Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-25
AMERICA
 AND SAVING CASH
 RESULTS OF WAR
Americans Usually Spend| Half a Billion Annually
 in Europe.

Lane, secretary of the interior, ex- pressed himself as gratifed with the public interest in the development of our great national parks. "The num- Der of visitors has been steadily in- creasing," he said, '"but this sum- mer's travel will be far ahead of oth- CT seasons. As the magnitude, beauty, and healthfulness of the parks are better understood it may be expect ed that the yearly travel to them will rapidly increase. Thus, the damage caused by the war is being neutral ized by inducing Americans to spend mony at home. The whole country is the gainer by this intermingling of the people of the East and of the West"
 Secretary Lanes modest estimate of "at least hundred million dol lars" that Americans are saving to America this year is, indeed, con- servative in comparison with the fig ures compiled by Lockwood Barr, edi- tor of the Wall Street Journal, who finds that the 600,000 Americans who go abroad each normal year spend, in passage money alone, nearly $S7,- OO0,OO0, Most of the steamship lines, of course, are foreign.
 "It is quite impossible" he con tinues, "to get even fair approxima- tion of the amount of money tourists spend while abroad in hotel bills, railroad. steamboat and other forms of transportation; ,gratuities, etc. An estimate by one who comes In con- tact with a representative part of the regular summer exodus of Amerl- cans to Europe places the amount of money spent in this wise at very conservative minimum of $220, ,OOO '.Trom the earnest sightseer who has saved up $25O to $500 to lavish on l trip of five to six weeks duration | to the substantial middle-class trav- eler who can afford to spend from $500 to S1,50O, and even $2,000, in the course of six to eight weeks pere- l grination on the. continent. not one seems to be immune from the tempta' tion to buy. =
 And then there is the travelel
 who approaches the millionaire stage
 of worldly wealth, who, if those who l have a knowledge of the American of this class abroad are to be bellev
 ed. spend small fortune fof nei dental thlngs ranging all the va, 1 from clothing to jewelry and n.ino' art objects. -<
 United States imports of art ob jects, measured over the past fev years, have averaged about $40,O ,Oo0,O0
 annually. In what are known a
 boom years, importations have gon
 as high as $5O,000,00O.
 "It would be quite impossible t
 get even a fair estimate of the none
 spent for such things-as difficult in fact, as it would be to estimat
 the expenditures of millionaires wh
 fit themselves and their families ou
 at the fashion centers of Europe. an l. whose purchases of art and historl objects may measure up to $1OO,O0
 marble portico, or $500,000 for tn
 whole side of an ancient dwelling. , "It is not inconceivable that tn a class of tiaVelers made up of mutt
 millionaires alone, if they were pal ell ticularly extrava gant and gratified te many of their whims, might spend u these ways enough to bring up tt sl total easily to@the $500,O0o,G00 mar . "Of course nothing approachir t this saving is being spent on Amer
 can scenery this summer. At leas o however, it is being kept in Amer
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