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Show 1 Growth of Cities in Area. , J The growth of American cities in area is going on pretty steadily, and Is not H always reflected by ".he growth in pop- ' Ten years ago New Orleans was a .1 city of 80 Equare miles area. Its pres- H r:it area Is 196 square miles Cincinnati I In the same period has Increased from J 24 to 43 square miles, Denver from 43 H to 69. Indianapolis Horn 20 to 29. Louls- ,l!e from 14 to 20, Boston from 37 to San Francisco from 42 to 46. Atlanta com 1 to i". Duluth from C to 87, New Haven from 9 to 20, Portland, Me, . J from 3 to 22, Fall River, from 41 to 4:, .HI I ittle Rock from 8 to 11. Newark from Ojj : to 22 and Holyoke from 6 to 10. 'J The city which has made the largest '.R gain In area Is X. w York, which ten j years ago covered 61 square miles and ia now covers 326. the extension of its boundaries to Include Brooklyn, Long Island City and Staten Island having .a taken place in the meanwhile 3 Four American eltles, all of first lm- -&jf portance. have gained little or nothing jj in area during the last ten years They ::.iJ3 are Chicago, with an area of 190 square M miles (it was 1X9 ten years ago), Boston I 3 with 42, St. Louis with 61 and Baltimore V Some American cities are geograph- ically 8,0 built that an extension of ri Dieir boundark-s g Impracticable. Other a7a .merlcan cities made provision In ad- Vm ' ance for tho growth which they ex- fl pected, and an addition to their boun- darles ha; not been necessary. A majority of the cities of the coun-trjl coun-trjl are larger territorially than they 'M were twenty years ago, nearly one-half -"re larger territorially than they were M 'wenty years ago. and the increase of W9 population in American cities has been jfl general. But New York has. made th" . -39 creates! growth both In size and iium- vH bers. New, York Sun, |