The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 9

Ler eee FRC ATE NO INIT RL One Day in the Life 2 New ces in the city every twenty-four hours New York exceeded 30,000 passen- in the est hotel a person can ——a Ev 24 H Ci E f from more than 950,000 telephone sta zers, or more than 00 a minute Walk ‘ive inites in the corridors — tions in daily use. — throw Hy ts twenty-seve: stories 2 7 ae ery ours uy a s There are nearly twice as 1 New York City hotels take care of not nting the roof, and if time is Pa atti = phones as there ure buildings ir 5,000 to 800,000 out of town visitors: ; 1,250,000 Loaves Of Bread, eis x rieses there is buon tor svery das. ey entertain threo times / ’ ’ ’ 2,000,000 Quarts of Milk, And 6,000,000 Egg Pays 90 Miles of Nickels in Carfare, ‘%0:s-1:0 yeavs, so esi ont Uses Phone 4,500,000 Times, sth rtd STR a Marries 205 Couples and Welcomes 400 Babies a By Major Joseph Caccavajo Gonsulting Engineer and Expert on Population and Statistics of the City of The City of Boston ranks sey New York Copyright, 1 HAT do you know W about New York City? Do you realize that your own personal re- Quirements, be they what they may, are more or less multiplied siz million times every twenty- four hours to meet the necds of the other people who are here in New York as you are? Have you ever given thought to what must of necessity go on in this city every twenty-four hours to take care of the personul comforts and absolute needs of the millions of people who are living and working within the $27 square miles included in the city limits? If you have-not, the facts and figures given in this sarticle should at least furnish food for thought Mr. Average Citizen and his wife. if they happened to be awake early enough this morning, heard the milk- man deliver a bottle of milk at their door and the baker's man deli loaf of bread, but the chances these anda thousand and one other every-day occurrences made no tm- pression upon their minds, nor do most of us stop to think that the milk man and the breadman deliver the same kind of milk and practically the same kind of bread to a million or more other doorways every ‘morning before most of the people to whom it is delivered are awake, Have you ever stopped to think of. what 6,000,000 or more people require TN 1921 THERE WERE 205 WEDDINGS EYERY DAY — every day in the matter of food alone? Did you realize when you dropped a nickel in the slot to pay your fare in the subway that the nickels taken in by the transit lines in the city in one day would if linked together make a chain close to 100 miles in length? Your neighbor \s overjoyed at the birth of an tnfant, you see and pos. sibly smile at a newly wed couple be ing showered with rice as they leave the church or parsonage and it is all more or less interesting because th events happened to come to your personal attention; but have you ever stopped to think that there are more than 400 new born babes in the city every 24 hours and that more than 200 mew brides and 200 new bride- «rooms are being congratulated ax (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co through the 101 telephone central off- “THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922, fo is many as London and six times as one in every six residents : With an average of 4,125 «many as Paris, ; minute throughout the day eve aed Caen: Ta eerie bed t pl rot in the habit ‘ounted wer of "oI rf and 4 ; h twenty-four hours would ON hundred and fifty hotels are in eesuntr te ‘i tateai eight und nine the “White Light District,” Including cud cere BUS ne several over twenty stories in height *rhe bined talk of 4,000.00( With! trom 1/000 :t0!: 8-800 reowns, ne combine .00,000 culls twenty-four — bours represents conyersution crowded into one day the elty transit lines each twenty-fou hours if placed close together in a jing would extend nearly ninety mil: New Yorkers of all ages averagi rides last. y and if t ti young to pay fares were eliminated rom consideration the average be considerably over 500 ride would among the cities of the United State yet more people than reside in Boston enter and leave New York through + railroad stations every twen ommiserated, as the case may be, on hours, ge every day in the year? There are days in the year whe : the number of railroad pass: - passes the million mark, and the he value of foodstuffs consumed iN Vjation of Detroit, the fourtly larg: New York City iti one day is approxi- American city, is exceeded in on mated at considerably over $4,000,000, perlod of twenty-four hours New York eats every day —1,250,000 The average for every hour su all of last year entering and iea loaves of bread; 2,000,000 quarts of milk; 6,000,000 eggs; $10 carloads of grain and flour; 240 carlouds of vege tables; 110 carloads of fruit; 100 car- 7) 4.00 NEW YORK oetesa) aceene trse & EVERY 24 HOURS atid ot racce 19 cents y VERY 24 HOURS poultry; 30 carloads of canned goods andB carloads of sea food ‘The daily supply of beead is handled ae AP , ba ms through some 185 wholesale bakers / smtniteee men . ereeaes: : § oats HOUSTON and the 4,000 reta!l bakers of the . oe Naf : ; ee sig oe as hogs city, as well as nearly 20,000 grocery A as oer - aes Beat ae ° ; : 3 and delicatessen stores and a large vai number of regular delive: The bread consumed ea cover all of Union Square about five loaves deep, or If laid out would cover an ave Ff y NEW YORK'S THEATERS CAN SEAT ALL THE PEOPLE IN DELAWARE ARIZONA WYOMING and NEVADA. a, 2500000|.4, (! ape aks L ce ta| LOAVES | fee - a‘ 4 Somme! é Madison Square Garden woul begin to be large enough to ta of the chickens which could be hat | WOULD PAYE ~g 4 BPIONE MILE OF kg 1 BIBROAD WAY out of the six million eggs consumed daily, and few people can comprehend Just what 2,000,000 quarts of milk would look like bottled in standard one-quart bottles and stacked up in Placed side vy side in one line the bottles would extend 12 miles, so that a person walking stead- fly at the rate of # miles an hour would take 30 hours to get to the end of the line, New York's milk supply comes from 40,000 farms located in half a dozen States and trom points in Canada. one place Approximately 4,500,000 alls pass WITH THE WOoLWORIE of cont a day, performing the task of familes average 4.35 persons per fam- transporting 63,278 pausengers and ily, sixteen to twenty families, on Om 1,874 vehicles. On one Sunday last rverage, moved away from thd dis- summer these boats carried 124,000 tricts below 69th Street every day Passengers and over 2,000 vehicles to during all of the ten years. and from Staten Island, — By the same token, while Manhat- Ne city in the United States spends tan was losing some ten residenty 4 taken to merely took In each of its “ Much for the maintenance of its day, Brooklyn gulned more than 106 rooms it would. tehe a week or ten entire city government, including in population every twenty-four hours. DA tee ke Oe schools, ay New York City spends an- hours. The guin in the Bronx wan“ nually for educational purposes alone. over eighty-two persons a day. In More than a million of New York's Quoens the gain was more than fifty people can be seated in the amusement Population “Goes to School." az; And “more thaD Set DOE places in the city. ‘The combined | The public schools alone have a moved to Staten Island every day dur- populations of the States of Arizona, Teststration exceeding 900,000 attend- ing all of the period between visite of Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming can !& 600 schools and instructed by the United States Government census be seated at one time, and there would COBSiderably over 28,000 teachers. In man. still be some 150.000 sents to spare, Sddition there are fourteen colle i and universities having upward of 80,000 undergraduates and the pu the fochial schools have twice that num Considerabiy more than 1,000,000 To take care of the constant in- crease in population many new build- ing’ are constructed withia the ait every year. Figured on the basis o’ 300 working days a year, mor than During last year, whieh an off year in the marriag number of Heenses issued was 74,639, MF Of puplls. indicating nething ike = 205. «| New York has four law schools and marriages on an average every day ‘hirteen medical schools which take 127 new buildings were provided esc!) auron they rank with any in the country. Thir- business day during the pest yeas ty-three schools of music, forty-nine Brooklyn Borough led with peatl business schools, seventy-seven pre- agty-one completed every twenty-fou. paratory and fifteen —_technical hours, Queene close behind with Atty: schools, a well as schools of journal- prong and Richmond aocounted te ism, theology, fine and applied arts nearly w dowan each and three build Pe ik ‘ fnetructors in language, mune, art Wee, were tuade recdy fo? eesupamey 000,000, includes 62,710 vehicl 13, id . om an average in Manhattan on every 797 elevated and subway care ana ®8d Selence are numbored among the Gay in the year execpt Buodave aad 16,447 surface railway cars; 607,614 Attractions which bridg thousands of je¢a) holidays. passengers cross daily in elevated and People to the city every day In the “Dhis, of course, le not all gatp a subway cars; 328,421 In surface c year and establish its supremacy @* far as number of buildings 1s ‘con 119,613 in vehicies, and pedestrians “! educational centre. cerned, as in Manhattan, for example. number 7,000. prac every building erected means the demolition of the vullding buildings which formerly oceu- ple the site, It is not too much te soy that one or two buildings are torn down every day in the year in the older sections of the city to make way for tmprovements. The records More than 1,000,000 people cross the four East River Bridges every, twenty-four hours. The daily traffic on these Which cost the city more than $98, bridges, rs The gain in population within the aity limits during the ten years be ed population tween visits of the census enumerator at the present time and the assessed averaged clowe to 234 persons every values of real estate, t twenty-four hours, Nearly ten per capita tn the city is about $1,733 sons an hour became residents of the On this t it 4s easy to figure that city in excess of those who move in each of the 400 children born every and out every day in each of the ten day within the city limits can truth- Jeary of the Tenement House Department fully be called ‘real money" to the city OF a total Increase of 863,165 in Mone show that nearly 2,600 tene The new crop of lusty Gothamites joputation, 584.946 can be accounted Ment houses were demolished ja ten which the stork delivers to Father i ce Years. These houses contained more J for in th births over Knickerbocker every twenty-four Based upon the estim xcess of He Doe 0.000 te mi, deaths. During the ten years be- ‘han 16,800 separate apartmonta, hours ‘add nearly, $700, ivai, tween 1910 and 1920 the Health De- ae tal world y weasen These new arrival carement records show 1,861,943 The tota cont of tullding operations ¢ ake up for the Af Navctucenalecaeos tans he in New York City for 1921, accor more Shen make: up for o rths a 9 deaths within th five boroughs, an average increase of (n€ to the plans filed in the Depart over 160 avery twenty-four holt ment of Buildings, was $486,222 ONE DAYS SUPPLY OF The passenger ferryboats which cet or an average of more than $1,600,090 SUBWAY operate on the rivers and harbors of Im the ten years the population on y working day In the year. j NICKELS the eity carry more people every daY Manhattan Island showed an actual With nearly half a billion dollers) | PLACED IN than are carried on all the other fer- decrease of 47,489. ‘This was the firat added new building construetion ries in the United States. exceeds a quarter twenty-four ho The fourteen ferryboats owned and operated by the city on six mur natural in 4 due to the and business Department alue of real ‘The traffic period in the entire history of 4 million every Old New York’? when a substantial increase in its resident population! ad not been recorded. During pal ten years the exodus from Manhattan ittle during one y ase in y A STRAGHT LINE WOULD REACH PHILADELPHIA y lines make 617 trips 4 was more than ten residents a day in 1921, In ravel a distance of 1.383 0 Wal for each of the 965 days in each y words to the author ‘o half the distance across conU- The movement from LowerManhattan ties, the value of real estato within nent, approximated between seventy and the City of New York increased dur+ The Staten Island eover 800 miles and \ ferries alone cighty-four a day ) tons based In other words, ing last year at the rate of over § pon the fact that Manhattan 000 every twenty-four hours, ae ee a