The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-09-05
MCC0Y'S IMPRESSION
Of new YORK CITY
Minot Merchant, Who Hae Returned
from Business in Eas., Talks in
S~lnterestinq Manner OF Conditions
There

.5~Anterestino Manner Of Conditions
There
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul '. Mccoy re-
tdrned Saturday from New York
city and other eastern points, where
they spent five weeks ON business
and pleasure. In Chicago, they me.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Benno of Bow
bells, who had gone east on their
honeymoon MT. and Mrs. Benno
returned Monday.
lMr. Mccoy bought a very fine
stock of fall merchandise for his
Masonic Temple STORE which is now
on display.
Speaking Of conditions in the east,
Mr.. Mccoy said:
business in the east has not been
so brisk in years, no doubt augmented
by the excellent condition Of the
crops the country over. The business
in the east from six weeks to
two months before it does in the
west, and the factories are working
overtime to get out the western Dr.
ders in time. I spent plenty Of time
~ buying my fall stock of ladies'
wearing apparel, and can guarantee
to my trade as fine an assortment as
they could find in the eastern cities.
Dpea.dng Of politics, down east
everybody seems to be boosting for
Wilson. heard also of a straw
vote being taken out in Colorado
among eight travelling men, and all
Of them voted for Wilson. Only one
Of the number was q Democrat. At
the Gayety theatre in Minneapolis,
when the pictures Of the presidents
and near-preside ents we're shown. the
only one that elected any consider
allie applause was that Of Wilson.
New York is a wonderful village,
but I wouldn't want to live there.
The other evening, we walked past
the New York Herald building. dur
ing a rain and hundreds of poor
people who had been driven In from
the parks, were packed like sardines
along the side walk under the avn
ing, asleep. It is estimated that a
million poor people sleep in the
parks of New York during the sum-
mer. They enter the bread line once
or twice a day and get slice OF
bread and a cup OF coffee and just
manage to exist. They seem to have
no ambition to letter their condl-
ton.
was in New York at the time
that a son uas born to Mrs. John
Jacob Astor. Hundreds of people
stood in front Of the Astor mansion
on Fifth avenue before the arrival
Of the heir, anxious to learn whether
n 1t, would be- a son or daughter.
! New York is a funny old town.
zone can't help but note the dtf-
ference between Chicago and New
York. You never see the examples
Of poverty in the Chicago parks that
you do in New York. In the latter
city I have noticed a poor mother
clad in tatters and tags, with i've
dirty little i'll clad children, while
perhaps along the same walk one
could see the child of some million
aire dressed In silks, attended by
two nurses.
"One hears a good deal OF the
police graft in New York City and
the general impression is that they
are going to "get'' that man Becker
I was in Albany, Buffalo, Phhadel
phia, Detroit, Chicago, and Mime
apolis, while east, and in every one
Of those cities, a municipal scandal
(, is. on the lips of everybody. In ne
troit there were seventeen aldermen
In Jail at one time charged with
graft. No doubt the basest kind o.
graft exists in an Of those cities, but
IL IL another matter to prove It.. .
.After an, It seems good to gel
hack to Mfnoe. the best little cit,
for the man Of moderate means yus
can find. IN r-nr ran too has )
,better chance IN the middle west thar
any place I visited"
Mr. and Mrs. Mccoy visited at the
homo Of Mr. and Mrs. Hires o1
Malvern, Pa. Mrs. Hires was Miss
Thura ,Truax, sister Of G. F. Truax