A Great Thoroughfare

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 1 September 1904, Page 15

A Great Thoroughfare

Careful and continued counting shows (says the 'New York World ') that) approximately 40,0,000 persons cross the Brooklyn Bridge each day. If these people were to stand side by side the line would stretch from New York to Schenectady. Standing one on top of the other they would extend 427 miles into space. But as the atmosphere goes up for a matter of only 200 miles, they would have to lie on the ground, one's head touching another's feet, and then the string of humanity wid.uld reach from New York nearly to Pittsburg.

Marching in single file in one direction, at the army rate of speed, it would require seven days of eight hours each for them to cross the bridge. They would weigh as much as two 15,000t-ton battleships. They would fill 666 railroad trains of ten coaches each, and these trains would extend in an unbroken line from New York to Philadelphia. They include more persons than are in the combined armies of Japan and Russia in Korea and Manchuria. They equal the combined populations of Washington. D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.