The Washington herald., 1913-08-31
Manhattan and Its Sister
Boroughs Annually Beat
New England in Output.

What New York needs is publicity
department. is the criticism Of a
Down East Yankee" who has been
looking the town over with a shrewd
New England eye, and of she were
not so proud OF her size and her wealth
of opportunities and facilities In almost
everything she would have one. too. But
no, she sits here on her tight little
island, surrounded by four other bor-
oughs, smirking with self-satisfactiOn
and saying TO the rest OF the country:
Here l am. II you want to find out
about me come along and find out il
you can. / seek nothing; IL you seek,
I'll take your dollars while you are find
ing
And at that, / know no city which
needs publicity more, or has more mate
rial for good. legitimate publicity. Other
cities have their publicity bureaus and
are continually dinning their pre-emi-
nence in our ears. many offering induce
ments for capital to come there. This
helps not only those cities, but also us
poor outIanders: but New York does not
help US a bit. The spirit Of old Commo-
dore Vanderbilt pervades New York as
a municipality, the public being anybody
outside of its wide area.
Il come from New England. II you
had asked me a month or two. ago in
what New York was the biggest thing
in the country ! should have listed the
Stock Exchange, the banks, and the
Great White Way. Why? Necessarily
the Stock Exchange is on everybody's
tongue every day because 1t touches
everything OF value to business interests
in the country. The same is true Of the
banking business here, New York being
the financial center of the United States,
whatever Chicago may think.
Manufactures of New York.
THE Great White Way has more press
agents to the square foot than any other
section of the country, or of the world.
I suppose, and they keep the allurements
of that feature of the city's life before
the public all the time. But the manu-
featuring industry gets so little publicity
that nobody knows that New York is not
only the greatest manufacturing city In
the country, but that 1t manufactures
more goods than any entire State In the
Union, and almost as much as the whole
of New England; and yet III wager that
New England in this respect is generally
thought to wear the crown'and is con-
than New York City.
Yes, even by you New Yorkers your
selves. go
81 am going to transfer my factory to
this city, and ! have been looking into
the advisability of doing so. came on
my own initiative because New York
never told me what a splendid place 1t
was for manufacturing purposes, leaving
me to find out that for myself.
thought I would be somewhat out of
place here with my factory. and that
such q large business as mine would at
tract some attention. find that I will
not be at all out OF place, but that my
business is so small compared with the
done in New York City
that IL will not attract the least bit of
notice; II viii be only very small drop
in a very large bucket-"i
CIenring-House for Trade.
In the year 1909 New York City was
producing IS per cent of the total manu-
factured products in the United States.
OF the 234 manufacturing industries of
the State no fewer than 217 were located
within its boundaries. One of the reasons
ascribed for this tremendous predoni-
nance in. manufacturing is the city's
abundant supply of labor, largely due to
It's immense immigrant population. Also
Il is the chief center of trade between
the United States and Europe, and one
Of the principal distributing points for
domestic trade.
Eliminating what are known as neigh
1orhood, hand and building industries
New York City had four years ago 25e3S
actories within its limits. The prob
Lbility is that they. have increased since
hen about twenty per cent since that was
approximately the rate of increase dur
ng the four years between 1904 and 1903.
leaving out of the calculation the normal
Increase and speaking OF the latest
igures obtainable. those of 1903, as Of the
present day New York produces manu-
sctured goods to the value of g, ,o29 693,-
90 a year. The value added by manufac-
ure, that is the value of the products
ess the cost of material, is s937, SIS, 600. |
This lnrge output explains the influx of
,uyerj at certain seasons of the year, as
I does the presence of thousands of
alesmen at others, since the goods must |
'e sold by the manufacturers, who must |
Ilso buy frCm within and without the |
ity not less than 81 1.0e2, ,155, 900 worth OF |
Ioeds a year from their factories.
New England Overshadowed.
II you speak of the operatives in New |
England going tO their work you picture |
few thousands IN q town or city wend- !
ng their way TO the factories, dinner
'aIls EwtnginE In their hands. In New