Show nnnnn VACATION OUTLAY ty SPENT BY CHICAGOANS EACH YEAR Estimated at 37500000 Ex Ie of Preparation for Outing dds Much to Disbursements of Pleasure Seekers iigoIIow much does the vaca eason cost Chicago J question was put to several wn merchants and their an m reduced to an average make sting facts mating the population of the city 0000 It Is fair to assume that of the inhabitants are either earners or In business for them t Practically all these have va UI during the summer from two to a month In length To estl theaverage cost of these vaca oorl fyr lions would be something of a guess but perhaps 50 would he sonicvvlipio near the truth Many persons spend much less than this sum but the ma jorlty spend more The result of a simple multiplication problem shows a total of 25000000 but this Is by no means all There to main to be added the vacation expenses ex-penses of women and children who are not pioducers How man persons of this class go away from the city during the summer Is another hard guess but a conserva tlve estimate would place the number on a par with the first estimate 300 000Fifty Fifty dollars a head may be too high a figure for this class of vacation traveler for many of them are chll drcn but If an average of 25 is taken It will give a total of 12500000 Thus the total outside vacation expenses ex-penses of Chicago people may be guessed at 37500000 These figures however do not Include In-clude money spent in anticipation of the trips to be taken They do not In clnde sacamo els t 101 ung hanks oaten IIMhlll > UlM1Jl till l the hundrClls 10f article coinmonlv laid In by the OHpectlve l vncation maker It Is a > n eonsorvatirc ItllllIlI 10 say that theso nI8l1ee 1i00OllO lenses lggregate 12 rime grand total therefore Is 50 uIOUOOnll spent for pleasure and health II1III I Ig tliiut or four months These tigne5 of COIIIse tIll not per mill to the rich but to the common Illollle if the mimmul expenses of the wea th ciamc 111 to to he molded the total Mould bpvastl larger It Is estimated that there an 5000 fem Tiles In Chicago iei Bond an av eragt of 2000 for their summer out in KB Fifty million dollars It distributed In lets of 600 would support C2BOO I families for a year allowing each family oi n a month a sum about equal to till > mange wage When then figures are considered III is easy to uiidoibtaiid what merchants mer-chants mean when they talk about tho dull months With all these people out of town and with 37500000 turned Into channels outside of the city It natllrnll naturally follows that merchants mer-chants cut down expenses and sail close to the wind until Chicago money is nnco mote turned Into Its natural channel |