Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — What Will the Population of Gary Be at the 1920 Census? [ARTICLE]

What Will the Population of Gary Be at the 1920 Census?

Hammond Times. Sixteen thousand, eight hundred and two. This is Gary’s population, according to the government’s official figures. That many souls were in Gary April lof this year. It is now seven months since that date. Gary is fifty-five months old. Consequently the span between that time is equal to oneeighth of\ her whole life and ’ assuming that the population has grown on the same equable basis nearly 19,000 now make their homes in the Steel City. In 1900, when the census takers of this section of Calumet township trod the sand dunes in search of the dozen families that lived near the Pennsylvania depot, little did he dream of the magnificent city that would be in that wilderness ten years later. Now that the 1910 census is announced predictions are in order as to what it will be in 1920. The guesses will be wide and varied. We will be conservative and shall place it at 160,000. Of course if in the meantime Whiting, East Chicago and Gary are amalgamated into one municipality, and if it is all named Gary, the Gary of the 1920 census will be a quarter of a million.