The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
NEW YORK FIRM
FOR EDUCATION
Metropolis Spends Vast Amount
Annually for Maintenance
of Public Schools.
CALIFORNIA FAV0RS
ASIATIC IMMIGRATION
New Yorker Says Colorado Soon
Will Be Able TO Supply
World With Marble.
By RALPH JOHNSTON.
.eased Wire to The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Jan. l4-New York i:
firm believer i'll education, and proves
her faith by her works. The state
ment that the city of New York alone
spends on her public schools each year
nearly as much as the entire expense
of running the United States govern.
ment IN 1850 seems hardly credible, vet
such is the fact. The city for 1910
spent nearly $29,000000 for its public
schools; the net ordinary expenses of
the national government were only $3I, >
. 100000. The state of New York makes
even a better showing. the expenditures
for the state being almost $4,000, 900.
New York has invested in school
property a greater sum than the entire
amount of gold and silver money in
the United States in 1880. Her school
property is valued at $344 ,000,0 900.
while there was only S305 100000 of
gold and silver money in the country
thirty years ago,
lief.
As result of the Christmas cam,
paIgn of the Association for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis vigorous as
saut on the great white plague is pos
sible.
The sale of the little Red Cross
Christmas seals has nettcd $4,000 for
New York alone, and when the returns
from the entire country are IN 1T is
will have been collected. This means
that much preventive work can be
done. and it is the ounce of preven-
tion which counts most in the fight
against this deadly disease.
Advocates Compromise.
That i'll the interest of the whole
country there should be compromise
between New Orleans and San Fran
cisco in the fight for the Panama Canal
exposition, is tine assertion of Thomas
B. Walker of Minneapolis, known
throughout the northwest as one of the
foremost captains of industry of that
section of the country.
According to Mr., Walker, New Or
leans should work for the success of
the lakes-t -to-the-gulf project, which
means SO much to the plan for build
ing up the south. The completion of
that project would mean permanent
prosperity to New Orleans.
Colorado in u few years will be
able to supply the world with the finest
quality of MARBLE said o. A. Muir
a tour of the state "They are build
ing the new postoffice in Denver of
marble quarried in the state of Colo
RADIO.
.'The Parthenon is considered the ar
chitectural wonder of the world in the
pure beauty of its marble columns, yet
none of the columns was constructed |
of single blocks. Each was built of
from five to six separate blocks, or
drums. There are forty-six of these |
pure white columns, each thirty-four
feet in height. and little more than
six feet across at the base Labor was |
cheap in those days and no thought |
was given to the ultimate cost of con
struction. The Greeks took great pride
in their structures, and could such a |
thing have been possible every one of |
those columns would have been cut out
of solid marble. Were the Parthenon
TO be rebuilt today in Colorado, not |
one of those columns would be marred |
by mortar or cement
Depended Oh Other States
4" Heretofore builders have depended
on Vermont and Georgia to supply the |
marble necessary for the construction of |