. The city of New York. tes and Territories. The record for being the greatest pur-chasing municipality in the world, not ex-cepting London. More than one-half the population of theState of New York. The majority of the banking power of theUnited States, which has two-thirds of theworlds banking power. An annual population increase of morethan 100,000, besides its own product ofbirths. New York City has 1562 miles of surface,subway and elevated railways, operating8514 passenger coaches carrying daily4,849,012 passengers on cash fares, on transfers. A density of population (in Manhat
. The city of New York. tes and Territories. The record for being the greatest pur-chasing municipality in the world, not ex-cepting London. More than one-half the population of theState of New York. The majority of the banking power of theUnited States, which has two-thirds of theworlds banking power. An annual population increase of morethan 100,000, besides its own product ofbirths. New York City has 1562 miles of surface,subway and elevated railways, operating8514 passenger coaches carrying daily4,849,012 passengers on cash fares, on transfers. A density of population (in Manhattan)of 96,000 per square mile, six times that ofany other city in the United States. Chi-cago, the next largest city, has 10,789 persquare mile. Within a radius of 30 miles a populationof 7,000,000 people, one-fourteenth of thepopulation of the United States. A population greater than the total popu-lation of the United States when Washing-ton was inaugurated. A. gross debt equaling the interest-bearingNational debt. 91. Assessed valuation representing one-fifteenth the total estimated wealth of theUnited States. Sufficient space to accommodate 25,000,-000 people if the population were evenly-distributed. A central hotel district, with a radius ofless than half a mile, which contains 72hotels, with a capacity for more than 20,000guests. More than $205,000,000 invested in ho-tels. Their yearly expenditure is $29,000,-000 and they employ 31,000 persons of allnationalties. 170 buildings that are 10 stories and overin height. Five office buildings, all within fiveblocks, worth $45,500,000, within which .28,500 people are at work daily. Public libraries that are made use of by5,000,000 more people annually than thoseof any other city in the world. A new water supply system, now build-ing, which will cost $300,000,000. It willeventually supply 1,000,000,000 gallons ofwater daily. Famous Central Park, which cost origi-nally $5,000,000, and whose constructionand maintenance to date has
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