Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-05-31
Interesting Statistics Concern
ING New York City.

thirteen minutes there is wedding
in this city. Every fourteenth min
ute, day and night, funeral is held
here.
And ten times each and every hour
a child is born. This is the beginning
of the most astonishing set of statis-
tics ever to be compiled round this
city where the things that happen
match in number the sands of all the
shores.
DR.. F. NJ. Gordon, church co-opera-
tion secretary of Brooklyn bureau
of charities, was director of the
Greater Cities survey for the Inter-
Church World Movement a few
years ago, when he became interested
in the figures brought to his desk.
From study of New York statis
tics, essential to his work, he develop
ed his interest to a hobby. He spends
a part of his time changing his rec
ords as events change and aGding new
figures to his lists.
Today he pictures this American
metropolis as a monster sprawling
upon the eastern coast, demanding
sustenance from the entire world, ex-
pressing itself in grotesquerie of por-
portions. These are the figures he
gave on the city's food, drink, trans
portation:
ga 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-two train
loads of food are required to feed
Manhattan for single week.
eve use 5OO,oOO,OOO gallons of
water daily. This amount should sup
ply quart of water to every human
being on the face of the earth.
'tOnce every twenty four hours,
100000 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.
"Fares paid on these three roads
last year numbered 2,5OO,OOo,0OO.
During the same year more than
a third of the population of TIE Unit
ed States of 37,144,O00 passengers
on the railroad trains entered Grand
Central station.
1'More than 100000 visitors dine
annually in hotels and restaurants
about the Forty-Second street dis
trict.
Concerning New York's population
and acreage, he had this to say:
"There are 26,3s3 more people in the
city than there are in the following
states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexi-
co, Montana, Wyoming, North Dako-
ia, South Dakota, Nebraska and Ne
vada.
"In 1921, 77s,74s persons arrived
in this country. Of that number 415,-
722 remained in New York. If the
streets were placed end to end they
would reach to San Francisco and
half way back again. Parks, play
grounds and parkways cover S,703
acres.
"There are enough Italians il New
York to make a city the size of Los
Angeles. one the size of Milwaukee
could be populated by Manhattan
Austro-H -Hungarians. The Irish people
might collect themselves in two cit
les, size of Baltimore and Albany.
"There is a real estate transfer
every twenty-five minutes; new
building erected every fifty minutes,
a fire every thirty minutes"
Daily instruction in he public
schools, he said, costs the city $685.
900 while 17,oOO,00o books are TAX
en- from the library every year
The city spends $4,000 daily to
keep its people well. And those who
never have considered Brooklyn much
of a town may be interested in lis
tening to this:
Brooklyn is the third largest mu-
nicipality in the United States and
the sixth largest in the world. Since
1910 the poplation has grown at
the rate of 5000 month. There are
more people there than in Wyoming,
Vermont, Arizona, New Mexico, Del