Show EXPENSES Of V NE YORK CITY OUTRUN POPULATION GROWTH Figures of Interest on Church Membership of Great Metropolis NEW YORK Sept 3 That 3 That the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City government has In some ways at least kept pace with the city's growth as shown In the census returns is mar manifest manifest mani mani- 1 fest from a budget study compiled by the city statistician The census returns show an increase In population of per cent I In the same year ten-year period the city budget has grown from to i an an an crease of or over 74 per cent The figures estimated for the tho expenditure of or the actual city as apart from the county were for 1904 and for 1910 or 94 per cent Increase The increased cost in this city government government government govern govern- ment is Is partly accounted for according to the budget officials by the widened scope of municipal enterprise For example ten years ago the domestic relations courts in Manhattan and Brooklyn the special schools for defective children or tuberculosis tuberculosis losis patients and the establishment of ot pla playgrounds grounds were entirely outside the conception of what the city government should do f. r I. I s The expense of maintaining the city's poU police e force has increased more than a third in the decade The board of education education education tion now requires twice as much as in 1900 1900 Instead of The street cleaning department spends 50 60 per cent more more instead of ot 5 The health departments department's appropriation appropriation appropriation has grown per cent from cent from to The fire department department department depart depart- ment costs 80 per cent more more In place of Figures for for church membership In greater New York compiled complIed by local or- or organizations or or- show that the number numb r of or church members for the five boroughs Is or per cent of the new population figures In 1900 there were 1 members of Christian churches This was per cent of the population Catholics Outnumber Protestants These figures seem to show that the growth In church membership is 13 per percent percent percent cent ahead of the population growth This growth ItIs It Is estimated is divided about evenly between Protestants and Roman Catholics At present it is calculated calculated calculated that there are Protestants to Roman Catholics A remarkable fact In the religious work of or the city has been the growth of the Lutheran church Its additional churches church s since 1855 1555 having been 22 per cent of those built In greater New York Next ext to It comes comes the Protestant Episcopal church which has built three ninety churches to the Lutherans Lutherans' There are at least sixty-six sixty separate separate Christian bodies at work in New York o of which the four which obtain the largest I tax exemptions on account of property are the Roman Catholic the Protestant Episcopal the Presbyterian and the Jew Jew- ish |