The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-03-31
New York City.


TIE population of this city is various
| w estimated from 100000 to 1,OOO, 900.
| About one-half were born in the United
States, and the other half are from foreign
countries, of forty different nationalities.
| The census returns set down the married,
widowers, and widows as together cOnSti-
tuting two-ffths of the population. The
number of persons united in marriage
| during wear is 1900. The number of
| births during year is LOCO. The num-
Der Of deaths during year Is 25,0O0.
| There are 100000 people living in 10000
| houses, and 500, 900 in 40,000 houses.
What is required 10 feed this multitude
may be judged by such figures as these
| 100000 barrels of -four, and 5000, 0,0e9
| bushels of wheat are brought into the city
every year. The whole number of ami
mails received at the markets in o year,
| including beef cattle, milch COWS, calves,
sheep and swine, is 2,776, ,492 and our
city meat bill for the year is over $780,
O0O, 900 There are 700 bakers, 400
butchers and $500 grOcers, who find Oc.
cupation in furnishing food for the
people.
Not only meat, but drink, must he had
for our population, and something has
been done toward securing supply of
pure and wholesome water. An aque-
duct, forty miles in length, costing $780,
900 600, pours into our reservoir 60,OO0,-
900 of gallons daily The total length of
the Croton main pipes now laid Is over
313 miles. The water has been intro
duced into G6,925 buildings, occ'.9led as
dwellings and stores, 1,01, manufactures
and 307 churches. And the yearly amount
paid for water rents is $l,3l9 ,54426. Tea
and coffee to the amount of 100000 900
are annually brought to the city. The
money spent for intoxicating liquors is
variOusly estimated from S3S, ,00O,0 900 to
100000 year.
AS not one man in all the ten thousands
in the city raises single grain OF wheat,
how do the people manage to secure the
necessarics of life? In seeking an answer
to this question, we turn TO commerce and
manufactures, and we find the following
suggestive figures The arrivals at the
port of New York in year are 1861 the
tonnage entering and leaving the port
5,00O0O0 The imports and exports are
$500, 100000. The aggregate business
traffic of the city in a year is $3,3l3,61S,-
OOO The number of manufacturing es-
Establishments in the city is 400, with a
capital of $G5,O00,000, employing 900
hands. There are II banks, with q capital
of $9O,000000 There are 80 savings
banks, having 307, 1872 depositors, and
| $S6,574 ,343 on deposit. The total valua-
| ton of real and personal estate in the
city is $9Gj326Gl4 Last year, ,030 per-
sons, on $S5, ,596, ,4S4 income, paid $4,379,
ia 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 successful in securing supplies from
every direction and the grand figures OF
business enterprise and activity VIC 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 adorn-
mcnt.
1t is universally conceded that intclli-
gence and virtue are the warp and wool
of the social fabric of a republican commu-
| nifty, and the statements which will follow
concerning education, religion and bencv-
olence, cannot fail to arrest attention.
There are 800 public schools in
| charge of the Board of Education, with an
average attendance of 10000 pupils. sus-
| tained at an annual expenditure of $3,OO0,-
| 600. There are 300 private schools, with
an average attendance of $4,000 pupils
| There are 430 churches, chapels an0 mis-
| stOnS OF all denominations. There are 315
| journals, newspapers and magazines pub.
lished I'm the city. There are 3l5 relig-
iOuS, moral and charitable associations
| The leading national societies receive
S6,O0O,OO0 annually. The local voluntary
societies in New York disburse, during
the year, $2,O00,000. The Commissioners
of Charities and Corrections, and the
| Commissioners of Emigration, expcnd
nearly S2,000OO0 year
| Having given the leading facts relating
to the population, the business, and the
educational and religious interests of the
city, we will proceed to jot down few
miscellaneous figures, which will represent
various lights and shades of city life. The
city letter-carrlers deliver during year
81, ,3S4, ,0S6 mail and city letters, and 1853
6G3 newspapers, and collect from boxes
| %, DOL $40 letters for the mails. The
amount spent annually for bouquets and
| floral decorations is estimated at 81 500
| 600 1t has been stated that the cost OF
the flowers at a single entertainment at
the residence of private citizen was
$1,000.
New York annually pays $2,5O0,OOO for
ice. The city is divided into about 40,
0O0 lots, one half of which are built upon
The Superintendent of Buildings reports
2,O12 plans for new buildings submitted to
him during the year. The fires during
| the year were TAO, and the losses by the
same amounted To $4,342,37l. The num-
Der of men enrolled i'm the various trades
unions is 66,099. The number of pas
sengers carried by the various ferry com
panes during the year is 81, ,321, ia The
number of passengers carried by the vari-
Gus city railroads during the year is 10O,-
10000 1t is said that the seventeen
| theatres and minstrel saloons in New
York have DIT employees and 95S actors
| and actresses. IL is estimated that the
more prominent ii eatres, concerts, and
operas are patronized by about $4,000
people. while the lower class of these
places find patrons to the number OF 200,-
OOO and it is supposed that $7,000,0O) {.
! year is spent in the theatres and various