Show i Yhenonc tries to figure up the amount of food consumed In New York city daily ho stops Instinctively to wonder how the greater cities of old Homo and or Jai were fed The conclusion IhtTml hs tm rtilc l Vbt one In i one hundred persons in one pelsOns old Rome ever ate any fresh meat Neither could they have eaten much sal meat for there was no place from whennn to bring it No doubt there was plenty of salt fish for the people for fish could be obtained all around the MedIterranean I Med-Iterranean In the same way all the coasts of the great sea were scoured for breadstuffs wheat rye and barley In tho same way doubtless beans and onions and dried fruit were procured But it seems to be n clear case that the great mass of the peOple had only j t the simplest food and not much of It I at that There were good rdads back for somo distance from the city and there wero plenty of small vessels goIng go-Ing and coming but to New York seven or eight railroads pour in their supplies sup-plies dally and In from the sea a wholo navy of ships and small boats come dally but I storm that blocks up communications com-munications three days causes Intense suffering for tho city has no surplus of food Tho oldtimers must have lived on far less than the modern man does and still they wore n hardy old race |