NEW YORK AND LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 13

NEW YORK AND LONDON.

Tho Washington correspondent of "Tho Times" sends tho uncomfortable news that London is no longer the most populous city in tho world, that position having recently been captured bv New York (says tho "ilanchcstcr Guardian" of November 28). Tho Now York municipal boundaries now extend far beyond Manhattan Island, and include Brooklyn with part of Long Island, and other districts around tho harbour, giving the city an area of 287 squaro miles, compared with tho County o£ London's modest 117. Within these respective areas there aro 4,7(iG,583 New Yorkers, and, one is pained to admit, only 4,5*22,!161 Londoners Even this substantial difference of nearly a quarter of a million is not all, for tho New York census was taken the year before London's. Tho good Londoner will deny that London municipal area is coextensivo with the real city, and will claim that, space for space, London wins. That is true to-day, for Greater London has, on G93 square miles, T'i million people, compared with CJ million Greater Now Yorkers on 702 square miles. But tho imputation of New York is growing so much faster than that of Tendon that the Director of tho American Census predicts a speedy ending of London's supremacy. In 1020, he says, Greater Now York iviil lyc at least a million bigger than Greater London. Well, every dog has his day, and New York had better make the 'most of hers, for wo understand that Chicago is coming on at a great rale, tu say nothing of tho awakening of China. By (hat timo London mny have definitely retired from a competition in which tho Australian rabbit has easily beaten even the most progressive American cities. But we may as well confers to being a_ lit lie soured by this information from Washington. Tho world will never bo quite the samo when I/ondon is no longer its greatest city, and, if only to i)ut off thjix evil bjc disposed to flftmiflil * rooaart*