The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09
SAYS GOTHAM IS
VERY CLEAN CITY
Not a Regular Sink of lniquity,
as Many People Now
Believe.
THERE ARE VICES, OF COURSE,
MANY, 1T Is TRUE
But the Metropolis of America
Is Said to Be in Fine
Condition.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.
ased Wiro 10 The Tribune.

By Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Oct, S.-Every once II
so often it is deemed necessary in some
quarters to start up crusade against
gambling and other vices in New York
and the awful wickedness of the city
is duly exploited We have been going
through one of these periods, and the
impression is created that New York
is regular sink of iniquity. AS a
of the cleanest cities in the world
There is gambling and other vice here
but from fairly intimate &C.
uuaintance of New York and other
cities. / venture to say that by com
parison there are few cities in the
United States, and none outside it,
are here
All Sorts of Politics.
We are having all sorts of politics in
New York these DAYS. Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt can always be depended
upon to make things interesting
wherever he NAV be- When, therefore
he undertook to take charge Of the Re
publican party in New York it was
dollars TO red apples that there would
be something doing, and there has
been. The screams of the EXPOSES
who felt the big stick have subsided
into dull moans. and the colonel is hav-
ing the time of his life.
Banks Have Plethora Money.
despite opinions to the contrary
held IN some quarters, business in the
financial centers never was better than
Il is at present, - declared George
Decker. banker, of Minneapolis. 1.-THE
banks in the northwest are lending
money freely to those who deserve
credit, as they are in all sections of the
country, and the whole financial out
look is excellent. Some have said that
because deposits of the New York
banks decreased S75,000,000 between
June Sc and September /, financial con
ditions were not as good as they might
be; but, on the contrary, those who
are better informed believe that the de
crease in deposits indicated sound
state of affairs. At the same time
that deposits of the. New York banks
decreased the deposits in Chicago. st.
Louis and other large cities fell of in
corresponding degree.
The real reason for the falling off
of deposits in the banks,' said Mr.
Decker, els the tendency at that time
of the year for the banks to clean
house, as IT were. with their accounts.
Many loans were settled during that
time, and this had tendency to de-
crease the volume of deposits. An il.
rowed $4,000 from his bank. In
August he paid the loan to the bank
with a check on his account The dc.
poslts of the bank were decreased lust
that much 1t was so with most of the
SI5,nOO,O00 decrease in the New York
banks, and in other banks of the coun-
try IN July and August.
crop conditions are excellent all
over the country. In Kansas the farm
erS have harvested fine wheat crop,
and IN other parts of the northwest
and middle west the harvests have
been good, In Oklahoma they are now
harvesting bumper cotton crop, and
the corn crops III the middle west are
IN splendid condition. -
Has Living Lower.
"The city of Pisa hasn t ANYTHING on
Soloma county, Cal, says R. K. Parrott
who lives near Santa Rose in that state
Pisa has her leaning tower, and we
have living one. This tower is 100
feet high and stands on the top of a
S0O:foot hill The remarkable feature
OF IT Is that the supports of the tower
arc four Young redwood trees. These
stand exactly at the corners of ff-
teen foot square. They could not have
been placed more accurately if thew
had been planted for the purpose. They
were originally about $50 feet high
but the tops were cut off 100 feet
from the ground in order TO form a SUP.
port for the upper platforms, which
also serves as the roof.
1.-The tower is divided into six sto--
les; each surrounded by substa ntial
railing such as is used on verandas
The floor Of each story rests on beams
anchored to tree trunks by cables and
bolts. 4 stairway leads from one floor
to the other. The steel columns which