Show GROWTH OF CITIES ane chicago Inter Ocean gives an interesting table concerning american cities the data having been taken from a recent census bulletin there were in the united states in 1800 cities having upward of inhabitants and having in the aagre eaic a population of there are now cities having 01 inhabitants with an aggregate population probably af pf these principal represent the heaviest increase in population in the united states inthe last twenty years and as a ru lethe heaviest increase in wealth they 4 have an annual revenue of and their annual expenditures amount to the aggregate debt of the municipalities la while the national debt in 1904 was in other cords the debt of our principal cities is larger by than the debt of the nation in this great aggregate 0 municipal indebtedness new york city is represented by a funded debt of philadelphia has a debt of 51 chicago boston cincinnati st louis new orleans more than one third ot tho debt of municipalities is carried by new york city chich with its population of has a debt larger than any of our state governments in fact the debts of our great cities greatly exceed he debts of the states in 1842 the debts of all the slates amounted to and of all the cities in the united states to 27 in thirty years the state debts increased to and the debts of cities to in 1880 the state debts had fallen to and the city debts had increased to in 1890 the state debts amounted to land the debts of the cities to now the debts of states are not more than and the debts of cities amount to in the last thirty years the cities of the united states hare been the great borrowers while the states havo rei tired very generally from the hat of heavy borrowers i |