Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-25
GREAT CITIES.
yheir Growth and Progress I'm the Old
world and the New.

- oil modern cities, yet 1t has added
Sve times as much to its population
during the present century as it did
jnring the previous one thousand
rears There is a difficulty about
eating. the exact population of Lon
dom, because England's metropolis is
not a city in the ordinary sense, but
on aggregation of towns, an ever.
snreading overgrown aggregate of
5ouses and streets, which is constant
" invading new territory and cover
no Il with buildings Thus the old
nity of London has al the last census
mi so 526 inhaitants. London, with
n the registrar generals tables of
mortality, had 1914, 81 people; The
,ondon School board distr ct had 3,
632 AL, people, while the London Of
Il the metropolitan and city police dis
tr;cts had 4 764, 312 inhabitants, near
j " as much as the state of New York.
The latter figure may be taken as the
4 proper population of London, regard
cd as community. It's increase dur,
/ no the previous ten years was $50,
000. or at the rate of 90 per cent.
Ii is easy TO figure up what the
continuance Of such d rate of increase
would finally lead to- 1t would give
London at the next census nearly
600 600 of Inhabitants and at the
sext succeeding one 1850, 600. OF
cau~s mis- rate of increase may not
4 he maintained, but that is matter in
which no one can speak with certain~
ty When London had 1000, 600 in
babitants everyone said that this
wonderful growth must soon stop
but since then London has been grow
inc faster than ever and with the
vigor of young western town. There
If anywhere, will be solved the prob
lem as to how many people can ex lst
in one great city.
Paris, once we'll abreast of London
in population, now takes second place
4 and will have to go down - third be.
fore many decades. It's population
at the last census was 2.2eQ 900, it
having increased about $40, 600 during
n the previous twenty years. Its rate
s. Of increase is therefore comparatively
4 slow, and as the population of France
4 is nearly stationary it must be slow in
a the future.
New York is now the third OF the
4 great cities of the world, leaving out
q Of consideration the cities of China, of
q whose population there is no relia BILE
i enumeration. The position of New
u York as the mart of vast continent
q is uneeualed, but the narrowness of
Manhattan island and the inferior
facilities for rapid transit prior to the
era Of the elevated railways have been
against IT, Its population of 1900, 900
at the last census should have grown
to l, $50, 900 at the next census, and to
n ,0O0, 600 at the succeeding one. If
II the population of New York was
reckoned on the same basis as that of
n London it would take in Brooklyn,
H Jersey City, and a number of small
n adjacent towns, with a population at
the last census of 2, $50, 000 The ag-
n gregated community thus indicated is
Ngrowing at the rate of 80 per cent
Eevery ten years, so that the total pop
ruation gathered here at the next
n census will be nearly 100000, and
at the following census nearly 4,000,-
4 J0 The population of Brooklyn is
N INCREASING more rapidly than that of
4 New York, its increase being at the
4 pate Of so per cent between 1860 and
&lo1O am 43 pes cent between 1870 and
] lSS0 against II and % per cent for
iho same decades in New York. OF
Ecourse if these relative rates of in
&crease should be maintained it would
&only be question of time when
Brooklyn would be the larger city of
\ the two.
Il Following New York, the great
aties Of the world that have a popula-
hon of more than LOCO, 600 are Ber-
In, /, 122000; Vienna, /, 103 900, and
onstantinople, 1,075, 600 The capt
"a Of Russia has only SIS, 600, and the
piner European capitals not already
nentioned will fall much below that
Egure. No doubt st. Petersburg viii
elore the next census have passed
me- LOCO, 600 limit and become en-
tled to rank as one of the great cities
M the world.
IL Vi cities which rank as second in
neir respective countries the greatest
Philadelphia, with S47,00 inhabi.
snts at the last census, and which
r. probably reach LOGO, 600 at the
eXt enumeration. The United States
WI then be the only country in the
orld with two cities of more than
OyO 600 inhabitants, ard by the sue
geaing census Brooklyn will be
9aed TO the list to form third, and
mcago also probably to form a
oortn. By that time, however, Mos
nv wall have passed the 1000, 900
mlt and also Glasgow and possibly
AT the last census there were in
reat Britain and Ireland twenty
wen cities and towns with upward of
4UVJ inhabitants, and increase of
wen over the number at the
eyIoUs census. In the United
aleN there were at the last census
gn5een cities and towns with up.
ara OF 100 600 inhabitants, an in
ease OF four over the previous CEN
y, NO other country in Edrope had
many cities Of that size as we can
T." Germany had fourteen, Fran go
austria Hungary FIVE, and Russia
Tue. RFifigh ~