Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-09-06
MAHERS VISIT
NEW YORK CITY
They Discover COney Island With
Over 10000 Persons in the
Surf---Other Impressions

stayed one night in Milwaukee. We
started from Milwaukee at 8 a. m. and
arrived in Chicago at 1910 a. m. We
left Chicago at IL a. M, and arrived
in New York at ] p. m. next day. That
was some sprinting, believe me, as
you only have so minutes in Chicago.
Brother Jim met us at Jersey City,
and Of course our worry was over, as
he knows the city pretty WELL He
got us home safe.
The next day we all went boat rid
ing on the Hudson and East rivers.
They are a little larger than the Wis
consin river at home. Monday we
went fishing; nothing doing but wet
pants and hungry stomachs. The next
day we went to Coney Island in the
subway, about 20 miles from where he
lives. The stations under the ground
are as neat as a park, and you have
to step lively if you want to get a
seat. as most of the seats are already
full They run very fast, espec ally
the express-about sixty miles an
hour. After you ride five or six miles
it gets warm in there, although they
run four large fans in every car, and
ten cars in most every train. 1t is
very noisy in the subway, and still
they carry over 100000 passengers
daily. The same number ride on
the elevated. Well, we got to COney
Island about 10 a. m., and stayed near
Iv all day. There were over 10000
persons in bathing in the afternoon.
The summer resort is built along the
shoresfor over 100 miles and looks like
a midway fair, with all kinds of at
fractions and amusements to get your
spare change. One firm has 5000 bath
rooms and $4,000 bathing suits. There
are five or six firms nearly as large,
so YOU see they handle an enormous
crowd daily.
Too Late to See Billy Sunday
We got there too late to hear Billy
Sunday. He left about two weeks ago
after preaching every night for three
months. They bu 1t a tabernacle that
cost S150,0O0 for him. 1t seated 10000
and some were turned away nights.
There is a man, James Butter, who
owns 250 grocery stores. Everything
in the shape Of eats is very dear-po-
tatoes 31a cents a pound; sweet corn
5 cents an ear; eggs, the best, 70
cents, not box, but q dozen; butter,
so cents a pound; milk, IA cents
quart; bread, Is cents; steak, round
35. sirloin 40 cents a pound. Canned
ole
Jim is paying fifty dollars month
rent for an apartment consisting OF
six rooms-quite a difference from
the time he lived in BarabOo, as he
did not earn that much mOnth-but
he has a very convenient apartment.
He lives two blocks from the elevated,
subway and surface cars, and as
quiet at night as it is at home. We
are going to a theatre tonight, and
the city is so large there is new
place to go every day. The only thing
that bothers me is, l am afraid we
won't get enough sleep.
Was Big Ball Game
They have a reg ment of soldiers
here called the Irish 69th, and they
had a game of base ball for the bene-
fit of their families before they left
for France. and 10000 went to see
the game The gate receipts were
S25.0OO We went out to Van Court
land park yesterday and went by the
way of University avenue. We saw
some of the finest homes we ever saw
in our lives. When we got to the park
there were three regiments of sol
diers camped there, about 1000 of
them drilling. There is going to be a.
big rally next Thursday, with $4,000
soldiers marching.
About New York City
There is a good deal of travel on
the sightseeing cars. They are like
an auto bus, only double decked.
There are more parks here than |
ever saw in any city. One is fiftytwo
blocks long and three wide. The
weather is different from two weeks
ago, when so many people were over
come with the heat Nice and cool
now. They have a water supply sys-
tenn here that starts in the Adirondack
mountains, and cost as much as the
Panama canal. New York city is in
creasing in population 100000 year
and has little less than 100000, and
has one-seventeenth of all the popula-
ton of the United States. New York
territory, in addition to the city, has
some 324 towns and suburban sections
on the ten railroads. 1t has over
10,OO0,a0O population, or about one
tenth of the population of the coun-
try. The city has 1,276,OO0 homes, sd
savings banks, with over 2,000,0 de-
positors, whose accounts average over
$3.50. They take in interest alone over
$33, 900 a year. The workers Of
New York have from so to 100 per.
cent more. money to spend than the
same class in smaller cities. The