St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-12

London in everything but foreign COM
merce. London has an advantage
there principally because she credits
to herself nearly all the shipping done
through all the seaports in England,
and England has devoted her attention
TOR many years to building up an
enormous foreign trade, while the
United States has neglected that
branch of national enterprise most
shamefully. That was what Blaine
said.
In 1883 the foreign trade of New York
City-the official New York City
amounted to: Imports, S49O, ,OOO, COO; ex-
ports, $S600O0,000; total, $3.50, 900, 900.
Add this to the other foreign trade
concentrated IN New York's rivers and
harbors, and the total rises to $780, OOO,-
600.
LONDON'S FOREIGN TRADE
for the same year amounted to s., ,O2O.-
900. In New York the capital invested
in manufactures is $500, ,G0O,0 900. The
product turned out every year is
valued at 763,00000O. Two hundred and
thirty million dollars is paid in wages
every year. That is for the city of
New York proper, as it stands official
ly today. If we include the area out
lined, these sums must be multiplied
by two and a quarter, according to the
most expert judgment, giving the fol-
lowing figures for the greatest city
in the world: Capital invested, 1,250,-
600; product, SLIT, 100000; wages,
$516, 1000, ,0O0
In London the capital invested in
manufactures, amounts to little less
than $1,000, 600. Other figures are in
proportion. So there we lead again.
On the contrary, London is as gloomy
as the Valley of the Shadow of Death
for good part of every year. Nasty,
miasmatic fogs from the low banks of
the Thames hover over the city contin-
ually for weeks and months at a time.
L spent five weeks in the city last Win
ter, and did not see the sun with any,
thing like respectable American clear
ness. The mortality from diseases of
the throat and lungs is one-quarter
higher there than it is in New York.
To live in London is to do penance.
To live in New York is to-live. The
two cities cannot be compared as
places of residence. London'S rich
folk spend from two to three months Of
the year in the city, for the single pur-
pose of enjoying the social season. No
one pretenda to live in London for Lon
don's sake-it is for the sake of the
people who are there. New York's S
rich people are more than likely to stay
here for nine months of the year, for
the simple reason that it is the best
place in the world to stay in-for it's
own sake.
New York's birth rate is 2 per cent
higher than London's
New York is the biggest, the most
progressive, the most promising city in
the world. It's future is dazzling.
There is every reason why it should go
right on, adding new glories to it's
crown with every year of it's life For
the glories come to it. 1t does NOT
have to go to seek them 1t is the. best
located, the most superb metropolis of
civilization. London is distinctly sec
ond-class.
BY THIS SIMPLE PROCESS.
There are not. in all London, any
such stores as New York boasts by the
dozen. Macy's, or any one of the score
of others in New York City and Brook
lyn would stupefy the English capital.
In London there is nothing that can
in any sense be compared to New
York's Central park. New York's S
water front is the finest in the world.
London's docks are infinitely better
than New York's. New Yorll's natural
situation is incomparably superior to
London's. AT the confluence with the
sea of the two finest waterways in the
world, with bay more beautiful than
the Bay of Naples, and Offering a har-
Dor which is unequaled anywhere else
on the face of the earth, healthfully
located on high ground, largely of rock
formation, New York has advantages
which make her future compared to
London'S at ten to one. London is
built on marsh. The historians of
ages have puzzled over the reason for
the selection of that particular spot
for the location of a great city, and
have given the problem up.
And then comes the matter of eli
mate. New York's is said to be vari-
able, and therefore bad. AS a matter
of fact, there is nowhere in the world
a climate more adapted to the pro-
longation of human life than that of
New York. The seasons are well de-
fined and sharp. Winter is winter
here and summer is summer. Whep
it is cold it is very cold and when it
is hot it is hot. Which is as it should
be. The air is clear and fine. There
is no malaria. Fogs are rare. They
come sometimes, but when they do
come they are clean, white fogs from
the sea.
AL of this is comforting to the pa
triot. If New York had or could do
as Chicago has done, and annex all
the surrounding territory that could
by any excuse be considered depend
ent upon the city and in any sense a
part of it, much more area would be
included within our municipal bound
aries than 1 have included in this arti-
Gle. But even when the Greater New
York is accomplished this will unfor-
tunately be impossible, because the
real New York lies in two states. Still,
in counting up the Importance of this
commercial metropolis, it is silly to
omit the New Jersey cities from all
consideration.
There are also many other things
which should be considered in esti-
mating the comparative Importance of
New York and London. New York is
the center of a railroad system such
as does not exist elsewhere in the
world. 1t would be possible to COM
pare the tonnage of vessels sailing in
to the two harbors and show a vast
preponderance in favor of London both
In tonnage of vessels and freight de-
livered. But that would be eminently
unfair. Most of New York's freight
comes by rail. Only small portion
of London's comes otherwise than by
water
The total freight-carrying capacity
of all the English railroads is less
than that of the Pennsylvania railroad
alone. New York actually taps a ter
ritory greater than London's, despite
the fact that London is the metropolis
of the nation which, of all nations in
the world, is the greediest for foreign
possessions. Americans fail to real
ize the grandeur of their country. A
good way to get an idea of it is to
buy two cheap maps of the world.