The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-05
New York Will Be Represented Al
Convention By Two Billions
In Wealth
ARE YOUR LUNGS METAL--LINED
Expert. Claim New Workers. lnhale
Many Tons OF Steel
Each Day

New York. Nov 5.-A new record
In transportation will be set next
week when the richest train in the
history of this country--or rather
five of them each made UP OF nine
cars rom the shops pulls out from
this city carrying one Thousand
bankers and guests TO the thirty
sixth convention of the American
Bankers Association to be heidi In
New Orleans. At the same time sim
liar trains will leave from manyother
cities throughout the country. Those
trains will be the richest in more
senses than ono. The wealth which
will be represented by their passen-
gers at conservative estimate Will
amount to more that $4,000, 900, 600
In richness of equipment they Will
far surpass anything ever attempted
in the line of luxurious travel. Prac-
tically every feature of the most
modern hotel will be present. There
will be barber shops and baths,
valots and maids, stenographic, tele-
phon and Geographic service, and OF
course tickcrs viii not only keep the
travellers In touch with the financial
world but carry the returns from
football games and news OF the
world In general Banquets and en-
tertainments and concerts will be
features and the train will DC
equipped with piano and talking ma
chimes. In spite of the luxurious
appointments the trip is by no means
a pleasant jaunt since the conven-
sion willAdevote itselfbto one Of the
most important subjects before the
country today, that is, the most de-
sirable reform of the country's bank
ing system for the purpose OF provid'
place of the present panic-breedine
ing a more elastic currency In the
system. This is to be the only SUD-
iect considered by the convention
and II will be discussed from al
angles by expert authorities from al
parts of the country. According tt
the statement made at the head
quarters of the Bankers Association
here, its members are anxious tt
bring about an improvement in the
country's banking system that vii
make 1t more useful to the genera
body of customers and from the III
terest which business men all oyel
the country are taking in this matte
II is likely that the deliberations a
New Orleans will be closely watched
Af'er the convention many of tn
bankers will visit the Panama Cana
on four brand new steamships. AL
together It is not likely that such al
example of luxurious travel will b
seen for sometime to come.
That the residents of New Yor
are rapidly developing into ne'
species of human beings equippe
with metal lungs is the startltn
statement Just made by experts o
air and sanitation. Z. More than 80
tons of pulveriaed steel and iron the
assert Is ground on every month b
the swiftly moving vehicles of trans
portation and by iron workers, tn
greater part OF which is dawn int
the lungs of the city's inhabitant
to remain there permanently. |
vestigation shows that the elevate
railroads and the subways wear ava
iron at the enormous rate OF ncarl
Two tons a mile month. The tro
leys chip of steel and iron at tt
rate OF about one ton for every to
miles of road the citizens, throug
the wear and tear on their shoe
leave nearly twenty tons of metalfi
the streets, while the 100000 hors,
which It is figured are at work dai
lose about sixty tons from their 400
900 shoes that are pounding al
scraping on the pavement all d.
long. More than $4,000 wagons al
private vehicles, having 100000 ire
tired wheels add about five mo
tons to the dust storm, while u
workings the iron foundries a
around the city win c0ntribu
about twenty tons more. Tween
tons Is cSntribdted to this cloud Q
metallic dust by ythe 21,O00.0'
nails which wear out every month
the heels Of the shoes worn BY Faith