The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
FOOD CONDEMNED IN NEW YORK CITY The Health Authorities Are
 Accomplishing Wonders N. Y. A CITY OF HOTELS Man Who Travels Through West Says
 Development and Progress Made
 There Every Year Is Remarkable
N. Y. A CITY OF HOTELS
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

has been seized and condemned by the health authorities of the city. How much of this unfit stuff has squeezed past the inspectors and gone into consumption there is no telling.
 That it probably has been very great may be assured when it is realized shat Father Knickerbocker's food bill at whole- sale is pretty nearly $500, ,o0o,0oo year. The courts have concluded to join in the crusade to free the people from buying rotten and poisonous food. Recently se- were offenders have been sent to jail ana the magistrates have announced that TO leniency will be shown dealers who are caught with the goods,
 Most of those so far caught were deal CTS from the lower part of the city, and the charges against them alleged the possession of decayed chickens, soured condensed milk, spoiled corn beH, dyed chopped meat spoiled meat of all kinds, rotten eggs, bad butter and decayed fruits.
 According to reports there are even worse articles in restaurants and stores, such as painted fish, black. spoiled meat, dipped in formaldehyde and reduced so as to look fresh: ice cream containing wood alcohol candies containing poisonous dyes, and soda syrups made of coal tar. New York is a city of hotels and it's accommodations for strangers are unex- celled by those of any city in the world. Such is the extent of it's business and va riety of its interests, it's cosmopolitan life that there are always thousands of strangers in the city intent upon trade or pleasure or both.
 For the accommodation of these sNanS- CTS there is an infinite number of f\cili- ties ranging from lodging houses up to vast modern hotels. There are 2l5 hoteS in Manhattan alone, each containing at least 50 rooms. and many of them con- taining hundreds. These 215 hotels provide 53,o0O rooms for guests. They employ c2,- GOO persons in their operation, and the annual cost of conducting them is estr- mated at S55,o00,0O0. The value of the ho- tels and their furnishings is computed at S1740O0.O00.
 On account of the wonderful hotel facil- ites of New York the city has always been regarded as the ideal one for holding conventions. Visitors to any extent can be comfortably housed at any time. ln addition the multitude of things that in- terest, visitors make trips on such inis- sions particularly inviting. Practically cn thethreshofd of the world through the enormous shipping facilities which center here, persons of eyeryi nationality get a flavor of life in their old homes.
 Moreover, New York is fast becoming noted as a great summer resort Thou sands of residents in all parts of the United States. no matter where they have determined upon to spend vacations, are now including New York as part of heir summer outing. The reason for this is that an opportunity is offered in leisure period to visit the metropolis of the New World, and at the same time enjoying trips while here to the many convenient resorts on the seashore.
 A feature of New York city's hotels is that in the many establishments for the accommodation of transient guests one is always at hand to suit the purse It nat ters less in New York what hotel enc puts up at than perhaps any other city in the country. There Is less concern here about ones neghbor. To take in the citys sights, to enjoy cosmopolitan life at it's best, can be done from one hotel as well as from another.
 T have just come east from a trip through the Rocky mountain states, to which I have gone annually to purchase wool,' said A. J.. Bennett, buyer for a large woolen manufacturing concern Tn | Boston. My business takes me through | Wyoming, Utah. Montana and Idaho, and
 
 | the remarkable progress and development which is going on in that section of our country. and for tpe immense possibilities | and opportunities which these states af- | ford.
 Take Wyoming, for instance. The state | is one of the great wool producing sec | tions of the country, but Wyoming does | not need to depend alone upon its sheep | industry for prosperity. The agricultural | possibilities of the state through the va rious irrigation projects now being under | taken and which are planned for the fti- | ture are as great as those which have so materially developed other states. Almost anything which can, be produced in the temperate zone. with the exception of corn, can be raised in the valley of Wy oming, of which there are hundreds, and there is an abundance of water. Why, in the Big Horn basin, well up toward the northwestern part of the state, I found melons as sweet and delicious as any ever grown at Rocky Ford, apples like the Ore gon kind, and other fruits equal to those of California and Colorado.
 "The state Is just beginning to expe- rience big boom. Instead Of having a population of i5o,o00 people, it should have population of at least half a million, and I believe 1t will have that number, perhaps, by the time the next census is taken. The areable lands of the state gre capable of supporting fully that number. doubtless many more. There is no pover- ty in the state; everybody even the sheep herder who works for wages, is reason ably prosperous.
 Minnesota is nVt an insurgent state, notwithstanding the repeated assertions of men who are inclined in that direction declared w. s. Baskerville of St. Paul, who directs the handling of mails on lll the great Hill railroads.
 There is a lot of dissa tisfaction through the state. Reciprocity has had a lot 10 do with it, but there has been another and more important cause, and that is the unreasonable prejudice against large business interests and especially the rail- roads, which seems to have taken hold of the people. The far reachng influence that the constant cry against the railroads has had Is shown in the condition of some of the most important of the western lines, one of wbich in it's last report showed an inability for the first time to declare a dividend. It is time that ihe people let up on the railroads
 "Al this talk you hear in the north about Senator Bailey not being a canli- date to succeed himself because he could not be elected is nonsense, said Col sR M. Johnson of the Houston Post
 If Senator Bailey wanted the senator- ship he undoubtedly would be elected" continued Colonel Johnson. Like evarv other public man who has been active, Mir. Bailey has made enemies, but the people of Texas would have approved his candidacy. and in the fight for the office he would have carried the legislature. The senator, however. does not care to take i,, ;,t,