Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-03-21
CLUB CENSUS In new YORK
Husbands Will be Scarce if
Advice to Women is Followed.
Members spend sSO.O0O,OOO Annually In
Dues md NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Puzzled by Figures In Discus
sion OF Commission Report,

granting divorce to the complaining
wife that she and other woman refrain
trom marrying Now York club men has
led to novel census here which reveals
the surprising fact that one man out OF
every four In metropolis is a member of
some club or social organization. The
| figures also show that New York Is the
greatest club city in the world both in
I the number II members and In amount
Of money expended 10y them. Just what
| this amount is cannot be definitely stat
ed, but 4 IS pretty certain that is not
less than No,Hotoo annually. The dues.
| II Is known, paid by the mon who ac-
cording 10 one Judge at least make poor
hus ba nds, fall Just below the @,W.oO
mark This, however, IL only a small
part of the total II the average monthly
expenditure incident to club life for
meals rooms, amusements and the like he
figured at only ten dollars month for
each member, this would mean $4,000"
more.
| However. persons in a position to know
assert that this average Is too low and
/ point out the fact that at many of the
more irlportant clubs with memberships
running into the thousands one hundred
dollars month is to be considered an
| average expenditure OF course the aver
age expenditure OF the members of Vari-
Gus university clubs l. for obvious rea-
Sons mucn less but even so the total
is still enormous. To what an extent the
club has become n part OF New YORK
life il shown 10y the fact that in Man
haitian alone-that IS the part or the
city below the Harlem River-there are
nearly eighty clubs with houses of their
own and this does no, include 1873 prom p
inent societies and associations winch
are not technically clubs, Altogether II
the club man is to he barred from the
matrimonial field, husbands are likely
to become extremely scarce here.
AS the publishing center of the coun-
try there is naturally plenty OF discus
sion going on here over the report OF
the Hughes commission ~, omnending
the Doubling of the rate on second class
mail. and the remarks of the President
OH transmitting the report to congress
While il was not to bc expected tina,
the publishers would receive such a rec
oumend;tion with shouts OF JOY, II Is
nevertheless true that opposition to II
has not 20 do so much with the propose
Itself as 20 the methods used In It's
achievement. AS might be expected the
post office figures largely in the mat
ter. and one very prominent publication
calls the report sweeping attack on
the efficiency of the Post Office Depart
mont. citing figures to show that If, as
the Hughes report claims. It costs the
government about five and One-half cents
a mound to handle second-class mail mat
ter this Is something Ike eleven times
the amount it costs publishers to distrib-
ute their product ny other means than
thr lugh the Post Office, incidentally TOO
the much Wanted surplus of the De-
lpartnient vanishos under the application
of a real system Of accounting. Under
the antiauated system now in use the
Department does not charge itself with
. general salaries at all, nor with the eX-
pense of auditing its books Items
amounting to several million dollars
which. +, is pointed out. ought in all
fairness to be Included. Both publishers,
and railway men who are Interested in
the postmas ter's recommendations fol
reductions in railway mail pay. express
the opinion that thorough .overhauline
of the Post office Department. includ-
. ing its methods of accounting. will ht
necessary lefore any valid recommended
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