Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-10-25

INC comparative Growth of New York.
Inc New York Express furnishes the followino
interesting account of the growth Of Now
WIN tllat OF other cities in this continent and
In Europe:
,.;. Inc rapid growth of New York in comnarisop
O. o'her great cities, is still more remarka bIa
or :esS In population, in comparison with 9th
NAL - tesslvey exhibited by the quinquen
to O'sus returns of the last thirty years. In 1890
lne population of the city was I23,706. Itwas tban
PISSED by at least twenty-six cities of Eurone and
y nleAico and Rio de Janeiro in America In 1885,
Ti'h population 1885, 1885, it had risen above both
1ii9 latter, and above Hamburg, Copenhaoen Rar
peiIna' buda, Pesth, AdranopIe, Turin, NarseilIes
in Ioan anu warsaw It's superors five years before:
vanoeI' 1t showed O2,589-a number which adj
n".at II before ROME and Edinburg In Is35
numbering 27O,0s9 it took rank also above 49,
so a' HltS ancient mother city, MADRID (oncn tho
oat u 'le government of two-thrds ofthe Amer;can
Lo!lihent ana lses,) and Milan. In 1910 it's NOM
liz 'OI u 'lz'9o2 placed it above Manchester Dph-
~ ttm, Liverpool, Glasgow and LISBON. In 1sa5
an II eA1iolled large accession of population
tbora Oh 'sz3, 1t had passed no other citv
mat OF Manchester and Dublin and o@s nno o'v'ooo,
Moscow. Oii''' ana o'o,oOo, that of
Vol i9iilarked OF the census of 1850 that Now
10y Us not merely be placed above ALI
!, -, VI O'iier american cities for the sunremacv
1thp o9ulat'oh commerce, wealth. art and no,vor
nass peen long since established) but will ho
dom in ~ 'lie rank OF the third city in Christen-
".I ~ punt OF population, and second in con,nooroo
ana wealth to but one in the world IN U.";eice
Icy M america that has population within 300 ono
u u mat Oh New York. There are hut tboa
~ WIN superior or equal population These
nt &c are London. with population of2 oo7 ttos
Ill nov W.. undoubtedly increased to 900 Par;s
i;ooo'9o1 IN 1916, but since reduced baIou
onytat slI eso,ueohs and distresSes of 1913: and
900 900 in 1874, with one offs s ~
ros IN ASIA There are in China and - us SUI
ol.ies win population estimated at piIIion ,I
pwaiuS' put These with ConsantinonIe aro u.; Il0
World. ana oil The civilized
,rior 70 NJ, IS now the European city next in
aonIo :? IeW ork IN population containing 473 0o0
h Tbo ~ anu out slowly increasing since. ia
ol; o ~. 'ni &c neAt-VIenna, with 429 50O !, ie1e
eriln, with APO, 900 in March Ia1s ~ M M lo4o
in pr ut o4A5aVss each lost NOT less s
quarter of their population, from cholera, revou-
m, civil war, and consequent emgration since
Drl 1S4S.
1t is notable and impressive fact, that no great
les In the civilized world except those of the Eng era
race anu language, nave materially increased In ma
pulaton within the last ten years; and all on the all
ntlnent OF Europe, except those of the Russians 1S
We diminished greatly during the last FIVE Even for
ew Orleans Spanish and French in original popu upc
ion, and still largely French in language and NOR ed
SIS almost alone among. American cities and VIII
lagos In the fact of decrease during that period his
used by flood and pestilence 1t is remarkable, sue
So that no great city of Chrstendom not Protes- wa
Mt is increasing in any great degree-hose of the and
omlsh faith. on both continents, being on the de- fore
ease, (Mexlco and Rio de Janiero swelas Rome, gre
lrls Naples, and Vienna } while those ofthe Greco res
usslan faith ''hold their own very wel-not like me
to become much greater, but at present. two
city secure against any speedy decline. Ten years dus
%, there were five ofthe great capital cities Of Eu- the
pc superior In population to New York, which are law
wv inferior to it. st. Petersburg, Moscow, (both
eng recognized as capitals ofRussia,) Vienna Ber-
!, and Naples, are now surpassed by New York,
I'd would have boon ifnone of them had diminished see
I'd fthey had all continued the ordinary rate of in ste
ease lsla
Paris, now the second city of the civilized world tho
point ofpopulaton, has so little of present security the
the continuance of order or the restoration of gag
rmer prosperity, that there is no probability of its rec
qulrng for some years TO the population which sa
contained four years ago. Five years more item ey;
rtaniy) will place New York above Paris in popu- in
hon unless the present condition and prospects of utl
he or both OF them be surprisingly and greatly alter l2C
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