The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-19
New York's Growth Estimated by Andrew
II. Green.

II. Green.
[From Our New York Correspondent
"The greatest city in America and the
greatest city in the world in the Twentieth
century will be that comprised in the met
ropolitan district of New York" That is the
prophecy of Andrew ii. Green, who has for
thirty years given exhaustive study to this
subject Mr.. Green is one of the executors
of the will of Samuel j. Tilden, and his re-
markable business capacity and sound
judgment as well as other qualities made
him one of the most intimate of the few in
innate friends of that great man.
Mr.. Green believes that Chicago is to be
the most gigantic of the internal cities of
the United States, numbering in it's popu-
lation in the next century perhaps almost
as many as Paris now has. But the New
York of 1898 will have, he estimates, more
than 100000 people.
early in the next century the consolida-
ton of all that section which is now COM
prised in the metropolitan district under
one municipality will, think, have been
accomplished. This will then bring more
than 3,000,000 people under one municipal
government, and when we remember that
in this district 100 years ago less than $4,000
people lived it is fair to infer from the nat
ural law growth that more than 100000
will be in this district 100 years hence, all
under one local government.
1T is to be the finest municipal develop
ment the world has ever seen. l expect
that some of the problems that now face
municipalities will have been solved by
this grand congregation of citizens The
finest churches, the most beautiful archi-
lecture, the most exquisite parks, the most
beautiful drives, will give comfort and de-
light to the people who live in this COM
munity in the next century. There are to
be reforms of municipal administration
and do not say that the New York Of the
next century is going to be ideally perfect,
but do say that it passes the comprehen-
sion of men now living to conceive the maj
esty of this great city as it will be in the
next century"
Rev. Thomas Dixon's Mental Telescope
Takes a Wide Sweep.
AS to the political and social condition of
the United States and of the world in 1903,
/ do not believe there will be a crowned
head in the civilized world at the close Of
the next century. 1 believe that democracy
will reign triumphant to the farthest limits
of civilization.
1t seems to me certain that government
must grow more complex IL by complexity
we understand the multiplication of its
functions. "fhe less government the bet
ter is motto of an infantile republic. 1t
is out Of date ut least 100 years BY gov
eminent our ancestors understood tyranny,
kingship, power outside Of the people
pressing upon them. By government now
we understand the people governing them
selves. AZ lie becomes necessarily COM
pick, so government must keep pace with
the development Of life; otherwise liberty
will become mt last mockery. The condi-
tions Of our modern civilization are far
more complex than the conditions of those
which our ancestors met when they made
the federal constitution That constitution
Is utterly inadequate to the demands Of the
present, and will be magnified and enlarged
either directly or indirectly by amendment
or Interpretation To meet the growing needs
of the new life of the new century.
IL Is absol,''.''v certain either that the