The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-03-03
the Greater New YorEHcn be 500 per cap,

| the Greater New YOrlS,NfIl be 500 per cap
! ita or thereabout.
There were 9, 015 burglaries and "house
| breakings' committed in London in 1885,
997 in Paris and $50 in New York city
There were 251 in Brooklyn, 40 in Long
Island City and 26 in Staten Island
The receipts of the Paris theaters and
music halls for the year 1896 were S., 400
| 600. The receipts of the London theaters
and licensed music halls for the same year
were So, 200, 600. The receipts for the New
| York and Brooklyn theaters and music
halls for the same season were put by their
managers at SIS, 000,0 900. The actual re.
| ceipts were a little less than 50, 600, 900.
The theater going public is prone to insist
upon exaggerations by theatrical and music
hall managers.
Vital statistics are not so accurately kept
in London as they are in New York The
population of London increases at the rate
of 200 q day from the excess of births over
deaths. The population of Paris is in
creased by drafts from the French PROV
inces and not from the excess of births
over deaths in the capital, which average
10 day or 5000 in a year. There were in
New York city last year $4,000 more
births than deaths The excess of births
over deaths in Brooklyn was $500 and in
Long Island City 5. AS the population of
Long Island City is constantly increasing,
having doubled from 1876 to 1890 and in
creased to 80 per cent from 1890 to 1896, it
would appear to be a reasonable inference
that residents of other places are attracted
to Long Island City, the vital statistics of
the municipality furnishing no adequate
ground for the belief that the city is in
creasing rapidly in population otherwise
There were rs violent or accidental deaths
in Long Island City last year, 1851 in
Brooklyn and 1905 in New York, exclu-
sive of suicides.
There will be 1,093 churches within the
boundaries of the Greater New York. There
are more than 1900 churches in London
675 belonging to the Established church,
$50 Methodist $50 Baptist and 1876 Catho-
lie, 800 exclusive of Congregational,
Presbyterian and Lutheran churches, and
exclusive also of Jewish synagogues, of
which there are 30 in London There are
81 Jewish synagogues in New York and
10 in Brooklyn. There are 355 churches in
Paris of all religious denominations.
New York was Incorporated in 1862.
Brooklyn was incorporated in 1901 and
Long Island City as village in 1889. The
antiquarians declare that the first authen-
tic mention OF London appears in Tacitus
! 1t was burned in A. d. 81 Paris was
burned in B. c. So, and the earliest au-
thentic mention of its existence as a settle
! ment is traced to Julius Caesar, or rather
it was ascribed to Julius Caesar, though
there was never anything traced to Julius
Caesar so far as history records
The total value of real estate in New
York city exempted from taxation is $344,-
! 600, 900. The amount of real estate exempt
ed from taxation in Brooklyn is $3.50, 000,-
600. The United States government owns
$50, 900, 600 worth of property in each city.
The wharfage front of the Greater New
York will be 70 miles, and in this respect
New York will greatly exceed either Lon
don or Paris.
The proportion of foreign born residents
| Is much larger in Greater New York than
IN either London or Paris In London
I English is spoken almost exclusively by
1 all the inhabitants. Ia Paris the number
/ OF tourists is continuously large, while in
I New York city the number Of persons
/ speaking languages other than English is
larger than in either Of the other cities
! New York sun.