Tales Of Cities

TALES OF CITIES.

St. Louis is twenty miles long on the river front.

The small tenement is the rule in Chicago. Sixty-two per cent of the front tenements and 90 per cent of rear tenements are two stories or under.

The Washington city post office employs 462 clerks, while Cleveland, O., with greater cash revenues, employs only 185. The franking privilege accounts for the excess.

The population of New York is 3,732,903, divided as follows: Manhattan, 1,917,676; Brooklyn, 1,291,597; the Bronx, 268,341; Queens, 183,681, and Richmond, 72,608.