The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-01-22

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much as the United States government " this amaz.
Ing sum s15G5i51iS raised by direct t,,9,ion The
rest piles up in bonded debt
The municipal officials and employees alone number
more than 10000 persons, drawing something like $7O
100000 year In salaries
How the American heart beats high at the sight of
the greater city which only 10 years ago divided
into a hundred cities, towns and villages,
Its buildings rise like cliffs steep towering above
steep; immcnsities OF stone brick stcel-red yellow
gray brown, with the sunlight reflected hundreds OF
thousands OF windows, and steam and smoke drifting
across the dizzy umult OF roofs evening comes
on and the lights lit New York sparkles and flashes
in her lofty masses. all the brutatcs Of modern ma
sonry fade ana shining fairy city set great noun
tain seems to rear itself between the two rivers.
with what wonder. hope and fear looks upon
such city, Yet who understands it?
is possible to go 40 miles in straight line without
leaving the city The streets New placed end
TO end would reach San Francisco and several hun.
dred miles out into the Pacific ocean
More than 10000 persons born in New York In
year, as many as the inhabitants of Columbus the
capital city OF Ohio, More than 10000 New Workers die
In enough to make three cities large Ma
con- Georgia
Not Babylon, that persisted ere Christ was born.
wonderful-Babyl0n, with hanging gardens
resting arches IS 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 precpices OF brick and stone supported by
miles OF steel New York has built many cities on top
OF each other and he Hill of the seems
palaces that themselves against sky with
populations living high above the streets that
sound OF the roaring city reaches them
Two hundred and eighty three years ago the whole
Of Manhattan island bought by Peter Minuet the
New York governor OF the West India Company for a
few trinkets valued at S2i
Several years ground at the corner or broadway
and Wall street sold So for square inches whom
lot measuring 80 by 80 feet brought 100000
In sense the tall sides that III themselves ont ot
the busiest part OF New York without loytItucss
save -hen the changing light turns them into many.
cuorcd cliffs is the of an immense life con.
yoycd by the multitude OF windows that invests the
moustrous piles With a thrilling interest the density OF
humanity the costliuoss Of its ANA The wEbluess
of the surrounding community
There rises the reddish tower Of the Singer bsi'10E
Gao feet high The tower alone $20oooO0 % huld
Below ii spreads the white mass of the city Invest
mcut building. which cost Slooo0o0o and whose ~ oe
vaors can carry 10000 persons hour That struc
ture houses the population az a small city
Close by are the twin Trinity buildings. valued Al
s16Ooop0o and opposite them stands the Equitable
Life Insurance building property representing $4,000
600
Even the ground OF the small Trinity graveyard Sc
at the head Of Wall street is worth $25u0OOOO
Away in the distance the white raarta t,yar ~ ~
Metropolitan Life Insurance building Os its nobs mas
zoo feet above Madison That vast edincs rem