The New York herald., 1869-06-13
TIE GROWTH OF NEW YORK.


The following schedule was referred 10 In the
Mayors recent message, and should have accompa
MED it,
At It's present rate, New York Is growing with
rapidty largely exceeding that at which any other
metropolis, which is now progressing at the rate OF
country, it will be found that II couid absorb the
per be- WIN IN e ess than se o.
years and any Of the others In two or hree years.
stands now next 70 London and Paris among the
cities Of the civilized world. IL Is as large now as
Paris was In 1855 AS metropolis IL Is as large
as PARIS was In 1861. or as London was IN 1881.
From similarity OF climate and general public
upirt the disposition here Is to follow Paris rather
than London and TO make the New York that we
are about starting to erect city full OF all the exter
nal attractions and beauty that art and architec-
turo can furnish.
New YORK is not behind the two cities that now ex-
coed IT, either in wealth or in public spirit but 1t Is IN
comprehending the plan Of q great city, and in ap-
plying Its best ability to the execution oi such
plan. These cities owe much OF their grandeur to
Government expenditure. New York can show pro-
portionaey more, as the result OF private ana ndi-
viduai expenditure, than either Of them and there
Is no reason, save our own indifference, why the
future New York. 80 soon 10 surpass them IN popu-
lati0n, should be in any respect inferior to them
In the general growth OF the continent New YORK
viii stand as the great neart OF the Countrywide
heart true to the whole country. New Y0rk s cos.
Mopolitan In ieeling s increase mas 0een so rapa
born. It has received its accesstons from every
country OF Chrtstendom from the ldde States, the
proudspirited South, the true grit OF New England;
and these accessions have included the very best
elements; all feelings and all opinions are repre-
sented here; We aie all closely In contact nowhere
are men more energetcally intent on their busi-
ness nowhere are opinions more liked; no
where lB discussion more earnest and more sharply
70 the point; nowhere has 1t greater freedom. How
rapidly these conflicting opinions have their points
rubbed on; and, day by day, truth appears and
sound sense and fOrbearance and charity. The news
OF the country concentrates and emanates from
here. The Intellectual pusatt0ns throb instantly
from Portland to San Francisco and return Instantly
No prOvlnclalism or sectlOnaism can secure l0dg-
ment here. Out Of this trial comes the true spirit OF
New York. The sympathes Of all nations and all
classes are fused into one common mould, and now
out corrected and purified, for the whole country,
with all Its variety OF people, interests and climate.
Thanks to permanent and systematic education
high-tOned press and pure religion. BY these
agencies we can now do the business OF
the Mississippi Valley better than fifty years
ago we could DO that Of the Hudson. The
Pacific coast Is quite as near to us now as then
were the shores OF Long Island Sound. The com.
mercial and productive enterprises of any part OF
long and come here. The capital and energy OF the
fortunes tend to settle here. The metropolis WILL
ere long, stand In close business relations with
every town OF the United STATES as fifty years ago
1t did with Its own uptown wards Briareus, with
his hundred hands, viii be as nothing to 1t. The
products OF the wheat fields OF the praries the gold
mines OF the Pacific coast, the coal fields and oil
wells OF Pennsylvania the factories OF New England
and the plantations OF the South will heap up por-
ton Of their accumuatiens here just as accurately
as II all these fields OF labor were within the city
limits.