St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-02-05

resents investment of $2o,oo0oo0 and contains
than 5000 inhabitants It's cost exceeds the
all the taxable property in the thriving city
Little Rock, Ark and its jewellers equal the whole popu
laton of Empora, Kan
And beyond is the snowy tallness of the Plaza
hotel an investment of $12,00O,000.
Here there, everywhere massive structures in
each of which populations large enough to make
whole towns So tremendous is the cty's growth that
years building plans $3.50 600 OOO
There nearly 10000 policemen in the $500 miles
of streets Their pay alone yearly to s1sS65
They made 244s22 arrests last clean the
streets they guard costs $7,418,299 for single year.
The parks of the amazing city IA square miles
including Of its choicest ground 1t is said
they contain than 100000 trees valued at
$1,000 OOO In other words the parks owned by New
York contain land than the big city of Rochester
N Y and could be sold for enough to pay the entire
national debts of Holland, Switzerland, Sweden and
Turkey
Think of city that has built 514 schoohouses at
cost of about and that has than
teachers and superintendent educating 61 children
salaries alone being SIT $751; 900 year! The depart
nent of education spent S27,470,736 this year.
And if the giant skyline of New York staggers the
Imagination what of the marvellous network of pipes
wires and tunnels under the The separate
wires buried under the pavements of the metropolis
would reach 20 times around the world.
Down beside the myriad electric channels hidden I'M
der the city rushes daily supply of about 480 900
gallons of sparkling water of which 1876 100000 gallons
from clear mountain lake through aqueducts
of them tunneled through rock and earth for %
miles New Workers their city 81 100000 year for
One would think that the government of city that
spends $200,000,0O0 and employs 10000 persons
would be in the hands of its abest most trustwor-
thy business men.
It would be natural to expect it's four and half mil
lion inhabitants to be excited the fact that the
nua cost Of maintaining the municipality has in years
grown from s93,5200S2 to s15654514s-an increase of
$40 066 year. not to speak of something like $780,
100000 added to the citys debt in those 10 years.
Yet the the taxpayers plundered the prouder
they and the dimensions of government
ured in terms of millions Of dollars, makes the
Yorker lift his head haughtly when he should hang it
in shame.
A citizens bureau of municipal research has for
three years been digging into the ctys and
publishing trers for the taxpayers who smile and
ready to vote for to be proposed by the
old gangs Of saoonkeepers grafters professional
cfce-seekers and the omnpoent inancers who direct
them through stained but high-priced lawyers.
Who do you think the three principal hackers of
this bureau of municipal research to which the people
New York to be looking for light public affairs
just now?
John D. Rockefeller of the oil trust
Andrew Carnegie, of the steel trust
Robert Fulton Cushing of the sugar trust whose fam
lily recently managed to sell protess ferry to the city
at enormous price
years ago the voters delivered the city again to the