Show cost of the fight the new york corid has made interesting computations on the carson prize fight it deals just with the expenses of the contest and does not attempt an estimate of the cost to certain parties by reason of their betting here are the figures paid 16 telegraph companies for ticker and wire service newspaper and private dispatches railroad fares sleeping car service and minor expenditures incidental to travel admission to arena average cost 20 of pool sellers privileged Privilege a at arena cost of arena extra cost to ne papera we to furnish news aside from telegraph bolls lolls expenditures at hotels saloons billiard rooms and places of amusement en route carson city fronts of pawnbrokers pawn brokers in commissions and unredeemed pledges total that immense sum was spent on a couple of brutal bruisers who exhibited their animal natures in a ring for just 53 minutes and the world figures on what might have been done with that sum an fn new york city alone it says there are unemployed man in new york at the present time who are willing to work the money spent on this fight would give each one of them employment for a month at 1 a day it would buy each one of them tarse baits ot clothes it would give each one of their families 1 worth of food a da for a month it would keep la milies twice the entire population of greater new york in luel for a month at 3 a family it would pay the house rent for families for a month at 10 each it would pay tho gas bills of families for a month at 2 reckoning six persons to a family it would the total gaa buls of the state of new york and minnesota at the same rate the comparison thus strikingly made ought to awaken thought it was the same spirit of sport that seized rome in its declining days and while the ians were hungry and cold the aristocracy spent their milli ondon gladiatorial contests are we as a nation drifting to destruction on like reefs it would not take a people long to reach the reefs along the path of pugilism |