Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1914 — LARGE CITIES OF THE ORIENT [ARTICLE]

LARGE CITIES OF THE ORIENT

Three of the Most Populous Hives of Humanity Must Be Credited to the East. They took a census of Buenos Aires the other day, and found 1,560,163 noses to count. The capital of Argentina is getting to be quite a town — about twice the size of Cleveland or suth a matter. A good many of the big places of the earth are hidden away in inconspicuous locations; inconspicuous, that is, because far from the range of one’s daily observations. There is Tokyo, for Instance. Thiß Japanese city had nearly two million and a quarter people five years ago, being almost as large as Chicago. Canton and Peking, Chinese communities, each has a population estimated at 1,600,000. One does not know the precise method of computation in such cases. They may count an occasional Chinaman twice because of the length of his pigtail, but the fact remains that off there in the Orient are three of the ten most populous cities of the earth.