People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — New York Close to Two Million. [ARTICLE]

New York Close to Two Million.

New York, July 10. —The 108th volume of the New York city directory will be ready for, distribution to-day. This year’s volume contains 387,411 names, and, at the ratio of five to one, it is estimated that the city contains 1.937.055 inhabitants residing or doing business within 41 square miles. In the Chicago directory the names rep resented spread over 185 square miles and in Philadelphia 129 square miles.