The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-26
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
London was a city 1900 ears before the
Dutch bought Manhattan Island for a
song and today London. with more than
six million people and oSS square miles of
territory, has scarcely twice the popula-
tion of the American metropolis-3 2o0,-
600.
New York increases faster in popula-
tiop, too; in fact, at the rate of 3l5
day. while the increase daily in London
is ESQ.,
Third In population among the cities Of
the earth is Paris, with a population of
1900. 900, and Berlin is fourth, with but
twenty five square miles of territory. The
area of Paris is 173 square miles. Chicago.
pressing Berlin close in population, COM
p-ises more than $50 square miles.
by making some comparisons from the
statistics compiled concerning the great
city. one finds many curious results.
For instance, the Dutch purchased Man
haitian Island for S24 in 1926 from the In
dians, and the surrounding country at
that time was not considered worth hav-
ing Today land in the enlarged city Is
worth on an average sl25 900 an acre, and
fifty cents square foot for the entire 800
square miles
or course there are sections in lower
Broadway and Wall street which are
worth nearly n thousand times as much,
and some one has said that the wages Of
workingman for 20 years would not buy
him six feet of earth In some parts Of
Greater New York.
The NUN Der of men on the city pay
roll will be greater than the regular
army of the United States. the police
contributing nearly 1000 and the "white
winged street cleaners 1000.
The population of the city is equal to
the com bined population OF 10 new states
and territories, whose area is 5000 times
greater than that Of the city and ABOUT
two-Gfths of that of tho entire republic.
The men. women and children of
Greater New York. drawn up in single
rank, would form line 1000 miles long
A child il born every six minutes in
Greater New York, which means about
80, 600 year, and, although the death
rate is comparatively low, 20, 0oO persons
die annually. or one about every seven
minutes, day and night.
New York is unique in tie character
of its population. 1t is the largest Irish
city in the world, its $4,000 Irish being
twice as numerous as the population of
Dublin.
The Germans are the most numerous,
though there being 900 900 Of them here.
Thus, with the exception of Berlin. New
York is the largest German city in the
world The foreign horn population
mum bers /, 25O. 600 and with its children
nun bers ., 500, 600. or about two-thirds of
the city's entire population.
The drafts and checks passing through
the Clearing House of Greater New York
make On aggregate OF 500, 0C0, 600 day.
which is twice AS much as the clearings
Of all the other cities Of the nation COM
bined.
In it's manufactures the greater city
employs 635 900 workmen, and pays them
s400. 600. OOO0 year in wages,
The city will have an area OF 800 square
miles. making it second in size to Lon
don. Its greatest length will be almost
thirty five miles-that is, from Mount st.
Vincent to Tottenville.
There will be more than ten saloons for
each church.
The assessed value of tho real estate OF
New York. Kings and Richmond counties
and that part of Queens county included
in the creator city Is &, 26J l32, 96S The
value of tho personal property within the
territory Is $780,, ,070 6es.
The total equalized value Of the realty
and personal property is 81 100, 1g5, 157.
Ihe Indebtedness Of the com nined cities
and towns is about Sl70, 0U0 0u0. N. Y.
Herald.