Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-20
WONDERS OF LONDON.
A Population Of 4 500, 900 IN 1881, and
Increasing nj the Rate Of $4,000
Annually,
Abont 200, 900 houses The vast Amount OF
Food ana Fuel Consumed Annually.
Vice ana crime,

Statistics are proverblally dry and un.
interesting, except 20 scientists aud theo.
rlsts, but the prediction is yentured that
the following statlstlos Of the population,
buildings, consumption Of food, railroads
streets, equipages Of all kinds, aud the
great number OF other concomltants that
SO TO mako up the great city OF London
from thelrvery enormlty aud almost IN
conceivable magnitude will proycIOi great
interest TO all thluklng pc lple.
The roglsieT-general reports from tho
census of 1881 show that The population
OF London was 500 600, and "a lucroas.
| Ing al the rate OF 10000 annually. Every
sixth man in the whole United Kingdom
Ia 1ondoner, II II estimated that there
are more Roman Catholics In London than
Ia Rome, moro Jews than IN Palestine,
more Scotchmon than In Aberdeen, more
Welshmon than In Cardiff, aud more
| Irlshmeu than IN Belfast. About 500, 900
PERSONS aud IA excess Of 100000 vehicles,
daily enter and leave the city proper, con
slsting OF 6B2 Ocresi within q radius OF
six miles Of Charing Cross there are IN
| operation, calculating double tracks, more
than 700 miles of railway. The custom
house dues exceed AL the other ports In
the kingdom. There were lG59b houses
built In the metropolis Ia ten years end.
ing In sS2, where there are now estimated
to be zoo, 900 houses N has over 1900
places Of worship, aud It's streets, placed
end TO end, would reach from Liverpool
across the Atlantic ocean and inland as
far ns Albany, Y. There are 1900
tayerns and 1900 coftee-housos, There
is consumed annually by this vast aggre-
gauon OF humanity l6,000,000 bushela Of
wheat, 600 beevea, I,000,0p0 sheep,
calves, aud pigs, 100000 Of poultry aud
game, 80,629 tons OF hsh, 1870, 100000
quarts Of malt liquor and al,000,0 900
quarts OF wine, and ls,00000 quarts OF
spirits. Eleven million tons OF cJal are
consumed for warming and cooking pur-
poses, and 100, 900, 900 gallons Of water
are supplied daily TO the population.
The London General Omnibus company
carried ~, 900, 900 passengers In one year,
and while this IL the largest omnibns
company In London, yet there aro many
more. There are besidos this means Of
transportation ABOUT 200 stroet-cars and
more than $4,000 cabs, which earn be-
tween sl5, 100000 and $4,000, 900 a year.
The two underground railways In the
metropolis cBrrNl3G 100000 people Rnnu-
ally. ia comparison with the enormous
within its domain needing protection,
London employs but few policemen, For
In the whole metropolis Including the
city proper, there arc employed but liill7
men There were lost In this great hive
OF humanity during the year 1882 l2,S 7s
children and 3 D8l ndullsi of these ali
were found excepting l2i adults and
twelve children, OF twenty Of whom no
trace could be found; 1852 persons met
with street accidents, and Of these 2I2
were killed.
} The vice and crime Of London Is even
far ahead Of It's other gigantic proper
tons, one.third OF oil the crime OF the
kingdom being committed within its
! limits There are 40 places OF amuse.
ment, divided about as follows Forty
live theatres and more than 400 music
, nails, concert rooms, etc, and those are
, nightly patronzed by over 802, 900 per
sons.
From 1856 10 sS2 thoro hns been spent
, In the Improvement Of the streets, making
, Of new thoroughfares and extending 81
old ones, by the board OF public works
, more than SID, 100000, while the corpo'
ration OF the city has spent during tht
same time for like improvements about
$500, 900 IL Is not known how mucl
the metropolitan school board has TX
Y pended since its inAuratioD, but It's aDnua
2 income, ali Of which IL disburses, amounts
: 10 over $4,000, 900.
No statistics are readily obtainabl'
showing the amount OF gas and watei
pipes laid, OF tho miles upon miles o.
wers which have been constructed bu
h such expenditures, from the magnitude q
4 the work done, must reach an almost In
credible sum But these statistics, as Tar a.
they 90, furnish food for reflection 10 TN
thoughtful. II the Improvement an'
material growth Of London continues a.
G IL has during the last decade, she viii b.
the most magnificent, Well'ordered, an'
healthy city IN the universe ~ wen d
the most populous, and NJ the end 0
4 another decade its former narrow lane
and tortuous streets VIII rest soley 10 th
: dim recollection Of the Old habitue ar
y the musty tones 81 the antiquarian book
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