The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31
NEW YORK TOSHINEIN
San FRANCISCO FAIR
Miniature Model Of Greater City
to Be One Of Wonders Of
Exposition.

New York city has set our 10 take
Just as important a place at the Panama
Pacific Exposition in San Francisco as
any state OF the Union and many
foreign country. The city has building
ali TO itself, right among the state build
ings. Those OF Pennsylvania and I'LL
nois flank il. New York States build
ing Is close by, and all Canada Is con-
centrs ted in a structure across the street
The street is Marina street the exposi-
TONS Fifth avenue rs It were. The New
York city building, an immense cube de-
signed by Bertram q. Goodhue' stands
As feet above the avenue on terraced
site almost 200 feet square. a triple
arch guarded by four figures forms tho
entrance Each figure represents type
of industry. such as agriculture manu-
| facturlng &c. and eacn holds great
torch. to be alight at night. Shrups,
trees and flowers bank the sides OF the
building a.,
| bv tho sunshine flooding through four
| great skvlights or II It Is evening by Il
| brilliant hut indirect electric blaze. the
| creation Of a series Of exhibits mas peen
/ in the hands Of City Chamberlain Henry
| Sruere and Morton l.. Fouquet.
Model of city.
In the centre of the main, promenade
! facing the entrance stands an immense
/ model OF the city. Every men OF TINS
model represents 500 feet somewhere In
the ave boroughs The model is % feet
/ long and 16 wide. AS you look at II
YOU soc the rivers that grid Manhat-
tan. the harbor. even the Atlantic winh
the buoys marking Ambrose channel
over $4,000 separate pieces depict the
city's buildings, great and small us
bridges. ferryboats, railroads. PARKS
beaches and what not.
To create this miniature OF New YORK
the mans and charts of the United states
Geological Survey were combined with an
enormous map made by engineers OF the
| Board OF Estimate. For months the
| Board OF Estimates men, wearing teIt
! slippers and lying half the time nat on
their stomachs, have been celebrating this
map in the Municipal Building. The model
is so devised that It can be lighted up
bit by bit as New York itself IL lighted
A. night James Edwards, F. r. G. s..
! who built II. says 1t was an Infinitely
harder task than the miniature copieh he
has made OF the Assuan Dam In Egypt,
the Zambesi Falls In South Africa, the
Rand gold fields and sydney Harbor.
Perhaps the thing that will mean most
TO many visitors ls the moving picture
show of New York life This will not be
the same show over and over. With $4,000
TO 10000 feet of film taken by the Vita
graph Company the New York city ex-
hibit expects to give a different film show
twice each day for each week.
The films have been built in story form
about single personages to give them dra-
matte interest. For example. Fire De-
partment pictures show the appointment
Of a young fireman, his first fire. rescues
M a. ha hno 20
and in every branch of the service While
YOU follow him to the top of tho force
YOU see incidentally pictures OF everything
that has to do with New York fire. from
the policeman turning in the alarm &c
the saving Of lives with life net and
scaling ladder.
Most Of the cty's officers appear n
these films. as. for instance Police Com
missioner Arthur Woods who IL seen OF
the foredeck OF he police boat Patro
directing the rescue OF a girl who hal
jumped overheard from n ferryboat neal
the Statue of Liberty.
Figures There will be charts anC
; statistics to make the head reel Nor,
than half the clothing made In this coun
try Is made in Greater New York. TIL,
city has $4,000 factories employing nearly
100000 who earn over $3.50. 5000
: year Thus the citys factory workers
are as many as all the inhabitants OF S;
LOUIE lpuTln largest CITY OF tHe country
Some tatistics.
The New York Clearing House handle
5000 100000 a day, which is more thai
half of all the bank clearlngs OF tn
United States Two million persons hav
= money In the savings banks; were the,
to share their savings with the rest o
the city each Of the 100000 would hav
s225 The city spends $4,000, 600 a da
for food. II has six department store
that do a yearly business OF s25. 900 90
y each. II has $4,000 telephones. of whic
100000 are for business purposes. Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna In peace o
war have not SO many telephones anon
n them.
y OF the city's 1900 hotels. twenty-fiv
represent over 100000 apiece In Ian
lease and construction. In one OF thes
there are more than 1900 telephones. A
office building with more than 1000 tele
phones holds the record. New York pic
ture shows and theatres can seat owe