| Show the growth of now new vork I 1 on the basis of the number of names in the new city directory tho the population of new york from the southern boundary of yonkers to the battery is not less than the population of brooklyn is probably over and taking into account other communities immediately dependent on and geographically united to the port ol of new york the present population of the metropolitan district is more than at the present moment the population of the area keown h own as the registration district of london is about so that there Is a long interval to fc be covered before we can begin to rival the of the great english province in brick and mortar but it if new york keeps up its accelerated rate of growth tho the difference before another generation is over may be wiped 0 out t london Is growing at the rate of 2000 a year while now new boks growth is about GO but in the ten years between 1870 and 1880 the average annual addition to our city population was less than so that we have already more than doubled the annual increment of the decade preceding last census and have for the last jast six years established an average of this kind of geometrical ard progression gres sion has only to be maintained to make the size of new york as unexampled as its growth the epoch |
