Show THE toti OUTLAY MONEY SPENT BY chicagoans EACH YEAR total est mated at ex pense of Pre on for outing adds much to D of pleasure seekers chicago how much does the vaca alon season cost Chicago 1 this question was put to several downtown merchants and their an reduced to an average make interesting facts estimating the population ot the city at 2 it Is fair to assume that of the inhabitants are either wage earners or in business tor them selves practically all these have va during the summer from two weeks to a month in length to esti mate the average cost of these vaca alons would be something of a guess but perhaps 50 would be somewhere near the truth many persons spend much less than this sum but the ma spend more the result of a simple multiplication problem shows a total 0 25 but this Is by no means all there remain to be added the vacation ex benses of women and children who are not producers how many persons of this class go away from the city during the summer Is another hard guess but a conserva alve estimate would place the number on a par with the first estimate fifty dollars a head may be too high a figure for this class of vacation travelers for many of them are ahll dren but it an average of 25 ig taken it will give a total of 12 thus the total outside vacation ex benses of chicago people may be guessed at 37 these figures however do not in elude money spent in anticipation of the trips to be taken they do not in elude loa clothing trunks patch els alshin alile a lile and all the hundred ot articles i baimon laid by the vacation maker t 1 conservative gaess to ady that these advance e u will aggregate 12 the grand total therefore Is 50 all or pleasure and health during or four months these of course do not per tain to the ilch but to the common people it the s expenses ot the wealthy class were to be added the total would be vastly larger it la estimated that there are fam alles in chicago which spend an av of 2 for their summer out ings fifty million dollars it distributed in lots ot would support families for a year allowing each family 60 a month a sum about equal to the average wage when these figures are considered it la easy to understand what mer chants mean when they talk about the dull months with air these people out of town and turned into channels outside ot the city it naturally follows that mer chants cut down expenses and sail close to the wind until chicago money Is once more turned into its natural channel |