. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. 3. Citys Progress, Promise and Present. ^HERE has been nothing spectacular about thegrowth of Binghamton. Its quiet beginning hasbeen described. Since then the progress, con-sidered decade by decade, has been fairly steady,uneventful in any dramatic sense, as if the benedic-tion of the hills had rested upon the city. It hasgrown like a healthy, happy child, prospering asit grew, and taking little thought of a seriousto-morrow. The readiest measure of growth is offered by population is in
. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. 3. Citys Progress, Promise and Present. ^HERE has been nothing spectacular about thegrowth of Binghamton. Its quiet beginning hasbeen described. Since then the progress, con-sidered decade by decade, has been fairly steady,uneventful in any dramatic sense, as if the benedic-tion of the hills had rested upon the city. It hasgrown like a healthy, happy child, prospering asit grew, and taking little thought of a seriousto-morrow. The readiest measure of growth is offered by population is interesting, putting these in diagrammatic form, to observe theresulting curve and from that to prognosticate the future, evenshould only the progress of the past continue. Many conditionsconspire to-day to promise more rapid growth in the near futurethan the city has ever known; but it is clear that if all promisesfailed, the time is not distant when Binghamton will be a compara-tively large city, absorbing for building purposes all the availableland within the present limits and reaching up into the hills. It isperfectly clear tha
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