| Show GREATER NEW YORK Greater New York is becoming a great city sure enough The health department estimates that its population now numbers The V World orld gives some comparisons The The city city has half a million more people than were in the tile United States when the constitution was adopted Its population is greater greaser than that of Ohio or of the four foul New ew England states Maine raine Massachusetts Rhode Island and Ver Ver- mont It has a larger population than luau England had hadi under the great Elizabeth It is six times the size that Paris was as under the grand monarch It is four times as big as was London when George Gcorge III was king more than four times that tha t of Rome under Au Au- gustus I As a civic commonwealth New York is greater in numbers in wealth in social and artistic influence I than titan an any state in the union Last year ear it took on a anew new Jew population equal to the entire population of I Denver In III another r ten years ears it will have an increase increase increase in in- crease of population equivalent to Boston and Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Bal Bal- combined and the question is asked what is the end to be 7 It looks to us as though the end I II I would be the moving out of all the families from Manhattan island and the giving up of the whole island to commerce It is the modern Babel and already a stranger when he goes there sees little except a 3 rush and hears little except a a. confusion of tongues It is too awfully big As it is growing and as its tall houses are being constructed if an earthquake should overwhelm overwhelm overwhelm over over- whelm the city twenty years ears hence the debris would be bo higher than the houses now are arc It is growing to tobe he be what Babylon was in the old days clays s 's in wealth and andin andin andin in magnitude and in wickedness It has some good features however The rhe death rate was reduced to two for every thousand Its death rate was 1652 against for London for Liverpool for Amsterdam for Berlin for Hamburg for Paris 19 for Bo Boston 22 for Budapest for Buenos Ayres for Chicago for Munich lunich and for St. St Petersburg And there is an improvement in the tenement regions now Just some rich men in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York arc are moving to give the tenants comfortable houses guarded by b- ball all all' the sanitary rules The charities chari- chari ties tics of New York are arc very great I Greater New York ought to be made a state by itself it is big enough to be a state it certainly has lIas people enough and it surely has wealth enough and to make a a. state of it would be an au a act t of fairness to the whole of the rest of the country because as it is New York City very often controls the vote of the state date of New York and when the elections are arc close New York Cit City decides them They did it in in the tile case of Henry Clay they thep did it in the case of Grover Cleveland for his second term and it ought to be beset beset beset set aside by itself |
