AMERICAN CITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11717, 6 June 1916, Page 4

AMERICAN CITIES.

FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK. An examination of American cities a century ago presents many curiosities. In 1800, not New York, but Philadelphia, was "our largest city, a pre-eminence it held until 1830. After Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and Boston, Charleston, S.C'., was tho largest American city. But. I defy anyone to give tho name of the sixth largest American town in 1800. It was Northern Liberties, How mauv Americans to-day ever heard of this metropolis? An antiquarian research discloses that it is now part of Philadelphia. After Northern Liberties, our biggest city was Southwark, then came Salem. Such wero the places, a hundred years ago, which wero entered in tho competition for primacy. Mayor Mitchel, of New York, presides over tho greatest aggregation of human beings ever collected in any one place since tho banning of time. Many kings who cut quit a figure in tho world have principalities much smaller than New York. Denmark, with 2,800,000," contains just about) as many people as Manhattan Island. The total population of Australia, 4,900,900, is not so largo as that of this one American city. Switzerland has a population that is much smaller. The whole population of Serbia, in which coimtry started the greatest war _in history, is approximately a. million less than the population of Now "York city. Sweden, with 5,476,000 people', i 8 just about as large as the Greater City. Norway, with 2,400,000 population, is about as populous as Manhattan Borough.—" World's News."