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Show 00 "SEE AMERICA FIRST' CONVENTION. CONVEN-TION. About 290.000 Americans went abroad during the last fiscal vear and spont fully $200,000,000 on ' passage across the Atlantic, hotel bills, railway rail-way transportation, amusements and ffor miscellaneous purposes, according accord-ing to a statement specially prepared frt,. Cniratorp Vnrmnn AT Parrntf r' the Greater Baltiruoro committee by John Rail Osborne, chief of the Bureau Bu-reau of Trade Relations, Department of State. Washington. Of this number num-ber 220.000 wore about equally divided divid-ed between first and second cabin passengers, with an averago expenditure expendi-ture of $S00, and the balance wore steerage These figures do not in-clud in-clud the large sum annually spent for jewelry, clothing and other articles. ar-ticles. The cost of running the municipal governments of sixteen of the larger cities durinc the calendar year 1908 waa 3271.000,000. according to a special spe-cial report of the United States census, cen-sus, and it Is safe to say, with figures available, they would show little difference dif-ference in the comparative standing of tho same cities at the present time. This included outlays for general and special service expenses, such as police po-lice and fire protection, health, high-ws, high-ws, charities, hospitals, education, recreation, etc.. but does cot take in public Improvements. For general and special service expenses and in rounl numbers, according to the c?nsus figures. fig-ures. New York spends about $10. 000,000. Chicago 536.000.000, Philadelphia Philadel-phia ?24,O0O,000. Boston $17,000,0()ii. St. Louis $12 000.000 Pittsburg $10.-500.000. $10.-500.000. San Francisco $S.500.unO, Washington $S.000,00ii, Baltimore $7 -500.000, Cleveland $7,500,000. Buffalo $7,000,000. Detroit $0,000,000. Cincinnati Cincin-nati $6,000,000. Newark. X J., S6.000.-O0O. S6.000.-O0O. Milwaukee $5,000,000 New Orleans Or-leans $4,500,000. "A large part of this vast amount Is undoubtedly ?rcnt in France, particularly par-ticularly in Paris," said Mr. Osborn- "While I was in that ntv I33I sumnr I discussed this topic -with an Ameri-can Ameri-can citizen who la a , keen observer and has lived In Paris continuously many years. I suggested that Ameri-. can tourists spend annually at least $100,000,000 In Franco. Ho replied that he believed that sum was dropped by our compatriots in the little Rue do la Paix for jewelry on one side of the street and gowns on the other. Just pau.se a moment and think it that $200,000,000 was kept in this country it would buy forty-four five-cent five-cent loaves of broad for each one of 90,000,000 of men, women and children, chil-dren, or supply at leant a half dozen shirts to every man over IS years old. Mayor Proston of Baltimore has ap-noinlcd ap-noinlcd a committee of fifteen to have general charge of the arrangements arrange-ments for the "See America First ' ronverition. and Governor Crotliers has named a committee to arrange for' the s.tate exhibit. The convention will be held in Baltimore Mav . 1912 Both committees are made up of prominent men, and soon they intend to have the slogan ."See America first In Baltimore next May" on the 1 tongues of everybody from ocean to ocean and from Maine to the Gulf, for tho benefit of the whole country. President Taft will open tho convention, conven-tion, and the governors or tho different differ-ent states have already appointed delegates for their state exhibits. |