East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-20

ltty Spent In 1918 more lnhn Sloo'-
100000 for This Item Together
With Eggs and POultry-COuntrys
First Skyscraper to be Torn Down
Other Items OF Interest.
NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-Figures on
New York's yearly bill for butter. eggs
and poultry have just been published
and they have made some of the
rub their eyes. How this
towns bankers drain away the
money of the country has been ex-
planned at great length for those who
can follow the explanation. but here
is a plain statement requiring no ex-
PLANTATION at all OF how a very con-
siderable portion OF the city's spare
change has been drained away by the
farmers-mostly by the farmers Of
the middle west For poultry alone
New Workers. paid s22,000.O00 last
year. More than 5000 carloads of
fowl reached the city. or on average
OF about lis cars each week. A curl
Gus fact is that great part Of this
poultry arrives here alive, to be
killed in the Kosher establishmentsl
of the greatest Jewish community in
the world. For eggs the citizens con-
tribute a round $50.000.00O. making
total payment for butter. eggs and
poultry of $1360O0. 900. The public
debt OF the United States never
reached so high figure as this at
any time before the Civil War. II out
of this total the farmers got only 65
per cent for their share, after de-
ducting freight. cost of handling and
middlemen's profits, then the coun-
try has still taken practically $780,
900, 900 from this city alone for these
items. The amount OF butter used in
the city was enormous Receipts for
the year were 2,507,7S5 packages. or
no less than 50,465.4S0 pounds. or
thirty and a half pounds for every
man. woman and child in the city.
II this amount of butter were ship
ped at one time, II would load 62I0
ordinary refrigerator cars TO capacity
In trains of forty cars each this
would make 151 solid trains. If these
were sent out from the Grand Cen
trail Station here, one after the other
with no intervals between them, they
would will the track from here to
Poughkeepsie. a distance of rs miles
II all this butter were made up into
ordinary one-pound stamps and these
were placed end to end. the string OF
| butter would reach from New York
to Bombay, going either east or west
around the earth: or 1t would reach
from the North Pole to the South
Pole and leave a few odd thousands
of miles hanging over.
| The first skyscraper in the world.
the Tower building in lower Broad
way. is to be torn down. At the same
time comes the news that amend,
ments have been proposed for the city
charter which would put limit on
the height of New York's buildings
Thus in twenty-six years of its his
| tory. in which time ii has become
| historic enough to have bronze tab
let placed conspicuously on its front
! the Tower building has seen the be-
ginning of what will probably be the
second great era in steel construction
The Tower building was not the firs,
building in New York to stand l2s
feet high. II deserves the name OF
the first skyscraper for another rea'
son: because il was the first success
full steel frame building ever known
1t revolutionized the building Of cities
everywhere and ii brought in build
ing method which is so new that there
are still many things that the great
est engineers do not know about 1t
How long will a steel frame building
stand? Nobody knows. The Tower
building seems to be as strong a!
ever; no properly built steel structure
has ever given signs of weakening
no expert can tell even what kind OF
!, weakness would be the first to de-
velop. For all the builders know, ths
skyscrapers of today may stand fol
500 years, or for 1000. The proposed
limitations OF height would fix {
building line from 100 to 200 feet ir
height. for buildings facing the street,
and 90 feet for those on open parks
' Above that height the walls woult
have to be set back from the curl
line one foot for every four feet Of
height
A storm of protest has arisen owe
the charge emanating from the ives
that New York Is the worst shangha
port in the world and that sailors ar
bought and sold like slaves here. A
a matter of fact. upon what authorit
such. charge can be made is still
. matter of mystery. An Investigation
made Immediately after its issuanc
3 fails to reveal any basis to substanti
i ate the statement Men who have t
. do with the shipping of seamen. a
3 well as those who look after thei
t welfare. such as officers Of the Sea
n mems Branch ON the Legal Aid So
q ciety. which has for its sole purpos
Y the handling of seamen's legal trout
( les; the Seamens Christian Assoc
5 alton. and the Seamen's Church Inst
f tute-to mention only a few-have a
q secuted the charge. There has nC
v been a case of shanghaing reporte
to us or the courts since 1885," sal
Silas B. Axtell of the Seamen
Branch of the Legal Aid Society |
this connection. For that matter
do not know how long before ths
year the last previous case was hear
: of It certainly Is not true that Ne
. York is the worst shanghaing port
the world. and IL the author of tn
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