New geographies . re. In agreat city, on the other hand,little or no food is produced,so that the problem of feed-ing the of thou-sands of people who livethere is a very serious one. Trains, ships, and wagons,loaded with all sorts of food,are all the time moving to-ward a large city. For ex-ample, milk is brought everyday in special milk trains that start per-haps a hundred miles or more away. Ateach station they take on cans filledwith milk from surrounding farms, andin this way car after car is filled by thetime the city is reached. Most of the city people buy food at thestores in
New geographies . re. In agreat city, on the other hand,little or no food is produced,so that the problem of feed-ing the of thou-sands of people who livethere is a very serious one. Trains, ships, and wagons,loaded with all sorts of food,are all the time moving to-ward a large city. For ex-ample, milk is brought everyday in special milk trains that start per-haps a hundred miles or more away. Ateach station they take on cans filledwith milk from surrounding farms, andin this way car after car is filled by thetime the city is reached. Most of the city people buy food at thestores in very small quantities, because theyhave no room in which to keep large instance, they may buy three or fourpounds of sugar at a time, or a small bag of flour, or two quarts of potatoes. The farmer,on the other hand, has whole barrels of potatoes,apples, and turnips stored in his cellar, andoften buys sugar and flour by the barrel. From all this you can see how thecity depends upon the country for Copyright, 1900, by Detroit Photographic 88. —a crowded street in tlie East Side of New Yorii; City. If anything should prevent food fromreaching a city for a few weeks, thepeople would starve. Even when aheavy snowstorm blocks the freight-trains for a day or two, there is sufEer-?ing in the larger cities. The people are so crowded in a greatcity that there are often enough childrenin one block to fill a large 4. schoolsschool. Sometimes a thou- J the citysand, and even two or three thousand 72 HOME GEOGRAPHT children, go to school in one schoolhouse may have from twenty-five to seventy-five large rooms in it,with a teacher for every room. Scoresof such schools may be found in a singlecity (Fig. 89). The children usually need to walkonly a few minutes to reach their school,
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