Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-07-11
IMPERIAL NEW YORK
FACTS CONCERNING THE SECOND
CITY IN THE WORLD.

lis Is Thirty-five Miles Long as the Crow
Flies-Trile 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
Of artificial cliffs and the deepest of
artificial gulches.
The city that is the greatest mining
supply center.
The port Of the finest ships Of all
kinds in the world.
The city that has the greatest number
of driving business men.
The city that has the greatest mum.
Der Of men who are interested in useful
labors and studies that are entirely out
side of business vocations.
The city with the greatest number of
telegraph and postoffices.
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 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 health
lest diaries.
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 (including she'll
fish, 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 a good map will
show that the new city is IS miles long
from Mount st. Vincent on the north to
Tottenville on the south, as the crow
flies. A journey v 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 to the inlet between Far Rock
away beach and Shelter island is a trife
over 10 miles, but the longest crosstown
straight line that oan be drawn is not
far from 25 miles.
The area Of the city as measured by
the engineers is $685. 5 square miles,
made up as follows: Old New York,
50. 85; Brooklyn, 77.51; Richmond
county Staten Island), 81. 10; Flushing,
30. 66; Hemptead, 1886; Jamaica,
SO. SO; Long Island City, 7.15; New
town, 21.S2; Jamaica Bay, 25. So;
Westohester towns, 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. Neverthe-
less, M finds lying between the head
lands and promontories of the city wide
areas Of water that, although not count
ed here, r really a 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 city-made a city possible.
To confine ourselves to the political
districts, we find that the city, with its
s68. IS square miles, ia second only to
London, which has 888 miles. Paris ia
third, with S97. Berlin has 242, Chica-
60 1850 and Philadelphia 1879 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 SEQ.
ond in a political point Of view.-New
York Sun. y
NE X Ray Mads Inneouous.
In q letter received by a physician of
a. Inuic from Goor0o Accc%o1;