The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-28

approximately rs per cent on the gross
business If there were farm trust"
1t certainly would dwarf all others in
the showing made by its balance
sheet
That New York is rapidly becom-
ing one of the worlds greatest apple
markets is evidenced by the fact that
Father Knickerbocker got away with
about 5000 miles of this fruit last
year. or enough to reach nearly twice
across the continent OF course New
Workers did not actually consume all
these millions of apples, part of them
being shipped to other apple hungry
districts but New Workers neverthe-
less managed to get a surprisingly
large proportion. Nearly 1000 car
loads of this fruit were received dur
ing the wear, some coming from what
is known as the upstate district and
others from points as far distant as
the Pacific coast. The 1000 carloads
represent something like twelve miles
of cars and locomotives on the haul
ing enl. The boxes in which the fruit
is packed, figuring zoo to the car,
would IL laid end to end, reach ESQ
miles and contain enough lumber to
enclose the city's biggest office build
ing. The apples average about 125
to the box and the individual fruit
totals in the neighborhood of 100000
600.
Seldom has new year been APP
preached more hopefully than 1911.
Business interests discern many signs
that indicate to them that the long
period of depression is almost at an
end Nothing like a sudden boom in
business is expected but 1t is gener-
ally believed that there will be a
steady Improvement in conditions for
several months to come. The holt
day season has brought to the big
department stores the greatest vol
ume Of trade in their history. The
business of supplying entertainment
through hotels and theatres which is
becoming continually more important
in New York is in an exceptionally
fiourishing condition. Reports of the
railroads and other transportation
companies show Improvement during
the past few weeks. Many Of the larg-
er banks have declared extra dividends
unusual prosperity. Only Wall street
remains blue as the volume of business
continues small but its spirit is in
Dictated by the sign carried in the
brokers' pre- Christmas parade in
which was printed the figures show
| ing the amount Of business in 1901
as contrasted with 1910 and conclud-
| ing Can we come back? You bet"
There are at present many times
more broken windows in the outskirts
of the city than ever before, and to
break a pane at present is to commit
very serious crime. This unpleasant
condition is directly due to the re-
cent explosion in the Grand Central
station, even though it did not frac-
ture a single one of the outlying win
dows which are vainly clamoring for
repairs while their owners burn double
quantities of coal. What the explo-
sion did do was to shatter thousands
of windows in the vicinity of the sta
ton and as result every glazier for
miles around picked Up his tools and
headed for Manhattan to reap golden
harvest. Outlying districts conse-
quently have been left without gla-
ziers as a result of which the Christ
mas air gun and rifle, to nothing of
the every day SNOWFALL, have been
making their window breaking posi-
bilities more keenly felt than ever
| before. Longacre.