Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-09
GREAT ULCIkS.
Their Gcowth and Progress I'm the
Old World and the New.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Londyn stands easily at the head OF
modern cities, yet 1t has added five tim'
as much to Its population during tt
present century as 1t did during th
previous one thousand years. There is
difficulty about stating the exact popult
ton of London, because England's me
tr polls ia not city In the ordlnar
sense, but an aggregation of towns, a
ever-spresding overgrown aggregate c
houses and streets, which Is constant
invading new territory and covering
with buildings. Thus the old CITY =
London has at the last census but DC, 52
inhabitants. Loudou, within the regis
trsr generals tables of mortality, hat
3 S14 57l people; the London schoo
board district had 3, S3244l pc 'ple, Will
the London of the metr pollsan and cit!
police district, had 4764 ,3l2 inhsbi
'au's, nearly as many "a the whole state
of New York. The latter figure NAV b.
taken as the proper p pulation of Lon
don. regarded ss q community. Its in
crease during thh previous ten years wal
$50 600, or at the rate of 90 per cent,
1t is easy to figure up what rhe c)ntin
uance of such rate of increase would
fin ally lead to. 1t would give l. ,ndon at
the next census nearly 100000 of in
habitsnts, and at the next succeeding
one 7,25O,000 OF course this rate OF
increase may not be maintained, but that
Is matter In which no one can speak
,vfth oax,,I,t- Whar I,pnnp bod a
2, ,000, 900 Inhabitants every one said that
this wonder al growth must soon stop,
but since then L lndcu has been growing
faster than ever and with he vigor of a
y ung westarn town. There, If any
where, will be solved the problem as to
h,w many people can exist In one great
city.
Paris, once well abreast of London In
population, now takes second place, and
will have to go down to third before
many decades. It's population at the
last census wss 1880, 900, 1t having In
creased about $4,000 during the previ-
Gus twenty years. It's rate of increase is
therefore comparatively slow, and as the
population of France Is nearly stationary
it must be slow in the future.
New York il now the third of the
great cities of the world, leaving out
consideration the cities of China, of
whose population there is no reliable
enumeration. The position of New
York "a the mart of vast continent 10
une qualed, but the nsrrowness of Man
haitian island and the inferior facilities
for rapid transit prior t, the era of ele.
vated railways have been against 1t. Its
population of 1900, ,0G0 at the lass CEN
aus should have grown to 1850, 900 a.
the next census, and to 2,000,O ,OU0 at the
succeeding one. If the population OF
New York was reckoned on the same
basis as that of London it would take in
Brooklyn, Jersey City, and number of
small adj AGENT towns, with united pop
ulation at the last census of 2, 2,250,00O
The aggregated community thus :nai-
Gated is growing at ths rate of 80 per
cent every ten years, 80 that the total
population gathered here at the next
census will be nearly 100000, and at
the following censns nearly 1000, 900.
The population of Brooklyn ia increasing
more rapidly than that of Nsw York,
its increase being at the rate of 30 per
per cent bet tween 1860 and 1870, and 43
per c=nt between 1870 and 1880, againss
IL and 90 per cent for the same decades
In New York. Of course If these rela-
tive rates of increase should be maintained
1t would be only questiono OF time when
Brooklyn would have the larger popula-
tlon of the two.
Following New York the great cities
of the world that have population of
more than 100000 are Berlin, 122 =
600; Vienna, 1,l03, 600; Constantinople,
l,075, 900. The capital of Russia has
only $4,000, and the other European
capitals not already mentioned would
fail much below that figure. No doubt
St. Petersburg will before the next CEN
aus have passed the Loco. 900 limit, aud
become entitled to rank as one of the
great cities of the world
OF cities which rsnk as second In their
respective countries the greatest is Phila-
delphia, With 847 COO inhabitants at the
last census, AID which will probably
reach 100000 at the next enumeration.
The United States then will be the only
country in the world with two cities with
more than 100000 inhabitants, and by
the succeeding census Brooklyn will bs
added to the list to form third, and
Chicago also probably to form fourth
By that time, however, Moscow will have
passed the / 1000, 900 limit and also Gla.-
gov and possibly Liverpool.
AT the last census there were In Great
Britain and ireland 27 cities and towns
with upward of 10000 inhabitants, sn
increase of seven over the number at the
previous census. In the Unued States
there were at the last census Is cities and
towns with upward of 100000 inhabi
tants, an increase of four over the pre-
vioua census. No other country In
Europe had 80 many cities of that size as
we can show, Germany had ID. France
10, Austria Hungary 3, and Russia o.
British india has 18 cities with 100, 900
inhabitants and upward. 1t Is certainly
remarkable that this young republic
should be In advance of such countries as
France, Germany and Austria, with
respect to large cities, and so close upon
the heels Of England, which, however,
still retains good lead. and some of
whose younger towns are extremely Wig