Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — Matches by the Billion. [ARTICLE]

Matches by the Billion.

New York is the greatest matchmaking and match-destroying city in the world. These matches don’t last long. They flare Into a flame and burn out to the extent of about four hundred million a day. So if each Individual New Yorker doesn’t burn a hundred matches every 24 hours he is not doing his share of the work. Th® greatest match making industry of the city Is over In Queens borough, whe te nearly 100,000 cubic feet of lumber is split by machines each year, making 15,500 minion matches. Besides what the city uses of this sup ply It Imports 200,000 million each year, which la one-fifteenth of the output of the United States. If the matches that Father Knicker booker uses in a 1 year were placed end to end they would make six Uses serosa the continent.