Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — A GIGANTIC CITY. [ARTICLE]

A GIGANTIC CITY.

Japeu’s Capital Already Run Im Um World’s Fourth City. Wo do not know that more than two largo cities In the Gutted States or in the world have grown more rapidly in I this generation than the city of Tokio* - tiie capital of Japan. Its imputation has ! more than doubled wlihln the past I twenty years. Aceo Rng to a stateI meat made in the y< - 't. V hlch w«

believe to haw been its population then was Rtsi.ix , -rdlng to the Tokio official sm v ~( . .po rt ro . cently Issued, its po;*.t last yeai was over 1,858,000. Tl ;t lluu -vek oua growth, just abou t ,i to that of New York City dt • -he saint time. The population .<r / m follows close upon the heels m lt of th| Empire City of the Unit ■ 1 states, and It is far greater than Unit, of Chicago, as given in the school cm ais taken two years ago. In the last fm,-- j ears Tokio has gained over half a milium in numbers.

Tokio Is now the fourth largest city tn the world, larger than X i< unit, (f not than Berlin; larger then Canton, and Surpassed only by Lomtou. Paris end New York. It Is a city of high clvUtak tlon, of exceeding enterpHw and industry. It is an extraordinary healthy City, the death rate for bust year being A fraction less than 20 In the t.ooa The latest report of its "health director" contains a very satisfactory a» •cunt ot. its sanitary condition. The growth and improvement of Tokio within recent years may be largely attributed to the liberalization of the political institutions of the eountrj and to the vast Increase of the city’s Industries and commerce. As the residence of the Emperor, the place of as-

semblage of Parliament, and :he headquarters of the Imperial C. -rnujent offices, It Is a place of givat political activity. As the seat of an Illustrious University and numerous other educational institutions, it is a center of teaming. It has a serviceable harbor which has been Improved. It is a city of theaters, temples and groves, raiP roads, electric lights, newspapers, and all the other modern things. There is not any reason to doubt the continued growth of the progressive Japanese city of Tokio. New York taust, at the least, keep up with it