Philadelphia; a guide, made for the convenience of people interested in the city's notable history and present achievements . transit facilities which willbring all parts of the city within a comparatively few minutes of thebusiness and manufacturing centres. With all of its present industrial activity, Philadelphia is much less than50 per cent, developed. There is plenty of room within the city limits tomeet the demands for many years, in spite of the fact that Philadelphiahas some 400,000 buildings—more buildings than any city in the UnitedStates. New York City, in all of its five boroughs,
Philadelphia; a guide, made for the convenience of people interested in the city's notable history and present achievements . transit facilities which willbring all parts of the city within a comparatively few minutes of thebusiness and manufacturing centres. With all of its present industrial activity, Philadelphia is much less than50 per cent, developed. There is plenty of room within the city limits tomeet the demands for many years, in spite of the fact that Philadelphiahas some 400,000 buildings—more buildings than any city in the UnitedStates. New York City, in all of its five boroughs, has fewer than 150,000 one-family houses. Philadelphia has more than 350,000 dwellings. In New York 3,686,935 people live in apartment houses and Philadelphia practically every family has a separate can truthfully be called the City of Homes. POPULATION OF PENNSYLVANIA 1860 2,906,215 1890 5,258,113 1870 3,521,951 1900 6,302,115 1880 4,282,891 1910 7,665,111 POPULATION OF COLONIAL PHILADELPHIA 1683 500 1760 18,756 1700 4,500 1769 28,042 1753 14,563 1777 21,769 44 MAP CITY-PHILADELPHIA. Wards ,19,25,31, 76 Acres. WaroS ,,, Acres, Area 24 Acres. Wards u 622 76 Acres Sectional Map of Philadelphia, for reference in connection with the Statistical Tables on the two pages following. Compare them with this map for an idea of the way Philadelphia grows. 4.) Ml SECTION /A ORIGINAL WARDS/-=X i,a,3,4- 21 u PRESENT ,4,26,30,36,39,48. SECTIONp) ORIGINAL WARDS p~)\ PRESENT WARDS5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15. ^ ORIGINAL WARDSvl j~, 18,19. ^^T^PRESENT WARDS16,17, 18,19,25,31,33,43,45. US C£~MJS<910 -1950 POPULATION % MCREASE POPPERACRE POPULATION % INCREASE POP PER ACRE POPUL-ATION % INCREASE POP. PER ACRE I860 103,399 1 1 247, 512 92 102,600 14 18 70 132,641 30 14 241,850 -2 90 13 0,848 8 18 1 8 80 172,944 30 19 229,330 -5 85 17
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