The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-01
LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
(New York World


 New York takes unto herself every four years a city equal to Boston st. Louis, according to statement Issued by the Merchants Association in dwelling on the need for active and united coopera' ton among the citizens for the protection of New York City and the promotion of It's trade.
 The Wonder City of the Worls. 1t is by far the greatest af all Jewish cities Is the greatest Irish city there being here 674721 of Irish blood In New York there 723,4S7 Germans SO6422 Austrians 54S4S7 Italians and 745577 Russians the statement says.
 In its general administration. public construction enterprise, interest its debt and redemption or bonds New York spent last year S424662455O6. Dur ing the same year its income totaled S424e5S'S2OSl leaving Father Knckerbocker more than S4OOO In the hoe-a trile not worth second though
 New York's municipal debt is $l,Ss1,4SS,S21.2S- greater by more than a quarter of million dollars than the debt of the United States and six times the combined debt of Boston Philadelphia and Chicago However, New York has asset for every dollar it owes and could liQuidate tomorrow h called upon to do so and stil have much valuable property left New York could borrow this year S1444SSS212S be- fore reaching It's legal debt limit
 Last year it spent for educational purposes SAG, 4sssO77O including S67o7756e4 for school buildings and sites. Last year it spent s67Si.5S6.5S on its wa ter supply system.
 In tapping the Catskills for water New York had to solve engineering problems equal Go those encoun cred with the Panama canal. it is said Through l2' miles of pipe water will flow in three days from the Ashokan reservoir the aqueduct which penetrates the full length of Manhattan Island lying from 200 to 750 feet below the citys streets.
 New York's fire department cost last year for It's upbuding and maintenance S16.241323.07 With a pop uation within its metropolitan district of 100000 has only 1O674 uniformed police while London with population Of 725000O covering like district has twice that number On the police department the most efficient In the world this city last year spent S9, 7lss451O
 New York is composed of five great cities, the statement adds Manhattan has greater population than Chicago Brooklyn. having outstripped Philade pha is approaching second place among American communities Added to its stationary population New York has always with it army of visitors. some times estimated as high half million
 All roads lead there New York is building and rebuilding in that astonishes even those who know 1t best. A new structure s completed on an average every fifty minutes of the day every day In the year. Once every four minutes a New Yorker is brought existence for l5OOOO babies arrive every year. The greatest manufacturing center. New York has sSOOO factories They turn out products valued at S2900O0OO0O every year More than I per cent of the Nationals banking resources are here; 1SlS. 254356 cash fares pand In 1915 by passengers in New York's street As shipping center New York is without rival It has a water frontage Of I'll miles There l9s parks and twenty-five park ways In club life New York excels. There are 250 theatres There are SO25O7 pupils registered in 55S schools There l02 hospitals. For the first time in the history of the port Of New York may this year tending June S0) have foreign commerce totalng more than S3,0o0,0oO,00o