Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-09-28

of these questions to he found in the
brand field Of geographic comparison.
Bd, before we b,gin comparisons we
must ly ne individual facts upon
"'i.. u,5 ,...
These fnc.s ave- Of almost every con-
cei able variety They range in i'm
p)rtance from humble shepherd s
stone corral on a mountain slope to a
thick contested citv
The why Of mans distribution over
the earth is one Of the most cOmpli-
Gated problems in natural science, and
the solution OF IL Is the chief problem
Of the modern gecgrapher. In analyz-
ing the facts Of distribution we shall
d. well to begin with the causes and
effects of migration. Primitive man is
in no small degree wonderer. His
small resources often require him to
explore new and larger helds. AS pop
ulation increases the food guest be-
comes more intense, it takes tive times
as much food to supply New York now
as it did when it had only one mision
population.
As looked up those tall buildings
and watched children twenty to thirty
stories high ling through iron bars
that were fixed over the windows to
keep them from falling out. children
from five to ten years old that had
never had their feet down on mother
earth wondered where their freedom
begin
Now IL the readers will follow me,
will. rs brief as possible. give you a
short sketch Of the most costly build.
ings | visited New York has more
high and costly buildings Of any city
in the world. Some years ago when
stood on the twenty-five story Masonic
building in Chicago though was W
in the air. but you will realize it wa,
not 80 high compared with some Of tn,
buildings in New YOrG. Nov we vil
see but little Of OF the city az We q
in. as we 90 under the city until ",
get TO the Pennsy Via station. Their,
We will 60 u o. N elevator TO III,
street floor. The Pennsylvania depo
~ a very fine .'s''nn. - coat one hun
dred ml'liDn dollars Tho Grand Cen
TIA depot ut NeA iora Is the fines
i and H.Ost costly d,pot IN the world
The first rice took was over the ele
vA.,d ral,~sy: tais elevated road is 5
high il requires elevators at the sta
tons: IL is upto the fifth story Of som
Of the buildings. got on at Bath stree
went ten miles then circled back sbou
eighteen or twenty miles to the ocear
here got of TO take vessel TO Sc
the fine bridges. | will nov give yo
the cost Of some Of thel bridges "
will first look at the William. bur
bridge over East river between Ne
York and Brooklyn. It cost ten m,llio
dollars. then We will lIok at Manha
tan bridge. Il is double.deck suspect
sion bridge and cost thirteen. mlIlir
dollars: the next in cost Is the He
Gate bridge. this. we we're told. WI
the longest steel arch bridge in Il
world and cost fourteen million dollar
We will now visit the great Blackwe
= Island bridge. now in comparison tn
bridge cost twenty-five million dollar
u" the total cost Of our capitol al
grounds. here in Washington. jus, CO
" twenty.nine million dollars. We W
- now visit the worlds greatest achiey
y" ment in bridge Construction. the gre
" Brooklyn bridge: this il the finest al
y" costliest bridge in the world; five hu
w dred thousand people and five thoussI
>" vehicles cross this blidge daily. =.
=" After seeing the great sea vess,
y" and viewing the many sights on q
We ocean. ! returned to tho city and We
" through the great.subway. This is
interesting trip. and after riding p,
,'e haps twenty miles. got of. and car
W. W. back up to the surface and took
IVY street car to visit China. town. "
wv street and many other important plac
- including Manhattan Island. HNow
- wish TO say something about Manu-
iii tan Island; II has nineteen square mill
III In 1916 this Island was purchased n,
~ the indians for twcnty-four dolla
Ill the land is now worth four billion d
iii lars the realty value improvements {
iii six billion and seventy.hve million d
iii lars; the population IL two million. III
iii hundred and twenty-five thousa
u On part Of this Island the land IA W.
- six hundred dollars per square "a
~ and the Office space rents as high
III forty dollars per square foot J
iii think. 800 years ago all this territ
iii was occupied by few indian tel
iii You will remember that Manhat
iii is the most important OF New Yor
U hive bOrOuehs via Manhattan. Bro
Brooklyn. Queens and Richmond.
iii We will now visit some Of the Il
est. tallest and costliest buildings