The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1921, Page 25

THE EVENING WORLD, TH URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, ails anatase SN ta ‘Staten Island °.° ** “The Beautiful” The ‘‘Borough of Opportunity’? That a Daring Navigator Won for ‘Tomes Six Worst Spellers Selected From All Parts of : the World and New York : Read This List Maybe Your Friends or Sten= By Maurice Ketten / ographers Are in It. of Future New Yorkers. Highest Land on Atlantic Coast, Has 57 Square Miles and 57 Miles of Waterfront. By Major Joseph Caccavajo, C. E., D. Sc., Consulting Engineer and Expert on Population and Statistics of the City of New York. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ICHMOND LOROUGH, better known probably to the majority of New R Yorkers as half times that of the State of Ne’ Staten Island, has a population more than one and one- ada, and if a city by Itself would rank in the group which includes Trenton, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Cam- den, Norfolk and Albany. With an area almost equal to that of Manhattan and the Bronx combined, Richmond could house the entire population of all of the five boroughs of the City of New York and not be as densely popu- lated as is the Borough of Manhattan. To-day Richmond has an aver- age of but three persons to each of its 36,600 acres, equal to 57 square miles. To those who are best acquainted with all sections of the City of New York the statement that Staten Island is the most beautiful of all the boroughs will not come as a surprise. That it contains some of the most yaluable undeveloped prop- erty in the city to-day is also a well recognized fac§ among those best equipped to judge. Once upon a time, and to a con- Giderable extent even to-day, Staten Island was and is known as the beautiful spot which Americans sailing out of New York Harbor passed on their way to Europe, and its green hills with thelr magnificent background of trees and flowers welcomed them on their return, For more than twenty-three years Staten Island has been a part of the City of New York and as the Bor- ough of Richmond it has enjoyed practically ail of the privileges of the greatest municipality in the world without having to contend with its disadvantages, Sixteen miles in length, from St. George on the north end of the Island to Tottenville on the south, and approximately eight miles in width at its widest point between the Kill van Kull and the outer » Staten Island requires only the com- pletion of the proposed rapid transit tunnels under the ows to make it one of the most desirable resident and business sections of the entire city The picturesque Staten Island hills viewed from the harbor, rising at one point known as “Todt Hill" to a height of 413 feet, is the highest ground along the entire Atlantic sez ard from Maine to Florida With its chain of beautiful hills its valleys, plains and shaded wood- lands, its ‘rich producing fields and farms and the splendid views which Staten Isianders enjoy of the Atian- tic Ocean, the lower and upper bay, he Kill van Kull, Newark Bay, tne Orange Mountains and, last but not least, with the constant panorama of ships great and small which ASS through t famous Narrows, com- manded as they are by Federal forti- Aications and great guns, Styten Island can well be said to have ad- vantages which a unparalleled @lsewhere in the City of New York, Staten Island was given its name by Hendrick Hudson, who in 1608, sailed through the Narrows and an- chorest inthe bay. He it was who called it “Staaten Eylandt” in honor of the States of Holand, and it. was there that | Ww first landed near What is now St. George. Very few people are aware of the fact that only the skill and daring of a sailor man made Staten Island a part of New York ang not of New Jersey, as its ge- ography would seem to suggest it might well have been. Soon after the Duke of York took possession of the colony on Manhattan Island he decreed that all islands lying {n the rivers and harbor that oould pe circumnavigated in twenty- four hours chould remain part of New York. Th was grave question at that tkne whether a siuiing vessel could pysibly sail completely around Staten Island within the specified time, but the feat was accomplished within twenty-three hours, and there- fore Staten Island became a part of the Sta’ of New York To-day as a part of the City of New York it ia grogressing rapidly in both population and commercially. Giant ferryboats owned and rated by the muntelpality ply every few minute between the Hattery on Manhattan Island and Staten Island, and within @ few years when the proposed tun- nels are built under the Narrows, giving even more rapid connection between tho business and financial istricts of the city, Richmond is sure to become, on account of its many aAvantages, one of the most popular and prosperous boroughs of the City of New York. Among its beautiful hills are to de found some of the finest and most pelatial residences of ‘the financters and business men of the metropolis. ere they enjoy all the advantages @ty Mife, as woll as sectring for thetr families a suburban hom Pacing, as it does, on one side the antic Ocean, its residents also = the advantages of being near the seashore and during the summer fmonths enjoy the health-giving ties of a daily dip in the ocean eautiful stretches of sandy whioh line a goodly portion of tte seven miles of waterfront. ‘As @ place of commercial activity Btaten Island ocouples a prominent lace in the business life of the city. Bne deep water along more than halt of {ts immense Waterfront easily ac- Sommodates the biggest ships afloat, and 200 or more manufacturing con- Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmrrrrmmrrrrre Do You Know That— If the entire population of New York City were trans. ferred to Staten Island it could be populated as densely as Manhattan and still leave near. ly 2,000 acres untenanted? Richmond has over 4,000 ngre one-family dwellings than the Bronx? Staten Island has the highest point of land on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida? Staten Island belongs to New York instead of New Jersey be- cause a daring sailing master cireumnavigated it? dwellings, 2,464 two-family dwell- ing: 554 tenement houses, 65 hotels and elevator apartment houses, 123 business and office buildings and 501 factories. In Manhattan over 90 per cent, of the people live in tenements. In Richmond less than 6 per cent housed in other than one and tw ta dwellings. as compared $4,103, Richie S per cent, as many one-fa dwellings as Manhattan the has conside: than six limes the population of Staten Island the records show that RK ond has over 4,000 more one- ily dwellings than the Bronx. It Nas more factory buildings than the Bronx In ten years the borough in- creased 35 per cent. in popula- tion, from 85,969 in 1910 to 116,531 in 1920, With more than 2% in its thir public f which ab 0) are in high school, Rich- mond has € tl schools nnd A NU private schools, with more than 4,000 pupls. Seventy-two ¢ by mor than church proy supported mbers, have rty valued at more than $5,000,000, ‘These include nineteen Roman = C churches, twe Protestant- ul, eleven . Met odist- six Baptist, tive Moravian, tive Lutheran and eight or Pn other denominations, lere are seventeen theatres and moving pi houses in the com- munit cent » Which would be ed towns and villages if they were t in the City of New York. Amc centres which make up borough, just as Harlem, or K Vi Gr nWich Village and other se were once Widely separated par Manhattan, St. George, v Brighton, Sailors’ Snug Harpor, Con- rd, Livingston, We New Brighton, Port Richmond, 4 iners’ Ha Grantville, New Dorp Richmond, Tottenville, Tompkinsville, Stapl on, Fort Wadsworth, tleton Corners, Princess Bay and a number of others. The municipal ferries carry more than 1,000 passengers a year, or over 60,000 each day, ‘The streets of the borough if put end to end would extend over $20 miles, nearly 100 miles be- yond Washington, D. C, There are nearly 100 miles @f sewers and 17,000,000 gallons of water are consumed daily, carried to the residents through 273 miles of water mains connected with artesian wells, as well as the * main supply of the City of New York by a tunnel under the Nar- rows from Brooklyn, Last year there were fifty ne Dabies born every week in Richmon: there were about forty deaths a week and twenty-one marriages. One of the most wonderful institu tions in the City of New York, and for that matter in the we ld, is lc cated on Staten Island, Resifents New York as well as vi ty who have not llors* i Harbor at New Mrighton hav missed a treat, It i: as interesting in its way as the Metropolitan Museum or the Publfe Libra nd parks and ite wealth is'a ] & illustrati c the increase in values of New Yor City property in the past century, As already stated, nature has made Staten Island one of the most favored sections of the great metropolis, With the extension of the New York sub- way system under the arrows to Staten Island, so there will be direct rapid transit’ connection ~ with the business sections of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the vast undeveloped areas of Richmond Borough will be opened for home and commerc purpos and what to-day may be consider: by some people as the least cons - quent borough will probably develop into the most d rable resident aren of the entire metropolitan district the THE QUESTION IS SHALL WE MOVE OR PAY THE INCREASE IF We Move WHERE SHALL MOVING: MEANG PACKING, UNPACKING DISCOMFORT, BOTHER “4 EXPENSES \F WE MOve OGR FURNITURE \. WILL BE BROKEN IN ANEW FLAT NOTHING WILL FIT, IT MEANS A LOT OF CONFUSION AND p— DISTURBANCE THE EASIEST WAY AND THANK )FOR US IS To ACCEPT ( THE RAISE AND SIGN ~ | HE BIDN'T THE LEASE D \SMAKE IT See WORSE 5) ? THE LANDLORD By Sophie Irene Loeb He Who Is Alv’ays. Neutral relinations are ns the ehil the other day, and I was asked to settle the matter. tude of least neutral one ssion the quest re we ip wa 1 cannot serve two is elther on one n @ disagree- y are usually weak He never knows his mind. and he is constantly saving ‘ He fs not a very and ts thus acting In strong person 9 from the person who is » will get himself id rather get 1 any one for fear Going Down! EMPLOYER ¢ some QUESTIONS. Bradstreet cies indica sof thelr resources frame with parallel rods time, and nll hu- abalone abound? 1 4—What is the membrane which ox agninat Se Ret lines the abdomen called? Cain or Abel? by the union of hydrogen mu- r, what po- ben? netic equator known? tion Adirondacks belong? 9—What term is applied ANSWERS. 1—What symbol used by and other financial agen: $1,000,000 and the best credit rating 2—What is the name of the cal culating machine consisting r wires upon which beads or balls are strung? 3—On the shores of which of States docs the mollusk called 5—Which bwother was the old: 6—What colorless gas used exten- sively for lighting purposes is formed 7-—By what other name is the mag- 8—To what mountain system do the period when boy or girl emerges from childhood and reaches adulthood? 10. Who was the only Englishman to become the Pope of Rome. By Roy L. McCardell By Neal R. O' Hara. Copytiaht, 1928, by (Me New York Hrening HE six worst spellers of the T y Or any other year. Voi ELISE | GIMPF, tenog- raphet-—Elise spells by ear and is handicapped by her hair dressing. Knows the twenty-six letters of the alphabet by sight and believes in «living ‘om all a square deal. Be- leves that practice makes perfect. She is, still practising. Made a rec- ord for herself in court testimony, Lawyer made ‘em answer Yes or No, and Elise’ took down six hun- dred replies without a mistake in spelling. When witnesses answered in polysyllables Elise up and hol- lered “I object!” Spells Philadel- phia with two B's and thinks the Hi in Pittsburgh fs silent, as in Eng- land, Claims “transferred” is spelled v-r-e-d, provided it's a railroad transfer, [lise ought to work for the Ku Klux Klan. Those guys fall for the simple spellers, Reason Kise holds down her job is that she doesn't look like she spe BASIL MURCH, sign painter— at Good Grape Recipes By Emilie Hoffman. o New York Evening World GRAPE CONSERVE. HOROUGHLY wash five pounds ter the pulp | of grapes and boll five minutes, Put ish colander to remove seeds Add grape skins, three cups of sugar, © pound seeded raisins, half a walnuts chopped fine pound I and three sweet oranges, including d. Boil slowly until ns, chopr thick—about one hour GRAPE MARMALADE. Heat the gray then press throueh colander to remove seeds, To five cups of pulp add two eups of urar and cook Uftil sufficiently Vin boi! flaks Jars while GRAPE JUICE. Wash, mash lightly and heat until grapes separate, then &train througn n cloth bag > every five pints of juice one pint of water und one pound of sugar, Hring to a boil, then seal in bottles GREEN GRAPE MARMALADE. r ts minds of grapes take t seedless r WANDERS WONDER WORKER Dasil can spell Buffalo three ways—« right, wrong and his own way» Basi | was born in Cincinnati when hé tells ‘4 about it, and in Ohio ff he writes f€ down, If mista kes happen in the — asil's is one of the best. This boy simplified spell= ing when Carnegie was still making le and nuts, Made his first big reputation painting side-show signs for P. T, Barnum, Spelled the Hom with a Y and put I's under every dot on the leopard. Spelled rhi- noceros in two sections and both of ‘om looked like they'd been wrecked, If Basil only looked like he spelled arnum coukl have used him for Tarzan. Only tough word he gets right 1s “lingerie.” Always hag two I's for that. t of familie IORY SKISH, comic artist— When Emory uses judgment in spell- ing he puts an FE between the G and the M. As a strip artist he works with his spelling gears stripped. SADIE WINTZ, another stenog- tapher, who {s known as a secre- tary Reautiful, but dumb. Sadie can spell your full name so that it looks like three Russian seaports, Only thing she’s really sure of is that U comes after Q, except !n the alphabet. Sade thinks they publish dictionaries so people can press pretty ‘flower: Refuses to believe that Noah Webster wrote the dic- Uonary—claims Daniel Webster was the guy that did that. Noah was the boy that built the Ark. Can't foot Sadie. A useful gal in any office where the boss likes to take ‘em oft to luneh, 128i JOE BLUH, the eminent’ Black- Hander—Joe writes a mean hand, no question about it. If you get what\ Joe means, you get it In the back, A Neapolitan Josh Billings, As @ peller Joe rates ten below zero, Fahrenheit. But, oh, how, he can craw! Daggers? Br-r-r-r! Blood? Help! Police! Any guy that could draw black hands lke Joe does would have a spade flush on every deal. Not Joe's fault that he can’t spell well. His education was neg- lected. Folks went, and fed him ver- micelli when he should have been raised on alphabet soup. MINNIE HOHO, still another ste- ‘o known as Madame X, be- enuse X is how signs her name on the payroll, Spells “receive” with an E and an IT, but not in the order named, Doesn't know that the dif- ferenc between “nickle” and “nickel” Is five cents. You guessed , buddy, A phonetic speller and a metic looker, Doesn't claim to iy brains and her claim is 0. 1 by the office manager, A dud uny spelling bee, but the best eler in the dancing ¢ ave a BE YOUR OWN PLUMBER *m just a girl—that's very true, Hut still a man's own job, I'll do. Your plumbing bills are never high When you call Nursie Wanderlye.” When the kitchen sink is stopped up, don’t call plumber, Save money and by sprinkling Wander's the time Lye over the drain-pipe and allqwing a few drops of hot water to wash it down. It will open like magic If you will use Wander’s Lye twice a week when your pipe is apparently clear, you'll never @erns have already recognized the Its water front and accessibility to we tors have the embarrassment of fixing economic advantages of a business the great railroad terminals gives it when you are hurried. Jocation on Staten Island, where Richmond many ec ule advantages ne Y fourteen ship-building plants alone not enjoyed by the Bronx, which bor ly ri are npw located, and over $49,000,000 ough it will some day pass in both : , ‘ te invested in plants and equipment. population and number of industrial : Fuad, Isle fom Gities with twice the population plants. Richmond Borough is a most G \ OH pomtaKe to” Wai of the Borough of Richmond have uluable and Necessary part of th roahy Sf Re tht put little if any greater assessed of New York and of vital im- reave fame $80 werae of real estate. The 1920 portance to the city, econ : a De Bawk for Cooking Wocibe aescesment wae $111,822,042. Of commerelally and as a place of resi- ALPALFA SMITI I don't th Willie ke at And § tarted to play y ‘a total of 24,000 buildings Rich- dence for the future population of kindly to phe idea of lear to play Oh. well, let him play the piano,” with both hands, her feet being too | mend had 17,538 ve-family the metropolis, prnnrnnnnmcncenrnmnnnnnn) the plano"—— Mr. Jarr began, said Mr. Jarr, “I'm willing to com- short to reach the pedals,