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ute. or 81. .O00. 600 a year. BY a come
parison with the number and value OF
the buildings erected IN year II II
seen that fires occur a little more Ire-
Quently than buildings are crested, and
that one out of every eleven new build
lngS Is a complete loss from names
Should New Workers try TO drink al
the water they use in one way or an
other they would each and all have 10
swallow six ,pints every minute u al
this water should be turned into Madi-
son Square Garden it would iii that
building to the roof in twenty minutes
If Broadway from the City Han 70 tbs
Battery was walled up as high as the
st. Paul building, New 4ork's supply
of water would make il overflow at the
end of two and a half days AT the
present time Manhattan and The
Bronx consume $50 9o9oJo gallons
day; Brooklyn, I3g, ,0OOseuyi Queens, SsOOGss
00o. and Richmond, 6,00os0oos total Oh
474.0O0, 600.
New York expends a vast sum OF
money just for postage stamps. buying
and using them at the rate OF 10 cents
worth a second. In year the city
turns over to tire Government SIS. "a
ASS for handling its letters. In a typical
day New York writes 212 letters a min
ute of which tWO-6n1rdS come from
the few blocks Of skyscrapers and other
business houses between Wall street
and Chambers street, and the TWO
rivers Should the task Of writing let
ters be equally distributed among al
the inhabitants OF the city, each would
have to write five a day.
Although the police, as seen by a cas-
ual observer about the streets. do not
yet when the sum total Of their doings
is considered, they show great activity.
At any rate, thev make an arrest about
every three minutes. Every ten minutes
they take some one to q stationhOuse
for drunkenness: every twenty minutes
they lay hands on somebody accused Of
theft, and every forty-eight minutes
they arrest a person accused OF starting
a.
is brought TO the Tombs every two
hours. and every five hours a criminal
is sent from the city to State prison.
Rut far faster than the police make ar
rests the LAWYERS bring suits A new
suit IS started every ten minutes. and
one is brought TO trial eYerv fifteen sec
onds. The courts are sadly behind and
the calendars growing longer and longer
but stil more lawyers are looking Tor
litigation. On an average. New York
has new lawyer every twelve hours
Even in prosperous times failures CONS
thick and fast in New York city. and
they average about one eVerv six hours.
According to BradStreet'S s reuOrt Tor last
year, there We're ]. .324 business failures.
For the same period there We're about
1900 men. partnerships. or corporations
which began business, or at the rate OF
one every fOrty-two minutes IL would
appear. therefore, that one out Of ten
fails.
New York has a greater transient
population than any other city IN the
world, Yet great as IS the NUMBER OF
its trains and ships arriving and depart
ing, the vastness of the work they are
accomplishing IS little realized until
timed by the minute hands Of a watch.
on an average throughout the year
there is a train arriving in New York
every fifty-fiVe seconds. The trains
that leave the city go about as fre-
quentIy Not all of these trains stop
or start within the city limits, but all
land or take New York passengers
either directly or AT the Grand Central
Station or by ferries as does the Penn
syivania-
A ship sails Out of New York harbor
bound somewhere every fOrty-eight
minutes. Every two hours and twelve
minutes one strikes ont Tor some foreign
country. and just about every two and
"A half hours one sails for some South
ern port On our shores. Every two and
three-quarter hours a ship leaves New
York for some destination on the As|
England coast.