The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1919, Page 11

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919 PROPERTY IN NEW YORK CITY 18 VALUED AT $11,452.020,600, AL- MOST DOUBLE THE VALUA- TION OF THE COMBINED SIX NEW ENGLAND STATES. By Willis Brooks Capyright, 1919, by the Prem Pabilshing Co, (The Now York which is little only in area. The entire city embrac mile. the combined 961,879 square miles (over 10,000 times THENCE TO AUGUSTA, ME, \ SAN FRANCISCO \ THIS CITY'S 1,866 MILES OF SUR- FACE, SUBWAY AND ELEVATED TRACKS WOULD MAKE A SINGLE TRACK RAILROAD ALMOST TO DENVER, COL. DENVER ERE are a few of the wonders of “little old New York,” less than 316 square miles, including many under water. tion of 5,872,143, it averages 18,642 persons to the square mile as against an average of only 30 for the entire United States and possessions. County (Manhattan) alone, with twenty square miles, has 2,467,715 inhabitants, or 123,386 to the square Single acres here have 3,000 dwellers, while for each inhabitant of the entire nation the United States has twenty-one acres. One square mile in this county exceeds in population any outside city in New York State excepting Buffalo and Rochester. New York and Kings Counties (Manhattan and Brooklyn) combined, with 92 square miles, many of them uninhabitable, have a greater population than wan FANON ae . \\. 2 \ ‘ of 5,872,143 New York’s Population And Property Valuation of $11,452,020,600 of 3,616 Miles Without a Thrill Evening World.) With a popula- New York greater) of Arizona, even in a help | To re w | York € pound 1 Pennsylvania I make to Ba l |York spreads 13,0) Jevery day If all the 3,750, consumed daily contained in ordii set side by side, And Total Street Length Are Facts We’ve Heard NEW YORK’S DAILY CONSUMP- TION OF MILK, 3,750,009 POUNDS, WOULD FILL THREE ROWS OF QUART BOTTLES COMPLETELY GIROLING MANHATTAN tSLAND. Amazing Facts About Our Big City Average New Yorker Never Realizes But Study the Diagrams Around This Page Comparisons Worked Out From Other Figures How Much Food We Eat MANHATTAN (ISLAND 00 poun ) pounds in this eit nary quart it would ft butter of milk | y were} bottles | make @ ” bullding 489 the theatre A the ings, Ifa single nacle wou Island belo surmounte to it as n ground area of that edifice, the croas oe i ee The Water We Drink Length of Our Streets The Coal We Burn tip of It would fail in If the 998,698 teachers the head of the column Chicago before school age in this city grant parentage substitute English for r enty different the pupils. There are 904 «dist homes and societies f¢ tions with headquarter there were be she inter partment stores © buildings, 6124 factory 21,774 stables and garages ind 19,539 special struc iding 97% motion pieture with seating capacity of re 1,757 chureh build- | these were combined in a story structure, the taber 4 cover all of Manhattan ow Fulton Street. If it were od by a steeple proportioned Trinity's spire is to the nw nore at the top would stand above the earth, If tha topple over toward the northe. Boston. Public school buildings number und pur to march single file toward the ls uld York, Seven out of nine childre of The schools hav thar languages spoken were west reach the end of it left Now | Hl by h M inct hospitals, oe relief in the ovens Seventy-four of the office city, This does not include the |ty-seven authorized war relief associa bul Idings phones, exceeding by 200,000 the humbor used by London, Paris and erin combined in normal times he Equitable Building alone has 4,444 stations. ‘The Rector exchange handles an average of 266,000 cally a day, requiring constant speedy work of 150 operators, diet of the canned goods consumed here daily. y t editions, pe coples, | le u ju Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, are skyscraper h having twenty heir combinec New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and|bany. The number of licensed chauf-| Now York City with New Jersey, and|fringe three bottles deep entirely | {0m oF more (tm ir combine a Wyoming, Of the 68 nations of earth |feurs here, exclusive of owner-driv- an additional vehicular (undel is L ound Manhattan Island, height, eae donb tak Dae : only 25 exceed in population the sin-|ers, exceeds the population of each of ing provided for. tele © towers, domes, &c., is 4.7 miles, Each gle City of New York The annual| thirty-seven of the sixty-two counties eae But Gotham normally drinks other | of several of them contains a daily increase in this city equals the popu-|in the State, If the 137,655 gallons of, Thirty ferry companies operate| things than milk. For example,| population exceeding that of the city lation of the entire State of Wyoming. |s@8oline consumed every day by this lines of boats from landings in the) not less than 6,250,000 cups of cof-| of Saratoga Springs or the gntire pop Nearly three-quarters of New York|City’s cars were supplied to a single city. An equal number of steamboat |fee and 3,500,000 cups of tea add to] ulation of Putnam County * ondste: 0 lines provide ferries too} | the daily atio’ of the 617,- City’s population consists of foreign |foadster running fourteen miles on a provide ferries to outlying | the daily irrigation, while of the 617-1 6 aro 46,504 manufacturing on bonnmataone anAitemer@niid tent gallon, {t could travel 1,000 miles a points. 000,000 gallons of water used dally in}, Um ity. employing §19,. The valuation of property in this|/day for fifty-three yoars, by which) 4. nunarea and three steamship | ‘Ne city It ts estimated that 2,203,000! 16 Workers, exceeding the entire pop: city is ai »,600, including tax: time it might need repairs. Sieanin ate ime eee ee wallooe are drunk Hh ans Be ricdian ae Geen OF fied atatas athe able and exempt real estate an y ‘4 a y 18,000,000 glasses of water poure: ; The car thei prod ‘ - bway rk. Nine of t wn fifty traus- | ; Union. The value of th products THE ASHOKAN RESERVOIR Kagwn personality; Ghisy ay almowt | este severe, Meee Cty laa age down Now York's vast throat every | is'ereater than that of ull the manu ALONE HAS A CAPACITY F double the valuation of the combined [924 elevated tracks tn this city © anit twenty-four hours. Also the city # ivi ‘ ; WATER ENOUGH TO COVER ALL : a would make a single track railroad 000 gross tonnage drinks, about 3,000,000 glasses of soda | [actures of New Lvgland, which is MANHATTAN ISLAND T2008 six New England States. from New York nearly to Denver, | !ns vess« BML aa ea in thavaaen aap ssaeds popularly supposed to be the gre at FEET., ag carry e ous expo: a im. |* 9 ¢ je same period spen: anufac! £ on of this co! y QEPTH OF FIFTY New York City’s budget for 1919/Col ‘The 12,780 cars operated on Carry” he se per aa I> | aan toe tun (ea erect ,; Manufacturing section of this country calls for $248,108,487, exceeding the}them would make up a train Port commerce of New York harbor WW YORKERS carat . e which exceeds all other Atlantic and| New York ins 300,000 7 meee ARANETA 25 combined budgets of the sixteen|reaching from New York to e New York entertains 800,000 visitors $60,000,000 a year on amuse. | wealthiest States in the Unjon out-|Scranton, Pa. These cars car- Swf ports cv d. Exports through |daily, More than 200 high-class ho- panong 4 ae madi ce whiok | side of New York’ State, ried 1,975,511,690 cash passengers in New York ¢ ater in value than |tels and 10,383 other lcensed plac At cous to: tite sine sare. movies, Opera 1918, twice as many as all the steam ! those Asia, Africa and Aus-| gather in $1,250,000 evory aight fF] sing takes about $10,000,000 of it Those foreigners who come here] vircads in the Unitgd States car- tralia, while the imports far surpass | food and drink alone, PS ; » 72 : expecting to pick up gold in thel : (iomacot Mouth Atheciva; Atviea ana deta Then there are 721 licensed “common ried. The average dally receipts of . up agit fl streets are not wholly deceived, since| 1.) New York transit lines equal | Australia combined, Add to these tie | No other engincering feat ever per- shows" (Werris, wheels, scenic ral sixty-flve acres of ground, worth| \” ‘ coastwise tra ind the constant| formed by man equals that which |WAy% chutes, carousels, Japanese ‘ thirty tons of nickels. Rapid transit a‘ ball : i ast many millions of dollars, have been ey mee en ee and under movernent vast quantities of |SUpples New York City with water, | all, American ball, &c.), with sea added to the city from street sweep- Labad die Bi eee surface (ffelght to and from New England, The Catskill Aqueduct, starting at |!ME capacity of 261,730 pers Al ings. More than soven tons of dust) io 3.000,000,000 pas. /tirough New York's waters, and you| A*hokan Reservoir and ending at |? Miant rooms, with 6,802 tables, carried into the subways alone|!!nes Provide for 3,000,000,000 pas- ‘ Silver Lake, State @ calles {002 bowling places, with 1,549 all oe. SBE? a abehaelais engers @ year. Tho Fifth Avenue|"etlize why the numbe nd r Lake, Staten Island, 119 miles every day by the feet of passengers. sengers y . " lighters in t en ater than|®Wway, has @ €apacity which would 109 shooting Jeries, 8 public danc pal al bus company operates 276 cars over if" Rent ve bai? be halls and numer other places If you were to walk ten miles al fifty-four miles of route. wiles ae ee EOE IHUR, Wetan erg ater & 0Y 194 where the busy millions may find re day it would take you practically a ——- id. piers on ul RAR ARG ONG OR MAUD ion for am Dil year to cover the 2616 miles of| The four bridges crossing the East jcity’s 675 mil water front, ind| Much of the way it ts bored through ; /“*" 7 : streets open to travel in Greater New| River aggregate nearly six miles in/many more projected : e Le i Where it _ Cronses: If the 8,465 acres of parks, parkways York, 2,395 miles of which are paved| length, forming the greatest system Ae ; id on tiver, above West Point, it and playgrounds of the city were all| and provided with sewers, If made |%f Water-spanning structures in the sian ae ey eee ka to such depth that if the Na- | concentrated on Manhattan Island into one continuous street the high-| World. ‘They cost approximately poly t r th "s Capitol stood at its base and|iney would occupy two-thirds of its|* "omular force of 9 men and a ways would reach from New York to $100,000,000. More persong than in tra ga al bed 1e© Woolworth Building were piled | area, or, say, all the territory below | volunteer foi of 931 men, fought San Franciseo and leave over enough | habit Boston cross them daily. Added length are required ith th n top it and the Washington! yagen Street | 14,053 fires in 1917, the last year for et mileage for a spur to Augusta, |to these is the New York Connecting |locomot 1 for such Monument set atop of that, the cap- ! ak which figures are available, th: Railway bridge over Hell G the ! id bo approa ne of monument would just | To light th and parks 65,992 | !0ss8es being $14,278,52 rye} t " vor! re ( at wat ean f th NEW YORK'S 1,757 CHURCHES HE motor vehicles registered in| largest cantilever bridge In the wortd, |} ; t nce O! e river, ‘f electric lamps, fas lamps and The polles foren numbers 1042s WOULD MAKE A ONE-STORY this city, to say nothing of|bullt at a cost of $27,000,000, sai te i Mohan tanervolr alone haaa one (twelve GDH the lamp, ured, IM | he total number of arrests in 1917 TABERNACLE COVERING ALL visiting ones that use Its| % Mls train i, a pacity for water enough to cover the | all 77 Amps, at an cost of | | Waa . MANHATTAN BELOW FULTON | There are eight tunnel t@bes under joads 1 1 ft tr-| whole 6f Manhattan Island t 09 was 187,91 he convictions num ESE reets, would, if parked side by side,|the East River and elght more in : Pi il Py 3 J boring 144,550, At present there are . ike a row slong Broadway and its|course of construction, Six tunnel |" PHB OF Ny If all the wu Wiis Gohl consumed in tide city im an (about G00 iemiitan oF ike ean 3 fromm the Battery to Al-' tubes under the h River connect | 188 of nu r tins laid under this city were . le | leded dns lib thas weuia ras ur would fill a bin covering tional institutions of the oity. bea Y : : Port md Me,, to San Francisco, Pe | 1,874,835 pour It t we le re are nearly 400,000 con AuGusTA, average steers, replaced on the hoof,|ections with dwellings and business Jit would make a 4 n of cattle] Pine and + n 45,000 with fire | reaching fre hington # © to} b¥drar city’s entire daily THE 3.616 MILES OF NEW YORK | renohing om W RHAre MOT snsumpiion is 0S m@mlons pa i STREETS WOULD EXTEND IN A the ur 1 of Central Park ‘ per capita SINGLE HIGHWAY FROM SAN ides, $12,800 4 1 I yd f Yankee Doodle, coming to New FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK AND ) pounds of fats and 157,000 pound: | wor complained shat 4 THE 99,698 PUPILS AND TEACH~ ERS IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS IN SINGLE FILE WOULD MAKE A PROCESSION FROM HERE TO BE- ‘YOND CHICAGO, the territory bounded by Fifth anu Sixth Avenu and 42d and 46th Streets and rising 875 feet, or 125 feet Building tower. fil twenty New Washin \t working in one AAI \Y SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1919 POPULATION OF 92 SQUARE MILES IN NEW YORK AND KINGS COUN~ TIES ALONE EXCEEDS THAT OF west. ERN STATES HERE SHOWN WITH AN AREA 10,000 TES GREATER, her than the top of the Woolworth The would, 1 Madix nine feet 4 Letropolit collected annually tn this if piled in a solid cube, to a height of ve the top of the usher ty n Square n New York uses about 700,000 tele- Pound for pound, the vegetarian runs about ace with the carniverous, though this Joem not include the 468.750 pounds of city an even HE fifty-eight morning newspapers: in N York circulate about 3,000,000 copies, the forty ev ning editions about 6,000,000 coples, naking approximately 8,000,000 papers culs dally @ thirty-one Sun .y newspapers here circulate about ” copies. One day's output 7 ning and evening papers in his elty consumes a strip of paper bout twenty-two inch and enough to reach around th at the equator, while the Sunday with their larger number of whough mmalier number of would more than double the ength of the strip. s wide rth ore are upward of 24,500,000 vol- wing circulating and re nee braries of New York, A shelf to ac mmodate them would reach from York to thirty miles beyond n, D.C. It is estimated hat each of these volumes ts, on the nr ten times If each reading and consul- 1 averages two hours, New Yor pend more than 192,000 years of ays over these library books year verage A or consulte rs The alty's Fire Department, with TO BRING ONE WEEK'S FOOD SUPPLY TO THIS CITY WOULQ REQUIRE A TRAIN OF CARS EX- TENDING TO PHILADELPHIA ‘emo = AND PULLED av 0 ENGINES. tetetetedta dd a i - , BALTI a More T A “BREAD LINE” OF 1,250,000)| POUND LOAVES LAID FROM HERE TO ‘BALTIMORE WOULD 7°s BE NEW YORK'S CONSUMPTION OF BREAD FOR ONE DAY, : MONTANA = ARIZONA COAL CONSUMED IN THIS CITY IN ONE YEAR WOULD FILL A BIM, FEET HIGH, FROM 420 TO 46TH. STREET AND PROM PIFTH TO SIXTH AVENUE. 67s ONE DAY'S MORNING AND EVE: NING OUTPUT OF NEW YORK’ $8 DAILY NEWSPAPERS WOULD LAY A STRIP OF PAPER 22 INCHES WIDE ALL THE AROUND THE EARTH, EXTENOING way