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Show & 6 I! NEW YORK NOW LARGEST CITY IN WORLD I 0 & A A & O $ & mmm Return of Foreign Born and j Stoppage of Immigration j Has Big Effect EQUALS PARIS, BERLIN , AND VIENNA COMBINED! I Metropolitan District Most Concentrated Grouping 'of People in World j . WASHINGTON, July 5. Now Yorkj City had a population of 6, 021. 151 om January 2, an increase of 854, 26S, on 17.9 per cent over 1910, the census; I bureau announced tonight. Tho nfto' i of growth was smaller than ever before be-fore in the city's history, except in the decade ending in 1870, while the in-, j crease numerically was smaller than I in either of the two decades preceding) : IS 10. The latest estimate of the pop-, I ulatlon of tho city and county, of Lon-I idon, made In 1917, was 4,020.901, a; ) decrease from the official census of' 1 1311. which showed u. population of I4.&21.CS5. Comparison of tho popula-1 i tion of Now York City with that of, i London Is declared by census bureau I officials to be difficult b.edause' of the' areas covexediuth(yvarjousdsigi:a-- monsrCGe -two5 clues." New -York t ; City prper covers 2S7 square miles, while for census purposes (ho city and . county of London cover 11G square. miles. i Tho smaller Increase In tho growth! i of tho city of Now York during tho past decade Is attributed by census of-1 I ficials to the almost complete stop-' page during the war ot immigration j and to the heavy emigration of for-i ' eigs born residents. Kxoccchi London. Boston's population is 74 7,923, an in- j crensc of 77,338, or ll.j per cent overi 1910. Tho increase in J3oston's popu-j lation was not so larg- as that of St. i Louis, whose total population this ear. as announced several weeks ago, It ro-j tains Its rank as. fourth most populous) city of the country, and Boston will hold fifth rank. unless Clovelanu. ! sixth city In 1920, whose population I has not yet been announced, shows an Increase exceeding IS G. 000, to bring i it3 total past Boston. ' St. Louis durinir tho nnst ton vears in creased its lead over Boston .from 1G,-500 1G,-500 to 25,000. Anrnzlng Gro'Uh Shown. NEW YORK, Juno 5. One hundred hun-dred years ago New York In population popula-tion was something like tho city of Albany. Al-bany. N. Y.. a little more than 100.-000. 100.-000. The city which has since grown to be probably the largest in the world Old not pass tho 1.000.000 mark until i 1S80, when tho government consusj gave It a population of 1.200.500. , In 1900. with the annexation of Brooklyn and the Incorporation of tho greater cities Into five boroughs, the three million mark was passed, tho exact ex-act figures being 3,437,202. Tho upward stride was pronounced after that, with tho four million mark-left mark-left behind in loss than flvo years. Before the end of tho decado five millions mil-lions were in sight Tho figure In 1910 being 4.7CG.S83. and by 1915 this had grown to 5,047,221. In tho population estimated In 1919 only one state In the United States was larger than New Y'ork City Pennsylvania, with an estimated population popu-lation of $.930,091. Nearly Equals Canada. The dominion of Canada's population popula-tion is but llltlo more than that of! New York City in 1920. whilo only' two South 'American countries, Brazil and Argentina, havo as many people- Outside of London no other city In the world is half so largo in population popula-tion as Now York, which has nearly aa many peoplo as Paris, Berlin and i Vienna combtned. j Tho metropolitan district of New York, with its moro than eight mll- lions, represents the most concentrated concentrat-ed grouping of pooplo In the world and Is estimated to overreach the population pop-ulation of London with Its metropolitan metropoli-tan district by fully a million. Tho British capital retained her ominenco in population until the last docade and in 1850. tho period during which Now Y'ork began to forgo upward up-ward materially, London had a huge start, with a population of nearly 2,-000,000. 2,-000,000. x Await Loudon FJgurc-3. WASHINGTON, Juno 5. Tho New-York New-York City census shown a total population popu-lation larger than the last available figures for London. Tho raco for largest larg-est city in tho world, however, will bo 'undecided until London's official census of 1921 Is announced. Eutimutes for the metropolitan district dis-trict of New Y'ork, consisting of tho city proper and the territory 10 miles from its boundaries, are about S.200,-000. S.200,-000. Theflo estimates aro computed on the census bureau's method of arithmetaical progression shown by exporienco lo bo nearer in accuracy In tho majority of cases than any other formula. London's population, according to the latest available statistics which v V ' (Continued on Page 0) ' . ' . . ' y , n . - ... , -,-x' ! EXCEEDS LONDON! If OOlLLlj ;New York Believed to 'Be; i Largest City in World ! Now i (Continued From Page 1) ! are estimates for 1917, give the popu- : lotion for registration London, the, London for census purposes'; as 4,026,-j 901 and for Greater London, comprising com-prising the city and metropolitan po-f lice districts and covering a radius of, 15 miles from Charing Cross, as 6,-r 27C.753. Many factors have entered into the growth of both New York and London Lon-don and since their last official counts were taken, tho war officials here believe, has had its effect on the growth of botli cities. New York Is believed to havo suffered from tho stoppage of tho stream of immigration, immigra-tion, a largo portion of which In previous pre-vious decades has settled there. War industries aro thought to have added) to New York's population and also to i a greater extent to that of London-" 'where huge war plants were erected by tho British government, London's losses of her men at tho front woro considerable and these aro expected to affect her total population to some extent I New York's. metropolitan district, as! shown by returns of '1 Now Jersoy cities and towns whose populations' already havo been announced, will not) show so heavy a growth as it did In tho decade ending with 1910. These cities and towns, including Newark, Paterson and Jersey City, show an In- J creaso only four-fifths as largo as wasj shown 10 years ago. I comparison jJiiuciiiu Fair comparison of tho population of the world's two largest cities Is difficult, dif-ficult, census bureau officials declare, owing to the areas covered by tho various va-rious designations. New York City proper, composed of tho boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, Queens and Richmond, covers about 2S7 square miles. Its population in 1910 was 4.7GG.8S3. The metropolitan district of New York, comprising territory within 10 miles of the city boundaries Includ- Ing all "Incorporated places half of whose ar.ea lies within the limit or' half of whose population resides within with-in tho limit, covers about 96-J sqilare miles. Tho population of this metro-, politan district was C.474.5CS In 1910.' Tho city of London within nuinlci-j palund parliamentary limits has an1 area of C5"j acres, a litllo more than a I square mile, and In 1911 had a night' population of 19.G57 and a day, or' working population, of more than 1-000.000. 1-000.000. The administrative county of London, known as Inner London, la composed of the city and county of London, and Is described as tho London Lon-don for census purposes. It has an area of about 11C squaro miles and had a population In 1911 of 4,521,6S5. This population 3howed a decrease of almost half a million people in the oatimato made In 1917. Greater London, comprising the administration ad-ministration county of London and the outer ring area covered by the city and metropolitan districts, extends to a radius of 15 miles from Charing Cross. It has an area of about 693 squaro miles and Its population In the official census of 1911 was 7.251.3S5. Its estimated population in 1917 was G. 720,753, 00 |