. The city of New York. k, known as Fort Sherman—from itsclose connection with Secretary Shermanand the resumption of specie payment—ison the Broadway corner. Famous oldTrinitystandsatthehead. TheUnitedStatesAssay Office, James Speyer & Co., thegreat National City Bank, the Bank of NewYork, the Bank of the Manhattan Co., anddozens of others of world wide reputationare all embraced in a space of a veryfew short blocks of this famous thorough-fare. It is one of the narrowest and shorteststreets in the country being about 30 feetwide in its busiest part and scarcely halfa mile long, yet it transa
. The city of New York. k, known as Fort Sherman—from itsclose connection with Secretary Shermanand the resumption of specie payment—ison the Broadway corner. Famous oldTrinitystandsatthehead. TheUnitedStatesAssay Office, James Speyer & Co., thegreat National City Bank, the Bank of NewYork, the Bank of the Manhattan Co., anddozens of others of world wide reputationare all embraced in a space of a veryfew short blocks of this famous thorough-fare. It is one of the narrowest and shorteststreets in the country being about 30 feetwide in its busiest part and scarcely halfa mile long, yet it transacts more im-portant business than any other similarcircumscribed area in the world. Visitors can see the interior of the StockExchange where over three million sharesof stock have changed hands in one dayby application to any member who willgladly furnish tickets. \\Tiat Transient Visitors Spend The railway traffic in and out of NewYork City daily averages 493,000 peopleon 2340 trains. Many thousand more come197. III 1 F -i-l -ijcnj i Lin 111 t iff 1 Hotel Manhattan, corner Madison Avenue and42nd Street by boat and the automobile traffic is in-creasing. The daily commuting traffic is about150,000, so that the incoming and outgoingtransients will aggregate approximately300,000 daily—but the average number ofout-of-town visitors in the city all the timeis 200,000. It is estimated that the average stay ofthe 200,000 is four and a half days, and theirdaily expenditures are estimated as fol-lows: Dinner $520,000 Lodging, with other meals 800,000 Shopping 320,000 Theatres 200,000 Side Trips 280,000 $2,120,000Average individual daily expenditure,about Sio. The average daily number of arrivals ata big Broadway hotel runs about like this: Monday 450 names Tuesday 550 Wednesday 550 Thursday 450 Friday 375 Saturday and Sunday are the dullestdays of the week with about 300 names foreach day. A total of about 3000 names for 199
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