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80 large pOpulagion OF the great
clsles 81 antiquity, there need not Sc
any hesitation in asserting that there
were never before SO many large cities ii
sne world as there arc at present. II
rome II tho time Of Emperor Clandins
nao, as is alleged, nearly seven millions
81 inhabitants, IL Is remarkable that for
more than thousand years after the fall
q tnat great city there was no civ IN
EUROPE with SO many as one million neo-
pie. Indeed, at the beginning Of the
present century there was no CITY in Fu-
rope with that number Of Inhabitants
Lne most populous being London with
SOD, 900 persons. There are now Ave
european cities with upward OF 3 million
lnnaDltants, the first two OF which con-
tam IN the aggregate 1000, 900 persons.
AZ America, at the beginning of the
century. there were no cities that would
now De regarded as more than fourth
class tows: the population of New York
was about 10000. AT the last census
there were twenty six cities in the United
States which exceeded that figure.
London stands easily at the head of
all modern cities. vet II has added ave
times as much TO its population during
the present century as It did during the
previous thousand years. There is a
difficulty about stating the exact popu-
lation of London, because EnglandSs me-
tropolIs Is not city in the ordinary
sense, but an aggregation of towns, al
ever spreading, overgrown aggregate Of
houses and streets, which Is constant
~ invading new territory and covering
It with buildings Thus the old city Of
London had at the last census but 5O.-
026 inhabitants. London, within the
registrar generals tables Of mortality
had 1914, 81 people; the London school
board district had 1882, AL people.
while the london Of the metropolitan
and city police districts had 4,704. 312
inhabitants. nearly as many as the whole
State of New York. The latter figure
may be taken as the proper population
OF London, regarded as community.
Its increase during the previous ten
years was $4,000, or at the rate of
twcnty-three per cent.
Paris, once we'll abreast Of London i'm
population, now takes second place, and
will have to 90 down to third before many
decades. It's population at the last cen
sus was 2, 269, 900, it having increased
about $500 during the previous
twenty years. It's rate Of increase is
therefore comparatively slow, and, as
the population of France is nearly sta
tionary, it must necessarily be slow in
the future.
New York is now the third of the
great cities of the world, leaving out Of
consideration the cities Of China, of
whose population there is NO reliable
enumeration. The position of New York
as the mart of vast continent is un
equaled, but the narrowness of Manhat-
tan Island and the inferior facilities for
rapid transit prior to the era of elevated
railways have been against it. It's pOpu-
lation of 1905, 900 at the last census
should have grown to /, $50, 900 at the
next census and to 2, 600, 900 at the sue
ceeding one. II the population of New
York was reckoned on the same basis as
that Of London it would take In Brook
Ign, Jersey City and number of small
adjacent towns, with united population
at the last census Of 2, $50. 600. The az
gregated community thus indicated is
growing at the rate Of thirty per cent.
every ten years. so that the total popula-
ton gathered here at the next census
will be nearly 8. 600, 600. and at the fol-
lowing census nearly 1900, 600. The
population Of Brooklyn is increasing
more rapidly than that Of New York, its
Increase being at the rate of iiftv per
cent. between 1860 and 1870. and forty
three per cent between 1870 and 1880,
against seventeen and twenty-eight per
cent for the same decades for New
York.
Following New York the great cities
OF the world that have population Of
more than one million are Berlin, /, 122, ;
600; Vienna, /, 103. 900, and Constanti-
nople, 1,O75, 900. The capital Of Russia
has only SO, 900, and the other Euro
pean capitals, not already mentioned,
will fall much below that figure. No
doubt SO. Petersburg will. before the
next census. have passed the one million
limit and become entitled to rank as one
Of the great cities Of the world.
OF cities which rank but second In
their respective countries the greatest Is
Philadelphia, with its S47. 600 inhabi-
tants Ut the last census. and which will
probably reach 1860, 600 At the next
enumeration. The United States viii
then BE the only country id the world
with two cities OF more than million
inhabitants. and by the succeeding cen
sus Brooklyn will be added 70 the list 70
form third. and Chicago also probably
to form d fourth. BIZ that time, how
ever. Moscow viii have passed the one
million limit and also Glasgow and pOssl-
bly, Liverpool.
At the last census there were in Great