. The city of New York. 1 he first Department Stoie, R. H. Macy, Avenue near 14th Street. In New York— 340 million people travel every year inthe subways, and over 250 million in thesurface cars. A passenger train arrives every 52 sec-onds. There is a wedding every 13 minutes. Four new business firms start up every42 minutes. A new building is erected every 51 min-utes. 350 new citizens come to make theirhomes every day. 4 transient visitors arrive every second. A child is born every 6 minutes. 30 deeds and 27 mortgages are filed forrecord every business hour of the day. Every 48 minu
. The city of New York. 1 he first Department Stoie, R. H. Macy, Avenue near 14th Street. In New York— 340 million people travel every year inthe subways, and over 250 million in thesurface cars. A passenger train arrives every 52 sec-onds. There is a wedding every 13 minutes. Four new business firms start up every42 minutes. A new building is erected every 51 min-utes. 350 new citizens come to make theirhomes every day. 4 transient visitors arrive every second. A child is born every 6 minutes. 30 deeds and 27 mortgages are filed forrecord every business hour of the day. Every 48 minutes a ship leaves the har-bor. Every night Si,250,000 is spent in thehotels and restaurants for dining and wining. An average of 21,000 persons pass dailythrough the corridors of the largest hotel. people are at work daily for thjcity in one building—the Municipal Build-ing. 300,000 pass the busiest points alongBroadway each day. More than 1,000,000 immigrants landevery year. 85. Every man, woman and child is allowed105 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 sup
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