The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-09

Greater New York Will have an area
of about 800 square miles, making 1t
next in size to London. It's greatest
| length will be nearly 80 miles-from
| Mount st. Vincent to Tottenville.
The street mileage of Greater New
| York is estimated at about 5000. one
third of the streets are paved.
If all the elevated and surface roads
within the confines of Greater New
| York were placed in a single line they
| would reach about 1900 miles. The
elevated roads alone would stretch
nearly 100 miles.
The assessed value of the real estate
in New York, Kings and Richmond
| counties included in the greater city is
| 81, ,264, ,142, ,96S The value of the personal
| property within the territory is $780,
| O76,66S. The total equalized value of
the realty and personal property is ST.
| 1863, ,795,157. The Indebtedness of the
combined cities and towns is about
| $40 900, 900.
Greater New York will have a ca
pacity for $50 miles of wharfage, and
in this regard will be uneXcelled by
| any city in the world.
The Incorporated city will contain
1870, 900 dwelling houses, $1,000 business
houses, $500 acres of parks, 1,S0O miles
of gas mains, / 100 churches, 1,125 hotels
and $50 public schools.
| As a center of commerce and manu-
facture, with the thousands of miles Of
railroads terminating within it's con-
fines and across the Hudson river, it's
splendid dock and hurbor facilities and
it's warehouse capacity, Greater New
York will be without peer.
| London is the only city on the globe
| that can outrank New York in point of
population, and London is the political
as well as the commercial capital of an
| empire. New York is the creation of
| the commerce and the industry of the
| new world, the political center having
shifted to Philadelphia and Washing
| ton q century ago. Moreover, every
state has its own political center and
metropolis, a condition far different
than prevails with the British capital.
But while London outnumbers the
American city, London is old, while
New York is comparatively new town
in new world. Yet, except in the mat
ter of population, London has little to
boast Of London is a city of dingy
buildings, crooked streets, stuffy little
offices, courts and alleys. New York is
modern, and the difference is amazing
New York is gridironed with rapid tran
sit facilities. London still goes about
in cabs. Some of New YorKs wonder
full office buildings would be a revela-
ton in the English metropolis, where
elevators are scarcely needed because
the buildings are not high enough tC
require them. London, Paris, Berlir
and Vienna are the only cities of the
Elobe that are any more in the same
class as New York, and each of these
| cities of repute is in different coun
2 | try. But here in the youngest natiOr
= of the leading powers of the world WI
l have three cities. New York, Chicago
ana Philadelphia, that rank in the clas!
r of the first seven.
: OF the four foreign cities that ranl
!, with these three American cities, Lon
i don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna are al
l capitals of the countries in which the,
are situated, and all of them are old
dating back into the morning of his
i tory. The American cities are new
: Chicago having been an uninhabitabl
swamp within the memory of men ye
living. New York and Philadelphia ar
within one hundred miles of each other
a proximity of great cities unknowi
= in the old world. Both are sea ports