San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-25
NEW YORK CITY TO HAVE
2S,S0O,OOO POPULATION
BY 1000, A. D., is BELIEF
Statistics Ratio of Increase of Metropolis Indicate
That City Will Require $4,000, 100000 Budget
at Beginning of Twenty-first Century.

language that "by Godfrey, this is a
billiOn-dollar country"
If New York City could do SO it
would hop the North river and abb
sorb all the territory 10 Newark
and 5eyond, but it is difficult even
for the dreamers to figure out just
how the octopus city can annex Con-
necticut and New JERSEY areas with
out some sort of intervening civil war.
Bound To Spread.
What the statisticians really are
figuring on for the future of this city
is sort of New York region. IT
the contiguous cities of New Jersey
may properly be included in this re-
gion in A. d. 1000, the population
of the metropolitan area will be be-
tween 35,000,O00 and 36.O00.OO0 souls.
This is about the present population
of France.
the future is based upon the assump-
ton that New York City will con-
tinue to grow faster than the re-
mainder of the country for New York
is not only drawing upon the re-
mainder of the country day by day,
it is absorbing all too mapy of the
immigrants pouring in from Europe
under the new quota laws. That these
laws are being violated almost with
the same impunity that is visited upon
the Volstead act in these parts is COM
mon knowledge.
The latest scheme is to enter lot
of immigrants here lin transit" for
Canada. The transit" usually lasts
from the Grand Central Station at
42nd street TO the Harlem station at
125th street. The immigrants flee
the Canadian trains there and de-
scendng the elevated stairs fall into
the loving. outstrc ched arms of their
waiting fellow countrymen. thus New
York grows and grows.
The matter of city planning is made
more and more difficult and onerOus
by the figures of the futurists. The
| figures are not fanciful at all. They
are mathematically justified by the
past. Yet the city rulers simply
cannot begin TO anticipate the wants
of a congested population of 29.0OO.-
900 persons-all of them wanting to
come downtown - given time IN
the morning and all wanting to go
home at a given time in the after
noon.
/ How 10 Handle lnem!
Even now subways are running
across and on top of each other in
til. needle point OF lower Manhattan
Isle. The vehicular tunnel under the
North river now under construction
will be outgrown within two or three
years after its completion. That is
shown by the present increased de
mand upon the ferries. The New
York City budget for 1924 just passed
by the board of estimates amounts tC
more than S317 100000. This is
what it cost to build the the Panama
, canal.
1t costs $4,000, 900 a year to polio,
New York City. Protection agains
Z fire costs in the neighborhood of SIT,
: OO0. 900.
Q The cost Of educating the 1.200,00
! pupils in the public schools vii
|. amount next year TO $97 .S13 .349.5
n and yet it is estimated that more tina
I 10000 pupils have no seats at al
= while other thousands are on onl
e part time. This item for the boar
: of education is the biggest in tn
t city budget. as it should be.
t In providing space for future sub
n ways. il is proposed now TO run ther
under Central Park. This plan ha
caused a great howl to 60 up fror
the park supporters. They claim tina
the vehtilating shafts and possibl
stations would deface the loveliest par
of Manhattan Isle. But the subway
have got TO 60 under something. 4
present the subs" seem to thriy
under the skyscrapers, but like huma
beings. they sometimes yearn for tn
open spaces.