Show WORK IN A GREAT CITY in proportion V tj her population salt lake spends more for purposes than does now new york city owing tu to conditions connected with the build log ing up of a new city which spreads over a considerable area but with the fixtures flit ures of expense per capita this cona com arjoon enda when it 11 cornea comes to the aggregate disbursements in even one important department in the great metropolis these are simply stupendous they a so BO indicate the vast I 1 mount of cf care that burdens competent Ld ability iu in the largest city on the continent coati nent an illustration may be found in the report of tie now new york of public works of which commissioner michiael Miot jael T daly is 18 the head bead the re fur 1894 shows chews that luring during tbt year be expenditures in this one department part parL ment were of which over three millions went to meet pro pre incur liabilities the rt maju jig amount nearly faut million fi ww was 4 us uati in current expense boiu to lo street improvement ano for during t ae year maleu mileu of new were miu making a total of miles milea in ID we tie city ul 01 which 85 wilts is ie stone asphalt and 2198 maus macadam macaU dam am the pavement was torn up times timea or for house connections tor lor water gas gae and sewer pipe the gas companies lore core up and ana gelald 63 miles milea ot of brett me Ene electric subway workers 21 milet milefer and iha car lines ili 11 milet mile neveu and a halt bait milpa miles ut ot new sewers wore were built making 46 J miles now lu in use on mabbatt to ID island inland tte the diVIS division IOD of the public works shows that thai now new yorkers consume on an average per capita of 94 gallons fal lons of water per day or ifal ical loBS luss gaily daily lor the city tue present capacity of the croton plant is tao million gallons in excess ul of this and li it is estimated that chat by 1902 there will be wat t j supply gallons dally or for JO with the eighteen eign toan mile aubee of new water mains laid in 1894 the city now has baa over miles the dopart department part ment collected tor water service oue one building constructed the now new court cost it t has rooms with equart feet of floor space and quare feet of balls and corridore corr idora from markets mart lets armories etc the city received in rents there Thero were new gas lamps lampa anti and now new electric are arc lamps put in ladt year lighting 91 miles ot street the city now ligets with its own plants mileson milea of street and 76 acres or park loud land with gas lamps 2685 2635 arc lamps and naphtha lamps these are enough of proverbially proverbial j per piecing big figures to 0 o show conclusively that it is 18 no DO light task to conduct the In internal affairs of the metro metropolis pulls it ids to only by thorough organization that the vat vast army of workers in this one department can be controlled effect ively when one aldera the nuis naia ber bar of city employee it is i not to be wondered at that the party which once secures administrative control has an immense advantage in retain ing its ita position |