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Show IE LEADING CITIES DEEPLYJN DEBT 4 One Hundred Fifty-Eight Mimic- ; ' ipalities of Over 30.000 : ; Owe $1,718,000,000. t NEW YORK'S BURDEN ; THE HEAVIEST TO CARRY j( Detroit and Indianapolis Head I List With Smallest Per f Capita Debt. Ih' WASHINGTON. July 25. The enor- fj- mous ,sum of $1.T1S.000.000 is owed byithc 15S cities In the country having each a 1 population of more than 30,000. The flg- Sl: ures show net Indebtedness and are given i out by the census bureau as a result of 'i. Its canvass for 100$, '! The same authority finds that of this 3, sum. New York owes SfiS-t.OOO.OOO. or a - 8 most 10 per cent of the aggregate. Tins if Is moro than seven times the amount of the net Indebtedness of any other city I f and more than one-half of the total jt amount owed by the twenty-nine next f largest cities In the country. Figures on New York. It also Is shown that of the S27o.000.000 spent for Improvements In the In 5 cities ' 1 In 1908. New York expended more than T , SSO.000.000, or nearly one-third the entire en-tire sum. Of the total debt increases for. " ; t the vear, $1S5.$77,S56. nearly one-half, is B , credited to New York. The per capita H : )l indebtedness of New York also Is much k larger than that of any other city, e- i ' ceedlnc SI 57. ss compared with S12S for J j Cincinnati, Slid for Boston and $113 for f. 1 1 Galveston, the other cities making the I i nearest approach. I- i It Is pointed out that a large propor- U tlon of tho New York Improvement cx- IL. pendltures have been for public service M . conveniences. The betterment of the wa- ter . system. the construction of toll jM bridges and other self-supporting services f , are responsible for .17 per cent of the to- l tal net debt of the metropolis, ili Of the cities exceeding 300.000 popula- U: tlon, Detroit has the smallest per capl- ' ta. debt, $25; but Indianapolis, falling be- ff i low 300.000. makes an Improvement with a , a debt of only about $17 to the person, fi In the matter of the payments for im- a' provements in 130S. Chicago took rank !(' i next to New York, tho total for the Illinois Illi-nois city being $1$.09.V9S6. Philadelphia's , ;; expenditure was 41I.473.1S-1. Of the total j expenditure for all the -cities, about one- . ) third was for Improved public service I. j and another third for highways. |