One hopeful sign that I at once noticed is that New York is taki a much more intelligent interest the outside world than was wort before its manufacturers. 0 tered the export field. Fifte years ago, New York manufacture ers did not even know anything about geography. they do today. Newspapers, similarly, which the old days devoted practically no space to foreign news, now print patches from all over' the world.
or example, the Associated Presi supplied yesterday more than fit teen hundred words about the fightiz in Chefoo, and it was excellent ly edited to an intelligible rename of what was taking place, turally gets more space and noticed in this mornin n of one New York paper no lees than sixteen columns of news on all sorts of European subjects.
the present moment, Nev York is more than usually "full." I do not refer to the more classic meaning of the word when applied to the effect caused by strong al-coolie liquor—though there "ce said to be 5,000 "spenkensys" in the city—but more to" the rush which the forthcoming inauguration of Mr. Herbert Hoover to the Presidency is causing.
The United States is expecting that the world will stop still when Inauguration Day arrives—and pee. haps it will, for it is a stupendous So far us New York is concerned, whatever it does may'b2 relied upon customarily to -eclipsa all else,
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