The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-01-09
IMPERIAL NEW YORK
FACTS CONCERNING THE SECOND
CITY IN THE WORLD.

Flies-TriGe Over Nineteen Miles Wide.
How Its Area Is Made Up.
Some of the interesting facts concern
ing the new metropolis of America
New York, are herewith given:
The second city of the world in area.
The second city in population.
The city with the greatest length OF
tram or surface railroads
The city with the greatest length Of
elevated railroads.
The city with the greatest length Of
cobblestone pavements.
The city with the greatest length of
disreputable dirt roads.
The city with the greatest opportuni-
ty to lay asphalt pavement.
The city with the greatest area of
navigable waters.
The city with the greatest number of
ferries and ferryboats.
The city with the greatest feet of
harbor craft such as tugs and lighters.
The city with the greatest extent of
piers and wharfs.
The city with the greatest warehouse
capacity.
The greatest manufacturing city.
The city with the greatest number Of
office buildings and Offices. the loftiest
ef artificial cliffs and the deepest Of
artificial gulohes
The city that is the greatest mining
supply center.
The port Of the finest ships OF ali
LssnGs in the world.
The city that has the greatest number
of driving business men.
The city that has the greatest num-
Der OF men who are interested in useful
labors and studies that are entirely out
side of business vacations.
The oity with the greatest number of
telegraph and postoffioes.
The city with the greatest bridge
structures.
A city of the greatest area Of pub
lie parks.
The city with the greatest area OF
primitive forests.
The CITY with the greatest variety Of
summer resorts.
The city with the largest hospitals.
The city with the greatest charities.
The oity with the greatest number
of schools aud churches.
The oity with the widest area Of
farming land and the best scientific
farmers.
The city with the largest and health
lest dairies.
The city with the greatest number Of
prehistoric graves containing interest
ing relics of vanished races.
The city having the widest and most
prolific fishing grounds (inoluding she'll
nsh) within its borders.
The CITY where the best shooting as
we'll as fishing may be found and where
the greatest variety of wild animals
birds, beasts, reptiles and insects--may
be found.
The city with the best collection of
skeletons Of prehistoric American ami
mails, and the only city having valuable
parts of the original simian progenitors
of the human race.
A measurement of good map will
show that the new city is 35 miles long
from Mount st. Vincent on the north to
Tottenville ON the south, as the crow
flies A journey over the route by any
regular conveyance would be two or
three miles longer. The width Of the
town from the North river at Fourteenth
street 10 the inlet between Far Rock
away beach and Shelter island Is a tritle
over 10 miles, but the longest crosstown
straight line that can be drawn is not
far from 90 miles.
The area of the city as measured by
the engineers is 1858. 90 square miles,
made up as follows: Old New York,
1885: Brooklyn, 1851; Richmond
county (Staten Island), 81. 10; Flushing,
gees; Hemptead, 1880; Jamaica,
$3.50; Long Island City, 7.15; New
town, 2l.Sr; Jamaica Bay, 26. SO;
Westchester towns, 80
The reader will observe that this is
practically what may be called the dry
land area, although Jamaica Bay has
considerable moisture in ID. Neverthe-
less one finds lying between the head
lands and promontories of the CITY wide
areas of water that, although not count
cd here, are really part Of the city
they are such an important part of it that
there never would have been any city
here without them; for, of course the
port-the navigable waters within the
arms of the oity-made city possible.
To confne ourselves to the political
districts, we find that the city, with its
1855. So square miles, is second only to
London, which has 69e miles, Paris is
third, with 297. Berlin has 242, Chica-
go l69 and Philadelphia 100 square
miles. For business purposes-for the
purposes of the man who is looking for
the best opportunity-New York is the
largest city in the world, although sec.
ond in political point of view,-New
York Sun.
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