The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-22

ings in five years, and a quarter in
only two boroughs.
During this period 1856 office build
ings, costing SAT, 000,0 900, have been
erected on Manhattan Island. once
buildings in New York is another
way of saying skyscraper, and sky
scraper means a building ten stories
or over in hight
How many skyscrapers there are
in New York it is impossible to say
definitely. The first was erected
around 1891. The years following
they were sanwiched along lower
Broadway among buildings of ordi-
nary hight; even UP to 1899 nearly
all were on lower Broadway Now
way is lane between two almost I'M
broken towering walls. The side
streets in the financial districts are
lined with them, and they have now
turned the tables and small buildings
are sandwiched among them. Walk
on any street leading off Broadway
as far up as Forty-second street and
you will not take many steps before
you run across "scrapers" aplenty.
The development of the residential
sections of the various boroughs has
also been consuming millions. Since
1899, excluding the Bronx for the
last two2 years, 5,676 tenements-the
term used in the law-have been erect
ed at a cost of a little less than $780,
100000 in Manhattan and the Bronx
alone. The majority of these build
ings have been modern apartment
houses from six to twelve stories in
hight. Over 800 have been erected in
Manhattan, mostly on the upper West
Side, since 1902. That region, like the
Bronx, Is now torn from center to
circumference with building operations,
and the last of the squatter houses are
disappearing with the quickness of
snow under a summer sun.
The Federal Governments COntri-
button.
Since consolidation the Federal gov
eminent has authorized the expendi-
ture, in round numbers. of $40 0O0,0 900
within the greater city's limits.
The greater part of these millions Is
being spent on the harbor. Four mil
lions of dollars alone are being expend-
ed to shorten by five miles the entrance
channels from the sea. Half this sum,
plus 100000, is being expended on two
important channels just inside the Mar
rows.
The government is giving particular
attention TO Governors Island, head
quarters of the general commanding
the Department of the East Nearly
N-fNNNtNNS
from the sea and add to the island 101
acres of land, which will make the is
land about four times it's present size.
Within the last five years the forts
that guard New York from the sea
have had tans of thousands of dollars
spent on them. The heaviest improve
ments have been made at Fort Hamil-
ton, where acres of adjoining land have
been added to the fort until ITS circum-
ference is at least five miles in length
The new Custom House. which will
be the biggest structure of its kind in
the world, is to cost approximately,
S6,000O00; and 100000 have been APP
propriated for branch offices in the new
terminals of the Pennsylvania and
New York Central railroads.
Millions for Identification.
This stupendous development is not
purely a materialistic affair. Art,
science, education. the sense OF beauty
and the sense of pity-all are being
provided, and more money is being
spent for them than is spent for sim
liar objects in any other city In the