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Show ILlf Mil A great my Will Be Lartf han i London in Lefiian I Thirty YV 1 ' New York, Sept. 2. J majority of the New Yorkers of tl present day "1)1 live to see thelrclty outstrip London und become tfie first city of the world In population, according to Acting Mayor John Pnrroy Mitchell, who bases his prophecy on computations computa-tions of the comparative growth of the two citbs for many years back. The probable growth of the two biggest cities of the world is estlmat- er by the city statisticians at an annual an-nual ratio ol 3.S per cent for New ork. and 1.0 per cent for Iuidon. On this basis the future jiopulatlon Is as follows: New York Iondon 1010 l,700S3 7,500,(1110 1!"20 C.r.SO.OoO S.'GO.tMMi ni.iu o.uso.oon 10,210,0011 H3G 11.200,000 ll,200,0iH) 1040 .12,70u.O00 11.910.(MMi Twenty-five years hence London rmd New York nhoul.l each contain f-bout n,200.0iH) Inhabitants. Annexation Annex-ation of suburbs will probably Increase In-crease the size of both cities beyond thes.j figures, but In 1335 or IMH, New York should become the larger fity, and In 1040 should surpass Ion-don Ion-don by many hundreds of thousands. The census figures announced from Washington last night came as a surprise sur-prise to many newspapers, city ofll-clals ofll-clals and civic organizations which had been estimating or guessing based bas-ed on their own researches as . to what the city'K growtl eJJ ineo 1?00. Most of the piuvjsen were wild, particularly those which went Into details as to the probable population of the various boroughs. Tin? lore-cast lore-cast which came nearest to the facts vas that of Walter I.abllaw, executive execu-tive secretary of the New York Federation Fed-eration of Churches. Me came within j.001 of the government figures in hu estimate given out last Sunday. His figures were 4.7C1.S31. State census cen-sus returns, immigration statistics, the birth rate and other channels of increase were the basis of his computation |