Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-04-01
New York City.

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THE population of this city is various
ly estimated from 100000 to 100000
About one-half were born in the United
States, and the other half are from foreign
countries, of forty different natonalities.
The census returns set down the married,
widowers, and widows as together consti-
tuting two-fifths of the population. The
number of persons united in marriage
during year is 1900. The number of
births during year is 1000. The num-
Der of deaths during a year is $4,000.
There are 10000 people living in 10000
houses, and 500, 900 in 5000 houses
What is required to feed this multitude
may be Judged by SUCH figures as these /:
100000 barrels of flour, and 1900, 600
bushels of wheat are brought into the city
every year. The whole number of ami
mails received at the markets in year,
including beef cattle, mich cows, calves,
sheep and swine, is 2,776, 492 and our
city meat bill for the year is over $780,
100000 There are 700 bakers, 1,400
butchers and 1900 grOcers, who find oc.
cupation in furnishing food for the
people.
Not only meat, but drink, must be 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,
100000, pours into our reservoir 6O,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 &C, 925 buildings, occupied as
dwellings and stores, 1917 manufactures
and 307 churches And the yearly amount
paid for water rents is $l,3l9, ,544.26. Tea
and coffee to the amount of 10000, 900
are annually brought to the city. The
money spent for Intoxicating liquors is
variously estimated from $38,000,000 TO
$6S,000,000 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
nccessaries 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 A, ,S61 the
tonnage entering and leaving the port
100000. The imports and exports are
$500, 100000. The aggregate business
traffic of the city i'll a year is $3,3l3,61S,-
600. The number of manufacturing es
adjustments in the city is 400, with a
capital OF $G5,0O0,000, employing 100000
hands There are II banks, with capital
of $00,000,000 There are 80 savings
banks. having 307102 depositors, and
$50, ,343 on deposit. The total valua
ton of real and personal estate in the
city is $965,326,6l4. Last year, ,030 per
sons, on $85,596, ,484 income, paid $4,370,
754 taxes to the United States Internal
Revenue Department ......J.,,
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 o
business enterprise and activity we have
given will explain where the means come
from, not only to sustain life in its bes
possible condition, but to give to society it
highest culture and most luxurious adorn
ment.t .r4r .- arF#fr
1t is universally conceded that intelli
gence and. virtue are the warp and WOO
of the social fabric of a republican commu
nifty, and the statements which will follow
concerning education, religion and benev
olence, cannot fail TO arrest attention.
There are 300 public schools il
charge of the Board of Education, with al
average attendance of 100000 pupils, sus
tanned at an annual expenditure OF $4,000,
| WV hSAS uiS cOO PiANNNS oNiiCCA11 NiNi
an average attendance of $4,000 pupils
There are 430 churches, chapels and mis-
stons of all denominations. There are 81
journals, newspapers and magazines pub
| lished in the city. There are 815 relig
| ious, moral and charitable associations
The leading national societies receiV
! $1,000, 900 annually. The local Voluntar
| societies in New York disburse, durin
the year, $2,000000. The Commissioner
of Charities and Corrections, and tn
Commissioners of Emigration, eXpen
nearly $2,000,0O0 year.
Having given the leading facts relatip
to the population, the business, and tn
| educational and religious interests of tn
city, we will proceed to jot down fey
miscellaneous figures, which will represen
various lights aud shades of city life. Th
city lettercarriers deliver during yea
81, 1884 ,086 mail and city letters, and 2,699
663 newspapers, and collect from boxo
| 8,551 ,910 letters for the mails. TIL
amount spent annually for bouquets an
| floral decorations is estimated at 1900
| 600. 1t has been stated that the cost {
the flowers at a single entertainment q
the residence of q private citizen wa
$500.
New York annually pays $4,000, 900 fC
ice. The city is divided into about 14O
900 lots, one-half of which are built upoI
The Superintendent Of Buildings report
2,012 plans for new buildings submitted
him during the year, The fires durin
the year were TAO, and the losses by th
same amounted to $A,842,37l The nun
Der OF men enrolled in the various trade
unions is 66,099. The number of pa
sengers. carried by the various ferry con
panies during the year is 80, ,32t ,174, Th
number OF passengers carried by the var
Gus city railroads during the year is 100
100000 1t is said that the seventee
theatres and minstrel saloons in Ne,
York have 037 employees and 05S actoI
and actresses. 1t is estimated that th
more prominent theatres, concerts, an
operas are patronized by about 50,0(
people, while the lower class of the'
places find patrons TO the number OF 200
900 and il is supposed that $7,000,OO0
year is spent in the theatres and warrior