The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-23
NEw YoRlN I
It's Marvellous Growth In Population
Within Eighty Years.

NE w 1ONtAN
| It's Marvellous Growth In Population
Within Eighty Years.
| From the New YORK World.
New York at the beginning of the
! century had q population less than Co..
| 400 At that time the population 0
London was s64 ,WO. London nov has
/ population OF $500, 900 and New York
in it's corporate limits is known to have
t,5 O,00O.
But just here we are met with the OBJ
lection that the commercial, industrial,
polite and aggregate importance Of
New York can not be fairly estimated
by the census report of its population
within the corporate lin its for the rea-
son that an enormous number of people
transact their business in New York, de-
pend unon it for their incomes, their So
ciety, their amusement, and their liter
AZURE, who nevertheless reside outside
of its limits. To get at anything like an
approximate estimate of this population
is extremely i%lflicult. tits safe to say,
however, that q million people consider
NeW York a proper place to do business
in. but not a tit place to live in.
There are obvious and adequate rea-
sons for this belief, ant among them IS
the difficulty of acquiring a healthy, in
dependent come at q reasonable price.
1t is plain from this view that any
comparison of the growth Of New York
with London based upon statistics ofpop-
ulation iii the corporate Limits overlook
one OF the unique features of New York.
This surhurt, ban population has not
been estimated SO far as its true value.
Ihe influence of the metropolis upon
the country within a radius OF twenty or
o twenty five miles is marked AID PEI
cuiiar. The city both absorbs and nour-
isfes the suburban activities. The hun
dred hamlets lying within IN hours
reach OF the City Hall draw the breath
OF life from the metropolis. They are
fed by the atluent life that overtlows
tram the great center. And within that
1ux of activities coming and go ng.
Brooklyn. Jersey City, Williamsburg,
ct their pulse-beat from this organic
center. The stream of wealth flows
nightly owe into Long Island. Staten Is.
land and Jersey, and pours its atfluent
waves along the Hackensack and Pas
sale and Hudson. It was made the
Bronx, the Pocantico and fifty smaller
rivers blossom like the rose with subur-
ban homes. Its vital currents are felt
as lar north as Cornwall and Sing Sing,
MS jdT tltSl d6 DdDS lou, dS ldE SOulu dS
the Raritan, as far west as Passaic.
New York in its actual girth, can not
be circumscribed by its corporate limits
for the reason that its h rdiest and best
material cribs and flows to and from I'M
determined limits beyond.
Any fair estimate of the population of
lower Weslchester, Kings, Queens, Stat
en- Island, Union, Hudson, Essex, and
portions OF Bergen and Passaic that are
dependent on New York and draw their
commercial aud social revenues from it,
would give US a population of 2 500, 600.
The enormous growth of the city since
the opening Of the century ls not, there
fore, az obvious in tabular statements as
that the imports have increased from
$2S, 00U.000 to 1884, 900 900; that nearly
six millions of immigrants have landed
hers, since lS47 (the year that the Board
OF Emmigrat.oH was established); that
the city receives into its c%apacious "a
every year S00, 900 cattle, 800, 900 sheep
and 2,tU0, 600 hogs, and the sum total -l
produce per anum that m to it f'.ots
up the enormous figure of 1870 900 900.
But, even with these figures before us
we can form but a faint idea OF the
growth of the CITY, unless we stop to
consider that only e,ghty-three years
ago the authorities were laying out and
grading Duane and Reade streets, and
cutting a ditch through what is now Can.
al street to drain the Lispenard mead
" One Can hardly believe that the
first sidewalk was laid in 1890, and tina,
before that our for, fathers picked their
way over plaLks and bricks. 1t was not
till the opening of the century that the
determined to fix the grade Of Broad.
way between Duane ana Canal streets
and number the houses. 1t seems in.
credible that Wall street should be the
uptown promenade, and that as late as
1888 people laughed at the folly of build
ing the Astor House SO far out Of the
way.
One who starts rom that old-fash
ioned but still popular caravansary ant
travels northward will have Line gooc
miles of city to traverse before he car
be said to be fairly up town, and whe1
be has reached the Harlem River be
knows YER we'll TINT the corporate lin
its are miles beyond, ard the positive
human limits still fu?tiler.
ANY calculation as the future of New
York based npon the percentage OF in
crease in population and tine increase il
area presents to the mind q city at III,
end OF another eighty years which ia
exceeds anything that civilization ha'
yet accomplished in its process of aggre
cation,