CHAPTEE XII

IN NEW YORK

Three and one-half million people travel every day
in the subways and elevated railways, and over one
and one-half million in the surface cars.

A passenger train arrives every 52 seconds.

There is a wedding every 13 minutes.

Four new business firms start up every 42 minutes.

A new building is erected every 51 minutes.

350 new citizens come to make their homes every
day.

4 transient visitors arrive every second.

A child is born every 6 minutes.

30 deeds and 27 mortgages are filed for record
every business hour of the day.

__pvery 48 minutes a ship leaves* the harbor.

[     Every night $1,250,000 is spent in the hotels and^
[restaurants for dining and wining.                        „—/

An average of 21,000 persons pass daily through
the corridors of the largest hotel.
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