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Show PH I LA DELPH 1 1 A IS NOT SO SLOW Father Knickerbocker has long said that life In Philadelphia is char acterlstlcalh English. Perhaps it is Earl Stanhope is reported to have been of the opinion thai life hero is very slow. And it may be. The average 'ew Yorker believes that Father Knickerbocker is right when he jokes about the matter with his contagious hilarity. If he. the New Yorker, has to spend n day here he feels so tickled to get back to Seventh avenue that he begins be-gins to class that thoroughfare with Regent street. London, and the Rue do la Paix, across the channel. The trouble with him is that he doesn't read our statistics. Here are a few we have In hind for him. They are about us ourselves. They are personal per-sonal and highlv satisfactory. (New York papers please copyi Philadelphia is the greatest home City in the world. Has 348,000 separate homes, 800,000 of which are occupied by skilled workmen and 75 per cent of these own their own homes. Is the greatest industrial center Skille.i labor. 100,000. Four times the size of the F S. army Holding hands (hey would form a line 312 miles long. With one-sixtieth of the population of the United States she produces one-twentieth of Its manufactures. Philadelphia has the greatest loco motive works, employing 19.000 men, who can produce eight locomotives every working day, or an average of one every two hours and forty minutes. min-utes. Has the largest hat m-innfacturing establishment In the, world, employing employ-ing 5.00U hands and producing hats from raw material to the finished product pro-duct at an average rate of one hat every two and one -half seconds. Philadelphia manufactures 4,800,000 hats per year. The hands, end to end, would mnke a line about l,5f,o miles long, or half the distance to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. It (s the greatest carpet producing center In the world. She manufactures 15,000,000 yards per year, enough to put a belt around the earth and leave a strip 024 miles long. Earl Stanhope is probably right, what he meant Is that this is a great town If Is becoming rapidly a creater town And with our own good wishes for ourselves we have only brotherly love four long suit) for Father (S) Knickerbocker. Philadelphia Ev ening Telegraph. |