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Show fOflK BIG TOWN B'Facfs and Figures .About imfa Metropolis of United $ States. ? I 1 )ND CITY IN AREA . IN ENTIRE WORLD lis Last Year Exceed Pop- ation Twenty States and R Territories in 1900. fBY RALPH JOHNSON. 1? icaacd "Wire to The Tribune. W lOHIC, April -15. That Now York : ?rcttv slscnblo city is very generally r nlzed, but even New Yorkers them- i s do not realize how big It Is until H fgentlemnn with a statistical turn ihd comes along ami shows us how a' nhparcs with tho balance of the 5 !; James G. Cannon, tho noted H it. Is one of those kind of men who s thlngs suid also know how to tell they know, so that the simplest f, may understand it. Ho rcconlly 't nted to tho chamber of commerce SJlinlercsting facts about New York. (Slja.ro some of them. Of nil the cities ye" world New York Is: gfet In domestic and foreign trade and liftoff' Jfond In area, population and financial '1 rd or fourth In higher education, -I :o and art. k lis easily first. In all theso partlcu- among American cities. igest American city In nrcn In the J32G3 nciuire miles; Chicago, 1P04; A delphhi, l-9i. less than half the area tater London. er frontage, -141 miles the distance ftfew York to Roanoke; Va. York has S710 miles of streets ,to hor distance from London. Tho ! miles of paved streets would reach the Battery to Aniarillo. Tex. iulation, 4,5i)1.792; average annual , sent of 125.000 tho past nine years, 1 flpcr cent In eight years, showing I mvpid growth than London, Paris II -olhcr Important American city. H ft York could be llvided Into three B Ktfce size of Chicago, Philadelphia I 'lttsburg. Its aggrcgato population iV Boston. Baltimore, Cleveland, a lo. San Francisco, Cincinnati, De-j De-j Milwaukee, New Orleans and YVash- 5 uo of foreign commerce In 1909. II6(;,090. Value of domestic water-, water-, commerce" nearly $11,000,000,000. test of Industrial cities in the VStntes Is New York, showing ono-)f ono-)f the nation's manufactured prod-Ilcr prod-Ilcr factories produce half tho g made In the country, and sho haw cent of the total capital invested printing Industries of tho land, per cent, or ?l,55;:,700.000, of the g power of the world Is in New and with London. Paris and Ber-s Ber-s city Is a leading world money York in 190S had 14 per cent of all 5 money In the United .States JIM.OOO,-000. JIM.OOO,-000. Her bank clearings in 1909 were i!2 per cent of tho country's total, being ?lO3.5SS,73S.:i:,0. Keal and personal properly valuations In New York aggregate ?7.'J5L.ii0U,r.59. j ner cent of the estimated wealth of the United States; a gain for tho city of 10S per cent In ten years, as acalnst an Increase of "0 per cent In the national wealth. Municipal budgets aggregated In twelve years, $1.420,-l3;;,7tJD. or ?fi07,000.000 more than the Jniercst-bcaring public debt of the United States. The J910 New York budget is Sli;;;.-12S,2iO, Sli;;;.-12S,2iO, and the clty'a not bonded debt stands at ?71.1,6."7,i;i;s. Citizens of the greater city paid $I7.SS per capital for municipal government in 1907. Twelve hundred churches furnish religious re-ligious opportunity for New Yorkers, who also read HCveiUy-llvc newspapers and witness musical and theatrical prodm-llonsaud prodm-llonsaud hear lectures in more than a hundred opera houses, theaters nnd bally which have a seating capacity of 15.-000. 15.-000. While the city needs additional transit facilities, present surface, elevated and underground railroads in 1909 carried 1.71 1,000.000. an average of 1175 trips for every person In the city, far greater than in London or Paris, It is estimated that there are H0.000 automobiles and 1200 taxlenbs In the city. In fifteen years telephones have increased in-creased 2100 per cent. Todav there an-3C8,27G an-3C8,27G In the city, employing 1.000.000 miles of underground wire. Dally telephone tele-phone calls average 1.G27.525. Postoflice receipts at Now York were In 1909, 19,920.305. almost 10 per cent of tho nation's total. Expedi lures for protection of life and property by police, militia and tiro service serv-ice In 1907 equaled $2-1, 873,573. or"-nearly 27 per cent of tho total Tor the country. Births alone in 1909 122,976 exceed the total population of twenty sines and territories ter-ritories In 1900. Water reservoirs in New York have a capacity of 2-139 million gallons. Parks cover 7500 acres, having a value of $501.-00-1, 18S. Building erected and projected In 1909 numbered 19,185 estimated to cost $253.905,2G7. The greatest hotel city in the world Is New York. Her hostelrles have a , computed value exceedlnc: $f7-!, 000.000. In Manhattan alone are 215 hotels, providing o3.000 rooms for guests, emploving -12.000 persons, and costing annually lo conduct 5o5.00O.000. This Is a pretty good showing show-ing for "Little Old New York." luonumeui; xo uieveiaucl. The first monument to bo completed In memory of Grovcr Cleveland was placed on his grave In Princeton, N. J., recently. No mention of the fact that he was n president of the United Slates Is made the Inscription simply reading: "Grover Cleveland, born Caldwell, N. J. June 24, 1908." A marble slab three feet high was also placed on the grave of Ruth Cleveland, which has been unmarked since her death. January 7, 1901- The monument on the grave of the former president is of Tennessee marble and ten feet In height. It consists of a five-foot five-foot cubical die, threo feet In diameter, taporing into a flnlal liend. Mrs Cleve-and, Cleve-and, who at present Is in Europe with her children, erected both of the memorials. memo-rials. Famous as a Resort. Panama is coming to bo nuitc a tourists tour-ists resort. P. V. Pitch, chief dispatcher for the Panama railroad, has just ar-rlvod ar-rlvod from the isthmus. Lie says- "Never "Nev-er beforo has there been so much travel to the canal zone as there has been this winter, and. of course, the Panama railroad rail-road has had to handle It all. There have been 5000 tourists down there already al-ready this season," salfl Mr. Fitch, "and there Is every Indication thai the nurii-ber nurii-ber will be doubled next vear. I.ois of Americans have been wintering at the I ivoli hotel ai Ancon. Tho now track will be ready lo uso by June l. though I do not know whether it will be doHdod to operate It so soon. It Is fortv-elght mi os long, constituting practica'llv an cntlrelj' new line. It follows the shore of the lake that will bo a feature of the canal, ard then runs along the canal Ihrouyh the Culebra cut on the SO-fooi leel, Catching Comet's Tail. Grabbing off part of a comet's tail Is tho novel experiment that has fust been suggested In view of the fact that the earth will pass through the tall of ITal-leys ITal-leys comet on May IS, The object Is scientific, of course. The plan suggested Is lo p ace a large chamber, carefully prepared, and situated in a position 1 which would cause immense quantities ! pr the atmoBp'icrft to be drawn through it and filtered. The object would be to collect, if possible, some dust, which might be analyzed to determine what comets are made of. f Sand Statues of the Nude. ij Sand statues of the nude are to be I barred from Tie beach at Atlantic City ! during the comlnc summer, undor a new ? aw. by which Mayor Stoy is given au- thonty to censor all flgins modeled by aspiring "sand artists" for the dolecta- R tlon of tho boardwalk strollers. Mayor U btoy will not give licenses to the mod- U tiers until ihey have submitted samples of the sand figures they propose to build ? from the plastic sand or file drawings V (showing that they are capable of male- 9 Ing the sand statues In an artistic man- 1 ner without offending the proprieties. The promised censorship of bathing suits that f infringe too closely on the proprieties m will be put Into off-ict. iiu.u.. g |