| Show v Hoy If It Cown nII With London and v 1 IL NEW IN 1904 I Million Mill N rio t YORK Millions In tho orp t Ind What It fo nun Mayor anti and his J I I 11 S i J A Y 0 I Grafters and YoL iHA CI I for r y I TilE THE YOU YOUNG j MAYOR MAYOK TALKS TALIS ABOUT TIlE THE GREAT EAT CITY AND ANI ITS POSSIBILITIES I York or and od President r ld ol A Word About f ho pr I ij N I I L Ii H H i i Iti i H I HH 1 I or 1 f 12 f j I II r rII t tt t I t r i Jr i l b bJ J I I II 11 t J f Jf I foI I H H H 1 I Irr I B MCCLELLAN New York Yorks Young Mayor From a 11 Photograph Furnished hed to Mr Carpenter for tor the News New I of 01 the News by Frank Fran G Carpenter Copyrighted by h Frank a 0 Carpenter T BW give you M f today un Interview with a u man mail who the biggest city 11 combination ot at capital ami la laj labor j bor nn on this hemisphere phere It la 18 lam m hardly n on capital ami In bar bor but rather on the product thereof New York grown BO so fait It lias not time to theorize why wh It Kraws It 1st III like a I Krent green boy ho who plunges along doing Is III before him mill tI 11 11 now tho then II to double up lip MB hili arms anna for tor n look ut his muscle cle and to 10 show IH fellows how big bigit it la It WOK to Inspect the great at muscle of vt New NOlI York that I Came am here and ancl to tonet toI I net Gel Its It II accurate dimensions culled upon the mayor in his hili at nt the Iho city elt liilI NEW YORKS IA Yon Oon I II was loving lovingly ly called Little Mac Still ho big to be he one of the great nf elt our Jur Civil war wal a n candidate for tor president of nt the Iho United States The Jha mayor of Now New York Is III the son Mn of ot Little and In many mon lE ho resembles bles his 1111 father Ho Ilka a 11 boy and ho IB III still In his thirties although ho has hns been an editor a n business man and nl a n representative In Congress Ho la IA now mature enough and strong lit ronI enough to act as RS the ruler of the tho city of ot the tho world and there Rrt those Vho say ho yet may be the candi candidate date for tor the tho presidency of ot tho Iho United About Joul two earll ago I mol met tha tho lord maor of at London In his hili palace across tho Iho way from the Iho Dank Bonk of England It took letters of at introduction much pro pre preliminary correspondence and Interviews with wi Ih unities In livery liver before I came In Into Into to bin hili presence I got to the mayor of or Now NelV York with my lilY visiting card which taken In by Iy n 11 policeman with a n brai s badge on Ma bosom His honor received mo 1110 without ostentation and Ilka most of tho ho big business men mell I met ho seemed to leisure to talk In 1 Tho conversation rapid Tho young OUnH mayor knows his hili own mind ami there lit I no ono bettor posted upon tho great grent city of ot which hl h he IB Is ruler mw IN J 1901 I OI I corne tram from Washington said saidI I J for to n talk New Nell York What Is III the condition of the town Ind how IB Is It getting along In Its struggles with labor Now No York Is III having no struggles Just JUMI now noll replied Mayor McClellan n nWe We had some ome trouble with the build building ing In trades last year but today our con Is thoroughly healthy health bar barring rinK ring some somo temporary annoyance as to our theaters we ore are nt pence with our nil the world Our labor laborI I III In n good condition it promises to remain BO BOIs Is r th the city growing CM replied the mayor It grows to PO tun that we 0 be he always tho or It II oversteps us Our chief troll trou trouble ble now IB III as nil to 10 the schools school II We have hava not Mt enough buildings to accommodate all 1111 the children and nt at present thero a ah e who ran can KO 10 to only half the time We Wt already about children In the tho school and tho natural Increase for tor the next will bu something like and for Cor the year following 3 O so o you ou nee Ileo we have to build far ahead How many people hns hII New ell York Just about replied the mayor How lIo does doell that compare with the theother other cities of or the world It Is exceeded only by London was the reply New cw York Is 18 now more than thana a 8 million In III advance of or Pull It l II twice as OR hlA as Chicago Berlin or nn city In III and an aR big ns 88 Petersburg There only four states In tho Union which us liS In and an we have of at all the people In III the d States Stale I NEW FW yanK VERSUS LONDON Will New e York ever equal Lon Ion London don clon donI I think there Is III no doubt of ot It an In answered Mayor McClellan London Is full rull grown Now New York Is I Just beginning Its youth We arc nm Increasing faster now In proportion to tl our aliI population lation than thon London and London Is III gray haired compared with Now No York It 11 was a R city In the days of ot the Homans later on Ita population dropped New Nell York Is only years ears old ohl When New York Is III Uti old us Lon London London don what may It not be he beA A CITY OF o FIFTEEN MILLIONS S Hut haB haR Now New York room for tor growth Mr I Have you Oll available space lace here hert for Cor many mallY more 7 Yeti Yes Indeed IlIde replied the mayor wo Ii cnn can accommodate five 11 times ns III many mall Hople ns os are oro In tho New York of ot to today day tin We can house houe plenty of oC room The Island of or Manhattan Is pretty prell well covered hut but wo we hl IU Island Staten Inland I and possible In III every ary direction We Wl nn now making 1110 king a rapid system for rOI Stolen Island It will willbe be bl owned by hy tho th city and It will cause cou e that to grow Kro There ore lire only people there now but there is rC nm for The file bridge gives ui another outlet to and the tunnels tunnel which the company compo 11 III to dig under the North and Eat rivers rl will furnish rapid transit to suburbs whoso capacity Is enormous Yes Yr wo 0 hove room here for when whon thy they come wo Will NOT CHICAGO nut Hut Mr Mayor I have recently IK JIen on In Chicago The fhe people there think they are thi th real huh hub of tho United 11 State Platen their city will eventually surpass I We have not nol begun b gull to worry aboul Chicago yet at replied Mr r We think this IB III tho natural gate Int to the tho United States that It will always be so 80 New York Is III already the chief port of ot tho world It is III increasing Its shipping every year Hut your honor wild saId I J suppose II ship canal should bo built In connection with the tho grent Rr nt lakes Inkel so liD that could go light Into Chicago That possibility In III far tur In the future i replied the thc mayor of Now New York Wo 0 e to n a little canal ourselves II from here h re to largely Increase our At Al any aJl ve 10 lire are not afraid of or Chicago o at ai this present time J ow w York IB Is Hams chief gateway YOU GROWS Is 18 New Ne York crowing Just now your our honor 1 J d Kor an In to that question replied the mayor you havo only to 10 oren open your our eyes oye It II Is 18 growing every everywhere where both In III tho city III the sub suburb urb urh Tho Iho borough of or Manhattan Is fast becoming one of or steel teel sll IIron has hn been Ien cut up Into building I hll II I blocks u II lu 1 number of ot dwellings and anel lints arn going up there Is growing than ever eer and In the whole of ot New York has on Its hoot boots Within tho Iho two to years more than SO 80 largo large real state estate companies have benn in incorporated with n 1 total capitalization of at more they the nr putting up buildings of all kinds resi residences dences business blocks apartment houses hou es ir nt hotels The rhe Increase In the apartment houses hOIlo Is IA very ery great In 1902 like ilkI 6 t J ll representing a total Investment In Including the land of It Is the same nn n to department and buildings Indred II It Is IK hard to realize how hol fast New ew York Is grow growing ing How lIow about public Improvements The Tho city IB 18 being heln right replied the tho mayor The Tho VII bridge which was formally opened In December IB III one of ot the won of or Greater Now York It 11 Is III 10 feet teet wider the bridge and with Its It Is I a 11 mile lip and anda a 11 half In length It haa cost about bOllt n and It II will soon lIoon be hI carrying I a larg port nf or the th between Now York and Brooklyn n And then ther Is IR tho new subway I which will con be hc completed nt ut u 11 Cot cost of ot oro there are oro also the tho Pennsyl Pennsylvania I vania Improvements which ore arc to eon copt There are nrc other things but bUI those are enough nough to 10 show New York orl IB IA not falling behind MILLIONS S A YEAH It must I cost something to run n city like this thill Mr Ir McClellan said RIll I I It does Bald tho of New ew i It costs Just a II or If It you OU taku In certain county Items the tho IH II oeo n year rOB r That Is II an all enormous sum said I Does Now New York olk get gol the tho worth of or Its money I 1 think K 10 replied the tho mayor There Is 18 a vast dual deal of ut work and It II n a small to do II It nut nul whorl does ull tho money go KO said I The fhe must bo be high How about the Iho mayor maor What docs lie ho get Fifteen l thousand dollars was tho thore reply re ly Does DoeA ho earn It Il I I J think he ho docs doell replied Mayor Me Ie Clellan He Jle gets here at II 9 In Inthe the tho morning and 1 III kept hero until f nt night every CICI hour of his hll day Li III n a busy hus one on Yea I think the tho mayor earns his salary LIKES HIS JOn JOH If It It were not a II personal question L your honor I should like to know Imol how the present pr sent mayor likes hist hili job Ho He likes It well replied the young mayor of at New York with a II smile The Iho position Is n 1 responsible ono one ona that makes n man feel teel he la Is doing something and makes him to do doIt It well Hut your our honor can you really do things Does not control It ItIn In ald that IB III the real head hend of or New ell York That ThalIa Is a 11 mistake replied tho young with emphasis ls Tammany has hns nothing to do 0 this I am om thu mayor of Now No York orle r A CITY Is Js Now Nol York Yurl a Christian city I asked What do clo you mean 7 replied tho tha mayor rather ruther surprised I mean that many people who back In III ho country thInk thin place a I sink of ot sort of ot Hades with the lid oft off I believe bolle the people hero arc as good ns nil they arn orf on Oil the anywhere In Inthe I the lan Ian Wo have more than a n thousand churches synagogues I tind cathedrals Our churchgoers and we ob observe serve the Sabbath bettor perhaps than thull any nn other IlIr city dt of or th world orld Yes we WI ore a n flirtation city ell In the tho broadest Wo believe In III things We dont dOllt nil all bellevo the IRme WRY way but Jul wo we do be 1111 In on 0 the whole I J think wo we arc up to tho Iho average as re regards reo gards and municipal morality ty Tim AND D Speaking of municipal morality rn III y honor how holl about the la 19 not Now New York city over overrun run with them If Ie It is replied tho mayor I havo not seen een them They Iha have not shown their heads since I came Into In to Hut your honor you OU certainly n large number of ot the tho criminal classes here Are 11 hero thoro not nol places In New aw York city a II man would risk ilsk his life Ire by llY going alone at al night 1 I dont think so said tho mayor mn or I should not be afraid to tn go anywhere In InNo New No York alone nil time of at the day op 01 night What Is IA your our Ideal for Now ew York Mr Ir McClellan n What would you ou like to see the city II become bl That h I a II big hiI was the re reply reo ply pI I do not deal In Ideals All I Ican can do clo Is to grapple with things s as RII they the come up lip anI settle them as nl till far as I can canI I wont want to pee e the tho city dt Improved I think we aro steadily l Improving It I want to see pee It made nUll and before trying to build up liP a n plan by Jy which It may bo made beautiful At t present our chief business Is III with the tha utilities mw YOUK Tm Cm What Whal do you think of ot NIl New Yorkers Mr Ir McClellan I asked Some Homo people Imagine that thul they art arc a 1 smarter than tho average American in other parts of oC the country I dont donl think that replied the tho may mayor or 01 there thero la II ono one thing In fa favor faVOl vor VOl of ur such a 1 supposition that Is 19 that the best of everything comes to Now Nail York 1011 This I II the tho national center of ot wealth business those mag magnets nets attract brains skill from every overy part of tho tha country In that respect Now York Is l milking the United States steady streams of ot tho Iho best hest ability produced by the country countr oro always lowing flowing here hell We get not only much of ot the best befit milk but tho very cream of or ortho tho country countr i What the chances chancos for tor young men in Now New York I asked I think they replied tha tho The place to make money III on e Is the tho money mone IB Is The place 11 nee to do business Is l where the most business is Him IlIla city needs good young mon men and lots of them It has never needed hem morp always be room for tor tha tho right kind of at young men In Now New York IT 11 IS 18 AN N AMERICAN A CITY How about politics your our honor I Io MO o It said that New c York IB Is opposed to the tho of or President Hoose volt 0 It ItI I nm JIm too busy hUBY to consider cOI politics replied the young mayor IOn or and I dont care to tl discuss them I cant see Bce how however ever why New York should be singled 1111 led out tin ny having special friendships or antipathies different those thoo of tho thoo vest o t of ot the thc In this I do not 1101 rotor refer to President nor liar to any nn man but to the tho fact that Now York Is often spoken of as os having special In Interests That IB III not nOl tho case Our OUI tho tamo famo ns os those of or the rest of or tho United States State Wo uro ure nn nil American city are ns OK anxious for or the general prosperity of ot tho coun COUll country try tr as any people In tho country There la Is no pineo whore private Interests reach out oUI so o tar far or where tha tho desire for tor tho Iho common welfare of ot tho country Is Isso I so 80 great Within minutes walk from Crom where Wo ore now sitting are men who financial Interests I might say SO In III every grent undertaking In tho United States In every locality No New ow York Is not nol provincial In Its Inter Interests ests It Is tied to every part of or tho I Union It Is tor th hole countr ot A I CY CYCon Con OU not ss about the n M ord or 1111 I r I MO 8 e 2 that lat INI I n of or Ih tho J our ur i I halo ld I not OI rc III ll th politics As It Is 1101 I T II 10 talk nm 1111 M In New 1 lII aI 81 am In at ou Reo nil J call an It tJ M to OUr honor r We hu 1 heen born In Sax our tho ny I thInk h h well 11 retty tho n w el the maor AI Ia erp r J the tr dene und r to fh th Ur II l nAI 0 I KOREANS SMOKING WHILE THEIR WIVES WORK F Women perform most of ot the labor In loren Korea Especially Is III this true In I t country districts where the men recline under a n tree smoking while t wives and daughter trump tramp the mud of oC tho Into a sort sorl of ot muck for tor the th reception of tho seed The Tho position of ot tho women In tho tha Land cl oi th the Morning Calm Is little better than that of at slaves They ore absolutely 01 their husbands even een to life lite Itself They are uro only allowed to venture out bf permission and then with their faces covered BO long as os others art are about alou islon J Jon on tho appearance of a n foreigner they arc huddled huddle into the houses houm |
