Money Like Water

Money Like Water is one of the newspaper articles in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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NEW YORK BECOMES LAND OF OPULENCE. PRIVATE BALLS ABOUND.

New York is now one of the world's most opulent cities as titans of industry and manufacturing build vast mansions and hold fabulous balls to show their latest architectural prize. Expensive black carriages are on parade each day between four and five p.m. as the wealthy have their coachmen drive them through the Central Park as astonished onlookers watch. Enormous stores taking over an entire city block have been erected, one having 125 departments for everything from toys to telegraphy.

A facility for local guttersnipes and street Arabs has been opened by a local titan of industry. The hotels in New York have become lavish beyond description, with wives renting enormous suites for society parties. New York's wealthy social circles are truly in full swing, and the attending industries that serve their pleasure report record business.

Truly, for those who can afford gold, this is a true Golden Age. Some, however, point out the brutal poverty that greets most immigrants just a few miles from these palaces in lower Manhattan.