The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08


TO some, because New York has pop
ular reputation as being a place where
the lap of luxury is broad and of cX-
ceedlng comfort.
Visitors Pay for Luxuries
This is true on-y In so far as it does
not Interfere with business New York
| City attends TO business all the time,
but finds time to play whenever this
Will not interfere with business prog
ress. Outsiders think that play and
the lobster palace in an especial form
is the chief goal of the New York
man S ambition. The truth is that III
is the New York visitor who contrib
utes the major part of the income of
tho expensive features OF New York S
amusement catalogue. If they depeud-
| ed solely on New Workers the pleas
ure resorts would have TO shut up shop.
| London is the only city that can
fairly be compared with New York
The number of letters sent out by the
New York postoffice is greatly in ex-
cess of the number the London office
sends out. New York sends more tele-
grams. although the cost is greater
here than in London. The telephone
service of New York is far ahead of
London in point of volume. Residents
| of New York city own more automo-
biles than all the residents of Great
| Britain possess, and this means Eng
! land. Ireland and Scotland. Fifty per
cent more people ride in the street
cars of New York than in those of the
British metropolis. New York s bank
| lclearings are double those of London.
| could go on indefinitely. but these
Figures give an idea Of what stable
town has been built up here within
the past three hundred years.
Servant Problem Is Perplsxing.
| Southern macrons have servant
problem. They have plenty of house
hold servants there, bat they won Z
work Up here we have few who
Will, but those few have either gone
south or are being tempted TO go. ac
cordiug to local employment bureaus
Mason and Dixon line. they are told
ard certainly any "puhicct cullud
lady will testify to that.
Reginald NJ. Bryan. a governor of
the Georgia society, saws he has been
J receiving appeals from his southern
friends for servants for the last three
months lie has Just had one from Il.
NJ Martin, managing director Of tho
board of commerce OF Dublin. one of
the smaller Georgian cities. In part, II
read as follows:
sour people all through the south
are being sorely put 10 it for servants,
as the negroes either won I work or
arc constitutionallv disinclined to any
thing OF so strenuous nature. Ii has
occurred to us that Swedish, Nor
lwegian or Scandinavian girls would
answer the purpose, and 7 have been
asked TO investigate. We realize that
we would have TO pay them more and
that they would have TO be taken care
of in the house
Mr.. Martin goes or 10 suggest that
| Mr. BRYAN round up fifty or so and
then let him know. He says he will
come Oh at once to take them to Dub.
| lin.
According 10 Mr.. BRYAN. this letter
| is sample OF a good many he has re-
| ceived aud attended 70. more or lesa
successfully. Mr.. Martin, al least, is
in danger Of being disappointed. En-.
ploymeut agencies say they have no
more servants Ia send south; that all
who Will go have gone IN the last
three months. and that they have gone
in such numbers. lured bv tales Of eter
nal summers as 90 constitute a serious
drain on the reasonable priced domes
tic help heretofore available in this
, able 20 fill the domestic demand this
year with white help, and many
housewife. dependent on modest in
come. will have 10 GO without help this
winter or depend on tho somewhat uU-
reasonable colorcd labor for her kitchen.
Old Maids Row Is Popular
\ letter from abroad directed 70
Miss Margaret Evans, Old Maid :
Row, y. y reached its owner ou
One Hundred and Eighteenth street. nc
tween Mprningside drive and Amster-
dam avenue, as quickly as other let
Miss Evans, Young and pretty. gig
gled and thought u tremendous Joke
This block. which i packed with
apartment houses. has long been known
as Old Maids row. or bv the more
considcTate part of the college element
as Maiden lane, on account OF the large
number of spinsters of VARYING ages
who made IL their home,
For wears il was said that no men
at all lived there. Recently. however, il
has begun 10 be somewh hat popular Wifi
the male element. but instead Of re-
loicing and being chcered by the in
vasion rs ono would imagine, ..Oldl
Maids row is discorsolate
Time was, - thev saw in rrieyei
accents, when we could wander in the
most delightful negligee, not only IN
our own apartments. bat NE could even
call on friends living on the floor above
or beneath.
Now we have 70 nut on collars
belts. curl our hair and powder our
noses before we can even 90 20 the
telephone. Life is Just not worth liv-
ing