The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-07-13
THREE CHIEF CITIES.
Population. Resources and Expenditure
Of London. Paris and New York.

Population. Resources and Expenditures
OF London. Faris and New York.
New York. by the census Of 1898, is
. city Of 1900, 900 inhabitants.
The population Of London is 4,sOO,.
900. The population Of Paris is 2, AGO..
900.
The AREA Of London is $4,000 acres
The area Of Paris is Is. zoo. The area
of New York is 1000.
London has 600. 900 houses. Paris
has 80, 900 houses New York has
$4,000 houses London averages
seven residents to a house. Paris
twenty-five, New York eighteen.
London has l $50 miles Of streets.
Paris has 800 miles Of streets. New
York has 5's miles Of streets London
has $500 miles Of sewers. Paris has
40. New York has 444.
Ths water supply Of London is 49,.
100000 gallons day. The water
supply Of Paris is 100. 900. 900 gallons
q day. The water supply Of New York
is 100, 100000 gallons a day. New
York stands at the head Of the three
chief cities in this particular.
London has 1000 firemen. Paris
has 800. New York has !, 100. For
speed and efficiency the New York de-
partment stands at the head Of the
three cities. Fires are much more
frequent IN proportion to the popula ton
IN New York than in either London
or Paris. London loses $1,000, 600 a
year. Paris 81, 500, 900, and New York
IS, 900, 900 by fires.
Hyde Park, the most distinctive of
London parks, covers 400 acres. The
Bots de Boulogne, the most distinctive
OF Paris parks, covers 3,2OO acres.
Central Park, the most distinctive Of
New York parks, covers $40 acres.
Collectively - and including those
parks In the suburbs tributary to Lon.
don-there are in London 81, 900 acres
OF park lands Including as parks the
neighboring forests of Fontainbleu,
with 1900 acres and st. German,
with 5000, the park acreage Of Paris is
liz, 900 acres.
There are twelve London bridges.
Paris has twenty-six, New York has
nve. London bridge was built in lsa4.
The Brooklyn bridge was opened in
1888.
New York city has no regular army
garrison except on Governors island
London has small garrison, the
Guards and few regiments Of infantry
and artillery, 1000 III all. Paris has
as garrison large army-the largest
city garrison in Europe.
Executions are by hanging in Lon.
don and by guillotlne in PARIS In the
former city they are private; in the
latter they are public. There are no
executions, public or private, in New
1ork. Electric current is the means
OF execution in New York since the
passage of the Gerry bill.
There are $4,000 cabs and 1880
stages IN London. There are 5000
cabs and 1850 stages in Paris. There
are 900 cabs and 800 stages in New
York.
The municipal expenses Of London
are 100000 The municipal ex.
penses OF Paris are 500, 900, 900. The
municipal expenses of New York Estate
taxes includedl are SAC, 00O, 900.
The death rate in London is twenty.
one per thousand of population; in
Paris twenty-eight, and in New York
twenty-one. The number Of dea tbs in
New York city last year was Il, OOo, in
Paris 81, 800 and in London 50, 900.
London has II, 900 policemen. Paris
has 5000 policemen. New York has
$500 policemen. The ordinary ar
rests In New York in a year are So
900, IN Paris 100, 900 and in London
l 5000
Street lighting costs 81, 500, 600 in
London, 50, 500. 900 in Paris and $500
900 In New York. Gas was intro
duced In London one year in advance
81 Paris. Eight years later il was in
Produced in New York. London has
1000 street lamps, Paris so, 900 and
New York $4,000, exclusive Of electro
lights.
London was founded in the year so. !
Parls was founded in the year $50. I
New York was founded in 1914. All
.hree are on rivers. London il sixty
niles, Paris Is IL miles from the sea.
The number Of railroads entering
london Is fourteen. The number OF
'allroads entering Paris is eight. New
DIRK being chiefly on an island is act
tally entered by five railroads ONLY.
BY ferry it is entered by twelve more
n all seventeen.
The number Of inhabitants per acre
n London is fifty, in Paris 1870, and in
View York eighty. The density of
population in London is greatest in the
Nhitechapel district, in Paris in the
,emple district-29O per acre, and in
Jew York in the Tenth ward-Jew.
81 quarter-70O per acre.