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13" DEBT OF THE CITY ISENORMOUS, BUT HAS ITS OFFSETS 1 Manufacturers’ Association Sets , Forth New York’s Great- ness in Terse Fashion. How the city gets ite money and how! 1 apends tt de not an oasy A BC lean! in to Father Knickerd: when these few striking facts are borna in mind: j The municipal debt is more than 4) billion dollars, to be exact $1,/87,000,000, Or five millions greater than the ot f Uncle Sam or the national debt; | The total outlay by the city for 111) for construction, equipment and main- tenance of public buildings, stree bridges, water supply, rapid trans &c., agaregated nearly $34,679,838, as com- Dared with $77,681,783 for the year 190; | The net cash receipts during the one year were $44,000,000, of which nearly {$170,000,000 came from taxes, assessments, water rates and interest thereon: The expenditures for public Improve-| mente by the City of New York from, 1998 to 1911 aggregated more than $716,- 000,000, among the big things being $108,- 100,000 for the purchase of sites and tho construction of school houses, colleges and libraries; $123,000,000 for water up-! ply, $96,658,000 for docks and ferries,| $78,902,000 for subways, $81,700,000 for bridges, $06,000,000 for public bulidings) @: than schools and libraries, more! $200,000,00) for streets and roads, nearly $32,000,000 for parks, drive- ways, &c. HOW THE CITY GETS MONEY : "The question of the city’s debt limit Is ever with us, but the margin of the city’s legal borrow! pacity expanded from ‘$78,988,25 on tay $159,900, 978 siz months due to the} afeat increase in the assessed valuation of taxable realty. This year there has been no increased valuation. margin or debt limit 969,482,725 w eble for rapid transit purposes on! and $96,819,353 for such purposes a8 might be determined by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.” Bo to-day, while Uncle Sam is watch- fing with keen interest tie outcome of the great battle at the polls, In the pre- lminaries of which the expense of gov- ernment, the high cost of living, the tariff and other features have been dis- cessed to exhaustion, Father Knicke. boeker sits back smiling, knowing that even with a greater debt resting on his shoulders, the resources of his city will prevent fim being plunged into bank- Fuptcy. And these resources are manifold. ‘The revenues of the city are derived rom many sources, taxes, astessments imrposed on property benefited by public improvements, water rates, rentals Lendl city properties and for markets, license receipts, fees from this and that office @r bureau and collection departments, aggregating weventy or eighty in num- ber, All these moneys find thelr way to the Department of Finance, where they aré recorded in big books by scores Milllons— from exciee, mortgage and bank taxes alone; then trom dock and slip rents and ferry fares and dock privileges more $4,000,000 is raised each year. The Fecelves incomes from interest money loaned and several millions of are recovered each year from fees, fines and costs. WE ARE BIG NOW, BUT WATCH U8 GROW. ‘The Merchants’ Association has been on the finances of this city and an intererting report in Points out these striking illus- trations of the vastness and w of the greater city: ‘The five boroughs comprising the great wity are in fact Ave distinct cities, ‘We owe more than five times a: much @ Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston bined, And what is more, we are going to add many millions to our dettedness in the next few yeas wull@ing subways, docks and school: houses. New York City with itv population of | 6,090,000 has fewer than 11,000 policemen. London with 6,500,000 population has af 5 For ever seventeen years Resinol has been prescribed by doctors a» a safe and effective treat- ment akin affections, | Was working in Atlantic City "| endowed with $100,000 by J. {through tts Proxident sores, vicers and, boils, and it ideal household remedy for all these MISSING BOY WHOM MOTHER HAS SOUGHT THREE WEEKS IN VAIN. After three weeks spent in ‘running down a m of her tram, wh from the: re clue to the whereabouts |, Ber- hia home, Aug, 30 Bleiden has given up ir, o-day appealed ta The Evening World to help her find her Ia. Mra, Bleiden, who lives with her ste ter at No, 13% North Frasier street, Philadelphia, is confident the child is kept in hiding somewhere in Brooklyn, The mother bas been separated from her husband, Louls, whose address ahe does not know, ain it May. In the belief that he might know something of the child's disappoarance, she has kept watch for several days over the Brook- lyn home of @ sister of her husband, with the result that she now ts confident se pee knows nothing of the kidnap- y Her bellef that the child Is in Brook. lyn ts bared on the receipt, efore ane came to New York, of a postal card picture of the lad, on which the child had written his name, “I have exhausted every means in the search for Uttle boy.” said Mra, Bleiden to-day, “but withou @ dress- maker when Bertram was enticed from our home in Philadelphia, At first T had no idea where to look for him. It had been the understanding between my Insstand and myself that we were to Place the child in a boarding echool, where both of us could visit him, but he never made any effort to carry out ‘his part of the agreement. So I left the boy with my eleter when I went) to Atlantic City to work,” Mra. Ble'den is staying with an aunt at No, 1067 Fox street, the Bronx. 20,000 policemen, Mies of this city's streets are not patrolled. Tt requires only fifty minutes to erect @ mew buikiing in New York. At least we have a new building every fitty minutea, Every forty minutes we have a new busines: corporation; every six minutes a new New Yorker s born, ARE FIVE BIG CITIES ROLLED INTO ONE. Manhattan th than that of AO. Brooklyn is as large as Philadelphia. ‘The Bronx has outgrown Detroit. Queens J4 larger than Minneapolis. Richmond in the equal in population of Dallas or Sait Lake City. New York City ha outgrown ite owm It has now 2,000 qmanu- These produce two bdillton worth of goods—one-tenth of the mount manufactured tn the United Rtates, New York City, second tn alse in the world and in many ways the grostest, is etill in its infancy; clumey and un- formed, We have here 85,000 acres of vacant. land There are only twenty per- fons to the acre in the Bronx; five per- fons ta the acre in Queens; and three Persona to the acre in Rio! i The rain export trade ta slipping from New York to other Atlantic ports. In 189 New York shipped 9,000,000 more bushels of grain than Phitadelphta and Baltimores combined, In 1910 the figures were reverved. These two citles shipped 0,000,0% more burhels than New York. —_—_— Loat $26,205 Getting Jobs. The National Employment Exchange, John D. Rockefeller and ot t, Otto T. that at has lost $26,806 in ite three- year struggle to serve the unemployed on an ideal as well as @ business basis, Resinol heals itching skins and clears bad complexions ESINOL Ointment and Resinol Soap stop itching in- stantly; quickly and easily heal the most distressing cases of eczema, rash, ringworm, tetter, or other eruption, and clear away pimples, blackheads, dandruff, chapping, redness and roughness, when other treatments have proven only a waste oftime andmoney. Thousandswho have been cured by Resitiol say, ‘‘What it did for us, it will do for you!” «4 iiberai eamp'e as well as for piles, wal ¢ Rosisol Soap, 28¢, A lof “tips that deluged Inspector Faurot troubles. Try it yourself, by sending to-day for Vintment, Address Dop:. 100K Kesinol Chem- .. Baltimore, Md, Sold vy ot arugmists, DEATH-DEALING WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. perplexing problem of how to Bianchi, a New York manicure, wire wit Mr, Blanch! adds that girls are cold blooded and avif centred. also. Girls receiving proposals natle, BY ENTIRE FORCE ‘Every Patrolman and Detective Is on Watch for Machine That Killed Policeman. Men with short, colorless nail but they do not care much and hat, Take your chotce—long nalle and cash. Mr. Blanch! was addressing a if they would study finger nails There were twelve central office men oMcially assigned to-day to find the |Joyriders whore machine ran down and | killed Policeman Peter Pitesimmons In the West Drive in Central Park early | Friday morning, but practically the en- | tire department was at work on the cane, for Fitzsimmons had been on the force more than twenty years and was popular, From uniformed men and detectives in very section of the city came a rain GREAT CROWD SEES PAPER MILL BURN and Commissioner Dougherty, who are directing the investigation at Head- quarters, Not an automobile with a broken lamp or windshield or bent mud- guar went through the streets, but what {ts license number was reported. Detectives, continuing their tour of garages and repair shops, are running back the recent histories of twenty-Nve or more machines which they have found damaged. The theory obtains that Fitssimmons saw the car racing on the wrong site of the road and stepped out, not cnly to warn the driver of this circumstance, but to check Its epeed. How terrific the speed must have been, in {Ilustrated, Inspector Faurot pointed out to-day, by the fact that a bit broken from the butt of Fitssimmon’'s revolver was found in the road with he splintered glass from the machine's windshield and lamp. The four men held in connection with the killing of Fitzsimmons, arrested in Chinatown Friday night, were released yesterday by Coroner Holtzhauser, One, Frank Ross, was re-arrested on a charge of larceny preferred by a woman who sald she was his mother, Escape From Home as It Catches Fire. A crowd of several thousand person: excited over the approaci: of e@lectio choked rallies, McCarret Park, consumed by 4 spectacular fire. liver or serious i Bear Name of Next P: WASHINGTON, sure that one of the name of the ne: re United States, Kyler of Dennison, Tex., to whom were born male triplets on Oct. 2, have named Nov. 6&—To make renowned the boys Wililam Howard Tait Kyler, Woodrow Wilson Kyler and Theodore Roosevelt Kyler, Kyler sent a tetter to the conveying this informa- received to-day and a formal letter, Diiment, has been wr! ing the President's AKE Letters of a Slim-Made Woman to Her Fat Sister Sixth Letter: On the Slim-MadeMan Who Found a Harmless Fat Remedy Dear Sis:—I can hardly wait to write you the news, Who of all people do you amose I have {yewmt "Fatty" Beane—you remember him-—how jhe tagged me around at the beach last summer and how mortified 1 was— ate and what a figure he cut ‘It waa hie porpoise-like splashings tous remarks people made about his the ocean” that Ais, “dear, 1 met and didn't Imow hi we had to te int chenged—es much as 1 hare— | Sp ond hendeowse ks since ie Deame olism, onl; |" He has the came “reachy" complexion iaize, with him jqvow fatter and sassler on our slim diet, ‘That wes the only bond of sympathy we tad then it _now-—we have another bond, ‘You temember the simple, harmless reducer 1 firm figure the used that to find must surely be disc after meals and at 5 druggiste aell the tablets, tuo, ‘They by the Marmola Co, Mich, " Affectionate, = Consolida of Kesinol Soap and Kesinol Resinol Otntmont, 60c. and 81. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, For Best Wife Choose a Girl With Long Pink Finger Nails Jong pink finger nails make the best wives. If they are long and broad and pink, take him quick, will be one bong foretaste of paradine, for home and wife, assured that such @ man will always have the price of a new gown girls they could be of immense value as advisers in affairs of the heart IN WLLANSBUR Man, Wife and Seven Children and up late to hear speeches and attend on Lorimer street, Willlamsburgh, early to- day while the plant of the Royal Lace Paper Company, across the street, was Policeman Heckelman of Greenpoint look after your health and well-being. yourself run down—and get sick—it will be you who will lose the time and the enjoyment—it will be you who will endure the suffering. Yet, most sicknesses start in derangement of the stomach, at first sign of trouble—is always the best time to take Beecham’s Pills—the most famous family remedy the world knows—justly and power to the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels. REECHAM'S S “The Largest Sale of Any. Medicine he loo! u ple y spread,” Not " ingers we had at the beach when “4 sip bis tea and ‘and we'd both envy the other diner and 1912. Coroner called up Bloemer on the tel 6.—New ight has been shed on the phone, and he says the former admit! be happy though married. Cosmo in @ speech delivered here, says that ger, and that he seemed to br with short and cotorless finger nails dent The finger nafl test appl shoull look at their adm! He will be present at the inquest. has excellent reputation in Count is are ambitious. They make money, However, you can be finger nails and romance; short finger BREAKS A C0 gathering of manicures. He told the from the psychologl andpoint. ee, avenue station turned 1 ‘i ” When” matalion Gives Mckigy arrived sie cum vero in oO more . The fi burning rapidly. in a Few Hours. A frame dwelling immediately adjoin- ing the burning bullding was the home of Fred Milburn, his wife and seven children, They were roused by Police- man Heckelman and got out just before the hous jught fire. Capt. Linden and the reserves from Greenpoint avenue station ten families living ina thre: tenement on the other side burn home. The flames did not get into the tenement. A short time after the arrival of the apparatus, the crowds. in McCarre Park began to thicken and there w: Press of people into the street, Ti Greenpoint avenue police were una’ to hold them back and the resérves h. to be summoned from the Bedford ue and Hervert street stations. pbs Eb bei TRACES AUTO BY NUMBER. Coroner Finds It Was Farmer's Ma- chine That Killed Man. SALEM, N. 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M. to 5 P.M. e Right Way is the Gas Way” ad Gas Company of NewYork eo B.Cortelyou, President number of the car that ran down and killed John Ballinger, an aged farmer of Mannington, last Saturday night, that | the machine delongs to Henry Bloemer, @ prominent farmer of Mannington. The that it was his car that struck Ballin- nearly overcome with grief because of the acci- According to the Coroner, Bloemer sald he knew that his car had hit Ballinger, but that he was too frightened to stop. He Salem NEEDS NO HELP. 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RPET & RUG SALE Sixty-five thousand dollars’ worth of te best floor-coverings in America, to te sold for forty-three thousand dollars. Plain Wilton Velvet Plain Wilton Velvet Elsewhere $1.50 Elsewhere $2.00 Regular Macy price, $1.44 Regular Macy price, $1.89 34 Width, Macy's special price, 1.14 | | 4-4Width,Macy’sspecial price,$1.44 Body Brussels Carpets Elsewhere $1.65 Regular Macy price, $1.59 Macy’s Sale price, $1.14 Axminster Carpets Elsewhere $1.59 Regular Macy price, $1.34 Macy’s Sale price, 79¢ Among these fine Rugs and Carpets are no remnants, no ‘‘left-overs,”” and no shop-worn goods. The collection is composed of a selec- tion from our regular stock added to the items of a recent fortunate purchase on a large scale, and the entire series has actually been marked down to, in many cases, less than wholesale cost. Sizes of Rugs run from 27 inches x 54 inches up to 9 feetx12 feet, and the range of colorings, the combinations in shades and patterns, and the borders, are so wide that description is impossible here. We say, however, that in this fine collection of Rugs and Carpets you can surely match any color scheme whatever. Velvet Carpets Elsewhere $1.15 Regular Macy price, $1.09 Macy’s Sale price, 79¢ Wilton Velvet Carpets Rapuin Mie pce, $1.44 Macy’s Sale price, $1.09 Here is a rug story that applies to car pets, too. We advertise in this section a 9 ft.x12 ft. Royal Wilton Rug Sor $26.74 (regularly at Macy's, $36.89). ‘tan Another large and reputable concern in New York is advertising this identical quality of Rug thus: “Value $42.50; Special $33.50”. Second Grade Tapestry First Grade Tapest , oval Brussels Carpets Brussels Carpets Elsewhere $1 Elsewhere 85¢ Regular Macy price, 89¢ Regular Macy price, 78 Macy’s special price for this sale74c | | Macy's special price for this saleS9c Royal Witton, Tapestry Brussels, Velvet and Axminster R ugs Most Are Copies of Magnificent and Costly Orientals, in All-Over Pers'an Effects Royal Wilton Rugs | Tapestry Brussels Rugs These Wilton Rugs are a high grade] _ These are the high grade Tapestry material, made from worsted yarns, | Brussels Rugs. | An excellent wearing woven on a jacquard loom, which |rug. suitable for the living room, i ili re-| library, dining room, and chamber, Siliency. dba wise 4 , in medallion and floral effects. ‘ Macy Ke Mgey's Size Elsewhere ice 7 f ai 27x54 in. 4.7510 5.25, 4.28 104.89 Size Elsewhere _price price 16x63 in. 7.50 to 8.50, 6.14 to 7.74 $4.74 | 9x12 ft, $15.50 $14.24 $10, 844x1014f1$37.50 $35.24 stl ft, $13.50 $12.74 $9. Qxl2 ft. $40.00 $36.89 74 |814x1015 ft. $12.75 $11.74 § Fine Velvet Rugs This excellent rug is woven so as to be used on both sides, mcstly in Oriental patterns and colorings. A rug that can be used advantageously Fine Axminster Rugs High grade Axminster Rugs, mostly in Oriental patterns and in the dark tich color combinations of green, tan, , in any part of the house. The qualit brown and red. May Sale. |i, of sufficient strength to sive. che . {cellent service on either side. Both Size Elsewhere price —_priee | sides exactly alike. 27x60in. $2.25 $214 § ad Size Elsewhere Reg. Macy price, 96x72 in. $375 $348 §¥ 9x12, $20.00, . $18.48 9x12 fl. $24.50 $22.74 $17.48 Macy’s Sale Price $11.89 ‘Third Floor, Bway. GERMAN DECORATED DINNERWARE ¥y to 4 Less Than Elsewhere The decoration of this high grade Schwarzburg China has a dainty pink rose festooned pattern intertwined with a conven- tional border in green, the combination making a decoration equal in effectiveness to that of many of the very expensive China Sets. Included in this assortment are all the pieces necessary for a complete Dinner Set in any combination preferred. | [Dinner Plates; each... ++reee152 | Soup Tureen... | I Breakfast Plates; each. . Re} Pickle Dish.. Tea Plates; each.. 10: {Covered Dish... Dessert Plates; each +sss+:fe | Salad Bowl....... Bread and Butter Plates; each...... 8 | Salad Bowl... Soup Plates; each sees. 12¢]ChopDish.... Toast Rack, ‘ Oatmeal Dishes.. Ramekin and Plate. Platters; each Platters; each Platters; each. Platters; each.. sae 29¢ | Bouillon Cups and Saucer: ice Cream Dish; each........+ 59 | Tea Pots Vresorve Dishes; each Te | Tea Pots. individual Butters... 3e} Cream Pitch 15 SERRE EA ESBET ES each Cream Pitchers... Cake Plates. ... Sauce Boat MEGEERIOIG Fiche ssatsiasss Covered Butter Dish, Double Egg Cuns. * wl Covered Muffin Dishes. Mayonnaise and Plate Open Baker.........+ Twin Open Baker t'ca Cups and Saucers. " otfee Cups and Saucers....... A.D, Coffees and Saucers. Main Fleor, S4ih Sirect,