Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-29
THICKLY POPULATED
A SPOT IN NEW YORK CITY THAT is
VERY DENSELY SETTLED.

"s IN ono square hiiie-There Are
$4,000 People Living In This Section.
One square mile of New York citys
area, inclusive OF streets and public
squares, has population Of more tina
100000, II is possible to plot on the
map an irregular district covering y
territory of IA square mile which win
have population of half million, bu,
to do that one would have to zigzag
over the map, picking out thickly popu-
lated blocks. 1t is not possible to plot
an area with population of more than
10000 living in "A compact and contigu-
Gus territory That population of moro
than 100000 to square mile is not ex-
ceeded anywhere else. 1t is the most
thickly populated spot ON the earth.
Tho large population is possible be-
cause the builders and real estate own
ers of New York are more modern and
moro inventive than those in European
cities. The densely populated tenements
In New York are not usually the property
OF estates, handed down from generation
TO generation, like the property of the
Astors and the Duke Of Westminster
the largest real estate owner in London.
NO man can manage "a large block of
tenement property SO well as several
small owners can He will not get
much revenue from it. and he will not
see that 1t is filed with tenants; neither
VIII he improve it so promptly.
Inc most thieSly populated quarter
OF New York is owned by hundreds of
men and many comparatively small es-
tates. The owners, or agents, giyetheir
whole time TO the management of prop-
erty, and whenever they can get a rate
OF income ! or 9 per cent. higher they
VIII tear down an old building and nut
up the modern tenement in its ste a
They cannot afford TO let their land lie
Idle and pay their taxes and assessments
ON It for its prospective profits. as do
the large landowners of Manhattan
island. Many Of the owners have bought
tenements with their savings in thesame
neighDorhood where they made their !
money. Tho tax rolls show that a large
snare OF the tenement property is owned {
by men OF foreign names and birth WAC |
same to New York rs poor immigrants
and now own the property where more !
recent immigrants live. and where the !
owners stor as many of them as they !"
can and charge us much rent as they n
can get
No known form of habitation will (,
hold more people than the lower class O.
iodging horses and cheap tenements on l.
the east sid and the west side between al
Ninth and Twelfth avenues. Neither v
Chinatown, in san Francisco, the low. v
est quarters of an Asiatic city. nor the "
slums Of London or Paris will hold 90 p
many people to the acre. because three n
and four story buildings are compare n,
uvely rare In either place, while five re
story tenement is seldom known. In CO
the poorer quarters of London the own I'll
ers spend little money ON improvements fe
when they are not compelled to by the
health authorities, because any expen.
diture for improvements would have 10 co
come ont of their income at first. and ri
they do not want their incomes curtailed. sul
Inc most densely populated square pr
mile IN New York does not include Five dt
POINTS ana Chinatown. 1t might be
made TO zigzag over to The Tombs. tak-
ing IN Pell aad Dover streets, the Mul.
berry bend and Baxter bay. but Para tat
iise park, the Tombs tho new criminal IN,
'ourt mouse, and the numerous inter-
ecting streets in that neighborhood
axe up so much of the space that toe ,,ii
lection Is not so thickly populated as a
nat near Stanton and Rivington streets.
where Avenue begins. and down Pitt. inr
Ridge, Essex, Ludlow and the other
ast sido streets which stop at Houston Co
treet Close by Houston street and
avenue Z is the most thickly settled ing
liock, with rate of population Of more !
han million TO the mile. Co,
The most thickly populated square ~
nilo includes the whole of the Eighth =. lv
ssembiy district, all Of the Twelfth ex- q
ept the three election districts along tho arl
fater front, all of the Sixth west OF Bla
.ewis street all Of the Fourth except q
he i've districts along the East river leg,
nd all OF the Tenth and Fourteenth az. TO
ept the ten election districts between A
econd avenue and the Bowery and s n,n
hird avenue. IL includes Tompkins M "
luare, which is as large rs three avenue nv
locks and has no population, the small 4
luares AZ the intersections OF Canal and
rect and the large manufacturers The r Sc
tact boundaries are Fourteenth street j
scond avenue. Houston street, the Bow. son
y. Catharine street. Cherry street VIII
sckson street, Grand street for a biloxi lot
xth street for short block, and Ave. 40 =
Ne ID back TO Fourteenth street 90 7,
In that district, not counting the 500,
usres and places at the Intersections n
diagonal streets. are 80 blocks, most lots
them small blocks. the whole syerar. ID
: less than 500 feet one way by 900 aids
. the other way; 81 in the Fourteenth VIII