The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-26
GREATER NEW YORK FIGURES.
Second City in the World, with 10000
Births and 10000 Deaths Annually.
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London was a city 1900 years before the
Dutch bought Manhattan island for song,
and to-day London, with more than SIX
million people and 6SS square miles of ter
ritory, has scarcely twice the population
of the American METROPOLIS 200, 900. New
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increase daily in London is go. Third in
population among the cities of the earth is
Paris, with a population of 100000, and
square miles of territory The area of
Paris is 173 square miles Chicago, pressing
Berlin close in population, comprises 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 Manhattan
island for $24 in 1926 from the Indians, and
the surrounding country at that time was
not considered worth having. To-day land
in the enlarged city is worth on an average
$685. 900 an acre, and so cents a square foot
for the entire $50 square miles OF course
there are sections in lower Broadway and
Wall street which are worth nearly a thou
sand times as much, and some one has said
that the wages of a 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
United States the police contributing near
ly 1000 and the "white-winged" street
cleaners 1900. The population of the city is
equal to she combined population of thir-
is three thousand times greater than that
of the city and about two-fifths of that of
the entire Republic. The men, women and
children of Greater New York, drawn up in
single rank would form a line one thousand
miles long.
A child is born every six minutes in
Greater New York. which means about co.,
900 year, and, although the death rate is
comparatively low, 10000 persons die an
nually, or one about every seven minutes,
day and night. New York is unique in the
character of its population. 1t is the larg
est 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 100000 of them here.
Thus, with the exception of Berlin, New
York is the largest German city in the
world. The foreign-born population num-
bers 1,250, 900, and with it's children numbers
2500,OO0, 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 100000 a day.
which is twice as much as the clearings
of all the other cities of the Nation COM
lined.
In its manufactures the greater city en-
ploys e35,000 workmen and pays them $780,
COO 900 a year in wages.
The city will have an area of 800 square
miles, making it second in size to London
Its greatest length will be almost thirty
five mles-that is from Mount st. Vincent
to Tottenville.
There will be more than ten saloons for
each church.
The assessed value of the real estate of
New York, Kings and Richmond counties
in the greater city is 81, 264 142 96S. The value
of the personal property within the terri
tory is $780,, 07666S.
The total equalized value of the realty
and personal property is 81, 1863, 795, 157. The
Indebtedness of the combined cities and
towns is about 10000 600.