The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-01-21


spend more than 1000 year. nearly onehird as
much as the United States government OF this amaz
Ing s156,54514S is raised by direct taxation The
rest piles up in bonded debt.
The municipal officials and employees alone number
more than 10000 persons drawing something like $780,
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 immensites of stone brick and steel-red yellow
gray, brown with the sunlight reflected in hundreds of
thousands Of windows and steam and smoke drifting
the dizzy tumu of roofs AS the evening
and the lights are lit New York sparkles and flashes
in her lofty all the brutaltes CT modern ma
sonry fade and shining fairy city set great
tain seems to rear itself between the two rivers.
With what wonder. hope and fear one looks upon
such city! Yet who understands it?
is possible to 40 miles in straight line without
leaving the city The streets of New York placed end
to end would reach to San Francisco 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. 900 New Workers die
IN year. enough to make three cities large as
con, Georgia
Not Babylon, that persisted Christ was born
wonderful Babylon, with its hanging gardens
resting arches rs feet high 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 built many cities on top
of each other and the hill of the Caesars Rome seems
palaces that themselves against the sky with
vast populations living high above streets that no
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 $24.
Several years ground at the corner of Broadway
and Wall street sold $24 for six square inches when
lot measuring 80 by 80 feet brought 100000
In the tall sides that lift themselves out of
the busiest part Of New York without loneliness
when the changing light turns them into many
colored cliffs It Is the of immense life con-
veyed by the multitude of windows that invests the
piles with thrilling interest the density of
humanity the cosness of its ways and the mghtness
of the surrounding community
There rises the reddish tower of the Singer building
642 feet high The tower alone to build
Below it spreads the white of the City Invest
ment building, which cost $1O0O00O0 whose % ele
vators 10000 hour That one struc
ture houses the population of small city.
Close by the twin Trinity buildings, valued at
$16000000 and opposite to them stands the Equitable
Life Insurance building property representing $2OOOO
000
Even the ground of the small Trinity graveyard set
at the head of Wall street. is worth $25 100000.
Away in the distance the white marble tower of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance building lifts its noble mass
700 feet above Madison That vast edifce rep