. Bell telephone magazine . cent more telephones. Thecentral part of London, with only alittle over 4,000,000 people, had 717,-468 telephones, whereas Chicago, witha population of 3,550,000, had 962,-351 telephones, or per 100 in-habitants, compared with incentral London. Berlins population of 4,339,000was served by 599,911 telephones, oronly per 100 population. Paris,with a population of 2,830,000, had437,139 telephones, or tele-phones per 100 inhabitants. Morethan 100 large cities in this countryhad a telephone development superiorto that of any one of these three Eu-
. Bell telephone magazine . cent more telephones. Thecentral part of London, with only alittle over 4,000,000 people, had 717,-468 telephones, whereas Chicago, witha population of 3,550,000, had 962,-351 telephones, or per 100 in-habitants, compared with incentral London. Berlins population of 4,339,000was served by 599,911 telephones, oronly per 100 population. Paris,with a population of 2,830,000, had437,139 telephones, or tele-phones per 100 inhabitants. Morethan 100 large cities in this countryhad a telephone development superiorto that of any one of these three Eu-ropean capitals. The worlds leading cities, in pointof relative telephone development, areto be found in the United large cities, Washington, , ranked first, with telephonesper 100 population, and San Franciscosecond, with telephones per 100population. Outstanding among for-eign cities in this respect was Stock-holm, Sweden, with telephones OWNERSHIP OFI THE WORLDS TELEPHONES January 1,1939. per 100 inhabitants within its tele-phone exchange area, and in thecity of Stockholm proper. Not only is the telephone develop-ment of foreign countries everywherebelow that of the United States, butelsewhere a greater proportion of thetelephone facilities is frequently con-centrated within the large metropoli-tan centers. Thus, one-third of allFrench telephones are in metropolitanParis, more than a third of all thosein Great Britain are in Greater Lon-don, more than a fourth of those inSweden are in Greater Stockholm, this country, only about 8 per centof all telephones are in New York Cityand less than 5 per cent in corollary of this situation is thatthe telephone facilities of those for-eign communities which are lessdensely populated appear, in most = §â¢292rt â qu3 ^ On *^ 0\ fO â ^ â ^ f^ ir~, â ^ 00 00 i^O fv) OnrO NO J^ â ^ Ot^ â ^ <^ â ^ fN lO t^ fM t^ O sO lO fN On â¢^CVl T* â NO O 00 l^ â¢^ lO lO 00 c^
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