The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-06-02
HUMAN STATISTICS
ASTOUNDING FACTS
Encyclopedia Reveals Births Far Que
Number Deaths.
BY Winifred Van Duzsr.
louisville Herald.)

thirteen minutes there is wedding
in this city. Every fourteenth min
ute, day and night, funeral is held
here.
And ten times each hour a child
is born.
This is the beginning OF the most
astonishing set of statistics ever to
be compiled in this city where things
that happen, match in number the
sands of all the shores.
DR.. F. M. Gordon, church co-opera-
tion secretary of Brooklyn Bureau of
Charities, was director Of the Greater
Cities Survey for the Interchurch
World Movement a few years ago
when he became interested in the
figures brought TO his attention.
From study Of New York statistics
essential to his word he developed
his interest to hobby. He spends
a part of his time changing his re-
cords as events change and adding
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 grotesque-rie of
proportions.
These are the figures he gave on
the city's food, drink and transport
tation:
"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.
1.-TWO hundred and sixty 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.
1--WE use 100000 gallons of
water daily.
"Once every twenty-four hours,
1,O62,OO persons cross East River.
Twice as many persons ride on
the three systems of transit the ele-
waited, surface lines and subway,
every day as the number riding on
all the steam railroads Of the United
States combined.
Fares paid on these three loads
last year numbered $2,5OO,O00,Oo0.
During the same year more than
a third Of the population of the
United States, or 37,144,00O passen-
gers on the railroad trains entered
Grand Central Station.
more than 100000 visitors dine
annually in hotels and restaurants
about the Forty-second street dis
trict."
Parks Cover s,7O3 Acres
Concerning New York's population
and acreage he had this to say:
There are 30.3S3 more persons
in the city than there are in the fol-
lowing thirteen states: Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Utah. Colorado, Arr
IONA. New Mexico, Montana, Wyo- /
ming, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska and Nevada.
"In 1920, 77S,749 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 10 San Fran
cisco and half way back again.
Parks, Fairgrounds and parkways
cover S,7O3 acres.
There are enough Italians in New
York to make a city the size of Los
Angeles. One the size of Milwaukee
could be populated by Manhattan
Austro- Hungarians. The Irish might
collect in two cities the size of Balti-
more and Albany.
There is real estate transfer
every twenty-five minutes, a new
building erected every fifty minutes
and a fire every thirty minutes"
Daily instruction in the public
schools costs the city $225,OO0 while
II, 200, 900 books are taken from the
library every year.
The city spends $4,000 daily to
keep its citizens well.
And those who never have con-
sidered Brooklyn much of town
may be interested in listening to this:
Brooklyn is the third largest
in the United States and
the sixth largest in the world. Since
1910 the population has grown at the
rate OF $500 a month. There are
more persons there than in Wyoming !
Vermont, Arizona, New Mexico, Della
ware, Idaho and Nevada combined.
Seven hundred vessels of more
than forty different steamship lines
enter and leave and there is more
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