The New Metropolis

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Excerpt from The New Metropolis: Memorable Events of Three Centuries, 1600-1900, From the Island of Mana-Hat-Ta to Greater New York at the Close of the Nineteenth CenturyThe five boroughs created by the charter, and which form the new city, show a total population of Of this, Manhattan has Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond, The Borough of Manhattan has more population to the square inch than any other place in the world. The foreign population is about two thirds of the whole. Of immigrants and the children of immigrants there are Germans, Irish, English, Russians, Italians, Scotch, and Canadians. Each day the population of New York increases by 315, exceeding the daily rate of London, which is 285. The municipal employees exceed in number the soldiers of the regular army of the United States. The municipal area embraces some twenty urban or vilo lage communities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.