The Washington times., 1922-05-29
|D|V|NE Makes
n. !. STATISTICS
TELL BIC STORY
Ten Children Born Every Hour
In MetropoIis-Ship Clears
Every AZ Minutes.
UniyersaI Service.

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UniversaI Service.
NEW YORK. May 2s.-Once every
thirteen minutes there Is a wedding
In this city. Every fourteenth min
ute, day and night. a funeral Is held
here.
And ten times each and every hour
child is born.
This Is the beginning of the most
astonishing set Of statistics ever to
be compiled round this city. where
the things that happen match in
number the sands of all the shores.
DR.. r. NJ. Gordon, church co-opera-
tion secretary Of the Brooklyn bu-
| reau of charities, was director OF the
greater cities survey for the inter
| church world movement few years
ago when he became interested In
the figures brought to his desk.
From a study of New York stats
tics essential to his work, he devel.
oped his interest to a hobby. He
spends a part Of his time changing
his records as events change and
| adding new figures to his lists.
metropolis as a monster sprawling
upon the eastern coast. demanding
| sustenance from the entire world,
expressing itself in grotesquerie Of
proportions.
These are the figures he gave on
the city's food, drink, transportation:
Masses Of Statistics.
"A ship clears the harbor every
| forty-two minutes. A train enters
the city every forty-two seconds.
Freight cars leaving here would fill
eight tracks reaching from New York
to San Francisco!
Two hundred and sixty-six train.
loads OF food. or a number sufficient
to reach from the city across the
State Of New Jersey to Philadelphia,
are required to feed Manhattan for a
single week.
I'VE use 500 .000, 900 gallons Of
water daily This amount should
supply a quart OF water to every
human being on the face Of the
earth.
"Once every twenty-four hours l..
062, 900 persons cross East river.
Twice as many people ride every
day on the three systems Of transit,
the elevated. surface lines and sub
way, as the number riding on all
! the steam railroads Of the United
States combined.
Fares paid on these three roads
last year numbered $500, 900 900.
During the same year more tkSn a
third OF the population OF the United
States or 37,144. 900 passengers on
the railroad trains entered Grand
Central Station.
,,I.;
annually in hotels and restaurants
! about the FortysecOnd street dis
trict."
Concerning New York's population
and acreage he had this to say:
There are 36,3S3 more people in
the city than there are in the fol-
lowing thirteen States: Washington.
Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado,
Arizona, New Mexico. Montana.
! Wyoming North Dakota. South Da.
kota, Nebraska and Nevada.
In 1920. 77s,749 persons arrived
in this country. OF that numbe-
4l5.722 remained in New York
IF the streets were placed end to
end, they would reach to San Fran.
cisco and half way hack again.
Parks, Fairgrounds and parkways
cover S.703 acres.
Plenty OF Irish.
There are enough Italians in the
city to make a city the size Of
Los Angeles, one the size of Mil
waukee could be populated by Man
haitian n-Austro Hungarians. The
Irish people might collect them
| selves in two cities, size OF Balti-
more and Albany.
There is a real estate transfer
every twenty-five minutes; a new
building erected every fifty min
utes: a fire every thirty minutes"
schools. he said, costs the city
s225. 900 while 1900, 900 books are
taken from the library every year.
The city spends $1,000 daily to
keep its people well.
And those who never have con-
sidered Brooklyn much of a town
may De Interested in listening to
this:
Brooklyn is the third largest
municipality in the United States
and the sixth largest in the world.
Since 1910 the population has
grown at the rate of 5000 a month.
There are more people there than
in Wyoming, Vermont, Arizona,
New Mexico. Delaware, Idaho and
| Nevada combined.
Seven hundred vessels of more
than forty different steamship lines
enter and leave. There is more
cargo on the Newton Creek, a
stream entering Brooklyn at Green
point, than is carried on a thou
sand miles of the Mississippi It
is the first coffee center of the
world.
Last year in the public schools
Brooklyn educated as many pupils
as those that were taught in Balti.
more, Toledo, Milwaukee. Pitts
burgh and San Francisco COM
bined."
DOHkMII Gill nlEM