The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-28

I NeW IoFkers are generaily dccuscu
 of being a little too rapid. Their health
 and their manners are said to suffer from the habit of always hurrying l But 1t is hardly any wonder that her citizens acquire this habit. for things | happen rapidly in New York.
 Every six minutes, for instance, a l child is born and every seven there is l funeral. In the course of last year, according to the statistics of the New
 York city health department ss.655 ba- bies opened their eyes on this busy. restless town. and in the same length of time 7s.o6o human beings. weary | of It's din. found the rest of the grave | Should New York, therefore. De re- | garded as one great family it could not
 be accused of race suicide. Every TOT ty-two minutes the births exceed the deaths by one SO that if it should close | its. doors on all the rest of the world there would still be thirty-ive more | inhabitants every morning.
 The fearful ravaRes of consumption | among the people of the city are little l realized until 1t is understood that on | an average throughout the year one New Yorker succumbs to this disease | every twehty-eight minutes. Indeed. every fourth person that is buried in | this city is victim of tuberculosis of the lungs In some months. however pneumonia kills still more. In March as a rule deaths from pneumonia are nearly twice as many as from tubercu- losis and in the early spring peopfe are wont to die here from this disease at the rate of one every fifteen min- utes.
 Those who say that 1t is safe to stay at home" do not know much about New York As matter of fact 1t IS 2,5O0 times safer to travel on railroad train than to move about in the streets of this city or on the waters within US boundaries. And it is also dangerous simply to box ones self up in house. From some acidental cause or other three quarters
 Someone is killed by a street car or
 an elevated or subway train. either by being run over or in a collision. every six hours. Someone drowns in New York every eight hours and some lire Is lost in burning building every four teen hours To show that life In this civ ts far more dangerous than rtdine in A steam railroad train one eSneed simply compare the number of passen- gers killed in all parts of the United States In a year and the number or ac- cidental deaths in New York. Out or roe, ,000 900. people who traveied on steam trains in the year 1903. accord- ing to the interstate commerce com mission, l 2. .o0o. GOO. The accidental deaths In this city last year amopnted to 5.1s1, or one | for every 800 inhabitants.
 The sheer dread of living kills New Yorker every ten hours. In the last wear there was S53 suicides. Poison was the means used most and on an average someone in this city seeks death in this way once in every twen.s, four hours. The less painful method | of suffocation by gas comes next In nopularity, one dying in this way every ! forty hours while someone commits suicide by shooting every two and a half days. In April people Kill them l selves faster than in any other month. | On an average in that month some. | one ends his or her life every eight
 hours. whereas in an exhilarating win
 ter month there is hardly a suicide day. s<The great increase in the number
 of vsylrnta ry dea ths In April Is attribut-
 | ed to the low vitality which character ixes most people in the spring ana the depressing effect of alternate bright | and gloomy weather. Contrary to gem l eral belief. suicide is also rare In sum mer. and as rule in the month or JuIy. which for many years past mas been the hottest month of the calendar, 1 there has been a suicide only once Tn every sixteen hours.
 | Murder in New York strikes down a victim once, every two days ana every eight hours an attempt is made to Kill. Once every two weeks there is a mur- der which baffles solution and which would seem to belle the old adage that murder will out.
 A New Yorker is buried in potter field every two hours.
 Cupid travels fast and furious In New York, for he causes marriage every thirteen minutes, and. perchance. pe- cause of his speed like, the reckless automobiIist, the tender boy god sur fers many an upset. One wedding m every forty that he brings about leads | later to divorce. Every eignt ana one half hours some man and wire are parted permanently. Inasmueh as many New Workers when seeking divorce po out of the state to procure 1t. Dan | Cupid suffers far more reverses than he Is. perchance, aware of. Indeed, lI ia estimated that one out or twenty marriages contracted in that city ls legally broken here or elsewhere. roi
 every wedding. however, three chilo'
 | ren are born.
 than the storks are the barges of Eliis
 island Every forty seconds an immi.
 srsnt enters that citE The aliens
 come twenty times faster than the
 children. Of all those who come ron
 Europe one in every four settles Tn
 that city or one every two ana ,wo. @
 thirds minutes This shows that New
 work city Is growing nearly three times
 faster from immigration than Iron Signs of building are on every side of the citizen of the metropolis and ye' as a rule he little realizes at what a tremendous pace the new structures are going up As a matter of fact house is built every fifty-one minutes In the whole city last year 1O.122 build inxs of various descriptions were cree ted of which 1,409 were built In Man haitian. 1871 in the Bronx. 5.7s3 1T Rrool<ivn' sie in Queens and 337 or staten island Yet, although Manhat' tan fell behind the Bronx and Brook lyn in the number of buildings con l structed, it spent more than all th' other boroughs put together. The peo ple of all New York spent $4,65 sec ond for new buildings and of this sun s2.40 comes out of the pockets of Man hattanites Tn the last year in Man haitian the bill for buildings amounted to ST4.ss2.O0 while that for the Bron' l was s23144,500; Brooklyn. $39, ,ST2,74O oueans s7.9Ss.4s7, and Staten island saae 94i. As much money is spent 1T building in five days in Manhattan al on Staten island in all the year.
 Should the expense of building b' eouaIlv distributed among all the in babItants of New York each would have to contribute 10 cents day. The expense to New Workers O | simply trying to take care of their city costs two-t thirds as much as their new buildings. Every second they pay $3.1' | to Tammany to maintain the municipa l Government. the cost of which for th' year now amounts to more than $100 S noo noo Inst how each citizen make,