The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-03
Grea.sr New York Figures.

London was city 800 years be-
fore the Dutch bought Manhattan Is
land for a song, and to day London,
with more than six million people and
G8o square miles Of territory, has
scarcely twice the population Of the
American metropolis 200, 900. New
York increases faster in population,
too in fact, at the rate of 3l5 day.
while the increase daily in London is
23o. Third ill population among the
cities Of the earth is Paris, with
population Of 1900, 600, and Berlin is
fourth, with but twenty-five square
miles of territory. The area of Paris
is q square miles. Chicago, press
ing Berlin close in population, com
prscs more than lS0 square miles.
by making some comparisons from
the statistics compiled concerning the
great city, one finds many curious re-
suits. For instance, the Dutch pur-
chased, Manhattan island for S24 in
1926 from the Indians, and the sur
rounding country at that time was not
considered worth having. To-day
land in the enlarged city isoworth on
an average $l25, 900 an acre, and 50
cents square foot for the entire 360
square miles OF course there arc
sections in lower Broadway and Wall
street which are worth nearly a thous-
and times as much, and some one has
said that the wages of workingman
for twenty years would not buy six
feet of earth in some parts Of Greater
New York
The number of men on the city pay
roll will be greater than the regular
army Of the l',itcd States, the police
contributing nearly 5,11D and the
white winged street cleaners 1000.
The population Of the city is equal to
the combined population of thirteen
new States and Territories, whose
arca is three thousand times greater
than that of the city and about two
tifths of that of the entire Republic.
Then men, women and children of
Greater New York, drawn up in single
rank, would form line one thousand
miles long.
A child is born every six minutes in
Greater New York, which means
about $4,000 year, and, although
the death rate is comparatively low,
70, 600 persons die annually, or one
about every seven minutes, day and
night. New York is unique in the
character Of it's population. It is the
largest Irish city in the world, its $50
Irish being twice as numerous as the
population Of Dublin.
The Germans are the most numer-
GUS though, there being 9OO,O0 of
them here. Thus, with the exception
of Berlin, New York is the largest
German city in the world. The for
cign- born population numbers ,25O,-
600, and with it's children numbers g.
800, 900, or about two-thirds of the
city s entire population
The drafts and checks passing
through the clearing house Of Greater
New York make an aggregate of 500
600, 900 u day, which is twice as much
as the clearings of all the other cities
| of the NJ tion combined.
In it's manufactures the greater city
employs G35, 100000 workmen and
pays $40f 200, 900 year in wages.
The city will have an area Of $50
square miles, making it second in size
to London. It's greatest length will
be almost thirty-ive miles-that is,
from Mount St: Vincent to Totten-
Vile.
There will be more than ten saloons
for each church.
The assessed value Of the real es-
tate of New York, Kings and Rich
mond Ccunties and that part OF
Queens County included in the greater
city IS $2,264, 142 1868. The indebt-
cdneSs of the comhined c;tiao ond
towns is about $4,000, ,000.-Ne,o
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