The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-25
NUMBER OF rorsu AND FAMILIES ~ r,r -cl.e~s@ oars'

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Families oi',ooo
A few observations upon the above facts and figures
assist the reader in forming just conclusions What
these 1873 os people do, and how they live, whit
church they attend II any, and whe: political opinions
they have formed, what branches OF industry they
follow, what amount Of capital they have, and
how many of them are deperecnt upon daily toll for
daily support, questions that will consider at
eisure. 1t appears they live in lss,342 houses, and
that these houscs contain 81! 800 families.
outside Of the cities Of New York and Brooklyn one
family 10 house lie the general rule, see the
number OF families but little exceeds the number of
houses; but this city have only 81 1856 houses
that exclusive of those buildings expressly intended
for stores, in which nobody vcs-and we have 1855,
701 fan lilies. This gives, an average about
three families TO each dwelling house. In Brooklyn
have 52S dwelling houses and SO 965 families. This
is less average, than two families 10 house.
We may well tho fact oncctherc il other
city in the world in which many people live under
the roof this city. The of this aggre
CATION Of human beings viii only incidentally allude
Those who employed in this city, who
their bread here, find more convenient TO live
this and and the cxravagant rents, and the high
price OF building ots compel them to hire apartments
become boarders. These the principal reasons
why the houses in this city reach farther towards the
heavens and adapted to contain families than
perhaps, in any other city on the globe Philadelphia,
the second city population in the United States has
by the census sos o34 people, and $40 houses
There in that city but about 100 900 families thus
averaging about Ito families to a house.
There houses in this city containing more than
100 families and than 600 people. We viii re-
fer 10 them more specifically hereafter The ef-
feet upon human health and morals produced
by this aggregation Of human beings under the same
roof brought together not by choice congenay of feel
ing from any motve of social society but by stern
necessity question for the statesman and moralist
Capital has erected the dwellings aud necessity has
brought the tenants them. Virtue and vice occupy
adjoining apartments travel daily up aud down the
stairway aud compelled to lie down at night and
rise the morning in places where only fifty cents worth
Of mortar separates them.
But New York is a great alphabetically so. You
will--that l. il You are observer Of human
and charactersse Of the world by travelling from
the Aston house to onion square on the fashionable side
Of the street and then TO the Bowery down
the Bowery through Chatham to the City Hall, than you
probably wcGld In six months tour through Europe
Some men have taken a of pride asserting that
they were educated In the Of city. If you
are i'll quest o nationalises, New York Is the place
find them. All nations are represented here. We are
cosmopolitans Eyer, body feels at home when
he gets in Now York. The phrases United
but the word New York comprehends the
whole If you travel abroad and get into conversation
with Iouis Napoleon, Garbadi, Kossuth, Engiands fu
ture King or one of the Japs New York will be to
lie mentioned dozen times while Washington Philadel
pha and Boston will scarcely be thought Of
II great cities are but many upon the body po
lc celebrated statesman asserted theyswere then
the inevitable growth Of this city is matter 70 be depre-
Gated certain the viii rise tomorrow, this
destined TO become Of the most popuous, not the
most populous, city on the globe.
Take look at the rapity Of growth, in connection
with the natural advantages in commercial point of
view compared with the growth Of the other large cities
in America AMI in Europe Forty years ago London had
about 10000 inhabitants and New York about 12S 600
During these forty years London has increased about %
per cent But say 100 per cent which would make her
present populntcn 5000 600 During this period New
York has increased in population 700 per cent
that is, have grown from about l23 900 10
800 0o0 and including Brooklyn 10 about 00
New York and Brooklyn be called one city with
much proprety both sides OF the river Thames be-
except for political municipal purposes which at pre-
sent separate them But leave out brooklyn, with her
800 600 people and let how long will be be-
New York exceeds London in population. In
mercal aspect New York already rivals London. BY
simple arhmetcal calculation will be found that this
years and london in about forty years. That is New
York doubles its population three times Londons
time. So IL has been for the last forty years and this
ratio Of continued for the next forty years.
the following table win show the population Of the two
cities at the end II that period.
Present population Of London say. al0oe 900
Present population Of New York sle 600
In , ,s New Y~< vii. h.~e... s s,s SS
In 100 .................. 1912 600
In lNV London VIII nave. o,u0,0Vo
Thus that il the cities in popula.
ton In the ratio for the forty years they
did in the las forty New York will have half million
more people than London In this calculation throw
Brooklyn altogether. If bad included Brooklyn
should have made IT 0eoo 600 instead Of
65l2, 600.
This probably win suffice readers for the FIRST in
salncn Of facts and deductions relating the present
census Az there Is but very LITTLE money the United
states Treasury at this time the HERALD viii undertake
TO publish the returns and thus spread before the
people all the important statistics furnished by the
before the government employees get fairly work
The Skating Renewed.