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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUBWAY OPENING CELEBRATION SECTION BOBWAY OPENING CELEBRATION SECTION NEW YORK SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915. AVENUE SUBWAY IS PREFACE PROGRAMME OF DEVELOPMENT OPENING OF $21000,000 FOU1 TO BROOKLYN'S VAST Lf jJllll P0 Sm1WW AREA 51J97 ACRES STTLMTC AREA AND POPULATION FIGURES OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF THE GREATER CITY OF NEW YORK SHOW THAT BROOKLYN IS Mayor Mitchel Commends The Brooklyn Eagle for Steadfast Work City of New York OrrieE or th Mayo By 1920 Densely-Packed Manhattan Will Have Been Outstripped in Pop ulation Race by the Borough of Homes-Many States of the Union Are Less Populous Than Brooklyn Town. Borough of Endless Resources Enters Era of Great Now Being Expended on Public and Private Improvements-New Transit System Renders All Sections Easily Accessible THE $25,000,000 subway opened today is but a small feature in the great programme of expansion and development that is being pushed throughout Brooklyn. New industries are being established every day and old ones are attaining a degree of magnitude that is giving new distinction to this borough. It is well once in a while we have.

The corps of special Brooklyn for articles for this special edition brought back some amazing tales. Welded together, they gave a story of the complete Brooklyn of the great borough with its endless resources and facilities sufficient to meet every requirement of every class the homeseeker, the manufacturer, the exporter, the laborer. spy-- DESTINED TO LEAD that year disclosed that Manhattan was well established in the million class. She was housing 1,164,673 persons. But in 1883 the great bridge was thrown open for tralfic, and with it opportunities for expansion hitherto undreamed of.

In 1 .90 a Federal count showed that Brooklyn had people living within her boundaries while Manhattan had increased her population to 1,441,216. It was a substantial gain. In the meantime new bridges had been projected and novel systems of transportation put into operation and more and more Brooklyn was coming to be recognized as an ideal home town. Making steady and sometimes sensational gains each year, it was foKl by the Federal Census Bureau thflt. Brooklyn had 1,100,542 inhabitants iu W00 and Manhattan sheltered 1.

850,083, a little more than this borough's population in 1914. The last Federal census, taken in liHO. credited Brooklyn With 1.634,351 persons. hen the result of the count was announced it was believed by many who had closely, watched Brooklyn's career and ener-, getically and bountifully contributed to her prosperity, that the census of 19C0 would show Brooklyn leading Greater New York in population. Manhattan, in 1910 sheltered 2,331,34:1 persons.

2,000,000 Residents By End of 191 S. It is true that the Health Board's estimate places the total population for 1914 at 2,536,716 in Manhattan, while Brooklyn is said to be more than 700.000 behind, with a total number of 1.8S3.69G inhabitants. But unless the stoppage of immigration has upset all calculations. Mr. I.iebennann assures The Kagle that we will have 1,900.000 persons in this borough by the end of the current year.

As far as population, however, is concerned. Manhattan, according to Mr. Liebermann, may, as a eomiwtiinr with Brooklyn, be eliminated. In oilier words, her capacity for housing citizens has reached its lim ii i'-t-it perhaps the most impressive sign liroeklyn's coming pre-eminence is found in the steadily and persistently increasing mnuber of citizens who register for voting purposes each year. In lain citizens registered in Man-hnitan.

while in Brooklyn qualified to vote at the Stale elections, showing a difference of more than 97,000 against Brooklyn. But in when the tight between Martin Odynn and liovernor Charles S. Whitman waxed exceedingly hot. Kings County had 242, 0S9 registraiions while Manhattan reeordod 2.6.221. Thso figures speall eloquently Brooklyn's growing importance.

IN BROOKLYN Three hundred thousand dollars worth of chewing gum is produced in Brooklyn establishments yearly. To carry on this enterprise a working capital of $125,000 is provided. BY 1920 more persons will live in Brooklyn than Manhattan. This prediction is mane uy iiiuun Liebermann, State Supervisor of Census for the Brooklyn district, a position held by him under the Federal Government in 1910. It is supported by the marvelous increase in population recorded each decade since and including 1880, by the regisua-tion of voters, which shows a steady gain on Manhattan for a number of years past, until in 1914 there whs a difference between the boroughs of less than 14,000, and by a mass of other evidence which cannot he suc cessfully contested.

Mr. Liebermann also pi-edicts a population of 1,900,000 for Kmoklj by the end of the present year. Persons who are tempted to look upon Brooklyn as merely a suburb of New York, a member of a family of consolidated boroughs, playing a subordinate part in civic development, would be surprised to know that more people live here than in Pillions states as West irgnua Kaunas, South Carolina. Maryland. Wash-ington.

Kansas or Oklahoma 1 wonder would be if they would cast their ryes over the map and find that Brooklyn cares fot a larger population than is supported Florida Delaware. Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico combined. These live States cover a territory almost as large as Kiiplund. France and Belgium put together. They raise almost everything necessary for the nourishment of the human body an.

nearly everything ordinarily re.pnred for it's covering. Vet every person in tnPse commonwealths could he housed on the territory assigned to Rrooklvn and there would be little fear that proceedings would be brought against the borough for overcrowding. How Brooklyn Outranks Many States of Union. Oregon. Idaho and I'tah.

flourish-ins aggressive and prosperous Slates, would have to combine their inhabitants if they would hope to have an aggregate population equaling Brook-lyn's It is perhaps unnecessary to say that if the people of lihode Island were to decide to allow their Slate to be annexed to Connecticut, more than a hundred thousand persons would have to be gained from other sources to bring their population up to that of Brooklyn. Maine. New Hampshire and er-mont. were they to consolidate, would still be nearly a quarter of a million behind Brooklyn. Brooklyn's chief growth.

In a population wav. may be said to have occurred since 1SS0. Then her population was less than 600.000. S.he was. so the most optimistic citizens of that time thought, hopelessly distanced by Manhattan, and some pessimists even thought that the Bronx in time would leave her in the rear.

The census for to stop and take stock of what reporters who went out to scour Delaware, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, whose area is as large as that of England, France and Belgium together. But it is the waterfront 200 miles in length that is Brooklyn's most valuable asset. Only a small portion of it has been occupied, but already we boast of the largest pier in the world and the longest pier in the world. We have a great system of 102 steamship piers, representing an investment of $100,000,000. More than forty steamship lines are established at these docks with a fleet of 700 ships which call Brooklyn their home port.

The Federal and city authorities are working for the fuller development of Brooklyn's waterfront. A channel deep enough to accommodate the latest monsters in the transatlantic trade is being dug from Bay Ridge to the foot of Montague street. A $15,000,000 project is under way to give a 35-foot channel in the East River for the entire length of the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. The long-talked-of Brooklyn Margi nal Railway will soon be a reality. It will parallel the waterfront and spurs will connect the shipping rooms of the, warehouses and factories with the main system.

In this manner direct connection will be made with the great trunk lines reaching to all parts of the continent. The cost of production to Brooklyn manufacturers will be materially lessened by the marginal railroad, which will also draw to this bor ough men with millions to invest in good factory sites with first-class water and land transportation facili- ties. The two factors that are doing more for Brooklyn than any others are the waterfront and the transit system. Brooklyn is destined always to be the great home borough. Its wide stretches of available home tracts with the numerous advantages to the homeseeker educational and social will bring hundreds of thousands of newcomers here.

The sub way builders are making it easy for them to get here, and the completion of the extensions will cut down traveling distances and render every portion of the borough easily accessible both for business and dwelling purposes. Eighty-seven millions of dollars are now being spent to improve the transit facilities here. Brooklyn's population is nearing the 1,900,000 mark. In a few years it will be greater than that of Manhattan, which at the last election had only 14,000 more voters than Brooklyn. The magni- tude of this borough's population will be better realized when it is known that it equals the combined population of the States of Florida, MARVELOUS GROWTH OF BROOKLYN'S POPULATION 1880 18DO 1900 l9io 1914, Eatimntea of Board of Health) .1 1915 But i mated by clone of year) .1,900,000 1920 Lending; Manhattan) 100,000 Railroad, which will go through the heart of Brooklyn and connect the waterfront with the extensive systems of the Pennsylvania and New Haven roads.

More than 5200,000,000 are being 1 1 SEVEN STATES COMBINED CAN'T RIVAL BROOKLYN Brooklyn' popnlatlon exceeds li- more than 100,000 the total number of lnhnliltnnta of Mon-tnna, WyominR, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Vermont and Delaware. The territory occupied by these Kcven Stntea In eqnnl in extent to nearly one-aeventh of the Vnlted State proper. The total aren in esnctly n(iinre nilten. expended on projects of public and private improvements in this borough. Small armies of men are workinc in tunnels and on the surface, in the earth and in the waters, all building a bigger Brooklyn.

New honors have been brought to this borough by its business men. Brooklyn is now' in first place among the great shoe manufacturing cities in the production of footwear for women, children and girls. Lamps are burning in China with oil refined in Brooklvn after having been brought here from the wells of Pennsylvania and other states by means of pipe lines. Brooklyn is the greatest storage point for coffee in the world, and every pound of Argentine and Australian beef brought to this country is handled at Brooklyn docks. And so the story runs, teeming with new and strange facts that tell of the in-dusinjl greatness of Brooklyn, Already shipments bound for the Pacific Coast via the Panama Canal are regularly passing through Brooklyn.

Within two years Brooklyn will be the chief terminal of the greatest inland waterway in the world. The State barge canal will be in operation in 1917 and it will brine to this bor ough freight boats that will drain the Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes and the upper part of New York State. It would be difficult to exaggerate the future of Brooklyn based on the development of its waterfront. The State, city and Federal authorities are working together to convert the shallow waters of Jamaica Bay into a great channel to feed a series of warehouses and other equipment of what in time will be a great industrial city. Work is being completed on the1 $30,000,000 New York Connecting 'I.