New-York tribune., 1915-03-28


NE their homes, anticipated their sal
lfk aries to the sharks, or their crops
to the First National Of their town
10 get an automobile. BY this time many OF
them feel they have had their moneys worth
or are willing 10 call it that and figuring out
the upkeep, taxes, licenses, accidents etc, are
ready to mortgage the machine to buy vaca-
ton at the Panama Pacific International Ex-
position. The question is: Can one afford it?
California has an alluring reputation as
Mace where gold is a by-product, where
wealth is so common that commodities, neces-
sites and amuseuents are figured to exclude
nv but rrilionaires Were it not so, some
nav reason. It would follow that the climate
and the prosperity and the hospitality being
what Calitornians claim, there wouldn't be
room there to hold all the people who would
flock 70 the Golden State. There would be
waiting list as big as petition to the President
for place on the great register. California be-
ing sparsely populated, it must be fact that
prices are prohbitive, and that alone keeps the
United States from being overcrowded on its
Western side and keeling over like ship i'm
properly dressed.
THE STRANGER HAS A MOTION HE
MAY BE TAKEN IN.
Now, the truth is that living is cheaper
month for month in San Francisco than 1t IS
in any Of the large Eastern CT s. The stranger
is always at a disadvantage. Paris, for eX-
ample: has the reputation of being place
! where the visitor is literally skinned alive;
yet those who know tell US one may live there
Ike lord on what we should consider very
moderate income Rumors have gotten about
that the exposition has inflated the cost Of
wsrything and that landlords, apartment
owners hotel managers, restaurateurs and
such have conspired to rob the visitor to within
a hsirbreadth Of the limit OF the law. Tho
exposition itself has come in for no small
amount Of suspicion as being an expensive
Proposition. 1t has been that to the native
sons who have voted millions OF dollars
through municipal bonds, private subscriptions
and voluntary contributions. This has been
charged to advertising and not to speculation.
Recovering from the effects OF an epochal
calamity, the Western spirit, aroused to unusual
activity, prodded itself on to greater and
reared that put San Francisco half century
ahead Of what had been her natural progress.
Projects were discussed which only the dis
Tetion OF conservative bankers kept from at
tanment The exposition is a elimination. 1t
the climax OF an enthusiasm peculiarly West
sIn. Shrewd men Of affairs claim that, unlike
other cities and states, San Francisco and Cali
iornia will suffer no reaction from this worlds
AR. Certainly the bgness of what it has done
other contingencies should be credited to
the Western metropolis. Not least OF these
accomplishments are the vigorous methods 1t
naS adopted to restrain avarice and greed
It will be shown in what follows that New
Yorker, for instance, living on the same scale
mat marks the hundred-do -a-month man IN
|siitornia can to-day live in San Francisco,
see the exposition several days and nights a
week, take side trips, indulge in little extrava-
sances, and at the end of month find himself
Just as broke and no more so than in his home
town.
lhe unusual expenses Of a trip to the Pan
ana Exposition can be briefly summarized in
Vne sentence. The loss of income while away
nom employment and the cost of the journey.
assuming that this has been allowed and that
man Of moderate tastes with wife of moder-
'e tastes has completed the long jump across
we continent, he and his better half will find
themselves depending on the route) in the
'efry at the foot Of Market street. or near the
n'art OF the town at Third and Townsend
Streets.
Mr.. Hildebrandth, OF Poughkeepsie, landed
me ferry At the side OF the tunnel that