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Show VONDERFUL GROVTH OF BERLIN Berlin, the capital of the German empire. Jumped last week over Paris and Viennn In the matter of population popula-tion and became, with 3,500,000 people, the third city of the world, only London Lon-don and New York above it. This was accomplished by the same means that raised New York to second place, the annexation of Its suburbs and of neighboring' towns and country. Bv latest estimates London has 6,500,000 peonle. New York 1.700,000. Berlin 3,500.000. Paris 2,700.000. with Chicago, Chica-go, Tokio and Vienna the only other cities in the 2,000,000 class. The growth of Berlin is probably the most wondorfnl of all, for it has been large ly an element of chance. It has developed de-veloped not because of its situation, like London and New York, but largely large-ly artificially and because of politics, as the capital, first of Brandenburg, then of Prussia and finally of the German Ger-man empire. Originally jh "Wendlsh fishing village In a sand,y desert, it was chosen as tho capital of the elector elec-tor of Brandenburg, but, even as late as tho thirty years- war it had onlv G.OOO people It had only 20,000 when the great elector reigned, and only 1G2.000 a century ago, aftei Nnpoleon was crushed, being much tho smallest of all the European capitals Whon the Gorman Empire was cstablishea, after the defeat of France, it had not yet reached the million mark. New Orleans Times Democrat. |