The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-24

money In the United States-S493 oO0.-
0oO, Her bank clearngs IN 1909 were 60
Slo3 5SS, ,T3S3"0.
Real and personal property valuations
In New York aggregate $3.50. 800. 500, s
ner cent OF the estimated wealth of the
| United States, a gain for the city of
! los per cent in ten years. as against an
| wealth,
| Municipal budgets aggregated In twelve
wears, 81 ,42o i3G. I69 or ss07, 900 600 more
than the interest bearing public debt OF
The 1910 New York budget is slGa.-
lzS2io, and the city's net bonded debt
stands at S7i8. 8.6@I. SOS Citizens of the
greater city paid $i7Ss per capital for
municipal government in 1907.
Twelve hundred churches furnish re-
ligious opportunity for New Workers, who
also read seventy-fivc newspapers and
witness musical and theatrical produc-
tonsand hear lectures in more than a
hundred opera houses. thcaters and halls
600,
While the city needs additional transit
facilities, present surface elevated and
underground railroads in 1909 carried
l.ni 900. an average OF 37J trips for
every person I'm the city. far greater than
IN London or Paris. 1t is estimated that
there are 10000 automobiles and 1900
taXicabs in the city.
In hiteen years telephones have in
creased 24O0 per cent. Today there are
56S,2 In the city. employing 1000. 0GO
miles of underground wire. Daily tclc-
phone calls averase 1,G2I,525.
Postofbce receipts at New York were
in 1909, Sl9,926,205. almost 10 per cent
Of the nations total
ENpcditures for protection of life and
property by police. militia and fire serv-
Ice In 1907 cqualed s24,S13.57S. or nearly
y per cent OF the total for the country.
Births alone in 1909-l22. .9Te-eXceed the
totaI population of twenty staes and ter
rttories In 1909.
Water reservoirs in New York have
a capacity OF 2i39 million gallons. Parks
cover 1900 acres, having a value of S5Ol.-
ooa,l ,lSS. Building erected and projected
In 1903 numbered 1875 estimated to cost
S253. 9O5, ,267
The greatest hotel city in the world
is New York Her hostelries have n
computed value exceeding STA .00o. 900. In
Manila ttan alone arc els hotels providing
33,OOO rooms for guests employing 42 600
persons and costing annually TO conduct
$55.000,0O0 This is a pretty good show
Ing for Little Old New York.
Monument to Cleveland.
The first monument TO be compIefed In
memory OF Grover Cleveland was placed |
on his grave I'm Princeton, ~ j.. recently. |
No mention OF the fact that he was a |
president Of the United States Is made,
the inscription simply reading: Grover |
Cleveland. born Caldwell. n. j. June "a, |
1909. marble slab three feet high !
Cleveland. which has been unmarked |
since her death. January I, 1901. The |
monument the grave OF the former !
president is OF Tennessee marble and |
ten feet in height. 1t consists OF n five |
loot cuhlcal die. three feet In diameter |
taDering into a final head. Mrs, CIeve-
land. who at present Is in Europe with |
her children, erected both of the memo
rials.
Famous as Resort.
Panama is coming 10 be unite 2 tour
lists resort. f. w. Fitch. chief dispatche-
IGr IAe fanama railroad, has just ar
plVed IRON the isthmus. He says ''Nev-
er before has there been so much travel
10 the canal zone as there has been this
winter and, OF course, the Panama rail |
ROAD has had TO handle IT. all There
nave been 1000 tourists down there al
ready TINS season. said Mr. Fitch and |
there is every indication thai the num-
per WIZ be doubled next year. Lois OF |
Americans have been winterinc AT ,he
Tiyol hotel at Ancon The new track
VIII be ready 10 use by June l though
DO not know whether II viii be decided
TO TO operate IL so soon. II is forty eight
miles long. constituting practically AN
entirely new line. II follows the shore
o! the lake that will be a feature of the
eanai, ard then runs along the canal
level" 't
Catching Comets Tail.
Grabbing off part OF a comets tail is
the novel experiment that has Just been
suggested IN view OF the fact that the
earth will PASS through the tall OF Hal
ley's comet on May is. The object is
scientific, OF course. The plan suggested
Is To place large chamber carefully
prepared. anG situated I'm a position
which would cause immense quantities
OF the atmosphere TO be drawn through
1t and altered The object would he to
collect II possible, some dust, which |
might be ana)yHed TO determine what /
comets are made of.
Sand Statues Of the Nude.
sand statues OF the nude are TO he |
barred from lhc beach at Atlantic. Cii,. II
during the coming summer. under a new II
Ia ". by which Mayor Stoy is given au- Il
thonty to censor all figures modelled by Il
aspiring sand artists" for the deIecta- II
ton OF the boardwalk strollers Mayor i
Stoy VIII not give licenses to the mod
elers until they have submitted samples II
OF the sand figures they propose TO build L
from the plastic sand or file drawings Il
showing ,hat they are capable of maxi II
Ing the sand statues In an artistic man
ner without offending the prophecies. The
promised censorship Of bathing suits that
infringe too closely on the proprielics
Viii be pat into effect.