The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-09

London was q city 1,500 years Defore
the Dutch bought Manhattan Island
for a song. and today London, with
more than six million people and SIS
square miles of territory. has scarcely
twice the population OF the American
metropoIis-s.aOO 900. New York in
creases faster in population. too: in
fact, at the rate OF 3l5 a day. while
the Increase daily in London is $50.
Third in population among the cities OF
the earth is Paris, with a population OF
$500. 900. and Berlin Is fourth. with but
twenty-five square miles OF territory.
The area OF Paris Is 173 sQuar miles.
Chicago. pressing Berlin close in pop
ulation. comprises more than $50
square miles.
BY making some comparisons from
the statistics compiled concerning the
great city. one finds many curious re-
suits. For instances, the Dutch pur-
chased Manhattan Island for $24 in
1926 from the Indians. and the sur
rounding country at that time was not
considered worth having. Today land
in the enlarged city Is worth on an av-
erage $125, 600 an acre, and so cents a
square foo for the entime $50 square
miles. OF course there are sections in
lowed Broadway and Wall street which
are worth nearly a thousand times as
much, and some one has said that the
wages Of a w~orkingman for twenty
years would not buy six feet OF earth
in some quarters of Greater New York.
The number OF men on the city pay
rool will be greater than the regular
army Of the United States, the police
contributing nearly 1000 and the
white winged" street cleaner 1000.
The population of the city is equal to
the combined population Of thirteen
new states md territories. whose area
is three thousand times greater than
that Of the city m about twofifths OF
that of the entire republic. Then men,
women and children of Greater New
York, drawn up in single rank, would
form a line 1000 miles long.
A child is born every six minutes in
Greater New York, which means about
80, 900 a year, and, although the death
rate is comparatively low. 0,0o0 per-
son die annually. or n about every
sever minutes, day and night. New
Work is unique in the character of its
population. 1t is the largest Irish city
in the world, it's $50, 900 Irish being
twice as numerous as the population Of
Dublin.
The Germans are the most numer-
Gus though, there being 800, 600 Of them
here. Thus, with the exception of Ber-
III, view 1OIh is the LARGEST IeIlHdH
city in the world. The foreign-born
population numbers 1850. 900, and with
it's children numbers $500, 600. or about
two-thirds Of the city's entire popula-
ton.
The drafts and checks passing
through the clearing house Of Greater
New York make an aggregate of $780,
600, 900 a day, which is twice as much
as the clearings of all the other cities
of the nation combined.
In it's manufactures the greater city
employs $685. 600 workmen and pays
$500, 600, 0C0 a year in wages.
The city will have a. area Of $50
u a miles, making it second in size
to London. It's greatest length will be
almost t~hirty-five miles-that is from
Mount ST. Vincent to T~Ottenville.
There will be more than ten saloons
for each church.
The assessed alu of the real es-
tate of New York, Kings and Richmond
counties and that part of Queen county
included in the greater city is $2,264,-
142, 96S. The Indebtedness of the COM
bined cities and towns is about $780,
600, 900.