Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Chicago Is a “Rival” of New York. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Is a “Rival” of New York.

The London Daily News refers to this city as the “rival” of Chicago! It might as well refer to any secondclass English city as the rival of London, or any second-class French city as the rival of Paris. New York stands peerless among the cities of the United States.—New York Sun. Better make the last sentence read “has stood” instead of “stands.” London numbers 4,230,000 inhabitants. The next largest city in Great Britain Is Glasgow, with 800,000 —London being more than five times as large as it. Glasgow is therefore second-class and no rival of the capital. At the census of fourteen months ago New York and Chicago were returned as follows: New York. 1,537,000 Chicago 1,100,00 c Since then Chicago has added about 150,000 and New Yorkless than 50,000, making their present population, Aug. 1, 1891: New York 1,377,(XX Chicago .2,350,10: Majority now, only 3-17,00 C In 1880 the comparative figures were: New York... 1,906,295 Chicago 503,15: Majority eleven yean ago 708.114 Eleven years ago the “peerless” New York had nearly 2$ inhabitants to 1 of Chicago. To-day it has not 4to Chicago’s 3. Will not Mr. Dana admit on reflection that Chicago is becoming a “rival” pretty fast? She will have 1,500,000 of population before the Fair opens, and 2,000,000 before the century closes. New York must annex Brooklyn before 1900 or yield the first place to her Western peer. And don’t you forget it, Dr. Dana.—Chicago Tribune.