The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-28
NEW YORK HARVEST
REACHES VAST SUM
Out Town Visitors Drop
Half a Billion Each Year
Seeing the Elephant.
EASY WORK FOR LAZY MAN
cANADA'S CEMENT TRUST-BET
NOT DECIDED.

New York, Nov. 27.-The amount OF
money spent in this city by out-of-town
visitors every year has now reached
point where it surpasses- the estimated
cost of the Panama canal While an an
nual outcry is raised over the fact that
800. 100000 Of American money is spent
each year by tourists in Europe, the
amount which goes into the Golfers of
hotelkeepers, theatre managers and shop
owners in this city from the purses of
visitors from the rest of the country now
amounts, 1t is estimated on a conserva-
tive basis, to $500, 000, 600. During the
month of November, Father Knickerbock-
er has entertained nearly 100000 out-of-
town visitors, which practically doubles
the monthly figure for last year. AS
nearly as can be computed, the average
visitor here spends at least $50 for accom-
modations, food, entertainment and gen.
efal shopping purchases, which, figured
on the basis Of November figures,
amounts to 500, 900 900 a month Naturally
the expenditure is less during the sum
mer, though even then the city is a
Mecca to oUt-of-town residents AVerag-
ing up for the whole year, however, the
amount OF out-Of-tOwn money spent here
annually is not less than half a billion
dollars, and by many experts is estimated
to be much more. The hotels are now
crowded far beyond their limit and are
feeding more than 10000 visitors daily,
while boarding houses are caring for at
least 100000 persons. At the Hotel Aston
recently 1920 people ordered meals dur
ing single day, and In various other no.
tells the number was almost as large.
With 24,0OOOO0 visitors coming to New
York every year, it is now figured that
on an average every man, woman and
child in the United States visits this city
once every three years.
Human Coat Rack.
OF the many strange occupations which
the struggle for livelihood in this city
has developed, one which came to light
TINS week as a result Of the first cold
snap is perhaps the most novel The dis
coverer of the new job is Monk" Thomp-
son, a well known character along the
Battery sea wall, where he spends most
or his time smoking and summing himself.
He now styles himself the only walk
ing human coat rack" and in the pur-
suit of his new profession is making a
bit of money. When Monk" appeared
on the Battery wall the other day, wear
ing a silk-lined Overcoat, many were the
expressions of astOnishment among his
aequaintances. Then they demanded an
explanation. Monk replied that the
coat was not his. but that it belonged to
his district leader who was paying him
to wear ito act as a perambulating |
coat rack. The first cold weather coming
on top of warm Indian summer found
many winter Overcoats still packed away
in moth balls, strongly impregnated with |
their scent. The ordinary procedure on
taking out such garments is to hang them
York back yards are rare and sneak |
thieves many, so that many persons are
obliged to wear their coats before the |
OdOr of camphOT has disappeared. This, |
however. the district leader did not wish
to do, because of the comment II ere
ated so he hit upon the idea Of hiring |
Monk, whose honesty is unquestiOned, to |
wear the coat for a couple of days. He
even told a few friends about It. and as |
a result Monk Of late has worn the fin |
est of oYercoats, much to the envy Of his /
friends, who watch the human coat rack /
striding up and down the sea wall with /
the deOdOrizing breezes blowing away the /
Odor of camphOr.
A Canadian Trust"
Trust kings here have enjoyed a quiet /
Chuckle Of late over the report emanating /
from Canada that a cement trust is being I
formed across the border. The merri- |
ment is not due to pleasure over an addi /
ton to the ranks, but rather to the con- /
victiOn that il the cement merger be /
cited as an example, our neighbOrs across |
the line do not know a trust when they /
see one. Although the Canadian organ
izatiOn is a thirtym iliion-doiar affair, &C
cOrding TO reports, it fails except in size /
to qualify with a single characteristic of
trusts as they have been developed in
this country. In every detail it presents
the antithesis of American trust methods,
as is shown by the fact that its net earn
ings amount to more than six times the |
interest on the bond issue, and to half a l
million dollars more than the interest on
all its obligations. Furthermore, al \
though the consumption of cement in
Canada has doubled in the last four
years, the price is now ten per cent lower
than the average for the last five years 4
In these two essential features, the Can n
adam combination is about as far re-
moved from the ideas of a trust in this II
country as can we'll be imagined. If this |
be trust, let Canada make the most of /
it. Is the sentiment expressed by men |
who are busy with the rumOred billion |
dollar copper combine, the telephone and II
telegraph merger and other almost equal
ly large deals. While from the Wall |
street point of view Canada is hOpelessly
behind the times in being without a trust,
she is not likely to get out Of the old
fashioned class in this respect If the So
called cement merger be taken as sam
Bet Not Decided.
Fate always has in store some partic-
ul2rly hard knock for the man who tries
to get more than his share, else why |
should John d. Rockefeller have indiges-
ton and Andrew Carnegie find 1t so diff
ficUlt TO die poor. One humble but prom
Using initatOr has received the jolt early /
in his career, however, and ii ought to
serve as warning. The story is this: Il
There is a famous cafe in GOtham's all 4
night district whose proprietor, inspired II
by the preachings of a ~certein distin- Il
guished individual to an anti-race sui Il
eide campaign, year or two ago Of Il
fered a prize of $50 to every one of his II
employees who should marry. Later on l
the scheme seemed incomplete, and a Il
supplementary prize of S25 each was Of Il
fered for babies. So far it has been ex-
pensive, but the proprietor has stuck to Il
It heroically, animated by the profound II
interest in the welfare of the race, and
sustained by the advertising value of the II
The cafe has a chef who by II
joining hands with another emp1Oye II
about a year ago, succeeded In dragging II
down double prize money, but this was
held to be strictly legitimate, with Il
profit left over for extra advertising II
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