The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-01-29


spend more than $2oo0oo00o year. nearly onethird
much the United States government OF this
ing $156.54514s is raised by direct taxation The
rest piles up in bonded debt
The municipal officials and employees alone number
than $4,000 persons. drawing something like $70
900 900 year In salaries
How the American heart beats high at the sight of
the greater city which only 10 years ago divided
into hundred cities, towns and villages!
Its buildings rise like cliffs, steep towering above
steep immenstes of stone, brick and steered yellow
gray, with the sunlight reflected in hundreds of
thousands Of windows, and steam and smoke drifting
the dizzy tumut of roofs AS the evening comes
and the lights lit New York sparles and flashes
In her lofty Masses all the brutalities of modern
sonry fade and shining fairy city set great noun
tain seems to rear itself between the two rivers
With what wonder. hope and fear one looks upon
such city! Yet who understands 1t?
is possible to go 40 miles in straight line without
leaving the city The streets Of New York placed end
end would reach to San Francisco and several hun
dred miles out into the Pacific ocean.
More than 10000 persons born in New York in
. year. many as the inhabitants of Columbus the
capital city of Ohio More than $4,000 New Workers die
In year. enough to make three cities large Ma
con, Georgia.
Not even Babylon that persisted ere Christ was born
wonderful-Babylon, with its hanging gardens
resting arches 75 feet high and with its Sc miles of
city walls reaching $40 feet into the air. set with $50
fAir towers and pierced through hundred gates of
brass!
In those precipices OF brick stone supported by
miles of Steel New York has built many cities top
Of each other and the hill Of the Caesars in Rome
small affair compared to the majestic bulk of the bust
pess palaces that rear themselves against the sky with
vast populations living high above the streets that
bound of the roaring city reaches them.
Two hundred and eighty-three years ago the whole
bf Manhattan island bought by Peter Minuet the
New York governor Of the West India Company, for
lew trinkets valued at $24
Several years ago ground at the of Broadway
hnd Wall street sold at $24 for six square inches when
lot measuring 80 by 80 feet brought 100000.
In the tall sides that lift themselves out Of
khs busiest part Of New York without loneliness
Save when the changing light turns them into many
bolored cliffs. 1t IL the OF immense life
Keyed by the multitude Of windows that invests the
nonstrous piles with thrilling interest," the density Of
humanity the costliness OF its ways the mghtness
of the surrounding community.
There rises the reddish tower of the Singer building
b4z high The tower alone 100000 build
| Below It spreads the white OF the City Invest
msnt building which s1o000.000 and whose 20
ks&ors carry 10000 persons hour That struc
kure houses the population Of small city.
Close by are the twin Trinity buildings, valued at
600 and opposite TO them stands the Equitable
afe building property representing 10000
boo. A Az sf
Even the ground Of the small Trinity graveyard. sst
y ne head o. Wall street. Il worth >3S,o00,0oo,
Away IN the distance the white marble toWof q ne
h1e6p 6itap Life Insufmos building HITS ~ mobile mass
w At hboye Madison square, That vast s1laos I'D