World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . y? 4. Is there any wasteful competition amongthem? 5. Are there cooperative community projectswhich should be operated by these churches? Is it not evident that practical progress towardsthe most effective Christian ser\ice of the entirecommunity cannot be made until the leadersof these individual churches, together with thedenominational officers involved, meet andface all the facts, organize a community pro-gram, and then adjust their problems of co-operation, combination, relocati
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . y? 4. Is there any wasteful competition amongthem? 5. Are there cooperative community projectswhich should be operated by these churches? Is it not evident that practical progress towardsthe most effective Christian ser\ice of the entirecommunity cannot be made until the leadersof these individual churches, together with thedenominational officers involved, meet andface all the facts, organize a community pro-gram, and then adjust their problems of co-operation, combination, relocation and respon-sibility in a spirit of generous goodwill? 52 Ths New York Metropolitan Area: HOME MISSIONS TIMES SQUARE SECTION SCALE J L W 4B»- ST J L 1 r^-^-^^TTY^^lxl V _| ^ Synagoguei Si Mission! X^ Rescua Miisiona^ Settle rn«nU5] Chirdren-i Ch» OrraniiatiO(S ^ Ubr>ne«BQ P«rk» Oubl Holeli Rooming Houtet Llbor Unions_ Police SUtiOfvS4L Fire Stations Public Buildings Public Schools— Pnvate Schools® Saloon. Dance Halls Cabarets Pool Rooms TheatresCZ Molton Picture HouSei. _1 1 r- REfOm* A V 1 r _S£L_ 1 r n r HOME MISSIONS: The New York Metropolitan Area 53 TRANSIENTS IN THE Times Square district of a liundredcity blocks bounded by Twenty-eighthand Forty-eighth streets, Park and Eighthavenues, there are ninety hotels accommo-dating 26,824 guests a day. A stream of morethan 30,000 people register at these hotelsevery week. There are seventeen clubs and 493 rooming andboarding houses which, with their semi-transientand transient population, bring the total floatingpopulation to approximately 123,000 a month. This means that during a years time a restless,strenuous whirl of humanity that would totalmore than the combined populations of SanFrancisco, Denver and Boston, resides for afew days or a few weeks in this Times Squaresection of New York. As against this enormous floating populationthe permanent dwellers in the homes of thissection number
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