Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-06
GAINS THOUSAND EACH DAY
New YOrk's Total Population sh'w'
Remarkable Annual Increase.
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Religion to BE Served to Father
K,nickerbocker in Any Old Lam
gunEe to Suit His Inn
mediate Needs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-According to uni
versal New Years custom, Father Knicker-
booker has been taking account of stock
and finds occasionRto congratulate himself
that in 1906 his city of Gotham has broken
all records for growth of big cities. Its
| total increase in population has been 10000,
| or over 900 new inhabitants for every day
in the year. The floating population--vis-
| tors and others whose stay is temporary,
whose homes are the hotels and lodging
! houses, and whose presence gives the air
Of hustle and rapid life to the shopping
district and the Great White Way, is
numbered at 10000 to 100000. To the city
and its suburbs during the year has come
an increase in real estate values of $780,,
I OOO,OGO-a trife, to be sure, but nearly three
| times the property valuation of the entire
state of Nevada in 1904, nearly equal to that
! of Arizona and Wyoming combined, far
! greater than that of New Mexico, Idaho
I
property valuation Of South Dakota in that
| year. For the years work on rapid transit
projects the total outlay has been 100000,
and the work already under way will cost
! 81, 900, 900 by the time 1t is completed.
| Just to keep in touch with things. the old
| gentleman in the powdered wig has broken
| another record-that for telephone installa-
| lions. Within a radius of about thirty
| FIVE miles of the city hall there are now
in service some 3S9, 900 telephones, that
| now New York has in service more tele-
phones than London and the ten other
! largest cities of Great Britain combined;
more than France, Holland, Belgium and
Switzerland combined, and more telephones
than are 10 be found in the twenty largest
cities IN Germany. The new installations
in the territory in and near New York for
the year numbered 5000. or nearly 200
day.
jerome and Insurance Men.
District Attorney Jerome has proved a
distinct and bitter disappointment in the
insurance cases, and no one admits It more
readily now than George W. Perkins Of
the firm of J. p. Morgan & Co. and ex-
| Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Fair
child, the two men who have just been in
dicted by the grand jury for forgery in the
third degree in connection with certain
| dummy sales OF stock When it happened
the election OF trustees was all over but
counting the ballots, and even that had
been satisfactorily arranged for by means
Of those convenient card index systems
which are either deliberately simple or
simply elaborate according to the ends it
is intended to serve, and equally capable
of proving anything either way. There
were 10000 of those ballots they had cost
some one a dollar a piece to collect, to say
nothing of the incidental expense of in
| ducing policyholders to see the matter in
the right light, and II would never do, so
the officials said. merely to count them and
abide by the result. First the ballots
must be sorted and arranged geographic
ally. Then they must be counted, but
simply to ascertain the total vote cast.
| After that the cards, each having forty
three separate and distinct entries for each
ballot, exclusive OF the signatures OF the
inspectors would come into play. This
meant something over 100000 entries be-
fore the actual count and tabulation OF
votes could begin. Four years, the officials
said sadly, would probably be required TO
complete the work; but they added more
cheerfully, remembering that II a few mere
years were necessary, the matter would be
so nearly forgotten by that time as to oc-
casion little or no comment, the result
would probably be heavily in favor OF the
present administration anyhow. Then the
blow fell There is no question that Mr..
Jerome was to blame. The grand jury itself
said that It would not have indicted had
he not so strenuously insisted upon It. The
charges upon which the indictment was
based would have been outlawed by the
statute of limitations in another Ave days.
AS it is. 1907 promises additional trouble
|, for the insurance magnate. whose life for
the past two years has been a strenuous
, one.
Religion I'm All Languages.
The rapid change in the character OF the
, population Of New York has led the author
tiles Of the Episcopal church In this diocese
to adopt a significant departure in enlarg
ing the scope Of its work. The new plan Il
4 | one that has been carefully studied b.
I Bishop Potter for some time, and provides
for conducting the services Of the churcl
in every language spoken by any consid
Z cradle number OF people in the city. II 4
pointed out that New York has the mos
polyglot population Of any great city OF tn
world, not excepting Cairo. including 5000
' Italians, 10000 Jews, 5000 Armenians 4
!. mention only three Of the many nationali
q lcSt anu Nhdb tue CHURCH az present MAKE
A no adequate provision for reaching thes
elements Of the population. The worl
among the foreign-speaking population /
intended 10 be not so distinctively mission
! airy work as to provide means OF bringin
I religious services within the reach OF thos
\ who do not speak English and who other
; wise would be deprived OF the facilities @
/ the church. Bishop Potter announces ths
y he has recently licensed a man 10 preae
/ in the Yiddish dialect. and that he has
d view the appointment OF others 20 conduS