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Show ! THE BIGNESS OF NEW YORK, i New York Is so big that If divided up It could make three cities of the size of Chicago, Philadelphia and Titts burg, Uoston, Raltlmore, Cleveland, Buffalo. San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit, De-troit, Milwaukee. New Orleans anil Washington are all large and splendid cities, with many metropolitan activities, activi-ties, and jet New York In population Is equal to the nggTejrate of them all. Berlin and Vienna combined would not make a New York. St. Louis could j be added to Greater Paris and still not equal New York. Greater Londoa the colossus of cities, is, however, big enough to contain New York and Chicago. Chi-cago. Barring London, however. New York has no equal, as a metropolitan city. Moreover. It Is the greatest municipality In the world under one central governing authority.. New York Is not only the greatest commercial city of the country, but It Is also the great industrial city. According to the census of 1905 there were in tbe citv 20 S39 manufacturing establishments, nearly one-tenth of the entire number in the United States; these had' a capilal of $1,042.-946.4S7 $1,042.-946.4S7 constituting over 8 per cent of of the total industrial capital of the United Slates, they employed 4C4.71G wage earners, who, with their families, fami-lies, constituted over fin per cent e.f the city's population: thero is paid In wojros $24S,12S.259 a year to these workmen, a sum equal to the entire internal revenue receipts of the United Unit-ed States The total value of manufacturing manu-facturing products In New York city In 1903 was $1.52G,r.2T00o. or 10.27 per cent of the total value of manufactured manufac-tured products in the United States. There are more manufacturing establishments, estab-lishments, more manufacturing capital capi-tal and more value of manufacturing products In New York city than in any state in tho Union, except Pennsylvania. The banking power of the world Is estimated1 at $15,750,300,000, of which I $17,C 12,700,000 is In the United States and $4,553,700,000 In the city of I New York. Nearly 10 per cent of the banking power of tho world is thus centered in this city, a sLitement 60 remarkable that it would bo beyond belief were it not. for the fact that the United States has become the richest rich-est country of the globe, and that ".New York is the most important banking center of this rich country. In fact, 20 per cent of the banking power of the United States, with its 21.000 1 banks, is located In this city. In 1908 ! the total stock of money In the Unlt-; Unlt-; ed States was $3,37S,S0OlO0O, of which ' $1,302,900,000, or 40.31 per cent, was in ! the banks doing duty as reserve against the commercial and' other deposits. de-posits. Of this amount $439,000,000 was in the banks of the city of New York, Ibis being over 3C per cent of all tho money In the banks, and over ' 11 per cent of all the money In tho i United States, whether in Treasury banks or Indhldual hoards. While the funded debt or New York city in 1907 amounted to over 41 per cent of all the municipal debts in tho j United States, being per capita $142,-' $142,-' 32, as compared with $G4 92 per cap-; cap-; ita in all the 15$ cities combined, yet I this debt is by no means out of pro-j pro-j portion to the wealth of the city. The j assessed valuation of propertv in New York aggregated In 1909 $7.2."o,r.00.559. It has more than, doubled in ten years. In 1907 it amounted to $1S4 95 per capita, as compared with 99C2.5S per capita In all cities of the United States. Moreover, the city corporation corpora-tion owns property used in public service ser-vice enterprises valued in that vear at $314,111,597. besides land, buildings j and equipment of Its various departments depart-ments valued at $039.57S.29O, and public Improvements valued at $1S5,-I $1S5,-I 255.024. If It should sell all this? property, prop-erty, ev.n at these census valuations, I it could pay every dollar of its fund-i fund-i od debt and have a balance in cash j sufficient for it to pay off over 45 per j cent of the aggregate funded debts of all the other American cities com-blned. com-blned. The credit of the city is unlm-I unlm-I peachable. Bradstreet's. 1 |