Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-22

A ClTY's BAP10 G9oWIu.
Some of the most rapidly growing
American cities, remarks the Alta, ara
those which represent merely suborbs
70 some larger metropolis New York
City has spilled over in all directions
and ID building up suburbs faster than
Il il itself increasing in popolstson.
Chicago d the usual type Of American
urban progress, bat In growth 70 .
u,scs Of 10000 people his bssn nomore
remarkable than this growth Of Brook
I'm, though the latter u seldom thooans
Of a. a PRODIGY. Fifty ysss ago only
omen fields were to b sesn where nov
stands that city of 100000 souls Then
people from the New York side OF the
river crossed over there 70 shoot birds
and harea. Even ~ late a. lssl, when
the Brooklyn Eagle was started a. .
Democratic papsr the city had bat 81
600 population. and had only bsen tn
corporated seven yeais. Thsn FaIeon
street was the only business thorough
fare, and beyond the City Hall. but four
or Ave blocks from the river, only coun-
trv roads and fslds greeted the eye.
Beeeher and Plymouth church were not
there than. He was In tho western
wilds Of Indiana, making fame and Do
volopine into full-AedRsd. broad gage
ureaoher. The only ferries In that
day we're row boats. and they made ir-
regular trips. Old-fashioned pumps
supplied the inhabitants With water,
end wood Vas used - fuel instead OF
ooai. About that time. or in 1888, the
Arst stsamsr from England arrived al
the port Of New York. Railroads were
In their formative state. 20 to speak,
shers being less than 1000 miles OF rail
on this continent. The Nsw York and
Erie Railroad was then being built, AID
the utility Of horse railroads in cities
had not been demonstrated. About
that time fsh-oil lamps took the place
of tallow candles, and gas was beins
talked Of as the coming light. Envel-
opes, too, had just displaced sealing
wax, aud goose quilts were giving way
70 steel pens. Iron ships to float the
sess had not been tested. and gold had
not been discovered in California.
The amazing growth Of Chicago and
Ban Francisco came from force OF cir
cumstances and the settlement OF the
great West. while Brooklyn sprung
mainly from New York's overflow. Be-
fore the street car era people pFeferrsd
70 1.-Two near their business. and ~ busi-
ness At that time Rugged the river Oh
tho New York side, people sought homes
on the other side Of East river. A few
years later came the manufacturing era,
and that gave Brooklyn another i'm
petus; and, ~ We look over the situation |
today. we find that in the multiplication
Of population Brooklyn has mot played
second fiddle to New York or any other |
city In the Union, and that now IL hope |
Of becoming the largest city on TITO csn-
tinsnt within Afty years 10 by no means
! delusion or improbable. But outside
II its manufacturing industries II pos
yesses no commercial advantages OF I'M
portance. II In q city Of homes and
uanufactoriss--a sort Of apartment or
auxiliary establishment to New York,
,ntirely void Of that life and hustle that !
= great city. In hotels
lre simply ovsrRrown boarding houses,
md Il ID somewhat noted a . city Of
'brotherly love" and churches. situated
N Long Island and under tho shadow
4 New York. largely under the infa.
nee Of Beecher and TAlmaQe.