The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-15
Swelling of kniCkerbOCker Head

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-With weak
nass which amounts to a mania for
staggering statistics showing its
growth. New York is already patting
itself on the back with a satisfaction
gained from a perusal of the manner
i'm which it expanded during 1906. 1t
is literally swollen city, presenting
many more difficult problems to the
average man than does the question OF
swollen fortunes. During the past
year it's population kept right on grow
ing. no less than HIP babies being
born during that period. or enough to
give every family in the state of Mon
tana a set of twins. Marriages num-
berel 96,710 and deaths 1926, the lat
ter alone being about equal to the pop
ulation of Wilmington, Del. The 12.6O1
saloons in the city sold over 100000
600 of drinks, or enough to give, three
quarters of a million dollars to every
educational institution in the United
States. Measured in dollars, New
York's thirst for liquids was One-half
as expensive as it's thirst for wealth,
1864, 100000 having been spent for
bonds in the city. Sales of stocks
totaled S6,428,6O1 shares, or enough to
give every widow in the country 100
shares. with 100000 left over for
Mr. Hartman. 1t is pointed out. how
ever. that this does not indicate
greater popularity of paper as COM
pared to liquid investments, since the
latter are much cheaper In spite OF
this fact about 100000 is showed over
New York bars every day in tle year.
The city also managed to separate
itself from the insignificant sum of
the statistician, is enough to give
50, 900 worth to every actress in tle
country, with sufficient left over to
provide an engagement ring for each of
waited roads in Manhattan carried dur
ing the year 1,164.619,041 persons. a
number just about equal to the pOpu-
lation of the whole world. OF these
several hundred millions never got
seats for their nickels. There were
1850 fires during 1906. costing s21.-
733,135. The customs house collected
$2O9. OOO,0O and 1884 ships cleared
the port during the year. or about
fifty-one every day. And last, but not
least. two New Workers. Carnegie and
Rockefeller, gave away $1S,179, 900 dur
ing the year. both surviving their gen.
crosby.
Big Postal Business.
Last year the postage bill of New
York city, which is included within
| the bOrOughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx. amounted to $17,S37 1871, or 1924
per capita for a population of 2,464,-
| 1872. Tne average daily income was
over one-tenth of the postal receipts
of the entire country and the increase
,ver 1865 was 9.76 per cent. The holt
| day mail this season amounted tC
something like 500, 900, 900 pieces. much
| If it of unusual bulk. and the delays
| incident to inadequate facilities were
| the occasion of much annoyance t(
business men. Under these circum-
+! stances Father Knickerbocker is hop.
| ing that Uncle Sam will this yeal
new postoffice to be erected on {
| three and a half acre site recently ac-
quired near the new Pc nnsylvania raj
! road terminal. POSTMASTER Wilcox
who has just returned to the city from
| Washington, where he has been urging
the case before the appropriation com
| nttee of the house, says in reference
| to the matter: "A bill will in al
probability be prepared under Post
! master General Cortelyou's directions
We are laobring under the handicaI
that this is rivers and harbOrs' year
in congress, and it will be harder
| therefore, to get a building BILL bu
| he exigences of the situation Ough
preparations committee. and 1 am yer!
hopeful that We will get what w,
need" New YOrk's harbOr facil
tiles are almost as much over.
| taxed as the pOstoffice, however
md her share in the regular annua
appropriation of $5O,OOO,O 900 which tn,
| rational rivers and harbOrs congress i!
| urging, with such excellent prospect:
Of success. would be as great a boor
| IS a new pOstoffice.
Refugees in New York Jungle.
Only one other place, it is believe
,n1 that one is never mentioned in po
lite society, has a bigger percentage
than New York Of those exiles from
home and country who believe tina
some other place is the only one fit tt
i've in-and refuse to prove it. Nearl,
every state in the union, from Main,
to California, has its society in the me
tropolis, and once a year the member:
get together and drown their mutua
| sorrow in libatiOns to the only star
n the flag that counts. The latest ad
! 1itiOn to this list of organizations i:
to be made up of exiles from the var
ious Rocky mountain states, and i:
being organized under the leadership
of Mr.. A. ]. Seligman, of Helena, ont