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Show I The Grawtn of London. Wa are too frequently disposed to think of the rapid growth of our American Ameri-can cities as merely incidental to the settlement of a new country, and to regard re-gard the European cities ns old and stationary. sta-tionary. It is tmo that their nuclei ara ancient, but so far as tho greater part of their built up area is concerned they are almost or quito as new as the American cities. They, like our own population centers, have grown unprecedentedly iu recent decades an the result of modern transportation and industrial systems. Thus London today is five times as large as it was at the opening of the present centnry. From 900,000 at that time the population of London grew to 1,500,000 in 18;)0, and by 1855 it bad increased to 2,500,000. Since 1805 it has more than doubled. Tho present sovereign has witnessed a gain of 200 per cent, or more since she began to reign. There are three or four dwelling houses now for every one that was visible at the date of her coronation. corona-tion. In the pust forty years from 2,000 to 2,500 miles of new streets have been formed in London. Who, studying study-ing the growth of foreign cities, can doubt the continued growth of our own? London is not an exception. All the other great towns of England have grown up as if by magic within this century. Tho same statement applies to those ! of tho continent. Paris is fivo times as largo as it was in the year 1800. Berlin has grown much more rapidly than Paris. Vienna has expanded marvel-ously marvel-ously since 1840. This is a digression, but I shall coutinuo it enough further to j remark that an exaniiuation of tho causes which have built up these Euro- i pean centers enrily justifies the judg- ! ment that none of our twenty leading American cities baa begun to approach its maximum size. Dr. Albert Shaw in j Century. i |