1890 2,507,414
1880 1,911,698
1870 1,478,103
1860 1,174,779
1850 696,115
1840 391,114
1830 242,278
1820 152,056
1810 119,734
1800 79,216
1790 49,401
The following interesting figures are given by the Washington correspondent of The Times:
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New York now has a population greater than many of the countries of the world, for instance, Australia in 1908 had within its borders 4,275,306 persons, exclusive of the aborigines, while Ireland (1909) had a population of 4,374,158. Bulgaria in 1908 showed a census return of 4,158,409, and Denmark and Greece, respectively, had 2,659,000 and 2,632,000 subjects of their kings. Norway in the same year was populated by 2,350,786 persons, and Switzerland by 3,559,000.
The figures in the cut above exhibit fifty years of New York's expansion.
The fifteen largest cities of the world,
each having more than one million population
are as follows:
London 7,537,196
New York 4,766,883
Paris 2,714,068
Tokyo 2,085,160
Berlin 2,040,148
Chicago 1,698,575
St. Petersburg 1,678,000
Vienna 1,674,957
Canton 1,600,000
Peking 1,600,000
(estimated)
Moscow 1,359,254
Philadelphia 1,293,697
Constantinople 1,125,000
(estimated)
Osaka 1,117,151
Calcutta 1,026,987
and suburbs
(462)
Cities and Atmospheric Impurities—See Soot.
Cities Due to Discoveries—See Discovery,
Benefits from.
City versus Country—See Society is
Man's Place.
Civic Pride—See Children and Civic
Service.
Civic Strength—See Greatness, True, of
a City.
CIVICS
It is said that one day recently a committee
from a certain college investigated
the Jacob Riis Settlement on the East Side
of New York and made the criticism that
civics were not taught. "I'll show you how
I teach them," said Riis. "I noticed that the
Jews and Irish did not get on together, so
