The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-09-23
NEW YORK Is THE
WORLDS BIGGEST CITY

the population of London on an area
700 square miles in extent. II is
in this way alone that she manages
to keep ahead Of the population of
New York City. The latter is bas-
ed on an area of 315 square miles,
or half the amount of territory that
the British metropolis includes. This
is putting New York up against a
combined population not only OF the
city of London but its suburbs and
environs as well. Although the Brit
ish, by the count just made, say the
population of London is 7,476,00O
persons, it is really Greater London
that they mean. When we speak Of
the population of New York city as
being 100000 under the recent en-
sus, we mean the city only. This is
manifestly unfair; Therefore by com
pairing Greater New York" to
Greater London" we get a very diff
ferent result--namely, that New York
is the greatest city in the world.
Conservative America is just be-
ginning to realize how it has been
hoodwinked by ambitious British
censustakers. The Pathfinder has
long held that by equaliziug the area
of New York and London, the former
would greatly eclipse the English city
in population. The National Geo.
graphic Society now takes the same
attitude by questioning the right of
the actual city of London to claim
all the population she does.
The London boosters are careful
not to mention that the population
credited 10 the city includes the par
liamentary boroughs, suburbs and
"Outer ring" of London as well as
the municipal and parliamentary CT
ty. Most Americans do not know
that the registration city of London
contains only 675 acres and a night
population of $4,000 but a day popu-
lation of 100000. The registration
county Of London contains 10000
acres, with a population of about A.
100000. The area of the county is
approximately the collective area of
the parliamentary boroughs. The
"outer ring" of London takes in the
which add some 100000
more. It is included in the bailiwick
of the city and metropolitan police
area. All this makes the area of So
called "LOndon"-comprising the city
county, suburbs and out
err ring-sbout 700 square miles, with
a population by the recent census Of
exactly 7.476,16S.
On the other hand, the population
of New York has always been con-
fined to the city proper. The 1920
census showed population of g.
620,04S, divided among five boroughs
- Manhattan, Bronx Brooklyn,
Queens and Richmond. The totai
area of these five boroughs is only
315 square miles. Now, by stretch
ing the city into a Greater New
York" include its Immediately adj
iacent suburbs, which in reality
though not officially are as much a
part of the city as any of the bor-
Oughs. our chief city would have a
population of 100000
or nearly 1000, 900 more than Great
er London.
These figures would include only
the bondafide residents, taking no
account of the great influx of daily
workers. Besides, even then the
area of Greater New York would not
come anywhere near what is included
IN London. Greater London" says
The National Geographic Society, Gin
,ludes all the suburbs within radius
Of Is miles around Charing Cross. BY
his definition New York should al
10 include Jersey City, Hoboken, Ne
wark and West Hudson to the west,
and Yonkers, Mt. Vernon and New
Rochelle to the north. Even suppose
New York were to add 273 miles of
Hudson, Essex and Union counties in
New Jersey it still would be 100
square miles smaller than greater
london. Were it to add portions of
and Nassau counties, |
Y. Y, it would pass London's popula-
ion well within a like area. With
n so miles of the city hall, New |
FORK, there now live more than o.
100000 people, and within 100 miles
'adius live one-ninth the entire popu-
alton of the United States"
Surgeons agree that In cases of |