The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-01-15
LONDO1y'S AMAZING SIZE.
CITY so LARGE THAT NO ONE
REALLY KNOWS THE TOWN.

a correspondent writes as follows
from London:
The statement has been made that
there is not a soul in any line of bust
ness in London that can tell com
pletely about his one level of interest.
London is too large to know all its
ms and outs. The greater city is one
Of tremendous, appalling figures.
No bank messenger knows all the
banks. Nc cabman knows all the
theaters and places of entertainment.
No policeman knows all the police,
the county, and the coroners' courts
No news agent knows all the publica-
tons. No fiddler knows all the bands.
No gourmet knows all the restaurants.
NO postman knows all the postofflceS.
There is too much London to be
learned in an ordinary lifetime. Re-
porters who have been visiting every
corner of the metropolis for years find
it necessary to look up their directions
on the map, and even then the odds
are that they will be in doubt as to
the best means of getting there.
Conceive the bewildermnt of dis
trict messenger boy if you asked him
TO take you for a stroll through the
parishes of st. Andrew Hubbard, ST.
! Bene't Fink. St. Christopher-le-S Stocks
st. Faith under St. Paul's, ST.
Katharine Cree, St. Margaret Pattens,
St Martin Organ, st. Margaret Moses.
ST. acknowledgements, St. Peter-le
Poor st. Vedast Foster-lane, St. Mar
tin POmeroy, st. Andrew Undershaft,
ST Magnus the martyr and st. An
tholin COrdwainer.
Nor can men of affairs who sit on
the London county council and write
books on the government of the met
ropolts claim that their knowledge is
in any degree exhaustive If they know
the powers and the limits of control
of the borough council the odds are
that they arc ignorant of the liberties
of the freemen of the city.
These thoughts are suggested by
another glance at the ponderous vol
ume Of London statistics just issued
by the county council
Turn where he will through the 900
pages of the book, the student Of af
fairs is bound to discover some fact
of which he was ignorant before, 1t
may be heavy and important, it may
be suggestive, it may be merely curl
Gus, but whatever else it is it is new.
The immigration to London is the
first item which calls for attention.
The metropolis increases its popula-
ton exclusive of births at the rate OF
about $4,000 per annum. The total
population of London was increased
by net immigration from the country
and abroad by 162,S99 persons in 1881
1891 and 217,942 persons in 1891-1901.
Of these over 20 percent are foreign
born. The metropolis now contains a
foreign born population of over 1885,
900 aliens.
The total population of central Lon
don in 1901 numbered 4536,541. OF
these there were 1894 females, as
against 2,142085 males. Thus far fe-
males in the metropolis exceeded the
males by 253,371, there being Lis
females to every 1000 males, as
against 1116 for every 1000 at the cen
sus of 1891.
The total population of Greater
London" which includes the areas of
the City and Metropolitan police and
every parish of which the whole is
within Is miles of Charing Cross or of |
which part is within II miles of Char
ing Cross" amounts to 6,581, 402.
Children born in the metropolis
during 1901 number 13127S which
works out at 20 per 1000 of the popu-
lation. The deaths numbered 1924,
or about II per 1000. 1t will thus be
seen by an easy calculation not to be
found in these statistics that, roughly, |
every 40 seconds marks birth in the !
metropolis and that every minute and
quarter marks the death of some
one in the same area. The birth rate
for 1901 is the lowest on record. The |
marriages for 1901 were $4,000.
Those who are matrimonially in
clined may feel some vague interest |
in the fact that the population of Lon
don includes 1,292,594 unmarried |
males (as against 777,S63 who are
married) and 72,12S widowed OF the |
women 1.409,842 were unmarried, as
against 793.097 married. There were |
1857 widows in 1901.
The proper housing of the poorer
classes is so excellent an objective /
that one regrets to find it so expen-
slve. Throughout its term of exist
ence the county council has spent or
arranged to spend, no less than $21,'
100000 in housing $4,000 persons.
The statistics for 1901 show an in.