Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-07-15
GREAT CITIES.
Their Growth and Progress in the Old World
and the New


ing the present century rs it did dur
ing the previous one thousand wears.
There is difficulty about stating the
exact population of London, because
England's metropolis is not a city i'm
the ordinary sense. but an aggrega-
tlon OF towns, an ever-spreading over
grown aggregate of houses and
streets, which is constantly invading
new territory and covering il with
buildings. Thus the old city of Lon
don has at the last census but 50,526
inhabitants. London, within the reg
istrar generals tables of mortality,
had 3,ol4,57l people; the London
school board district had 1882, ,441
people, while the London of the met
ropolitan and city police districts had
4,TO4,3l2 inhabitants, nearly as many
as the whole state of New York. The
latter figure may be taken as the
proper population of London, regard
ed as a community. It's increase dur
ing the previous ten years was $50, 600,
or at the rate of % per cent.
1t is easy to figure up what the con-
tinuance of such rate of increase
would finally lead to. 1t would give
London at the next census nearly
5000, 600 of inhabitants, and at the
next succeeding one 100000. OF
course this rate of increase may not be
maintained, but that is matter in
which no one can speak with certain
ty. When London had 100000 in
habitants everyone said that this
wonderful growth must soon stop, but
since then London has been growing
faster than ever and with the vieor of
young western town. There, if any,
where, will be solved the problem as
to how many people can exist in one
great city.
Paris, once we'll abreast of London
in population, now takes second place,
and will have to go down to third be-
fore many decades. Its population at
the last census was 2,269, 900, it hav-
ing increased about $40, 900 during the
previous twenty years. Its rate of in
crease is therefore comparatively
slow, and as the population of France
is nearly stationary it must be slow III
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 unequaled, but the narrOwness of
Manhattan island and the inferior fa-
cilities for rapid transit prior to the
era of elevated railways have been
against it. Its population of 200, 900
at the last census should have grown
to l, 800, 900 at the next census, and to
10000 600 at the succeeding one. Ii
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
adjacent towns, with a united pOpula-
ton of the last census of 2,250,000.
The aggregated community thus indi-
Gated is growing at the rate of 80 per
cent every ten years, SO that the total
population gathered here at the next
census will be nearly 5000, 900, ana at
the following census nearly 4,000,000.
The population of Brooklyn is increas-
York, its increase being at the rate of
80 per cent between 1860 and 1870, and
43 per cent between 1870 and 1880,
against IL and 2S per cent for the
same decades in New York. OF course
If these relative rates of increase should
be maintained it would only be n ques-
ton of time when Brooklyn would be
the larger city of the two.
Following New York the great cities
of the world that have a population of
more that 100000 are Berlin, 1,122,-
900; Vienna, 1,103, 900, and CONSTANT
nople, 100000. The capital of Rus
sia has only $4,000, and the other
European capitals not already men
toned will fall mach below that figure.