The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
THE GREATER NEW YORK
ITS POPULATION is 3.4OO,OOO, AND 1T
INCREASES 400 A DAY.
A City Thirty-TvyO Miles Long and
Sixteen Wide, in Which the May
is the Chief Authority.
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NEW YORK, May H.-When those who
dwell in other cities next visit New York
they will find themselves in municipality
with 100000 population. Legally Greater
New York has begun to exist. Officially its
existence begins Jan. l next, although we
vote for our next mayor the second day of
the coming November
The visitor who walks up Broadway here
after will be walking up the leading street
of the borough of Manhattan If he chances
to wander down that section of Broadway
which passes City Hall Park he will be in
full view of the office where will sit a
mayor who will have at his disposal as
many offices as those which the President
of the United States must fill by appoint
ment once in four years. Like the Presi-
dent, the mayors term of office is of four
years duration, but the difference in salary
is great, for the mayor of Greater New
York will only receive $4,000 a year. In
fact the total salary list of the consolidated
city officials will be $4,000 annually.
For the sake of better administering the
local functions of government Greater New
York is divided into five boroughs Thus
the stranger who is within our gates may
hereafter visit the borough of Manhattan
the borough of Bronx, the borough of
Brooklyn, the borough of Queens and the
borough of Richmond. Think of this, in
tending visitor. This circus, though under
one great tent, will boast of five rings,
not to speak Of the menagerie and all for
one price of admission. The man who
wants to see the elephant may wander over
a territory thirty-two miles long and six
teen miles wide, in which he can discover
vast numbers of the huge beasts, painted in
any color his pocketbook may enable him
to secure.
The borough of Manhattan constitutes
what to the majority of people has always
been New York city. 1t is that curious
shaped island that the old Dutch burghers
named Manhattan. 1t includes all the ter
ritory between the East and North rivers,
the Harlem river and the ocean, together
with the islands of the East river such as
Blackwelrs, Randalrs and Wards, where
are located, respectively, the local penal in
stitutions and insane asyums. Next comes
the borough of the Bronx, through which
the visitor passes who comes into New
York via the New York Central Railroad 1t
is that territory north of the Harlem river
and between the Hudson river and Long
island sound which has of recent years
borne the name of the annexed district"
There are no signs of metropolitan life to
speak of in the borough of the Bronx. 1t
may be that the visitor who comes from an
other section would almost have to be told
that he was within the confines of the great
est metropolis, not even excepting Chicago,
OF which the United States can boast.
THE OTHER BOROUGHS.
If the visitor should speak of a desire to
visit the borough of Brooklyn he would be
directed toward the big bridge which spans
the East river. There was some difference
of opinion among the charter makers as to
whether this should be called the borough
of Brooklyn or the borough of Rest, be-
cause every one who goes to Brooklyn does
so to rest. No one thinks of doing business
there. This borough includes all the terri
tory extending from the borders of Long
Island City to the Atlantic ocean, includ-
ing Ridgewood, which contains that
der of Brooklyn which no visitor should
miss, the tallest steel chimney in the world.
1t is one of the sorrows of the Brooklynite
that hereafter that steel chimney will be
credited to New York
After escaping the Brooklyn trolley car,
the visitors of Greater New York may take
look through the borough OF Queens. This
includes Gleasontown, sometimes known as
Long Island City, Flushing, Jamaica and
all of Long island included in Greater New
York that is not within the present limits
of the old-time city of Brooklyn There is
not great deal to see in the borough of
Queens, except Mayor Gleason and land
scape. Mayor Gleason is the man who used
to be elected mayor of Long Island City
because no one could be found who had
nerve enough to run against him.
When the visitor has completed his sur
vey of the borough of Queens, he must
again cross the East river into the Dor
ough of Manhattan and journey down to
the Battery. Thence, through the kindness
of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Com
pany, and after paying 10 cents for the
privilege of enjoying the same, he takes one
of the most charming sails in the vicinity
of New York. This occupies thirty minutes
of his time, but eventually lands him in the
borough of Richmond, made famous by
Fenimore Cooper, which old Peter Stuyve-
SAINT and his confreres called Staten
island and which has been officially
known as the county of Richmond
WHAT VISITORS MAY SEE.
The visitor then take the railroad
train for ride of an hour or two through
farms and hamlets until he reaches the
Arthur Kill, which separates the southern
end of the borough of Richmond from New
Jersey. During this trip the visitor has
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York and the borough of Richmond boast
of a full-fedged government post garri-
soned by United States artillery Then the
visitor, if he wishes to come back and he
will never care to go to New Jersey. can
journey up along the west side of the bor-
ough of Richmond, past the picturesque oil
rehneries at Constable Hook, and if it be
IN the proper season, getting an occasional
view of the fiocks of mosquitoes as they
sail over from Jersey.
This route will bring him up past the XIII
ven hull, where Cooper's Skinner of the
seas used to anchor, near where Alderman
| Van Beverout and La Belle Barberie were
wont to go when they visited the Lust-in
Rust. The train will bring him around
! past Sailors Snug harbor and back to st
| George, the shire town of the borough of
Richmond. There he viii again avail him
! self of the Kindness of the Staten Island
! Rapid-transit Company. with the assistance
! of dime, and journey back to the borough
! of Manhattan. He will thus have seen all
! de will have Travelled, all told, more than
! a hundred miles, and probably he will be
! tired enough TO seek his hotel.
The next day when ne rises enjoys a
Manhattan and his breakfast, &c win APP
/ preciate the few facts that the little book
/ he has probably purchased will tell him
/ Among these facts he will observe that the
annual expenditures Of Greater New York
will be fully $75OO0,OJO. The area OF Greater