The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-21

spend than $4,000 900 year. nearly onethid a.
much as the United States government OF this amaz.
Ing $15654514S is raised by direct taxation The
rest piles up in bonded debt.
The municipal officials and employees alone number
more than $4,000 persons drawing something like $780,
100000 q 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 villages!
Its buildings rise like cliffs, steep towering above
Steep immensities Of stone brick and steered yellow
gray brown, with the sunlight reflected in hundreds of
thousands of windows and steam and smoke drifting
the dizzy tumu AS the evening comes
and the lights it, New York sparkles and flashes
in her lofty masses, all the brutales modern ma
sorry fade and shining fairy city great
tain seems to rear itself between the two rivers.
With what wonder. hope and fear looks upon
such city! Yet who understands it?
possible 90 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
than $1,000 persons born in New York in
a year, many the inhabitants of Columbus, the
capital city Ohio. 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 Is HIGH its IS miles Of
city walls reaching $40 feet into the air, with $50
fair towers and pierced through hundred gates of
brass!
In those precipices brick and stone supported by
miles Of steel, New York has built cities top
other and the hill of the Caesars
affair compared to the majestic bulk of the bust
ness palaces themselves against the sky, with
vast populations living high above the streets that
sound of the roaring city reaches them.
Two hundred and eghty-three years ago the whole
of Manhattan island bought by Peter Minuet the
New York governor of the West India Company, for
few trinkets valued at $24
Several years ground at the corner OF Broadway
Wall street sold at $24 for six inches when
lot measuring 80 BY 80 feet brought 100000
the tall sides that lift themselves out Of
busiest part Of New York without loneliness
when the changing light turns them into many
colored cliffs. It Is the of immense life
veyed the multitude of windows that invests the
piles with thrilling interest; the density Of
humanity the costliness of its and the mightness
OF the surrounding community.
There the reddish tower of the Singer building.
642 high The tower alone 100000 to build.
Below spreads the white Of the City Invest
ment building, which cost 900 and whose %
vators carry 10000 hour That struc-
ture houses the population of small city.
Close by the twin Trinity buildings valued at
$16O0O0 900 and opposite to them stands the Equitable
Life building property representing $40 000
O00
Even the ground Of the small Trinity graveyard. set
at the head of Wall street. is worth SIS. 100000.
Away the distance the white marble tower Of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance building lifts its noble
700 feet above Madison square, That vast edifce rep