The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-25
OUR CHIEF CITIES.

Boston is said to have the crookedest
streets.
Portland, Ore, claims to have 1O6 mil
liOnaireS.
Albany and Austin have the finest State
buildings.
Chicago has the largest Bohemian col
Ony, %, lOj.
Galveston, New York and Key West are
island cities.
New York has the largest colony of Ger
mans. 2l0.723.
Philadelphia has the largest English
colony, 3S 92G.
The leading city in the manufacture of
iron Is Pittsburg.
The most northern city in our territory
is Sitka,o Alaska.
The most southern city OF the United
States Is Key West.
The city having the longest blocks is
said to be Louisville, ky. A.
The 10000 people of Little ROCK ARK
live on eight square miles.
Jersey City covers twelve and one-half
square miles of territory.
Boston has tflirty-seven square miles OF
area and 600, 900 population.
New York has the best water supply.
Its aqueduct cost $50, J,O0O.WO
Chicago is first in the number OF its Pol
ish Inhabitants, having 24,OS6.
st. Louis is the largest tobacco manu-
featuring centre in the world.
The assessed valuation of property In
New York city is 81 6l3, ,O5I.135.
St. Augustine enjoys the reputation OF
having the most equable climate.
Harrisburg. Pa. has $1,000 population
and nine square miles of territory.
Savannah. Ca. has o.. lO1 population hv-
ing on tive square miles of ground.
Philadelphia Is said to have more trees
than any other c ity I'm the country.
Helena, Mont. claims 10 be the richest
Newark y. j.. has eighteeen square
miles of territory and 10000 population.
The 10000 people OF Detroit occupy
twenty nine square miles of territory.
hos m
city of Scotland, save the four largest.
, Cleveland o.. is said TO have the hand
soonest residence streets In this country.
New Orleans has 81, 900 people, and eX-
tends over sixty square miles of territory.
Allegheny City has seven and one-third
square miles of area and ll5,UO popula-
Memphis. Tenn, has 5000 population
squeezed into four square miles OF terri
tory.
Th 10000 people of Louisville live on
an area of fourteen ana one-haii square
Philadelphia in area Is one of the largest
cities in the world, having l2sia square
Denver. Col, has 10000 population. who
occupy forty-three and four-fifths square
miles.
The bonded debt of Philadelphia is $52,-
75s.a5. and the assessed valuation Is SIS9'-
930.54..
Cleveland. o.. has an area of thirty-two
and one-half square miles and 3oOOoO popu-
lation.
unbroken continuity is said to be WASH
ingtOn.
St. Louis has more Germans than live
in any city of Germany except the ten
In Omaha. Neb.. 100000 people live on
twenty-four and one-half square miles or
ground.
one-half square miles, and IT'S population
is 5l2,3jS
ST. Paul has an area OF tifty-tive ami
two-ffths square miles. ON which I'VE i'o-
New York has an Irish population of
190.4lS. the largest of any city IN the
United States.
Raleigh, n. C.. has the reputation of be-
ing one of the p rettest cities In the
United States.
one of the highest cities in the United
States is Leadville, Col, nearly l4,Oco feet
The 25j.OoO population of Pittsburg in
habit twenty-seven and three-nfths square
miles of ground.
The $4,000 people of Portlan md. Ore. have
plenty of elbow room In their sixty square
miles of ground
Denver is the only city with natural
streams Of water flowing through the gut
ters in its streets.
Virginia City was the product of single
mine. it having. been built around the
famous Comstock.
st. Louis has an area of sixty-one and
population of 100000.
Cincinnati has a population of $4,000.
living on an area OF twenty-four and one
fourth square miles.
The cities which stood the Longest sieses
during the Civil War were Nicksburg,
Mss. and Petersburg. Va.
Salt Lake City. Utah, is the only city
in the United States situated on salt water
and yet far from the seashore.
Tampa, Fla, Is a Cuban city. large
proportion of the population being Cubans
engaged in the manufacture of cigars.
The public debt of Allegheny city is
very small for it's size being 81. Al 500. while
the resources of the city amount to $780,
OOOOOO.
The city limits If Brooklyn comprise sew
eral square miles. and the population. at
the beginning of 1895. was estimated at
,053, 1896.
Baltimore, as well as BROOKLYN. is a city
of churches, each having a greater num-
Der in proportion to the population than
any other cities in the United States.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.