Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-05
DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES.
London, Paris and st.
Petersburg.

Gath in the Cincinnati Inquirer
Nothing proceeds SO crookedly and unex-
pectedly as the development of cities New
York, for instance, expected to have all its
power through its shipping, whereas at the
present time its main source of growth and
stability il first through the manufactures and
the next accessory source Of strength is through
its social attractions.
In the same way London has grown to be the
greatest city of the modern world, and the
greatest city, indeed, Of any age; yet you may
travel 10 miles in London and not see any
thing bigger than public house where the in
habitants congregate or toll The infnitude of
small trades constitute an aggregate of empire
In general capital like Paris or London. Some
obstacles exist in the nature of the territory to
extensive manufacturing at the city of WASH
lngton, but 1t is the opinion of those who have
looked at this question closest that the future
power OF Washington is not to lie in trade, but
in society. -
At the same time there is nothing about
Washington so artificial in incentive or situa-
ton as to leave it high and dry, like st. Peters
burg, for example, which was the conception of
an energetic tyrant to overawe his European
neighbors .....,
found ST. Petersburg last summer to be ap-
parently duller than Washington city, though
with a much larger population; yet under
stand that the winter of st. Petersburg is the
great factor of influence in the whole empire
OF Russia, with Its population of 120, 900 O00
Hardly any of the real capitals of Europe con-
tanned ANYTHING to indicate their extensive
growth at the outset but the political idea.
Paris was merely a far inland and island strong
hold upon which the crown of France and the
parliament thereof soon settled and held fast
and the result has been a city of $780, 900 Of
people. -....
Berlin was after thought rather than an
original choice for capital, but the imperial
tide of events has made it become a place of
nearly one and a half million of people. Vienna
took Its prominence from having become the
favorlte city OF the dynastic line of Roman
German emperors and it is a place also of
million OF people. AS nations find their out
lines and secure their routes of communion
ton, the pathfinder in the course of time be-
comes the capital finder; this has been demon
strated time and again by the founders of great
external movements who have come to Wash
lngton to prosecute their equities and there
have settled and died.
Long after Robert Fulton was in the grave
his grandchildren and great grandchildren at
Washington obtained a settlement in equity
for his great invention. Then there came
John A. Suffer, on whose place gold was dis
covered in California, to ask for some COM
pensation which he could not obtain from
those who had profted directly by his tolls,
and he is buried in this vicinity. Schoolcraft,
who investigated the Indian tribes, left his
widow and family about Washington.
We have now entered upon the second chap
ter OF this social federalism in that nearly all
men of intellectual force find their own coun-
try to give the greatest promise of social en-
ployment to come to Washington. The large
merchants of the west, like Mr.. Letter; the
railway powers of the Pacific coast, like Mr..
Stanford; the manufacturers, like those from
Springfield, Ohio the chief operators on Wall
street, like ID. p. Morgan and John G. Moore,
look to Washington as the place of ultimate
settlement, in order that their money may give
them a better sort OF intercourse than they get
with their pawnbrOkers and stock operators.