The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
WEALTH, HEALTH, CONFINEMENT.

| special correspondence OF Lne U -ODe.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-When the
bells toll for the death of 1897 and
ring merrily over the birth of another
| year, they will be ringing with an I'M
usually significant purpose in this
| vicinity, for with the last stroke of
midnight on Dec. 81, dies the city Of
| New York, and is born the Greater
| New York. 1t has been decided to
| hold wake" over the remains Of
Father Knickerbocker's city, although
some have protested against the use
| of the term as signifying that New!
| York Is to die, while as a matter Of
| fact 1t is to live, with additional i'm
| portance and power. The celebration
| will take the form Of a mass meeting
| of representative citizens of New York
and Brooklyn, which meeting is to be
addressed by three chosen orators who
will recite the history of the city from
its early stages to the present day.
each orators speech dealing with n
section of the period and his successor
taking up the recital where he leaves
off. This idea of continuous perform
ance speech originated with Mayor
| Strong, of New York, and has been
| heartily approved of by the citizens.
The speech of the orator who Is to
| bring the recital to date and wind up
the grafton will be replete with facts
| Of interest to the patriotic American
He will show the citizens that on Jan.
| LIST America will possess the second
largest city in the world as regards
| population, the vast city of London
| alone exceeding her in the numbers of
| tnha bitants The New York of 1898
| will comprise an area of 1856 800 acres =
| or S0715 square miles, thus making IL
| the largest city In the world, so far
as extent of territory is concerned,
| London having but 74,G72 acres. Ana
how much better off are the residents
| of the Greater n g., IAN are the
| residents of grc->t l.. N. Not to
| speak of the climatic advantage, and
| the absence of the choking yellow foSs
| that are so unpleasant q feature of
| the Britisher's big city, New York
| has the inestimable advantage Of
| numerous summer resorts within its
| corporate limits. A five cent ride VIII
/ take her toiling citizens to any one Of
| a dozen famous sea side resorts where,
| on hot days, there is every facility for
bathing, boating, fishing and holiday
| festivity The Greater New Yorker
| can take his shotgun and have his
| choice of bagging in their season any
| one Of nearly thousand varieties OF
| birds that roam the air within the
| limits of the new city. In the waters
that will surround the Greater New
| York, the angler can drop his line
where fish abound and have royal sport
without the expenditure of more than
the most trifling sum.
GO where money is if you want to
make money" says the wise man of
business. That, being interpreted,
means go to New York, and so the
nations Of the earth flock to the East
ern gateway OF America. They find
here a city that it has cost $75000000
a year to maintain in the past, and
during the four years of the new
| mayors coming rule will necessitate an
outlay of $500 900 900. The money has
| been we'll spent, for it has given to
the citizens LOOP miles Of paved streets,
1856 miles of public sewer, a daily
water supply of 330, 0000 900 gallons, 65S7
acres of public parks and pleasure
grounds, schools that cost $15,OO0O0O
year to maintain, and the largest po-
lice and fire departments of any city
in the world.
The gigantic growth of the great city
can be estimated by the way in which
| ings that rear their heads to the sky
in the Greater New York. These operv
atoms aggregate $15O,0OO,GOO a year,
and, like the city, the amount is al
ways growing. Through the clearing
house in New York there passes every
day a mass of checks whose value
foOts up to the immense total Of $685.
900 600, or to make an interesting COM
parison, an amount double that of all
the other cities in America together.
From the great docks OF the Greater
New York there will be carried, by
ocean greyhound, tramp steamer and
sailing vessel, merchandise to foreign
shores that represents value OF $40
COG, 900 900, and there is ample room for
more vessels, for the harbOr could hold
the ships of the world, and a thousand
ocean steamships could find dock room
at one time.
The most interesting of the bOroughs
into which the Greater New York will
be divided is, of course, the Borough
| of Manhattan, or the section that TO
the end of 1897 will be New York city. 1t
is a city Of which the Americans are
Justly proud From a little colony es-
tablished in 1923 on the Island Of Man
haitian. purchased from the Indians, IL
has grown so that today In the size
and worth of it's buildings 1t leads the
world Each year there is as much
money spent in buildings on Manhat-
tan island as would erect a town OF
10000 cottages. Its center is a park
that has been changed from rough
wild land into paradise where rich
and poor congregate to breathe the
health giving atmosphere. Nature has
provided Manhattan island with miles
of water front, where dock accOmmo-
dalton Is had by six hundred Of the
large ocean steamers, and wharfage
accommodation for a vast fleet Of
smaller boats, that enrich the NUM-
cipal Golfers by their fees to such an
extent that it is believed the time viii
come when these earnings will pay
the entire cost OF running the city.
1t is the greatest railroad terminal
In the country, twenty-five lines Of
steam railroads having their terminals
here. An army Of 5000 men cleans it's
400 miles of streets, and 900 horses aid
the sweepers to cart the refuse to the
dumping scows. Sewage pipes to the
extent of SIS miles drain the city car
rying the sewage to the water that sur
rounds the island, and making the
drainage problem that vexes the en-
gineers in so many large cities an easy
one to solve here.
Next in Importance to the borough or
! Manhattan comes the borough of
| Brooklyn, with it's population OF 1,132,-
554, making it the tenth city as regards
size in the world.