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Show 00 NEW YORK'S FOREIGN POPULATION ,1 .ow York ,s tll second lurgost Italian city In the world. As a Russian Rus-sian town it Is third in population and as a Hungarian settlement it Is more than half the size of Budapest the capital of Hungary, and next to Vienna the largest city In Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary. Our Italian population Is 532,004. Ten years ago there were only on-ly 229,349 Italians In New York. In other words, our Increased Italian copulation Is more than tho entire population of Genoa. It Is larger by . 1 5Q.000 than that of either Rome or j Milan It is only surpassed by Na-pIob, Na-pIob, and then bv not a great number. num-ber. The number of owlsh people llv ing In Greater City is placed at 1.2C5,-000. 1.2C5,-000. In comparison, this population Is about half tho size of St Petersburg and outnumbering by 300.000 the residents resi-dents of Odessa, tho biggest city In southorn Russia Now York's Austro-Hungarlan Austro-Hungarlan population is 398,079 an increase of more than 234,000 in ten years This Increaso would make another an-other city of the Bize of Prague. The great Influx of immigrants to this port In tho last ten years Is taken tak-en as an indication of the city's prosperity, pros-perity, for hod not N'ew York been an attractive place for employment these millions of foreigners would neor have come to our shores. As proof take tho days of the panic when business began to fall off In volume. After It was discovered that the lull In employment was to List for some time there was a great rush among the foreign population to get back to their native lands. Every ship sailing sail-ing for Mediterranean ports In the early part of 190S carried many steerage steer-age passengers, laborers running away from dull times. However, the tide has been the other way for some time Thero Is no better Indication of the prosperity of a city or a country, according ac-cording to economists, than the movo-ment movo-ment of Immigration. Tho Immigrant only follows roaring trade. New York Sun. |