The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-26

now bowling with joy over the present.
I stion 10 IL Of these cars These vehicles
1 however, are not cars in which the pos
/ SCISSORS may ride, but superannuated
/ types of construction which the east
side has been allowed to break up for
| fire wood New York. so long without
an adequate supply of cars, now liter
ally has them TO burn. For a whole
week the city has been amazed by the
/ peculiar spectacle OF cars being chopped
] up by eastsiders TO be earted home IN
| the shape of kindling wood The fuel
/ has gone where IL is needed most and
II has been eagerly grabbed and carried
| away, chiefly on the heads of Italians,
/ at the rate Of a dozen cars a day. AS
fast as one car was demolished another
was hauled forth and turned over to
the tender mercies OF the mob. The only
part OF the cars which is not given
over 10 the public is the motors As
I they could not be burned there is no
lamentation on the part of the people
They have gobbled up-iiteraily con-
sGmed-these cars at an astonishing
rate. A single hour has been sufficient
70 make a car disappear absolutely.
since sixty minutes after each car was
hailed from the barn there has not been
trace of il left. Trucks. window glass
appeared almost in the twinkling of an
eye Outside of their value for fuel on
account or their wooden construction
the greater part of each car has gone to
junk dealers, by whom the metal is
turned in TO the foundries. and the
shades, seats and flooring sold to East
side tenements. Altogether the gift of
sixty cars TO the poor was a Christmas
present as welcome as it was unex-
pected.
WastefuI New York.
New York is the most wastefuI city in
the world, according to the figures of a |
noted economist. From these figures it !
appears that this city throws into its |
garbage cans every day enough food TO |
iced the whole city of Paris, or to have |
renewed any of the more important re- |
cent foreign famfneS. This surprising |
waste is of two kinds, according to the |
economist in question. The first is ie /
norant waste, which includes the throw
ing away every day of all sorts of vaIu-
able articles In the ashes, for which |
II mas no further use, more than $40, 200 1
DAY Is wasted, since in the so 900 tons
of this matter which il daily turns ont
there Is more than 5000 tons of fuel. /
SOuld any one collect the egg shells /
Which me city puts in its garbage cans
each day he would make a fortune /
since they contain more than $1,000 /
worth of lime. The value of old clothes
ana shoes thrown away every twenty
TOUR hours is more than $500, while |
the waste paper of the city. figured at
the lowest price, totals more than $40
600 per day. Over 81, 900 worth of bottles
are thrown away daily and nearly s.. 900 /
worth or string. Added TO this figures
snow that at least $1,000 in real Tnonev-t
that is. bills and coins-is thrown ont
each day, and that the value of the
WORKOUT linen and hats discarded
every day is upwards of $4,000, could
ihey ali be collected. The second class
Oh waste, While not so striking is far
greater, consisting of partially con-
sumed food. wines and cigars AT hotels
ana cafes, more than $4,000 being
thrown away each day of the year in
TINS way, according to the figures. AL
together it looks as if Father Knicker-
booker might make a large amount of
money by establishing a municipal
waste commission.
Juvenile Education.
Juvenile education in the Fmpire
state is in an inverse ratio to age &C.
cording 70 figures just compiled. In
other words. the older you grow the less
you Know, so far as public school edu-
cdllon is concerned. since less than four
out or every ten pupils who start the
elementary course ever finish it. accord
ing TO these figures. The exact per-
centage of those who continue from the
lrst grade until ready TO enter the high
schooI is Tor girls 80 per cent and for
oOyS % per cent. Boys, it would seem.
only go nve-sixths as far as girls In
.helr education 1t is yet an unexplained I
act that the school enrolment of the
state, outside of this city, shows more
pupils IN the second and third wears
nan IN the first year. After the third
'ear the percentage of pupils decreases i
'apldly, so that out of every 100 chill
iren who enter the first grade at the !
average age of six and one-half wears
my tnlrty-nlne go through the eighth
u highest grade before the high school 2
WITH an average age of fourteen wears I
n Greater New YORK the coefficient az 1
juvenile education is slightly higher i
han in the rest of the state, since for '
y-two out of every one hundred nuniIs l
Vho enter the first grade finish the .
ighth. In the greater city the girls
'ho hnlsh the graded school course ex-
eed the boys IN number by about 4
er cent outside of this city however. I
ne boys surpass the girls in number b
oout per cent. In cities and villages d
utslde OF New York city the total reg s
'udtlon TINS year was $50, 205, as COM 5
ared TO lO6,GOO in the city. Altogether l
ne state has more than 1.500. 900 school o
of whom considerably less c
nan halt ever complete the elementary e
uoilc school education taking them up e
the age OF fourteen years. !.