Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-01-07

will at least enable them go earn a fair
II turn for this branch Of service on
which at present they claim an annual
loss of S20.O0c.000 as compared to 9TH
er classes Of service which are regu-
lated by the government. Both the
railsoads and the publishers are in
c'ned TO resist any further assumption
OF power over their business on the
part of the head of the pot office de-
pdrtment. The proposal to double the
postage rate on periodicals GeVotfnS
more than fifty percent of their total
SPACE to advertising is particularly OBJ
noXious to newspaper and magazine
proprietors Under this arrangement"
says The World editorially. mo pub
Usher can ever know until he has gone
&c press where he stands in relation TO
the postal charge. He may be lean on
advertisements one day and gain the
There may be a rush of advertising
tWO-cent rate as a special privilege.
the next day and the privilege vanish
Is The whole scheme is preposterous
costly to the government. unjust to
Publishers, confusing TO an Alto
gether the solution of mail charges an1
mail pay promises TO produce some
very complicated problems.
That the horse drawn vehicle. 50 far
as commercial users are concerned, will
have practically disappeared from the
streets of this city by 1917 is the pre-
diction made by traffic experts who
have just completed an analysis of the
extent and rapility with which motor
trucks and delivery wagons are dis
placing the Older form of vehicle. AL
ready the days of Dobbin's commercial
usefulness are numbered. and it is on
" a question of a short time when, sol
far as the conduct of its business isl
concerned. New York will become thel
world first horseless city. According
L. conservative estimates no less than
1900 trade automobiles are IL use in
this city with total horsepower of
more than One-thiri of a million. Out
Of the 5000 motor vehicles registered
i'm the state 1000 are owned and used
in Greater New York. according to the
opinion of experts. This figure does
not include. however, the motor trucks
and delivery wagons i;ept in nearby
cities which are used here or in the
transportation of freight between out
side points and this city. Neither
does it take into account the numerous
small motor vehicles used for light de-
livery work. Considering all these
classes many experts credit New York
with 80, 900 commercial vehicles. but
even the more conservative estimate
Of 30 900 furnishes an interesting COM
mentary on the rate at which the hors =
IS disappearing here
That the week from Christmas toI
New Year brought a golden harvest To
hotel employees in this city in the shape
of tips ard presents is indicated by the
records of the garnered spOils which |
are now more or less complete. So far
the record for bell boys is held by an +!
uptown hotel where the average
amount collected during six days byl
each of the uniformed youngsters isl
reported as being S4S. While lower
figures prevailed at other hotels it isl
safe to assume that s25 would not be
far from the bell boy average for the |
I9l-NltSS -sODOuN - NilIiIlS
u venture an estimate on the extent 10 !
which Christmas enriched the all pow
erful clan of head walters although it !
Is known To be very large. Generally /
speaking the room clerks Jared eX- I
tremely well. An actual list of the
gifts received by a popular clerk in q /
popular hotel included suits silk I'M
derwear. boxes cigars, 200 cigarettes.
8 fine neckties. $40 in cash, / scarf
pin. pounds candy. pocketbeoks,
pairs silk socks. ] hat, ] tie clasp.
pair cuff links. l jar preserved figs. il
is of no modern growth. Twenty years
ago according to a manager who was
then an elevator boy on the only car
at the old Windsor hotel his average
gifts in cash Appropriated 5000. Dur
ing a period of four years the smallest
holiday contributions he received
amounted to s146. while the banner
week set high water mark of 1926.
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