The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-06-10
Costly Things in Great Cities.

S3,00O,OOO.
is 10,170 acres.
The Chicago Custom House and Post
Office cost S3,500O00. -,
The Boston Post Office, begun IN 1911
cost over S2,000,0OO.
The area of the city Chicago Is thirty
five square miles.
The first ship built IN Boston was tle
Trial. completed in 1914.
The expense of governing New YORK |
city is over S30,000,0O0 annu ally.
The site of the city of Boston was sold
in 1635 by John Blackstone for t3O.
II cost s.. 1856, 500 to run the city govern
ment of Chicago in 1884, against S4,4o4'-
600 in 1888. D.1.;
A new system of sewerage for Baltl-
more TO cost S5.OOOO0O, is Rlnder favor
able consideration.
Since 1873 a new State House has been
erected at Hartford, at an expense Oh -
The water frontage of Boston is about
10000 feet, and ships are accommodated
at 164 wharves. s..e.
The area of Paris within the fortltica-
tions. pretty well covered with buildings
is twenty eight square miles.
The area of closely built stores and resi-
dences of London, including the most
populous suburbs, is 40 square miles.
Including the interest on the public DEBT
If requires about S4000,00O year to pay
tine municipal expenses of Baltimore.
During twenty years the population {. OF
New York city increased % per cent Wli iae
the expense of government increased 4oO
per cent. o,.or
The new City Hall of Boston cost over
S5OOOOO. Providence wanted something
better. and erected a magnificent DulldlIs
for S75O,OOO m. o;+,. a
Manhattan Island, the site OF the clty r %
New York, was purchased from the N II
dams in 1926 for 81. Now 1t Is Wor'l
more than S2,OOO,0000OO- ooc
Druid Park of Baltimore, contains 6ol
aores II was purchased for the city tol
about $500 The city also mas u"el''
pnblic squares. ,-o, ,, I,o
ninety instructors. between eleven an'
twelve hundred students, and propert
valued at over S5,0OO,OOO.
The funded debt Of st. Louis Is owe
s2OOOOOOO. of which 81, $4,000 IS Tor WI
fer works. S5359.573 for public parks, an
81 2S6. 700 for public buildings.
The six parks of Chicago, aggregatlh
nearly 900 acres. are connected by
cord6n Of boulevards 80 feet wide, e!
sanding around the three land sides
the city a..
The Philadelphia gas works cost TIL
citv S1I 100000 There has been gre
cnrruntion in their management, and son
of The newspapers advocate selling
leasing them to private company !.
The cost of the city gas works OF, OF bern ~
IN ror,pd numbers. was S1,OOO,OuU. L
water works cost SS,0O0,OOO, and the ara
age works the same amount. Inc se"a
IS pumped from the city ,, nj.
Mavor Low of Brooklyn calls attenll
To the advantage that are arising nom IN
system of driven wells put down by IN
Engineer Van Buren, Tor increasing
water supply of that city
The amount of water used by the IL
don Fire Department IN loo4 was "
60O00,OO0 gallons. The elgnt . In
1voter companies are by law required
I,rnisb water free for the extingulshm'
u Relies Si, that were born after the
money was appropriated for the me
Canitol of New York State voted at tie
cont Albany municipal election, and
I ,aor;sIatT1re passed a bill approprlat
n 9000OO TO complete the building
to}aI cost of more than S2O,OOO,OuO.
Tbe new Post Office building at
.,+nar If broadway and Park Row,
YorI cost nearly 100000. 1t IS
finest fOaA' building devoted to the purpose,
tbs e1 Continent San Francisco would
s sns with new Post Office that c,
10 constructed for half the cost oil
Works monumental building
4 private company Engilishll hrst Il
d,,ced water into Berlin IN l994-
property Of the company was was, bought ,LLs1i
the city in 1873. Twenty-three great "a
servoirs supply the city, by means oil
ormous pumI.=, through "a q wen vel. !. d ~
svstem Of pipes, and 1900 water M
measure the supply TO as many
Civil law Is dispensed IN New ", 1or .
seven Judges of the Supreme OouL
S11.5OO year each; SIX Judges 70