The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-07-11
THREE CHIEF CITIES.

THREE CHIEF CITIES.
Population. Resources and Expenditures
of London, Paris and New York.
New York, by the census Of 1895, is
a city Of z, 200, 900 inhabitants.
The population Of London is 4,200,-
600. The population of Paris is 2,40O,-
600.
The area of London is $4,000 acres.
The area Of Paris is 1s,70O. The area
of New York is $4,000.
London has 100000 houses. Paris
has 10000 houses. New York has
$4,000 houses. London averages
twenty New York eighteen.
London has 1880 miles of streets.
Paris has 800 miles of streets. New
York has 575 miles of streets. London
has 1880 miles OF sewers. Paris has
4IO. New York has 444.
The water supply of London is 175,-
600, 900 gallons day. The water
supply of Paris is 100, 200, 900 gallons
day. The water supply of New York
is 9O,0O0,OOO gallons day. New
York stands at the head of the three
chief cities in this particular.
London has 1000 fremen. Paris
has 1900. New York has 1, 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 population
in New York than in either London
or Paris. London loses $1,000, 900 a
year. Paris 81, 500, 900, and New York
So, 900, 600 by fires.
Hyde Park, the most distinctive of
London parks, covers 400 acres. The
Bois de Boulogne, the most distinctive
of Paris parks, covers 2,20O 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 %, 900 acres
of park lands. Including as parks the
neighboring forests of Fontainbleu,
with $4,000 acres and st. German,
with 5000, the park acreage of Paris is
172, 900 acres.
There are twelve London bridges.
Paris has twenty-six, New York has
five. London bridge was built in 1924.
The Brooklyn bridge was opened in
1883.
New York city has no regular army
garrison except on Governors island.
London has a small garrison, the
Guards and few regiments of infantry
and artillery, 1000 in all. Paris has
as garrison large army-the largest
city garrison in Europe.
Executions are by hanging in Lon
don and by guillotine in Paris. In the
former city they are private; in the
latter they are public. There are no
executions, public or private, in New
York. Electric current is the means
of execution in New York since the
passage of the Gerry bill.
There are $4,000 cabs and 2,500
stages in London. There are 5000
cabs and 1850 stages in Paris. There
are !, ZOO cabs and 800 stages in New
York.
The municipal expenses of London
are $40, 100000. The municipal ex-
penses of Paris are $65, 100000. The
municipal expenses of New York Estate
taxes included) are $40, ,OOO,0 900.
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 deaths in
New York city last year was Al, 900. in
Paris 81, 500 and in London $4,000.
London has $4,000 policemen. Paris
has 6, 900 policemen. New York has
$500 policemen. The ordinary ar
rests in New York in a year are 3d.
900, in Paris 1OO,0O0 and in London
10000.
Street lighting costs 81, ,800,0 in
London, So, 500, 900 in Paris and $780,
900 in New York. Gas was intro
duced in London one year in advance
of Paris. Eight years later it was in
troduced in New York. London has
70, 600 street lamps, Paris 0,000 and
New York 1000, exclusive of electro
lights.
London was founded in the year so.
Paris was founded in the year $50.
New York was founded in 1914. All
three are on rivers. London is sixty
miles, Paris is Ill miles from the sea.
The number of railroads entering
London is fourteen. The number of
railroads entering Paris is eight. New
York being chiefly on an island is act
ually entered by five railroads only.
By ferry it is entered by twelve more
in all seventeen.
The number of inhabitants per acre
in London is fifty, in Paris 1870, and in
New York eighty. The density of
population in London is greatest in the
Whitechapel district, in Paris in the
Temple district-290 per acre, and in
New York in the Tenth ward-Jew-
ish quarter-700 per acre.
Good Roads in America.
The ''good roads, agitation is en-