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Show City People Neglect Places of Interest "Ninety per cent of New York's residents resi-dents have never seen the sights w hkh most interest visitors from other places," declares the editor of Farm and Fireside, "Figures show that out-of-town visitors vis-itors who go to the top of the Wool-worth Wool-worth tower are hugely in the majority, ma-jority, less than 10 per cent being New Yorkers," the article continues. A test was made by the editor while entertaining a group of farm boys and girls from Maine and Illinois. They all voted preponderantly that the panorama as secii from the top of the tallest building In the world was the most Impressive sight they had . seen In a tour of many cities awarded them aa champion grain growers or stock raisers by various farm clubs. Caretakers of other historic points la New York also Informed the boys and girls that the number of New Yorkers visiting their places is less than 10 per cent of the total number of sightseers. |