The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-17
(American News Service)

New York, Oct. 17-According to
the latest ofiicial figures the total
York state is $9,S21. 62O.555. OF this
quite respectable sum New York City
has $7,O42.339. 1O4. leaving for the
rest of the state only $2.779,2s1 .451.
New York county containing the bor-
oughs Of Manhattan and the Bronx.
has real and personal property of the
value OF $500. 3SS,703 The increase
In the value OF taxable property in
New York City has been enormous
since 1870. when the total was a lit.
tie below the billion mark. The an
nexation of territory in creating what
ia known as Greater New York, &C
counts to some extent for the phe-
nomenal increase in values. but the
natural growth in itself was tremen-
dous. In 1880 the total value was
$685.. 1863. 1888; in 1890. ss.6s3. 653.1S2;
in 1900. $5.4S1 .so2.752; in 1909. &c.
6S6.11s.S1s.
1t Is only natural that in a state of
the enormous population and the
fabulous wealth of which New York
can boast. all statistical figures are
upon q large scale. An example IL
furnished by the figures concerning
the number of insane persons in the
state Of New York and the cost to the
state of providing for their care and
maintenance. The latest statistics
show that there are 30,490 insane per-
sons In the various state hospitals of
private hospitals and 1927 inmates
of the two hospitals for the criminal
insane. The twenty-three private
hospitals have in all only 1.O49 pa
tiefts. The total amounts to a little
more than 1880. enough to populate
a good sized city of the third class.
The figures, although ofiicial, are by
no means complete. however, as there
are many thousands of lunatics in
New York City and in other parts of
the state, who are not confined in
any public or private hospital. Only
? year ago a certain authority on dis
bases of the mind made the state
nent that in New York City alone
here were at least 100000 persons of
nsound mind, who should be placed
nder medical care. Cynics are in
lined to consider this estimate as al
pgether too conservative.
There seems to be no longer any
oubt that the ambitious plan OF
banning the Hudson river by a mag
ihcent bridge. connecting New York
City with the Jersey side of the river
will have to be abandoned. The ex.
perts who have been making trial
borings on both sides of the river
have given out the statement that the
plan Of building q bridge within the
limits Of Greater New York is un-
feasible. owing to the fact that bed
rock upon which the foundations of
the bridge must necessarily rest. can
not be reached at less than $50 feet
from the surface. II the bridge plan
has to be abandoned 1t Is quite prob
able that a plan will be proposed to
build a large tunnel under the river,
instead Of q bridge over It,
A recent decision Of Justice Whit
ney OF the supreme court has caused
a rather panicky feeling among hun.
dreds Of men and women who owe
their freedom from marital bonds to
the accommodating divorce courts of
Nevada. Justice Whitney decided the
other day that q woman who goes to
Nevada for the express purpose of
obtaining a divorce and then returns
to this state is in New York still the
wife OF the husband from whom she
sought to be divorced.
The drought and consequent lack of
water In a number of towns and vii
lagos In the vicinity Of New York City
have driven hundreds Of suburbanites
to New York and hotels are crowd
cd with families who prefer the COM
forts Of an expensive hotel to the dis
comforts Of q considerable less ex-
pensive. but waterless and bathless
home.
An incident at the aristocratic hotel
Knickerbocker the other day 10 char
Iacteri:tic Of the smallness and stingi-