. The city of New York. 05 gallons of water a day. 4,000 people are arrested every day. 11,000,000 matches are given away dailyin the tobacco shops and hotel cigar stands. The telephone centrals have 586,000 callseach There are 1,090 churches of all denomina-tions. $2,500,000 is spent annually in mainte-nance of public charities. There are two fires every hour—yet theaverage annual fire loss is less than $5, The Fire Department answers 233 falsealarms every daj. 20,000 people spend all their workinghours underground. There are 50,000 night workers. 2,000 pupils, representing 27
. The city of New York. 05 gallons of water a day. 4,000 people are arrested every day. 11,000,000 matches are given away dailyin the tobacco shops and hotel cigar stands. The telephone centrals have 586,000 callseach There are 1,090 churches of all denomina-tions. $2,500,000 is spent annually in mainte-nance of public charities. There are two fires every hour—yet theaverage annual fire loss is less than $5, The Fire Department answers 233 falsealarms every daj. 20,000 people spend all their workinghours underground. There are 50,000 night workers. 2,000 pupils, representing 27 differentnationalities, are registered at one schoolin the East Side. New York City, in the course of the year,carries the names of 97,oiS persons upon itsp:iyrolls. Of these aVjout i5-000 are tem-porary employees, leaving 82,015 regulars. Probably no less than two other personsare dependent upon the earnings of eachcity employee, making a total of nearly300,000 persons whose support comes outof the city treasury. 87. The Board of Education has the longestpayroll, with 25,800 names on its list. ThePolice Department has 10,640 employees,the Street Cleaning Department 7,002, theFire Department the Department ofWater Supply, Gas and Electricity ,the Department of Health 2,961, the De-partment of Public Charities 2,898, and theDepartment of Docks and Ferries 2,601. New York City Has— More Irish than Dublin. More Italians than Rome. A German population twice the totalpopulation of Bremen. More than Leipzigand Frankfort-on-Main combined. 113 public parks, varying in size from 4square yards to 1,756 acres. More active club women than Londonand Paris combined. One block in which more than peo-ple live and on less than 4 acres of ground. More Austrians and Hungarians than inTrieste and Fiume combined. _ A Jewish population one-seventh of itstotal, and their number equals the popula-tion of Maine. An annual budget greater than that ofany other five American cities
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