Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — A CITY OF 10,000,000. [ARTICLE]

A CITY OF 10,000,000.

That's What Ne w York b Now Sotting Out to Bltoui The greater New York bill is now a law and the metropolis la on the way toward becoming the second city In the world and perhaps io half a century the most populous city beneath the sun. The bill merely permits of a vote of the people in New York, Brooklyn, and outlying towns and villages as to whether they shall become part and parcel of New York politically as thkiy are now commercially. The names of the communities which it is proposed to consolidate are besides Brooklyn and New York, Long Island City, the towns of Westchester, Flushing. Newtown and Jamaica, portions of the towns of East Chester, Pelham and Hempstead and Richmond County. Next fall the people of these places will vote on the question, and If it be decided to consolidate legislation looking to that eud will be enacted. Gov. Flower is very enthusiastic over the measure and after he signed It he said: “What a magnificent municipality we shall have if the plan this bill contemplates is realized. I expect that within a short time after the articles of Incorporation are signed we shall see three, four or five new bridges connecting New York and Brooklyn; yes, and Long Island City and the Jersey shore with us. Consolidation will hasten the day when we shall have the most perfect system of rapid transit that can be conceived by mortal man. We shall have trains whirling us up to

Harlem in a few minutes, instead of an hour or more, and Brooklyn suburbs can be reached in half an hour, Instead of two or three hours, as now. “With a bound New York’s population will be increased from about 1,900,000 to 3,000,000, which will make her the second city in point of population in the world. Within the next fifty years, should she continue her present rate of growth, her population will be nearly or quite 10,000,000.”