Show GREATER NEW YORK greater 4 reater new york is now DOW in an assured fact by the absorption of brockl brooklyn y n lon long idland city and staten ll 11 land cland new nerr york has become the second largest b city in the world in point of area population and leahh the consolidation will ivill go into en act on january isis agg there has beet been iauch talk of el changing langing the name of the city ma manhattan chattan and other names have hivo been proposed but no name is likely to supersede in public favor ill iha one under which the great american city has become arvo horld id famous the now new city covers an area of over 1 square miles has a population of three and a quarter millions tio s piya taxes on oil two and q arter millions of dollars of property and this is at a valuation of less than 50 per cent of actual value the iless assessment meo ft atno amounts unta to annually balfor half of which amount is paid to tiie the regular employees its police polica and fire employ ten thousand men there are nearly teachers in its public school teaching scholars in ech schoola it has 1100 ci churches lurches acres of p parks I 1 arks IGO miles of elevated and and more than 1000 1 miles of surface railway has mites mi ies of aloo its water front tile tho city con contains taints buildings of which are residences A child is born every nine minute minu tep and a person dies beg every ten and a half minutes seven hundred newspapers convey th the world s news to its inhabitants one hundred and sixty six banking houses bouses handle its funds its population is greater than that of maine new hamp shire vermont AL montana lon tana north dakota nevada and utah combined four hundreds millions of gallons of water are daily consumed among the statistics of a less desirable kind mar may be mentioned the he saloons in which the annual consumption of teer beer of different kinds amounts to 10 gallons equal in value to at least half of the same number of dollars the consumption of ale al bolic liquors will nearly double the is amount mou n t there are i in n the neigh borho oil 2500 2300 houses bouses of ill repute reau te there are on an average nine nine hundred burglaries committed annually arrests are made each year for drunkenness and disorderly conduct three thousand persons meet violent deaths elu exclusive of suicides each week sees thirty four fires one out of every families milies fi is compelled to seek relief from organized charity charily and its professional beggars number thousands the new neav city has a great future before it two hundred and lafty thousand strangers 0 enter it ever even t day and many remain within its ita gate Fol following lowin g its normal rate of groi th as corn compared par with that of london lees than a century will see it the most populous city in the world As the gateway and most impo important city of america all citizens of the united states feel a pride in t and delight in its growth and prosperity |