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Show oo NEW YORK AS AN EXHIBITION Moving-picture men have recently caused some comment by picturing, lor snow in other cities, tho ordinary life and activities of New York. It is a subject of perennial interest. Merely as a matter of money, New York city's government "turns over" in a year more than $150,000,000, in-chiding in-chiding bond-refunding operations, new bonds and local Improvements for which property owners pay. This sum is more than halt the entire assessment as-sessment of Chicago. Our expenses equal those of the next fifteen largest cities combined. For scvhools alone wo uso as much money in a year as the assessed value of Sacramento; i?G,0O0,000 more than that of Omahn. The gross debt of New York more than equals the interest-bearing debt of the United States, and Its annual interest bill is ?29,450,G24 ?S,000,000 more than the Federal Government's. The city spends $1,206,815.1-1 a vear for fprage and horseshoeing. It has 445 miles of dock frontage to patrol. Its new aqueduct is costing $103,000,-000, $103,000,-000, besides a $25,000,000 rock lunnel within tho city; but that is not equal to a year's budget. It owns $140,000,-000 $140,000,-000 worth of bridges. It spends for charities and allied purposes $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 the only item relatively lower than in London and Berlin. There is more real estate exempt from taxation taxa-tion in New York church, charitable and Government property than tho entire assessed value of any other American city, with Cincinnati and Newark thrown in. Nearly 500 tons of babies are born in New York every year, and its S00.-000 S00.-000 pupils walking two by two at three-feet Intervals would make a procession pro-cession 227 miles long. The $78,014,-G22.30 $78,014,-G22.30 It spends Ju salaries and wage's In a year would buy 2G.000 small homes at $3,000 each"; or 3,900,000 suits o $20 clothes; or enough o-cont bags of peanuts to reach end to end four times around the earth.- Now York has nearly as many temporary employes as tho first army of occupation occupa-tion Italy will land in Tripoli. Its permanent force equals in number the entire population of Springfield, Mass., or Tacoino. It is true, and it is not true, that New York Is essentially like any country coun-try village where good and bad people peo-ple live, and where the young fellows go down the -street after dinner looking look-ing for amusement. Bigness does make a difference. New York Sun. |