in it's combined observance of
the three hundredth anniversary Of
Henry Hudson's discovery OF the
river that bears his name, and the cen
tennial of Fulton's invention of the
steamboat. Five hundred thousand dol
lars is being raised by public subsCrip-
ton to pay the expenses Of the Hudson
Fulton commission, which has charge
Of the general arrangements. The Hud-
son monument, which Is being erected
under the auspices of a committee Of
prominent men on SpUyten DUyVil hill
ar the point where the great explorer
had his first encounter with the Indians,
VIII cost 100000. The outlay for pri-
vste decorations and appropriations
made for various purposes will amount
10 d quarter of q million, and the Off
cial HUdsOH-FUIton dinner, which is TO
be given on Sept. % at the Hotel AstOr,
VIII represent an expenditure of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 additional
Three thousand guests are expected to
assemble ut this dinner, and $1,000 is
being expended to prepare the decora-
tions for the banquet room, including
mural paintings by we'll known artists
especially done for this occasion. Alto
gether, New York VIII spend over ST.
100000 on professions decorations, il
Elimination and other plans Tor honor
ing the memory of two of the most ia
nous men connected with her history.
Apparently every imaginable COntmgen-
cy has been provided for except the
matter of taking care Of the vast
taTOngs OF spectators. This is causing
some uneaSiQess, as it is estimated that
between 1000, 900 and 100000 people
viii assemble to witness some of the
spectacles-a crowd large enough To tax
the resources OF wen the metropolis,
Views OF Germany.
Germany, which we are accustomed
10 think of as a land where rigid dis
tiHctiOus of class are enforced, really
has more democracy and less snobbish-
ness in its social life than has the
United States, according TO the state
ments of American visitors who have
Just returned from attendance at the
five huudTedth jubilee anniversary OF
the University of Leipsic, one of the
largest as wei as one of the oldest in
The final act Uf the jubilee which the
foreign visitors were invited TO attend
was the holding OF Il ''kOmmers" or stu
dents drinking party. The king of
SaS0ny presided at this affair. and he,
with the crown prince. who is q student
AT LGipsic, mingled on terms Of perfect
equality with the enthusiastic under
graduates.
In the course Of the evening the king
made a little speech in which he de-
tended German students against the
charge of excessive drinking, and de
clared that their beer-driuking customs
represented the truest temperance. He
added humorously that he could not
imagine the achievements Of the Ger
man nation and Of German scholarship
to be founded upon the consumption of
nothing but raspberry juice.
At the conclusion OF the address,
king, princes, celebrities and students
emptied their glasses at a single
draught in accordance with undergrad
uate custom. While both Leipsic and
Heidelberg have educated many royal
princes. these young men invariably
conduct themselves with more modesty
and good fellowship toward their less
distinguished fellow students, the
American visitors declare, than do the
sons Of the average millionaire in our
own institutions.
AeropIanes for Pleasure.
In ten years aeroplanes win be in
general use by private citizens for bus
mess and pleasure, not perhaps to so
great an extent as the automobile is
now. but 10 such q degree that their
appearance viii excite no comment
whatever.
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American automobile manufacturer
who has just returned from the avia-
zion contests at Rheims.
As a result of the progress shown at
this meeting and OF the enthusiasm
aroused by the victory of Glenn H. Cur
lis in his American machine, no less
than a dozen big concerns in and about
this city are rushing plans for the man
ufaCture Of various types Of air craft.
Several Of these are companies now
engaged in making automobiles, who
propose TO take on the manufacture of
air cars as a side line, and one such big
firm is already advertising its readiness
10 supply aerOplanes to all who may
care TO purchase.
Others propose to devote themselves
exclusively to meeting the demands of
cir navigation.
One curious development OF the in
terest IN this subject is that the demand
for designers and pattern makers ex-
Ceeds the supply and the patterns
makers union announces from its
- headquarters here that scores Of ex-
perienced wcrkmen can obtain employ
lnent If they can be found on account
Of the sudden activity in the making Of
patterns for aerial craft.
While the discussion as TO why mar
riages are decreasing in New York has
been going on, and all sorts Of explaua-
lions and reasons have been brought
forward to account for this supposed
condition, the records which have been
accumulating in the marriage license
bureau of the city shows that instead
of q serious falling off in the number
OF marriages, there has been a decided
increase during each month of the pres
ent summer over the corresponding pc
riOd Of 1908.
In June this increase was trife over
500 while for July and August ii
amounts 70 slightly less than 1,000
The officials in charge of these records
declare that the influences affecting the
marriage rate are primarily industrial.
and rot social, and they see I'm the re-
turn OF the conditions prevailing before
the panic Of two years ago the most
convincing evidence Of the improvement
OF business and Of general employment
for wagewoTkeFs.
The fact that Cupid IS once more al
most as busy as he was in the flush
times of 1906 may be accepted as con-
elusive proof. they assert, that wide
spread prosperity actually has returned
"a conclusion that is borne out by
many other indications.