Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — NEW YORK CITY. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK CITY.

Although New York city owns many buildings, it pays nearly SI,OOO a day in rents. Builders in New York city invest $500,000 each day in land and new houses for apartment dwellers. There Is an average of one child killed every three days in New York city by being run over by vehicles. New street. New York city, is anything but new. It was the first street opened by the English after taking possession of New Amsterdam and was so called on that account. New York city’s high pressure salt water system win as first installed cost $5,300,000. It will have seventy eight miles of mains, with 2,012 hydrants, anjl will give head enough to extinguish fires without the direct aid of engines.—New York Herald.