Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-03-14
\. Y. VISITORS SPEND
100000 DAILY.
Cannot Tell Strangers These
Days From Natives by Any
Outward Sign.

$50 n day while he In here. This Is
equivalent To 100000 n day, large
amount especially when II Is figured
that II foots up over n billion dollars
a YEAR. Strangers are proveroiaiiy
liberal spendors in a city Offering, as
New York does, so many avenues or
outlay I'm shops and restaurants. no.
tells, theatres, cabarets. sightseeing |
tours and the myriad means or trans
portation. The visitor to New York !
expects 10 spend money here. and II
he IL accompanied by his wife or
daughter or both. his expectations are |
realized.
lie cannot return home after a visit |
which he has been preparing for dur
ing. perhaps, many years without Civ
ing n comprehensive account OF what
ne saw and OF all he saw. Seeing is
spcnding-in New York.
Tho story 81 known OF tho Maine
farmer who by diligence and Yankee
thrift saved UP several hundred dol
lars in twenty years. He went down
10 Boston and spent a week and all
his money. thoroughly seeing that
lively town. On his return TO Maine
he told the story OF all he had seen In
wv A>tN tsiit iitNAtIttAS anu aii a.
had cast him.
seven hundred dollars in one
week." exclaimed Elijah. his neigh
Dor at the crossroads.
Easy come. easy go" answered the
man who had been 20 Boston.
Intelligent Visitors.
Did you every study In the streets a
Christian Endcavor throng on one of
their annual visits TO New York in
midsummer or Templars. or Quakers
in the spring. or school teachers after
the close OF the term. or Masons here
for convention, or buyers or church
men for conference. or railroad men
with their wives. for a congress? II
you did. YOU cannot have failed TO OBJ
sorve that the standard OF intelligence.
OF observation and of inquiry averages
good deal higher than that OF the
ordinary. average New Yorker these
visitors encounter on the streets here.
The women visitors especially are
keen Of eye. alert. eager for whatever
IS interesting or instructive. well-in-
formed as 20 the city and able To use
their time here 10 good advantage.
New York has plenty OF strangers
here every day. but they are not
strangers within its gates" for the
reason that New York has no gates
and practically no portals II may be
no longer "wide-open town" but it
certainly IS wide open SO far as the
means OF entrance and ecress are con-
ccrned. Dad YOU ever etop to think
how easy 80 is TO get into New York ?
hid YOU ever stop 10 smile when YOU
Gordon around the city," A Gordon
around New York. Passengers by
three railroads enter New York by the
Grand Central Terminal. four by the
Pennsylvania Terminal. two by Forty
second street ferry. four by the ferries
at the foot OF Twenty-third street. and
one by the East Thirty-fourth street
ferry.
There are FIVE railroad ferries south
Of Twenty-second street on the West
Side; one railroad has its New York
terminus In the Bronx, another its
main TERMINUS IN Brooklyn: another
a passenger terminus on Staten Island
and there is New Haven terminal
in the Bronx. Long Island termina
an Queens. and access 10 the city from
New Jersey by two Hudson tube:
which connect with five railroads
while a Long Island passenger, say
from Pstchogue. landing in Brook
IN, can proceed 20 Manhattan by ont
tunnel and out OF Manhattan and int
Newark by aother by the all under
\ ground route"
This does not take into account tn
\ passengers who enter the port IL
(S,camships. who come down the Eas
bliver. the Hudson or up the Shrews
Aury by steamboats,. or the very mucl
larger number perhaps. who com
into New York by motor cars vi;
W'estchester the Fort Lee ferry. In
Queenshoro Bridge. the Ehzabethpor
az Port Richmond ferry or any of tn
roads leading into Brooklyn.
II is unfortunately true that Their
are AT times men in New York SO re
duced financially that, In the lang
uage OF the impecunious. they can
not get out Of town." but there Is n
man who cannot get into New York
e. many are the ways.
Thousands Of visitors are registere
IN New York hotels every week-hun
dreds every day. These hotels are ia
apart, with varying prices and varyin
accommodations. They have n
clearing house" for the allotment {
rooms or the service OF patrons. an
yet Instead Of some houses being over
crowded and others only partly fille'
the patronage is SO uniform that
published list OF hotel arrivals seem
Go suggest that by some hidden pre-
cess OF distribution a quota has bee
allotted 20 each, equally as respect
its facilities with each OF the other
How n u done?
Read beside the name Of the ne
arrival the name OF his home town an
the riddle II solved The traveller
from each city have one favorite Ne
York hotel---one big house preferrs
10y those coming here from the MIDI
West, another by those from II
South. another by those from Ne
England and another by those fro
the Pacific coast another by tho
from upstate New York. another !
those from Pennsylvania, and so on.
George c. Boldt once said 70 Il
writer: "The Ohio Society, which NEE
az the Waldorf Astoria, can alwa.
get in touch with Ohio men, Wi
whom our house is "a favorite. as q
Holland House. down the street. is 4
those from Albany"
Not many OF the strangers wi
come 10 New York so TO the leadir
hotels. II they did these hotels wou
be swamped with patrons. Some
20 minor hotels, some 70 apartme