The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-12-05

Our New York Letter.
Here is the latest. Baby insurance,
before birth. A company has enter
ed the field here that guarantees to
every policy holder $500 in gold at
the birth of every child. One does
not have to die to get this insurance,
it is payable at the other END OF llte's
existence. Any married couple may
enjoy it's benefits, and when maternity
stamps the house with the imprint OF
a new life, will reap an advantageous
reward. This is one of the most
UNIQUE organizations in the country.
What value great railway corpora
tions place on New York city as a
terminal may be approximated when
persons consider that the New York
Central and Pennsylvania systems are
spending about two hundred millions
of dollars just to improve their pres
ent facilities.
New York city would never have
existed as a metropolis without the
waters around Manhattan Island, yet
to facilitate travel over these waters.
there has been spent and planned to
be spent in bridges S201. .000,0O
There are about $4,000 women living
in hotels in New York city who are
entirely relieved of all the cares and
responsibilities of housekeeping and
families, and have their attention
principally occupied with food, dress
and amusement.
New York city is now a rival to
London in it's stock of antiques. No
matter how great the sales, the
numerous shops are able to keep up
a full and increasing supply of what
appear to be indestructible goods and
chattels.
New York people have no reason
for smiling at persons from the
provinces because they show ignor-
ances of matters metropolitan, for
they are less ignorant of the metrop-
oils than the average urban born and
bred person is of what the country
far out of sight of Manhattan means
10 the nation and what its people are
doing.
Few persons realize the push cart
business that is done on Manhattan
Island. Last Friday in a walk of
forty minutes within a block Of the
terminal of the Williamsburg bridge
were seen 587 of these portable stores
in charge of as many perlpatetlc
merchants.
The government of New York city
will spend more than twice as much
in the coming year as the government
Of the United States spent in the
wear before the civil war.
New York city, with all OF its
public buildings, has to provide for
the payment Of S725, 1856 in rents
next year. ,
New York's s oldest dealer in musical
instruments says that there are more
violins in the city bearing the name
"Antonius Stradivarius" than the
great Cremona fiddle maker ever had
in his little shop.
Residents of New York city are
now planning for about twelve thops-
and new homes to be erected for
their use in Westchester county, next
year.
There is food enough wasted in
New York city each day to feed a
half million persons.
1t was a revelation in New York
inventor who went to nine shops OF
mechanics last week and couidn't t
find one workman able to make a
sample addition to a machine with
out model for a pattern. Finally,
in desperation, he paid a mechanic
S. for the use of his tools for an hour
and in fifty minutes he made what he
wanted.
There are about 18,4O0 lame chill
dren in New York city.
An observer and traveller, who
has stopped in all Of the large cities
Of the world, says that New York
shopkeepers are so anxious to make
immediate sales that they fail to
make the permanent customers that
they might if they were more care
full of the reputation that their
methods created.
H. w. FINLAYSON,
$50 Broadway, New York.
Congressman Patterson.
Congressman Patterson expects to
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