The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-09-05
NEW YORK CITY A
WORLD BEE HIVE
CITY MANUFACTURES EVERY
THING FROM BUTTON
HOLES TO PIANOS.

The figures which represent New
York's industrial supremacy are stag
gering. The manufactured products
turned out annually, government sta
tistics show. equal one-tWeltth the
value of all the goods manufactured IN
the limited States. New YOrk's pro-
duction is almost half as much again
as Chicago's her nearest competitor,
and more than two and hall times
that OF Philadelphia, which ranks
third
The growth OF industry in New
York has been steady through the
wears: never booming. The number
of manufacturing establishments here
has been increased by 10 per cent IN
the last eight years and the increase
in the number OF persons engaged
has been slightly larger. The gam III
the value of products has been enor-
nous, largely because OF the price
initiation which attended the war, says
the New York World
More than Il million persons IN this
CITY gain their livelihood from the APP
parel industry. Food products toll
low clothing in volume, with an an
nua1 production OF more than 900
million dollars. Metal working comes
next, with almost u billion dollars
yearly production. Printing and pub
fishing add some 800 million dollars
TO New York's annual production, and
tobacco and smokers supplies account
for "a million more. SO 1t goes down
the line, with huge totals IN almost
every field.
There are some products in which
New York has a practical monopoly
The woman who makes her own
clothes, for instance, whether she lives
in Manhattan or in Seattle, would ind
it almost impossible to buy a pat
tern made anywhere but in New York,
for 95 per cent of the patterns pro-
duced in the United States are made
here. When a man i'll New Orleans
or Kokomo or Denver becomes en-
gagged to a girl the diamond with
which he endows her almost certainly
was cut and polished IN New York.
And this city turns out more men,
shirts than Troy, which is noted the
world over for the production OF mems
linen wear.
But New York is more than the
worlds greatest producing center. 1t
also is its greatest market, and goods
totaling into the billions are sold over
New York's counters every year. ust
how many billions these sales amount
to cannot even be guessed with any
accuracy. The only accurate hgures
obtainable are those OF the slXty-tour
largest department stores, which last
year did a business of ESQ million
dollars.
New York is unparalleled in the
world in buying power, Tor the wealth
Of the world centers here. Then, too,
the area commercially tributary to
New York adds its thousands to make
up a population OF more than mil
lion within fifty miles OF New York
almost a tenth of the population OF
the country.
The city contains almost az many
persons as live in the state OF Ohio
and almost a million more than there
are in the whole state of Texas. The
borough of Brooklyn alone contains
more inhabitants than the city Of
Philadelphia Manhattan and Queens
exceed Chicago by 10000. A circle
with the Battery as its center and
drawn on a 50-mile radius contains
twice as many persons as there are in
the whole continent OF Australia and
a million more than live in Canada.
Nor is this all. The nine railroads
having their terminals here bring into
this city each day enough persons to
constitute a city as large as Provi-
dence or Denver. There are some
100000 commuters, the last national
census showed Altogether 45,945,-
278 persons were brought into the city
Axy ,o;1rOad lac+ veor