Travel Notes.

Focuses on the economic condition in the United States. Description of the building of an opera house in 1865 by Uranus H. Crosby and his struggle to maintain the activities of the house during the depression following the civil war; Statement that it would be difficult for a traveler in the U.S. to find many signs of the serious economic troubles of the country; Revealment that there are at least eleven millions idle and investment has almost stopped in the U.S.; View that the taxes paid by U.S. Steel on last year's business would have employed 83,000 men in the steel industry.