| Show A GREAT CITY the new york herald calls attention to the fact that london was a city 1600 years yeara before the dutch bought manhattan island for a song yet today the great metropolis of the british empire with its six million inhabitants and square miles has scarcely twice the population of new york with its Inhabit inhabitants auts it Is a striking illustration of the growth of this country and an object lesson of the superior wisdom of the builders of its institutions at present parts paris Is the third largest lardeo city of the world measured by population and berlin the feirt chicago comes close upon berlin in the number of inhabitants and far surpasses it in area in other words of the largest five cities of the world the united states notwithstanding her young age among the nations has aready already two the following data concerning greater new york are interesting the number of men on the city p pay ay roli roh will be greater than the regular army of the united states the police contributing nearly white WIL winged aged street cleaners the population of the city is equal to tub combined population of thirteen new states and territories whose area Is 10 three thousand times greater than that of the city and about two fifths of that of the entire republic A child is born every six minutes in greater new york which means about a year and although the death tate rate is comparatively low persons persona die annually or one about every seven minutes day and night new york is unique in the character of its population it is the largest irish city in the world its irish being twice as num numerous erous as the population of dublin the germans are the most numerous though there being of them here fiere thus ahus with the exception of ber lan new york is the largest german acty in the world the foreign born population and with its children numbers or about two thirds of the cites entire ton the least creditable record of greater new york is that there are more than ten saloons to each church |
