Smyrna times., 1874-12-30
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The Greatness of London,

In few cities are there more than half a do1ar
railway stations. In London there are AT least
one hundred and fifty. Some of the railway,
never pass beyond the limits, and of one tIe
Iottenham and Hampstead Ppnch. saws NJ
one ever travels by, as no one knows whore il
begins or where it ends. The MetronoIitan
ana other lntramural railways run trains syery
three or hye minutes, and convey from tweDty
70 Ilty million OF passengers annually. Clapham
10 tne great SouthWestern junction, and through
1t seven hundred trains pass eyery dav f.
platforms are so numerous and its underground
passages and overground bridges SO perplexinr
that to hnd the right train is one of those
thlngs that no follow can understand AS n
PROOF OF the expensive nature of London traffic
1t was supposed that, when the Newfoundland
railway was opened, all the city to PaddlDgton
omnlbuses would be run off the pround bnt
although it carried forty y-three million of nas,
sengers last year, it has been found necessary
70 increase the number Of Omnibuses on the
southern route, and they yield one per cent
II ore revenue than before the opening of the
railway. - '-'0
Besides the railways, there are some fourteen
or fifteen thousand tram cars, omnibuses and
CABS traVersing the streets; there are lines of
omnlDuSes known only to the inhabitants of
thelr own lOcahties-such as those across the
Isle OF Dogs, from poplar to Milwall: from
London bridge, along Tooley street to Deck
head, &c. The London Omnibus Companv
have i've hundred and sixty-three omnibuses
"hlcn carry nifty millions of passengers annually
IL Is more dangerous to walk the streets of
London than to travel by railway or cross tho
Atlantic Last year one hundred and twenty,
hive persons were killed, and two thousand FIVE
hundred and thirteen injured by vehicles in the
streets SuppOsng every individual man.
woman and child made one journey on foot in
London per diem, which is considerably above
the average, the deaths would be one in oleven
millions, while the railways only kill about one
IN nifty millions OF passengers, and the Cunard
company OF Atlantic steamers boast of having
never lost passenger.
Other instances of the immensity of the pop.
ulatIon OF London are that three. quarters of n
million of business men enter the citv in tho
morning and leave it in the evening for their
suburban residences. There are 10000 police |
men, as many cab-drivers, and the same num- |
Der OF persons connected with the postofice |
each of whom, with their families, would make |
a large town. When London makes a holiday
there are several places of resort, such as the |
Chrystal Palace, the geological Gardens, Kew
Gardens, etc, which absorb from thirty to 6ftv
thousand visitors each. Tho cost of gas for
ngnting Is t2,5O0, 600 annually; the water sup
ply is 100, ,000,000 gallons per diem. In the
pose OF supplying information on the passing
events of the day 3l4 daily and weekly news.
papers are required
What London will eventually become it is
idle to predict 1t already stands in four coun.
ties, and is striding onward to a fifth (Herts.)
The probability is that by the end of the con.
Jury the population will exceed FIVE millions,
and will have quintupled itself in the century
Should 1t progress at an equal rate in the next,
t will In the year 2000 amount to the enormous
aggregate OF twenty-five milllons and the ques-
ion that naturally arises is how could such a
be supplied with food. But the fact
s that the more its population increases the
'etter they are fed In the Plantagenet days
vhsn the population was not third of a mil
ion, famines were of frequent occurrence, but
low, with the command of tho pastures, the
harvest and the fisheries of the world, starya. S
ion becomes an almost impossible eventuality S
ven with twenty-five millions of mouths to !
eed. Among the population of London there !
re more Jews than in Palestine, more Scotch l
1en than at Edinburgh, moro Irish than at
dublin, and more Catholics than at Rome.