The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-22
THE GREAT MET ROPOLIS.
Figures of Population, Business, Ma
ufaetures, Public Institutions, sc

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ment complied by the Secretary of the CITY
Mission, Lewis E, jackson.
The population of this city is variously
estimated from 800, 900 to l, 900, 900. About
one-haf were born in the United States
and the other half are from foreign coun
! tries, of forty different nationalties The
census returns set down the married, wild.
overs and widows rs together constituting
two-ffths of the population. The number
of persons united in marriage during the
year is 1900. The number of births dur
ing the year is 31,00G. The number OF
deaths is 25, 600. There are 500, 600 people
living in 10000 houses, and 10000 in
40, 600 houses
What is required 10 feed this multitude
may be judged of by such figures as these:
1000, 600 barrels of -four and 8, 1000, 000
bushels of wheat are brought into the city
every year. The whole number of animals
received at the markets in year, including
beef cattle, milch COWS, calves, sheep and
swine, is 2,776, 492; and our city meat bill
for the year is over $50, 900, 000 There
are 700 bakers, 1,400 butchers, and 1900
grocers who find occupation in furnishing
food for the people.
Not only meat, bat drink, must be bad
for our population, and something has
been done toward securing a supply of
: pure and wholesome water. An aqueduct
40 miles in length, costing $50, 900, 600,
olpors into our reservoirs 60, 900, 900 of gal
ms daily. The total length of the Croton
main pipes now laid is over 313 miles, The
water has been introduced into 66,925
buildings, occupied as dwellings and stores,
I,617 manufactures, and 307 churches
And the yearly amount paid for rents is
81, ,319, 544. 26. Tea and coffee to the amount
Of $50, O00, 900 are annually brought to the
city. The money spent for intoxicating IL
quors is variously estimated from S3S, ,009,-
600 to S6S. 600, 900 year.
As not one man in all the thousands in
the city raises single grain of wheat,
how do the people manage to secure the
necessaries of life? In seeking an answer
to this question, we turn to commerce and
manufactures, and find the following sug-
gestive figures: The arrivals at the port
Of New York in year are 1861; the tom
mage entering and leaving the port 5,00O,-
600. The imports and exports are $780,.
| 600, 900. The aggregate business traffic of
the city in year is SO, 313, 6IS, 600. The
number of manufacturing establishments
in the city is 4,400, with capital of
S65, 900, 600, employing 100000 hands.
There are II banks, with a capital of $780,
600, 900. There are 80 savings banks,
having 307, 1872 depositors, and $50 574 343
on deposit. The total valuation of real
and personal estate in the city is $685.
326, 6l4. Last year, 5000 persons, on
S85, ,596 484 income, paid S4. 379, ISL taxes
to the United States Internal Revenue
Department.
We have seen that though the people of
the city do not produce any food, they are
&C ssfuln in securing supplies from every
direction; and the grand figures of bust
ness enterprise and activity we have given
will explain where the means come from,
not only to sustain life in its best possible
condition, but to give to society its highest
culture and most luxurious adornment
1t is universally conceded that intelli-
geHce and virtue are the warp and wood of
the social fabric of a republican communi-
ty, and the statements which will follow
concerning education, religion, and benev-
olence cannot fail to arrest attention.
There are 800 public schools II charge
of the Board of Education, with an average
attendance of los, 900 pupils sustained at
on annual expenditure of SO, 600, 600. There
are 300 private schools, with an average at
tendance of 25,000 pupils. There are 430
churches, chapels, and missions of all de-
nominations. There are 315 journals,
newspapers and magazines, published in the
city. There are 315 religious, moral and
charitable association. The leading ma
tional societies receive $4,000, 000annually.
The local voluntary societies in New York
disburse during the year $4,000, 900. The
Commissioners of Charities and Correc-
tions and the Commissioners of Emigration
expend nearly S2,O00,00 year.
Having given the leading facts relative to
the population, the business and the edu-
cational and religious interests of the city,
we will proceed to jot down few miscel-
laneous figures, which will represent vari-
Gus lights and shades of city life.
New York annually pays 81, 500,0 600 for
ice. The city is divided into about 140.-
600 lots, one-half of which are built upon.
The Superintendent of buildings reports
2,012 plans for new BUILDINGS submitted to
him during the year. The fires during the
year were 740, and the losses by the same
amounted to 81, 342, 81. The number of
men enrolled in the various trades
unions were 6609O The number
of passengers carried by the various
ferry companies during the year is
81, 321, ,274. The number of passengers
carried by the various city railroads during
the year is 100, 900, 600. 1t is said that the
seventeen theatres and minstrel saloons in
New York have 937 employees and 958 act
ors and actresses. 1t is estimated that the
more prominent theatres, concerts and
operas, are patronized by about so, 900 peo-
pie, while the lower class of these places
find patrons to the number of 200, 600; and
it is supposed that 81, 900, 900 year is spent
in the theatres and various places of popu-
lar amusement. The number of streets,
avenues, squares, and places below Fifty
fourth street is 493.
The area of the city is about % square
miles, or ii, 600 acres. The city directory
contains 1S9, ,443 names. Broadway fur
nishes $500 names; Wall street, 1920;
First avenue, 2,765; and Fifth avenue, 665.
The number of immigrants who have ar
rived in New York for the last twenty years
is 3, 764, ,063.
The Central Park has an area of over
$50 acres and has cost $4,000, 600. 1t is
visited annually by 100000 persons
Greenwood cemetery has a population of
136, 984 The interments last year were
1874
The number ofhorses and vehicles in use
in the city has been estimated at $50, 000
1t has been estimated that in the course of
"a hours 1900 vehicles pass the Astor
House. 1t is estimated that there are, at
least, 100 establishments in the city for the
receipt of stolen gooIs, and that there are
as many as 1,500 professional thieves, and
the whole number of professional crimi-
mails, of every kind and degree, is set down
at 5000. The cost of supporting the po-
lice and the city courts and prisons, for
the maintenance of order and the protec-
ton of life and property is 81 SOC, 600 an
nually.
The Lady Jurors Saying Their Prayers.
From the Laramie Sentinel.
little circumstance connected with the
late term of Court comes to our knowledge,
which we are inclined TO make public, even
at the risk of betraying confidence. During
the long and tedious Howie murder trial,
the jury (Sf whom one-half were ladies)
were not permitted to separate and go to
their homes, but were, under the charge of
bailiffs Zone lady and one gentleman), taken
to the hotel for their meals, and lodging
was provided for them in the adjoining
parlors, each under the charge of their
bailiff And here, every morning during
the trial, upon arising from their beds,
these ladies kneeled together, and, like the
child Solomon, asked wisdom of God to
enable them to properly and wisely dis