Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-29

"a t-Jt4rt/ HrsecOnd city Oh tnS "oisN'
h ff refer to the city hall, which
NSzflEl is to be the center oil the
NJ government Of the greater
Y New York. The greater New
~ York contains twice as many
A people as either New Jersey
SGSAor Iowa. 1t has nine times
as many souls as Rhode Island or Soulh
Dakota. All the people in Nevada
would rattle around in some OF It's
smaller wards like the dry peas ina poo
and lis inhabitants are more, with lew
exceptions, than those Of the greatest o,
our states. New York city is surpassed
bv only enc place in the world as to its
population, and it is an easy second
among the worlds cities in business ana
wealth. There is no town but gray
haired London which will compare with
il. and with lusty strides it is fast tramp
ing ON London's heels. During my WISH
to the English metropolis not long ago.
heard n great fuss made about sale
OF business property there at price
equal to $40, ooo, 900 an acre. a iot was
sold within a stones throw OF the city
hall only a year or so ago. Tor price
amounting to 5000, ooo an acre. us
lot was on the corner Of Nassau ana
Liberty streets. 1t contained consider
ably less than quarter OF an acre oil
ground, and it brought $I,a5o,ooo'
There is scarcely any property on the
Island OF Manhattan which can De
bought cheaply today. There are lots
along lower Broadway which are worth
a carpet OF silver dollars over their en-
tire surface; and there are some, ven
ture, which you could not buy by onet'
ing to stand silver dollars on edge, side
by side and end to end, making Two
inch plating over the whole. lot. Inc
tendency OF the prices here IS ever up
ward. One-twelfth of the total assessed
value OF the United States exists IN New
York, the real estate alone amounting tt
more than $4,000, 900, 900. Stnl, wheI
the Dutch bought the Island Of Mammal
tan off the Indians, they paid Tor 1t oni!
S24 worth of glass beads and buttons
1t was the biggest real estate deal o.
record, Twenty-four dollars then--
worth billions now. Think what the ID
dams lost
BIG THING TO be MAYOR or NEw YORK
1t is a big thing to be mayor Of a cit
like this. The office carries almost a
much responsibility as that OF the Presl
dent Of the United States. There are,
believe, about four thousand policeme
now in this city, and there will be seve
thousand in the new New YORK. liner
will be, all told, an army OF city oihcial
greater by that which Xenophon led o
his retreat to the sea than the army {
the United States, and the salary list WI
amount to more than thirty-three mi
lion dollars year. The property inte
ests of such city are enormous. III
business carried on is Of every kint
There Is more manufacturing done her
than in any other town in the Unite
States. The shipping interests are S
great that three thousand ships CON
from foreign countries to these wharvt
every wear, and two-fifths OF all the PR
ducts ws ship to foreign countries al
sent here to be loaded. The banking il
terests are the greatest on this hemi
phsre. The New York clearing hou:
does a business OF twenty-five billio,
annually; while the stocks represnente
in Wall street affect every country tow
in the United States. There are in Il
greater New York one hundred an
sixty thousand dwelling houses and bu
mess houses, which the mayor must 81
are in sanitary condition. The stree
which have to be looked alter, wou
make a line longer than the distance b
tween New York and Chicago, and Il
mileage oil the surface railways won
make five tracks from New York
Washington. / don't know the exte
of the sewerage of the greater Ne
York; but, four years ago. New Yo
proper had more than four hundr,
miles OF such works, and the bill sign'
by Governor Black, will largely incTea
this number. All OF these things ha
to be looked after. In every part OF Il
vast city there are men schemlng to &
money out of its treasury or to eva'
its laws. All sorts OF taxes are broug
to the city hall to be ground, and Il
mayor has to be very smart man II
keeps the wheel turningin the right
rection and uses it solely for the good
the people.
A MORNING WITH MAYOR STRONG
believe that Mayor Strong does til
He has no ak of his own to grind, al
he is the mayor OF all the citizens.
has brought civil service rules into VIII
was one oil the most corrupt spoils cti
of the world, and lie has really work
wonders in reforming the governme
and the police. spent this morning
his office, and was struck with the Fl
American way in which he does thing
Whatever there may be about the 9th
departments OF New York, tntre Is
red tape about the city hall The ma
or's office is open to AL. You walk
and take your seat, aud when your III
comes you step up to the mayors de
and state your case. When | arrived
the Office this morning il was $50.
Suorg had already been there a Ina
hour and he was still engaged in answ,
ing HI mail. He had received, at Il
delivery, ane hundred letters, and me
than halt OF these were already dispos
Of. He went over tile letters rapid
directing his secretary how they shot
be answered, and later on the secre;a
took the mail ard dictated the proE
answers to a stenographer. Alter Ii
delegations began TO come in. I
mayor heard the spokesman of ca
1 party, and in many cases decided /
] disputes without leaving his seat.
ALooK At MAYOR STRONG.
1t was between two such delegate
that l was introduced by Mr.. Jc