Show MIGHTY CITY OF LONDON figures show rapid growth of the worlds metropolis london Is in great part a new city in 1861 the population the zone be tween the county boundary and the limits of greater london was in 1901 it had turned two millions in the same period the suburbs of new york including therein brooklyn and the boroughs of bronx richmond and I 1 I 1 queen queens s increased from 20 te to 1 in london the increase in the I 1 thirty years was at the rate of per cent in new york at the rate of per cent if we add jersey city hoboken and other places in new jer sey as outgrowths of new york the comparison Is still in favor of london nor can new york show such mush room suburbs as west ham grown from 18 in 1851 to in 1901 or walthamstow Waltham stow from little more than a village with 7 inhabitants in 1861 now a great town of peo pie or east ham which from a few houses on the marshes in 1861 Is now a community of people an in crease of nearly 5 per cent in forty years the percentage of increase in new york suburbs is only about per cent in forty years with the excel tion of bronx which has increased 2 per cent in fifty years london mail |