The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-15
IS No DEARTH OF
CHORUS GIRLS
Walk Through the Lobster
Belt of New York DisclOses
This Fact.
LEE SHUBERT STARTED
RUM0R IN CHICAGO
There Will Be No Trouble
to Fill Places This
Winter.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Again the
truth of the old saying that you must
go away from home TO hear the news,
has been excmplified. This Time Lee
Shubert, who is in Chicago, declares
that there is dearth of chorus girls
in New York, that they are gobbled
up by millionaires faster than they can
be trained This would be very sad,
if true, but walk through the lobster
belt and talks with those who are thor
oughly acquainted with conditions
about Longaere square, indicates that
Mr., Shubcrt is simply having one of his
little summer Jokes. If Uncle Sam
made reports on the chorus girl crop,
as he does on corn and wheat and cot
ton, the general average on any twelve
would be pretty well up in the nineties,
both as to the quality and the quantity.
Will Make His Living.
Another budding millionaire has
started in to make his living, This time
it is William Seward Webb, Jr., one of
the Vanderbilt Webbs. He has started
out to learn the banking business as
clerk In the Office Of J, P. Morgan &
Co. 81 like it lot,'' was his
answer, to query, as to how he
euIOyeu MS new Work. - nave becn
here since June I. and intend to stay
five or six years. After graduating
from Yale last year ! went up to Nova
Scotia and roughed it in the lumber
business. my father having interests up
there. But l prefer this to anything /
have yet struck.
Mr.. Webb looked like real clerk,
although his rolled-up sleeves disclosed
tanned muscular forearms of the
"a oe al
II work from 9 clock until $40 or
6 clock, said the young man. 81
am living in the city, at our house, $50
Firth avenue, which is open this sum.
mer only to the extent of being in
charge OF caretaker, / am greatly
interested in the work, even though at
this, time of the month we have to
work evenings to keep up. N AS Young
Webb will. IN the natural course OF
events, have good many coupons of
ms own to clip, IT is a good thing that
he should learn how IN what is per
maps the greatest coupon. clipping con.
cern in the country.
Machine Shy of Roosevelt,
The New York Republican machine
is still shy of former President Roose~
Velr Not only has it turned down his
nephew Tor congress and refused his ad,
wee about direct primaries. but the
leaders are declaring that they can
name state ticket without help from
Oyster Bay y cynical friend of the
colonel s dryly remarked the other dav,
after reading a statement from one of
the machine leaders, to this effect:
very true they can name a ticket
without help from Oyster Bay, but how
about electing it. If there is not cry
from Macedonia. come over and help
us. before November, m "a poor sign
reader -
Horse Cars Rejected
New York is soon TO lose another of
her distinctions. The Old Belt Line
horse cars are to give way to auto
cars, of the electric storage battery
type. The. Belt. Line horse cars have
been a unique feature of New York s
internal transportation for many years,
but the picturesque must at last give
way to the cheap. While the cost Of
horse car operation is high, in fact. ex~
ceedlngiy high, per car mile as com
pared to receipts, and in another way
against electric operation, when the
Metropolitan controlled the East and
West Belt lines. as the South and West
street lines are known, it continually
avoided the proposition to tear up the
horse car tracks and replace them with
the usual Manhattan trolley system
Storage baCJery NOW.
Various reasons were then advanced
by the Metropolitan in the DAYS when
IT was the Ryan Whitney combination
for refusing to convert the system from
horse power to electricity Chief among
these was that the third rail channel
could not be made water tight, and
that owing to the soepage of salt water
through the ground, constant danger Of
short circuits would arise At every
high tide the road would be
temporarily put out of business. Then
in addition, said the Metropolitan off.
Gals. such line would not pay. While
the horse cars themselves were anything
but a paying proposition, nevertheless, |
the first cost of installing electricity
would be prohibitive, even if a plan
could be devised to keep the electric
free from water. Now the
storage battery has solved the prob.
lem and the horses must go.
Men Birds Do Stunts.
One of the most interesting points
about New York these days IS the avia.
ton grounds at Mineola Men birds do
all sorts of fancy stunts with aeroplanes |
there every day and the crowds who |
watch these aerial stunts constantly !
grow greater.
On the eve of his departure for New
OIk 10 Jake up MS dutleS as general |
eastern agent of the ST. Paul, the rail |
road men of Boston waited upon W. w.
Hall and presented him with a gold |
watch in token Of their esteem and with |
best wishes for success an the metrop-
oils. Mr.. Hall is Californian who comes |
to this city with the prestige of having
made good In every position he has
filled in the service of the st. Paul
during the fifteen years he has been |
with the freight traffic department. of
that road. He is an agreeable addition |
to "the Broadway squad, - to the mem
bers of which he is by no means un-
known and who have welcomed him to |
their circle in way that shows him he |
is among good friends.
Afraid of Conditions.
Arthur f. Stillwell. president of the
Kansas City. Mexico e. Orient railway, |
has returned from a trip to Europe. |
While he is cheerful or hopeful over
tho future Of American securities
abroad, he declared that this country
was losing millions Of dollars Of the |
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