Greater New York

Mueh has been written concerní ng "(ireater New York." but few have any conception how great a city it will be. Only London will exceed it in population, wealth and business, lts area will be 80R square miles, or 195.840 acres. It will have ;m estimated population of 3.430,000. lts bonded debt will be $21",471,593. lts annual tax budget will exceed $55,000,000. The assessed value of its real estáte (Xew York, Brooklyn and Staten Island) will amount to $2.307.091,000. lts parks and park lands will comprise 7,33t acres, not counting several noted roadways. such as the ITarlem Speedway and the Coney Island Boulevard, which are under park control. It will contain sixty four monuments and stutues. including Grant's tomb, to Ie dedicated next April. It will have forty eight cemeteries, comprising, 3,(i00 acres, and containing a silent popula tion of 4,000,000. lts public schools will contain 326.000 pupils and 7,282 teachers. lts pólice forcé will aggregate 1509, and itsfiremen 2,125. .Xew Vork and Brooklyn alone have 2.188 miles of st reets and 991 miles of sewers. The capacity of the water works will be 503.700,000 gallons, and the mile3 of water mains will number 1,378. Within this mammoth city there will be 1,093 churches, with 720,771 parishioners, and 300,000 Sunday school scholars. The sitting capacity of the churches is 409,159. The aggregate value of church nronsrtv is SI58, 718,000. There will be sixty-threè libraries, containing 1,924,000 'volumes, thirty art galleries, tifty-four theaters, with a seating capacity of 88,0tX), eleven halls for music and 'oratory, with a seating capacity of 38,000, eighty-one clubs of establislied social standing, having 48,(XX) members, two big universities. and ninty-three other edueational institutions. There will be 112 hotels within the city. not to inention several thonsand Raines law -'liotels." The city will have seven liridges across the Harlem and ons across the East river. A nother Mast river bridge has been started, and one across the North river is projected. There are thirty three different ferries. The forty-live lines of street railways carry 792,000,000 passengers every year over 464 miles of track. There will be upwards of sixty exchanges and other commercial organizations. There ;ire 218 banks and banking institutions in New York and Urooklyn alone, and the rlearings of the Clearing House aggregate $28,000.000,000 a year. The big city will transact considerably more than one-half the foreign commerce of the country.-