THE LARGEST CITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 31, 19 January 1912, Page 8

THE LARGEST CITY.

COMPARISON BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW YORK.

The Washington correspondent of “Tho Times” sends the uncomfortable nows that London is no longer tho most populous city in tho world, that position having recently been captured by New York (says the Manchester “Guardian” of November 28). The New York municipal boundaries now extend far beyond Manhattan ilsland, and include Brooklyn with part of Long Island, and other - districts around the harbour, givng tho city an area of 287 square miles, compared with the County of London’s modest 117. Within those respective areas there are 4,766,883 New Yorkers, and, one is pained to admit, only 4,522,961 Londoners. Even this substantial difference of nearly a quarter of a million is not all, for the Now York census was taken the year hojfore London’s. The good Londoner will deny that London municipal area is coextensive with the real city, and will claim that, space for space, Loudon wins. That is true to-day, for I Greater London has, on 693 square miles, 7'i million people, compared with 6.V million Greater New Yorkers on 702 square miles. But the population of New York is growing so much faster than than of London that tlio Director of the American Census predicts a speedy ending of London’s supremacy. In 1920, lie says. Greater New York will ho at least a million bigger than Greater London. Well, every dog lias his day, and New York had bettor make the most of hors, for we understand that OhicaIgo is coming on at a great rate, to say nothing of tho awakening of China. By that time London may have definitely retired from a competition in which the Australian rabbit lias easily beaten even the most progressive American cities. But wc may as well confess to being a little soured by this information from Washington. Tbs world will never be quite tho same when London is no longer its greatest city, and, if only to put off that evil day, wc arc disposed to demand a recount.