The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 9

data mreinane ince SNAIL ‘L’ SERVICE)" ways \ — _ the Westminster Kennel Club Include a ‘000 ENUH FOR NANHATTAN FOLK Lingering, Jammed Locals Best Real Supporters of In- terborough Lines Can Get. | ALL BENEFITS TO BRONX People Who Pay Bulk of| Nickels Lose What Long- | » Haul Riders Gain. | ‘With humming speed each morning ami night the Bronx folk shoot to #1 from downtown Manhattan in the excellent express trains provided for them at @ cost of millions, while the less fortunate residents of Man- hattan battle their way into over- crowded and erratic local trains, While the Interborough boasts loudly of its express service, it apparently has no eyes or fecling for the Man- hattan people who feed nickels inté ite great coffers, Te cost the Interborough about $50,000,000 to install ite new third- track express service. It is a great Improvement and one much needed. ‘The residents of the faraway Bronx are highly appreciative. But in the improvement plans no thought what- ever was given the dwellers on Man- hattan Island who of necessity must use the elevated railroads. Every year the Interbordugh sells g@omething like 800,000,000 tickets to elevated travellers. Of this great amount two-thirds are purchased by the folk of Manhattan. It is the short-haul passengers, as the Man- hattan dwellers are known, who pay the expenses and furnish profits of the elevated. The nickel of the long- haul passenger is of far less value, and in many instances long-haul pas- sengers aro carried at a loss. The officials of the Interborough do not deny this. But notwithstanding it furnishes the majority purchasers of elevated tickets and the people whose nickels are most profitable, Manhattan is given no apparent consideration by the Interborough in its $50,000,000 improvements. Tho Interborough of. ficials say that the newly installed express service should relieve con- Gestion along the line, and that by using the local trains Manhattan res- (dents may travel in comparative comfort and at sufficient speed. That is the theory, The facts are far dift- ferent. Ever siace the inauguration of the new elevated express service on the Second and Third Avenue lines the Jocal trains during the rush hours, merning and night, have been dis- gracefully overcrowded and lament- ably slow, Had more loca! trains been supplied the trouble might have been solved, but if anything there are fewer trains on the local tracks, As typical conditions on the local tracks may be cited the experience of a crowd of Manhattanites who as- sembled on the downtown platform of the Eighty-ninth Street Station of the Third Avenue line yesterday morning, They began gathering at 8.40 o'clock and waited and waited and waited. And while the crowd muttered and growled its displeasure the Bronx expresses shot merrily by with the long-haul and less profitable passengers. It was 9.03 o’clock— twenty-three minutes after the crowd began to gather—before « local, and a eadly crowded one at that, arrived and increased tts load of human sar- dines by another layer or two, Dur- ing the waiting about fifteen express trains romped by, and also one local train, en route to South Ferry, which did not even hesitate at Highty-ninth Street. The same thing may be experienced any morning or evening during the rush hours at any of the local sta- tions along the line. Manhattan peo- ple who have been using the elevated trains for years say that since the inauguration of the new express ser- vice the local trains take from five to ten minutes longer to make their runs. ‘What these users of the elevated want to. know is what relief they may expect from the Interborough or the Public Service Commission, It ts cer- tain that they have not derived any benefits from the $50,000,000 improve- ments of the "L" service. Instead they are getting a service infertor to that which they formerly had, The Interborough, however, is grate- ful to the Manhattan dwellers for the millions of tickets they purchase each year, In fact, it would be impossible to conduot the elevated without them, —_—_————>——— Dog Show Entries Clone, Early entries for the coming show of great string of Airedale terriers from the ennels of Mrs. Anita Baldwin of Call~ foruter who will exhibit at New York for the first time, and @ brace of St ernards just imported by Col, Jacob R pert Jr. All the entries close to-day with George W. Gall, superintendent, at No, 18 Kast Forty-first Street, eS AUTO SPEEDER FINED $100. Davidson Was a Third Offender Second Offender Fined #50, In pursuance of the policy of lato, heavy finos were imposed on two automobile speeders by Magistrate Frothingham yesterday in the Wash- ington Heights Court. Arthur ©, Davidson of No, 600 West One Hun- 4 Beventy-cighth Street, ac- ft ey to the pol: ‘ecords a third offender on the charge, was fined $100 for specding on Broadway ne ne Hundred and wort tire Street. He sald that his wife was il! a he by 9 taking her home, He . Dan BU Mandl aT Het at otiee he Ottender for speeding hie motorcycle two days ago on Broad~ Hey, Beene aorta | a fanamaker's The Story (i. February FURNITURE SALE at WANAMAKER’S | Is Wrapped Up With the Story of the Greatest City in the World HE biggest, busiest, healthiest, wealthiest and happiest aggre- gation of people in the whole world is now living and working together in the city of New York. New York has become the metropolis of the world —first in population, in wealth, in business, in commerce, in finance, in education, in music, in charity, in achievement, in power. Believing that this sove- City Hall reignty is not generally known to the people of our city, the John Wana- maker Store has collected —accurately, it believes— @ mass of statistics, which it will present day by day in connection with the story of its February Sale of Furniture. It presumes to link the story of a great city with that of a great business because the city, its work and its homes are indissolubly merged in the lives of the people. Second Day of Courtesy Tomorrow , t a Second Day of Courtesy, tomorrow—offering privi- lege of advance selection. Volume of Sale: Our entire stock on hand, total- ing $676,415.65 according to our books, as this is written; also special purchases aggregating $265,- $23.13; a grand total of $941,738.78 of furniture actu- ally owned by this Store and shown or represented by samples on the floors, and entered in the Sale. Average reductions in price 30 per cent.; individ- ual reductions from 10 to 50 per cent. All good grades of furniture represented. Everything sold with the usual Wanamaker guar- antee of complete satisfaction. Some of the Special Purchases $40,678 of bedroom and din- ing-room furniture from one of our best manufacturers—one- third less in price. $16,867 of moderate price bed- room furniture in matched sets from a maker with whom we have dealt for over 30 years— one-third less. $4,025 of bedroom furniture in matched sets {rom the same manufacturer—at exactly half price. $18,709 of living-room furni- ture—easy chairs, davenports and matched suites, covered with velours and tapestries, from one of our best manufac- turers—one-fourth less, $10,640 of fine library and tables of mal from probably the best maker of his kind in the country—one- third less. $10,100 of oak dining-room furniture, v moderate in price, mate! suites and odd pieces—one-fourth leas. $15,000 of brass and iron bed- steads from three of our good makers—one-fourth less. $11,600 of solid mahogany 4- post bedsteads of the finest con- oan and finish—one-JSourth $6,059 of fancy chairs, rock- ers and reclining chairs, from @ leading maker—-one-third less. $1,465 of hall glasses and seats, mostly in oak—ezactly half price, $26,546 of moderate-price bed- room furniture in large assort- ment from one of our old-time mal third less. $45,700 of Colonial bedroom furniture of solid mahogany—a Wanamaker specialty—one- Sourth less, Furniture Costs Are Rising Everything that enters furniture is costing more labor; also things that go into the construction of these days—wood, glass, into its packing—lumber, excelsior, twine, nails, ete, Advances are already made to the retail trade, but we have protected our customers against them for this sale. pearances those advances the year at least. From all ap- will continue throughout Woolworth Building These statistics are mon- umental. They are almost bewildering. They shall be presented as simply and as plainly as possible. On January 1, 1914—be- fore the war, which has af- fected the growth of both cit- ies—New York had already passed London in population. Administrative London, counting the 28 boroughs un- der one city government, then had 4,517,172 residents; New York, with only five boroughs, 5,518,752. Metropolitan London with 693 square miles had 7,448,- 681; New York with 683 square miles 7,454,296. Today New York, accord- ing to the latest estimate, has a population of about 5,800,- 000 actually within her city limits; and approximately 8,000,000 in her metropolitan zone, counting the people who live in the suburbs but who work in New York. New York is increasing in population at the rate of 18,- 000 a month, adding every three months a new city as large as that which Washing- ton knew when he was Presi- dent of the United States and the national Capitol was on Wall Street. Averaging every three min- utes there is a birth in New York. Every seven minutes there is a death. Every ten minutes there is a marriage. One in every nineteen per- sons in the United States lives in New York. One in every thirteen lives or works here. More people live in New York than in all the cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Birm- ingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Bradford, Notting- ham, Portsmouth, Oldham, Croydon, Brighton, Norwich, Birkenhead and Plymouth, the fifteen largest English cities next to London, More people live in New York than in the combined cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Stuttgart. More people live in New York than in all of the twelve states of Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Park Row Building THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916, Building Bulllvg W.U. ‘Telegraph Nevada, Oregon, North Da- kota, Utah and Wyoming. * e J There are approximately a million individual families in New York; and 400,000 build- ings of all kinds. Manhattan has 25,000 one- family houses, 2,700 two-fam- ily houses, and 40,000 mul- tiple type houses. Brooklyn—the great home borough — has 63,000 one- family houses, 51,000 two- family houses and 46,000 mul- tiple type houses. Bronx—fastest growing of all the boroughs, having in- creased 225 per cent. in popu- lation since 1900, due largely to the extension of the rapid transit system — has 14,000 one-family houses, 2,000 two- family houses and 10,000 mul- tiple type houses. Queens—largest of all the boroughs in area—has 38,000 one-family houses, 14,000 two- family houses and 5,100 mul- tiple type houses. Richmond has 15,000 one- family houses, 1,500 two-fam- ily houses and 600 multiple type houses. In a business way, the fig- ures are also impressive. With one-twentieth of the population of the United States New York produces one-tenth of her mauufactur- ed products. With 26,000 manufacturing plants, employing three-quar- ters of a million of people, paying half a billion dollars in wages, the city turns out over two billion dollars of goods annually. In addition one billion dol- lars more of goods go out through the port of New York and one billion dollars more come into the port every year —in normal times. New York has a two bil- lion dollar wholesale trade in dry goods alone; a one-and-a- half billion dollar retail dry goods trade, the largest unit of which passes through Wan- amaker’s. In addition New York is the selling center of the whole United States. e« @ Here, then, we have the maximum combination that makes for happy prosperity —people, homes, work, busi- ness, Tt is our business—the busi- ness of the John Wanamaker American Surety Store—to serve this great mass of people to the best of our ability. It is our business to assem- ble from over the world the things these people need in their homes. To do this we have an ex- tensive organization and a sixteen-story building speci- ally erected on Broadway at Ninth for the purpose of dis- playing and selling exclusive- ly (except on the Main floor) furnishings for the home. And here, on the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh floors, is assembled the furniture which composes the February Sale, opening tomorrow with a Day of Courtesy for advance selec- tions. * 8 6 This February Sale of Fur- niture is now a national insti- tution. It is attended by people from practically every state in the Union. But it is a Sale primarily for New Yorkers; and it is a Sale worthy of the great city in which it is held. It is the original Sale of its kind. And it is the largest Sale of its kind in all the world. It offers close to a million dollars of standard Wana- maker furniture at discounts of 10 to 50 per cent., the aver- age reduction being 30 per cent. The main points of the Sale are told elsewhere on this page. Some of the special pur- chases are there tabulated. ‘This story is mainly for the purpose of linking up the great event with your love for your homes and your city, and to assure you that we can be of service to you in furnish- ing those homes at great econ- omy in cost. * * The time to buy profitably is when prices are down, Prices are down in this Febru- ary Sale as they will not be again for many months to come. Furniture is going to cost more. That is a certainty. Manufacturers have already raised their prices because the costs of materials and labor have risen, Furniture that we buy after this Sale will cost more. The prices cannot be kept down, But during the Sale—dur- ing all of February—we shall pee mdTOHN WANAMAKER Bankers’ Manhattan Adi ‘Trust offer all of our regular furni- ture stocks and all of our spe- cial purchases already made, at reductions from our stand- ard prices, of 10 to 50 per cent. This is the whole story. This is our invitation to come and see what we have to offer. Looking costs nothing. The store is always open to visitors. We believe you have never seen such a collection of good furniture as you will see here. We know you cannot buy equal grades of furniture, generally speaking, so low in price. *“_ * @ Do not think we have noth- ing but fine furniture. We do have the finest that ts made, but we have also in- expensive grades. We aim to serve all of the million homes in New York. We have the kinds of furnt- ture wanted in those homes, We shall be glad to show it to you at any time you may choose to call. Our experience, our design- ers, our staff of interior deco- rators are at your command for any suggestions you may desire. And the wonderful House Palatial, that beautiful 22- room house visited every year by a million people from all parts of the world, is rich with suggestions for any home. In this Store so well known to New Yorkers there opens today, with the first of four Days of Courtesy, the February Sale of Furniture, one of the two great opportunities of the year for refurnishing the home. TEEPE PTS ETUUNG ss 9 ON NE omg id A EAD TET Zep wa ny yanits8 O09 SUN DGD ES OB fit) ‘ fem (8G a BE eee * MEE iron a eas um AC MAND ROD $28 Boy DOIN | TOTTI TT Re) Broadway at Ninth Street, New York New York Fifty ‘ Years Hence John Bright was dining in Manchester with « citizen, an earnest admirer of the United States, who said to him: A would like to come back fifty | years after my death to see ( what a fine country America » will be.” Mr. Bright, with » grim smile, replied: “I believe | you would be glad of any excuse to come back.”’ } To those who moved away to Europe and who have come | back after fifty years’ absence, New York is an astonishment / in its growth, as will be seen from some of the figures given on this page. It is now the greatest) city in the world. Though thesd strangers have taken in the other great cities of both hemispheres, their uni- versal testimony is: There does not exist anywhere, from London to San Francisco, either way round the globe, such a wonder city as New York nor such homelike, large and complete store buildings fas those pictured on this page. But the real question is: What shall the next fifty years do to make New York still greater? (Signed) January 27, 1916. You are living in the great- est city in the world. You have at your door— easily accessible by subway —one of the great stores of the world. That store is holding a sale of furniture’ that can render a great service to your home. Will you take cdvantage of the opportunity or will you let it pass by? itl