Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-25
PROBLEMS or CITY LIFE.
Facts and Figures Gathered by the New
York Federation Of Churches.

The Federation of Churches and
Christian Workers in New York city has
published pamphlet giving the results
OF sociological canvass made by it in
the Fifteenth Assembly district. one of
the most densely populated and most
churchless regions in the metropolis
These results are given in the form of
carefully drawn charts and elaborate
tables Of statistics. accompanied with
many practical suggestions and recon-
mendations for carrying into effect the
lessons to be drawn from the mass Of
facts and figures thus presented rela-
tive TO the social and religious needs of
the city. From this pamphlet the fol-
lowing facts of special interest from a
sociological point of view, have been
collected:
Yonkers is today ahead of New York
city in its public baths. Toxic is
cleaner in its bathing customs than
New York.
The percentage of people owning
their own homes in New York city is
smaller than in any other city of the
New World.
There are at least seven individual
blocks in New York city containing
over 5000 people each. Each of these
has population equivalent to the en-
tire population Of Tarrytown.
The percentage of children at work
during school hours throughout the
city of New York is little above FIVE:
in the Fifteenth Assembly district at
little over six. and in each age subdivi-
sion the number of girls at work is
,.es.f hap Of
OF 3453 families, whose thrift was es-
timated by the canvassers of the feder-
alton, only 1899 were reported as con-
spcuously thrifty.
of 33,s9l people in the blocks can
vassed by the federation 1857 were
wage earners, and of these 2017 or 1873
per cent, were employed on Sunday.
The percentage of wage earners to
population was 31.4 per cent. and of
these wage earners 1873 per cent. were
working seven days a week.
The canvass of the federation shows
that there are only 1887 bathtubs for
s176 families. or one bathtub to 10
families in the Fifteenth Assembly
district
Counting the side entrance corner
lot frontage also, the saloons and
liquor stores occupy 5173 feet on the
sidewalk of the Fifteenth Assembly
district-almost a mile. Their street |
area IS equivalent to the four sides of
more thantwo and d half blocks: while |
the churches, clubs and public schools |
combined would not cover one long
side of single block.
The number of families TO dwelling
is more than three times as great in
New York as in Philadelphia. and is
S3.6 per cent. greater than in Brooklyn
the city in the United States which
most nearly approaches New York in
the number of families per dwelling.
The greater New York, estimating
its population at 100000 people, will
start with larger density per acre
than Greater London had in 1896 The
acreage upon which the three million
people of Greater New York will be
housed is not half as large as that of
Greater London.
There are 1,7429S5 people living on
Manhattan Island. This population is
housed on 13.4S7.2 acres, an area less
than that of some farms in the West.
The density per acre of the population
o. the city south CT the Harlem is yet
the greatest of all cities in the world.
Ii is 1922 per acre.
New York is seventh among the cit
les of the United States in the percent
age of its population who are foreign
born. Six hundred and thirty-nine
thousand nine hundred and forty-three
of the population of New York. or
AZ. 90 per cent. in 1890. We're foreign
born. The white persons of foreign
parentage in New York city. in 1890.
exceeded the entire population of the |
city of Chicago. or the state of Cali |
fornia. They We're 1.215,463 The num-
Der having both parents foreign born
was l1O4,12S