The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02
Varied Wonders Presented by
the New New York.
ITS GREATNESS AND WEALTH
Interesting Facts Concerning the
Second City in the World.

Bring II huNhnthkes
offered to Commercials Population ana
Its Charities-Enormous Buildings ON Land
or u,gh v~aIue-Pnrns. Reaches. bridges.
water supply. and Other Public Works
Opportunities TOR the soortsmnn and tho
Fisherman ~ Well ms for tho business Nan
"A Centre or Literature and Art-Our
schools, Colleges. Public Service. and Militia
Animated wholly by n love of home. THE Sun
invites the people of the new metropolis. now but
n day old. to sit down and consider what man
nor OF town 1t is in which they 1.-Two. A wido
space Is, indeed, needed for oven II modestdo-
pcription of what seems to BIO its most striking
features, but the reader shall say for himself
whether or not tho human interest In the facts
involved make tho story worth the telling. For
hero We have beyond dispute:
Tho second city of the world In area.
Tho second city in population.
Tho 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 cobble-
stone pavements.
Tho city with the greatest length'of disrepu-
table dirt roads.
The city with the greatest opportunity to lay
asphalt pavement.
Inc CITY Wlpn u kTodtcSb L
waters.
The city with tho greatest number,o ferries
and forryboats.
The city with the greatest feet of harbor craft.
such MS tugs and lighters.
The city with the greatest extent Of piers and
wharves.
The city with tho greatest warehouse capacity.
Tho greatest manufacturing city.
The city with the greatest retail stores.
M .tkr 18th fhn eyraotoat vrr1har 0f nA9rA
buildings and o~fices-the ~loftiost of artificial
cliffs and the deepest or artificial gulches.
Tho city that ia tho greatest mining supply
centre.
The port of the finest ships of all kinds in tho
world.
Tho city that has tho greatest number of driv-
fng business mon.
Tho city that has the greatest number of men
who arc interested in useful labors and studies
that are entirely outside of business vacations
Tho city with the greatest number Of tele
graph and post offices.
The city with the greatest bridge structures.
A city of the greatest area Of public parks.
The city with tho greatest area of primitive
forests.
The city with the greatest variety of, summer
resorts.
The city with tho largest hospitals.
The city with the greatest charities.
The city with the greatest number Of schools
and churches.
The city with the widest area of farming land
and the best scientific farmers.
The city with the largest and healthiestd airies.
The city with the greatest number of prehis-
toric graves containing interesting relics of van.
ished races.
The city having the widest and most prolific
fishing grounds Including shellfsh) within its
borders.
Tho city where the best shooting as well 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 animals. and the only
city having valuable parts of the original simian
progenitors of the human race.
FACTS IN FIGURES.
To begin with what is the most obvious
feature of the town-with its geographical area
"a measurement of q good map will show that
the new city is thirty.five miles long from Mount
st. Vincent on the north to Tottenville on the
south. as the crow flies. A journey over tho
route by any regular conveyance would be two
or three miles longer. The width of the town
from the North River at Fourteenth street to
the inlet between Far Rockaway beach and
Shelter Island is q tritie over nineteen miles.
but the longest cross-town straight line that can
be drawn Is not far from twenty-five miles.
The area of the city as measured by the engi-
neers is 1856 5 square miles. made up rs fol-
lows: Old New York. 1885; Brooklyn. T.51;
Richmond county Staten Island). 57.19; Flush
ing, 1885: Hampstead. 1886: Jamaica. 1880:
Long Island City, 7.15; Newtown. 21.32; ia
maica Bay. 1858; Westchester towns.5 so.
The reader will observe that this is practically
what may be called the dry land area. although
Jamaica Bay has considerable moisture in it..
Nevertheless, ono finds lying between tho head
- A. H. .rtIn naa
Of water that, although not counted here. are
really n part of the c~ity-they are such an i'm
portant part of it that there never would have
been any city here without them. For. of
course. tho port-the navigable waters within
the arms of the city-made a city possible.
Nor is the summing up Of the areas here men
toned a fair statement of the size of New York
az q commercial centre. The men who have
located in New York to take advantage of the
opportunities for business furnished by an urban
population have not considered only the area
and population found in the geographical limits
of New York State. Population for population,
the towns OF New Jersey are as important a part
of New York city ms the towns OF Long Island
that are now under the Jurisdiction of
the new metropolis. The larger retail houses
of the city deliver merchandise FREQ
of charge to customers living within n
radius of 100 miles of the city. For retail tradc
purposes the city might be said to be 100 miles
long in any direction on land; but TO claim for
trade purposes all tho population of New Jersey
living within fifteen miles of the city is entirely
within reason. and this claim raises the area of
tho real Now York to a deal moro than 700
square miles.
However. to confne ourselves to the political
district, we lind that the city. with its 35s.65
square miles. is second only 10 London, which
has 6ss miles. Paris is third. with 2o7;
Berlin has n4o, Chicago ls9, and Philadelphia
100 square miles. For business purposcs-foc
The purposes of the man who is looking for the
best opportunlty-New York is tho largest city
. iu the world. although second In a political point
Of view.
SUCH A LOT CT RAILROADS!
Very likely ono may get II better idea of the
Yeal extent of tho town by n consideration OF the