Arizona republican., 1892-07-15
THICKLY POPULATED
A SPOT IN NEW YORK CITY THAT IS
 VERY OENSElY SETTLED.

itants In One Square Mile-There Are
 One square mile of New York city's area, inclusive of streets and pubic squares, has population of more tha
 350,O0O, It is possible to plot on the map an irregular district covering a territory of a square mile which will have population of half d million. but to do that one would have to zigZag over the map, picking out thickly popu lated blocks. It is not possible to plot an area with a population of more than 100000 living in compact and contigu' GUS territory, That population of more than S50,000 to a square mile is not ex ceeded anywhere else 1t is the most thickly populated spot on the earth.
 The large population is possible be- cause the builders and real estate own. CTS of New York are more modern and more 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 large block of tenement property 80 we'll as several small owners can. He will not get much revenue from it, and he will not tl,,t st ,s lnI Na, will he improve it so promptly,
 The most thickly populated quarter of New York is owned by hundreds of men and many comparatively small es- tates. The owners, or agents, give their whole time to the management of prop. erty, and whenever they can get q rate of income or ? per cent, higher they will tear down an old building and put up the modern tenement in its stead They cannot afford to let their land he idle and pay their taxes and assessments on it for its prospective protits;as do the large landowners of Manhattan island. Many of the owners have bought tenements with their savings in thesame neighborhood where they made their money. The tax rolls show that largo share of the tenement property is owned by men of foreign names and birth who came to New York as poor immigrants and now own the property where more recent immigrants live, and where the owners store as many of them as they can and charge as much rent as they can get.
 No known form of habitation will hold more people than the lower class lodging houses and cheap tenemeuts on the east side and the west side between Ninth and Twelfth avenues. Eeithe, Chinatown, in San Francisco, the low. est quarters of an Asiatic city, nor the slums of London or Paris will hold SO many people to the acre, because three and four story buildings are compara- lively rare in either place, while q five story tenement is seldom known. In the poorer quarters of London the own CTS spend little money on improvements when they are not compelled to by the health authorities, because any expAn- diture for Improvements would have to come ont of their income at first, end they do not want their incomes curtailed.
 The most densely populated square mile in New York does not include Five Points and Chinatown. It might be made to zigzag over to the Tombs, talk ing in Pell and Dover streets, the Mul berry bend and Baxter bay, but Para disc park, the Tombs, the new criminal court house, and the numerous inter- secting streets in that neighborhood take up so much of the space that tne section is not so thickly populated as that near Stanton and Rivington streets, where Avenue c begins, and down Pitt. Ridge, Essex, Ludlow and the other east side streets which stop at Houston street Close by Houston street and Avenue c is the most shickly settled block, with rate of population of more than q million to the mile.
 The most thickiy populated square mile includes the whole of the Eighth assembly district, all of the Twelfth ex- cept the three election districts along the water front, all of the Sixth west of Lewis street, all of the Fourth except the five districts along the East river and all of the Tenth and Fourteenth ex- cept the ten election districts between Second avenue and the Bowery and Third avenue. 1t includes Tompkins square, which is as large as three avenue blocks and has no population, the small squares at the intersections of Canal street and the large manufactories. The exact boundaries are Fourteenth street Second avenue, Houston street, the Bow cry, Catharine street, Cherry street, Jackson street, Grand street for block Sixth street for a short block, and Ave nue D back to Fourteenth street
 In that district, not counting the squares and places at the intersections or diagonal streets, are 226 blocks, most of them small blocks, the whole averag- ing less than 800 feet one way by 200 feet the other way; 2l in the Fourteenth district. 34 in the Twelfth, 30 in the Tenth, 58 in the Eighth, 43 in the Sixth. 42 in the Fourth The population of that area is: Fourth district, 6O. .S6S Sixth, GA, ,327; Eighth. S9,262; Tenth. A. 493; Twelfth, 54, l4S; Fourteenth, 3S. .00G making total of more than 350,00O
 The Twelfth and Eighth districts aver. age l,6O0 people to the block, while the highest average population to the block is in the Fourteenth district, around Tompkins square. Tho larger number of people around Tompkins square is ac counted for by the larger size of tine blocks, as they are all avenue blocks from GjO to 700 feet in length, while fur