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Show Gluttinous New Yorkers. Tho food aupply of New York Is so enormous that though the rich and well-to-do gorged from morning to night they slmplv could not eat It all. Thero woul l still remain an abundance for every one, If some way could bo found of distributing distribut-ing the fragments. Just consider tho figures which I have on careful authority author-ity New York i .civ. s every week ten million pounds f dressed beef, twelve million pounds of pork, ham and pig's meat, one million five hundred thousand pounds of poultrv. one million pounds of sausages, on-- million pounds of mutton and lamb, over two million pounds of liver, heart, tripe, etc., over one million pounds of canned meat, live hundred thousand pounds of game, and ono million mil-lion pounds of Han, The fragments of this food, tons and tons of It. ore collected every day nnd carried off to fatten pigs In Jersey or load the fertilizer scows that plv down the bav Every day In the year from five hundred to nine hundred cartloads of food, in i. h .,f It I" fleet iv god. are taken from the homes and hotels of New York and slmplv thrown away A million people could live and live well on this waste If the problem of collecting and distributing It could once be solved. And 1 suppose any kind-hearted Individual co, ild t"lve H In a :miall way himself with a wagon and a little brains! Cleve-land Cleve-land Moff.-tt in "Sui cess |