The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-01-06
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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE GREAT
METROPOLIS.

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r In few cities are there more than half,
dozen railway stations. In, London Their
are at least 150.i Some of%the railway
never pass beyond the limits, and of one
the Iottenham and Hampstead, Puncl
says: mo one ever travels BY, as no on,
knows where it begins or where it ends
The Metropolitan and other intramura
railways run trains every three Or i've
minutes, and convey from twenty to fifty
millions fpassengets annually. Chaplain
IS the great southwestern junction, and
through it ZOO trainspass every day. Its
platforms are SO numerous, and its under.
ground passages and overground bridges
so perplexing, that to find the right train
Is one of those things that no fellow can
understood" AS proof Of the expansive
nature of London traffic, 1t was supposed
that, when the Metropolitan railway was
opened, all the city to Paddingtoq openi-
buses would be run off the ground; But,
although it carried forty three millions of
passengers last year, has been found ne
cessary to increase the number of omni-
buses on the southern route, and they
yield one per cent. more revenue than BE-
fore the opening of the railway. .,.i~zra-
Besides the railways, there ara some
fourteen or fifteen thousand tram cars. ON
nibuses and cabs traversing the streets;
there are lines of, omnibuses known ,bnlv
to their inhabitants of their own localities
such rs those across the Isle Of Dogs
from Poplar to Milwall; from London
boidge, along Tooley street, to Dockhead,
etc. The LOndOn omnibus company have
w &c
passengers annually.
It is more dangerous to walk the streets
OF London than to travel by railway or
cross the Atlantic. Last year 125 l,ersons
were killed, and 2,513 injured by vehicles
III the streets. Surprising every individual
man, woman aud child made Que journey
on foot in london per diem, which ia con-
above the average, the deaths
would be one in eleven millions, while the |
"a railways only kill about one in fifty mill
lions OF passengers, and the Cunard COM
pany OF Atlantic steamers bo;ist of having |
never lost a passenger. th5 ,T3iss1'j
Other instances Of thes immensely of the
population ofLontlon, ar that three quar-
tiers OF a million Of business men enter the
city in the. morning and leave it in the
evening for their suburban residences.-l
There are 10000 policemen, as many cab,
drivers, and the same number Of persons
with the psst-offlce, each of
whom, with their families. would make a
large town. When London makes q holi-
day, there are several places of resort, such
as the Crystal palace, the Geological gar
dens, Kew gardens, etc, which absorb
from thirty to fifty thousand visitors each.
The cost Of gas for lightning is $2 500 900 [
annually; the water supply is one hundred
millions of gallons per diem. In the year
1873, there were 573 fires; and for the pur-
pose of supplying information on the pass
ing events of the day, 314 daily and week
~ newspapers are required. ,sy
What. London will eventually become
it is idle to predict. It already stands in.
four counties, and is striding on to a fifth
,Herts. The probability is that by the
end OF tile century, the population win ex-
'eed five millions, and will have equintu-
olsd itselfin the century. Should 1t pro
,ress at an equal rate in the next, it will
u the year 2, 600 amount to the enormous
aggregate Of twenty five millions; and the
question that naturally arises is how could
'uch multitude be supplied with food.
But the fact is the more its population in
,reases the better they are fed. In the
'lantagenet days, when the population
vas not third of million, famines were
II frequent occurrence, but now, with the
command Of the pastures, the starvation
becomes an almost impossible eyentuality
ven with the twenty-five millions Of
mouths to teed.-LOndOn City Press,