Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-10-13
The Future of New York.


troller and park commissioner of
New York, predicts that the town of
Westchester, the whole of Kings
County, of Flushing, Newtown, and
Jamaica, in Queens County, and the
whole of Staten Island will be
absorbed in the corporation of New
York, giving to the city an area of
about 800 square miles, as compared
with London with an area of 6S7
square miles. To effect this object,
Mr.. Green would remove all obstacles,
open ways, build bridges, and make
it cheap and convenient to live in
New York. From the easternmost
point of Staten Island to the northerly
line of the city, being the southerly
line of Yonkers, would be 80 miles.
From the Battery to its extreme
northerly line would be, say, Is miles,
and from the Hudson River to the
easterly line of Flushing would be
about u miles. 1t cannot be kept
90 constantly in mind, says Mr..
Green, that New York is, and is to
be, the great manufacturing center of
the American continent. It's domes-
tic is probably three times its foreign
commerce. No impeachment should
be placed in the way of conveniences
for continuing the hold of New York
on the great continental traffic which
by all the rights of typographical
advantages belongs to it. The Hud-
son should be bridged, of course
avoiding needless distractions to the
waterway, The great continental
railway lines must be afforded
facilities in establishing their termi-
nails there. Where capitalists are
willing to embark their money to
open new ways to the city, to bridg-
ing and tunneling the adjacent
waters, they should be encouraged,
not opposed by vexations legislation.
Within aradius of 25 miles from the
Battery in Jersey there are more
people today than in Brooklyn, more
than in the whole State of Connect
cut, and the day is not distant when
the necessities of business and the
convenience of administration viii
force a concentration of the various
towns, cities, and villages within the
above radius into one great munic
ipality, with immense advantage
for the accommodation of domesti,
traffic and with excellent watel
facilities.
Apropos to the above, Mr.. Simon
Stevens, lawyer of some note il
this city, is reported by the New Yorl
Tribune as saying: sit is curious
thing in the study of the world
history to see how the commercial
center has shifted, from time to time
in general course around the globe
You can 60 back to time whel
Antwerp was the worlds CONNER C
Next Amsterdam held the thread
of commercial venture. Then tn,
center was shifted to Liverpool
Now it is London. Next it will b.
: in New York. A careful study of tn
worlds commerce at the presen
time gives sure indications that tn
power and prestige of England in he
commercial relations is beginning t
be shaken, while the commercia
f empire is drifting across the Atlanti
t to the new world" And as indicat
ing what the powerful money king
$ of Europe think, ex-United State
, Minister Noyes reports that Baro
5 Rothchilds said to him recently
a "The financial prosperity of the Unit
ed States is without parallel in tn
: history of the world. You are draw
e ing from all the treasures of the oil
< world to fill your own"