Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — NEW YORK IS APPLE HUNGRY [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK IS APPLE HUNGRY

Thousand Carloads of Fruit Received In Gotham During Last Year - ; -V - —Few Statistics. New York.—That New York is rapidly becoming a great apple market is evidenced by the fact that Father Knickerbocker got away with about §,OOO miles of this fruit last year, or enough to reach nearly twice across the continent Of course New Yorkers did not actually consume all these millions of apples, part of them being shipped to other apple-hungty districts, but New Yorkers nevertheless managed to get a surprisingly large proportion. Nearly 1,000 carloads of this fruit were received during the year, some coining from what is known as the up-state district and others from points as far distant as the Pacific coast. Ten thousand carloads represent something like twelve miles of cars and locomotives on the hauling end.The boxes themselves in which the fruit is packed, figuring 700 to the car, would, if laid end to end, reach 250 miles and contain enough lumber to inclose the city’s biggest office building. The apples average about 126 to the box, and the nidividual fruit totals in the neighborhood of 100,000,000.