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Brooklyn Standard Union ­ Anniversary ­ 

Every man, woman and child in Duluth, Minn. Elizabeth, N.J., Utica, N.Y.,
Jacksonville, Fla., Savannah, Ga., El Paso, Tex., San Diego, Cal., Houston,
Tex., Fort Wayne, Ind., Kansas City, Kan., Omaha, Neb., Akron, O., Newark,
N.J. and Erie, Pa., could change places with the present residents of
Brooklyn and the population would be practically the same.

Seth LOW, who was the twenty-first man to serve as mayor of the old City of
Brooklyn, from 1882 to 1885, was the second mayor of Greater New York, from
1902 to 1903.  He died in 1916.

Twice as many persons are born in Brooklyn as there are persons who die.
The death rate is 11.9 per thousand while the births are 22.3 per 1,000 of
population.

There are only eight skyscrapers in all New York City which are taller than
the Montague-Court building.  It is 450 feet tall and has thirty-five
stories.  The Court-Livingston building, right next to it, is thirty-five
feet shorter.

The Second Battalion of the Naval Militia of New York State, consisting of
headquarters, nine division and one marine company, is located at the foot
of Fifty-second street, Brooklyn.

Ebbets Field, Brooklyn¹s home ground for the National League baseball
representatives, has a seating capacity of 28,000. Frequently as many as
33,000 have packed the park to watch the national game played.

Brooklyn draws food supplies from almost every State in the Union.

Omitting the State of California, the percentage of increase in Brooklyn
(over 1,350 per cent) in seventy years has been as great as that which
occurred in the Golden West, containing some 2,000,000 square miles, as
compared to the 80 square miles in Brooklyn.

They Rowed to Work.
Subway patrons will probably shudder at the thought of ever having to go
from Williamsburgh to New York (Manhattan) on business trips in a row boat.
Yet, that is the history of Williamsburgh travel and the origin of the
latter day ferry boat.  The first transportation was begun in about 1797.

Seen in Brooklyn.
A tablet on the corner of what was until a few years ago the Smith Gray
Building, Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street, marks the turn of the road
around which the American Revolutionary Army retreated during the Battle of
Long Island.

Pedestrians crossing the Brooklyn Bridge will note, near the Brooklyn and
Manhattan ends of the promenade, a wide steel plate crossing the roadway.
This allows for the contraction and expansion of the old bridge according to
climatic and weight-carrying changes.  The structure has a fairly noticeable
shrinkage in the winter and a corresponding expansion in the summer ­ in
addition to the stretch it takes when an extra heavy "rush hour" load of
trains and vehicles passes over it.

Brooklyn has a Tennis court on which no tennis has ever been played.  There
is no net stretched across it nor are there chalk marks to be seen ­ unless
the children dabble in art.  Tennis court is the name of a street which runs
from East Eighteenth Street to Ocean Avenue, between Albemarle Road and
Church Avenue.

Little Street is the name aptly given to a little street near the west side
of the Navy Yard, but it is not quite as little as United States Street,
into which it runs ­ which is probably the littlest street in the borough.

Transcriber :Mimi Stevens
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