East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-12
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF OLD NEW YORK

New York.-Breathes there boob
with pride so dead. so hard of heart,
so fat of head. that never to himself
he's said, in part, that the particular
city, town, village. hamlet or cross
roads in, at or near which he resides
is the one definite spot in the uni
verse most favored by Providence?
Answer: There are a lot of such
knockers, and not a few OF them re-
side in little old New York. 1t has
been said-and with what truth we
who live here wot well of-that the
American metropolis has a lesser pres
sure of civic pride to the square inch
than any other city on the North AM
erican continent.
Be that as it undoubtedly is. there
is a large number of the 4,766, ,SS3
people within the borders of Greater
New York who point with pride to
the census figures recently made pub
lie. An increase of 1,S29.6S1 in ten
years is not to be sneezed at, and this
ten-year gain alone would make a
husky rival to such a village as Phila,
delphia. that heartless city, where no.
body cares.
Comparisons are often odious, bu,
it is only true that IL st. Louis, Pitts
burg, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati
Louisville, Milwaukee, Indianapolis
Kansas City, Washington. Houston
Dallas, Denver, Providence and st
Paul were Jumped into one town, tn,
combined population would hardly ex
oeed that of New York. Again. IL al
! "a nj nF al of N
Canada were dumped down in New
York, and the present population re
moved, the subways would not b.
nearly so crowded as they now are
New Yorks' Italian population alon
would make a city larger than eterna
Rome, and the Irishmen of the metro
polls could populate a city that woul
make Dublin look like one shillin
thruppence,
Ten years ago Gothamites were say
ing that Manhattan was playing t
capacity and that population gain
would thereafter be confined to tn
: outlying boroughs. Yet the census O
Manhattan shows that the populatio
of the tight little island has increase
26 per cent, from 1,s50,0s3 in 1900
2,s31,542 in 1910.
The present population of Me-
York City exceeds that of many i'm
portant nations. The continent c
Australia has fewer people than tn
American metropolis, and Irelan
lacks several hundred thousand {
coming up to New York figures. MOI
way has fewer people than New Yor
City. and Denmark's population is NJ
very much more than half that of tn
| city.
All of which goes to prove tn,
1 while civic pride is very necessary
4 the small city which hopes to groy
4 the city which has arrived can g
j along very we'll without it. All of IL
& press agents in the world couldn't gi,
! any other American city as much a.
4 vertising as New York gets without Il
expenditure of a cent Or, as SON
= sage has remarked, Nothing succeed
= like success"
There are a number of reasons, a.
\ ide from population statistics, II
y preferring New York to other citie
One of them is that the straw Ii
. which became tabooed in Chicago ar
n other bucolic centers on the first de
> New York until the fifteenth. E
!, edict of fashion. the summer bonn
will be put in the garbage can {
slowed away with the mothbalis @
!. Thursday next. Any INDECENT or al
sent-minded party discovered wander
ing around under a top-piece of stra
after that day and date will becon
fair prey for the angelic street urcl
ins, who so dearly love to knock
lid from guys bean and use It'll
hat, not the bean-as a substitute fc
a football.
But the funniest thing about til
disappearance OF the straw bonnet hs
d nothing to do with that bonny articl
e but its successor. For various reason
o among which financial strtngency
not unusual, many men find then
y selves unable to secure new derbys
e the time appointed, and appear wit
II a hat rescued from under the sink {
the refrigerator. There's nothir
h quite so funny as last years mod
A hat which has seen its worst day