Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1920 — NEW YORK ROARS OVER CENSUS REPORT [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK ROARS OVER CENSUS REPORT

New York is spiffed, peeved, and aggrieved. It is all because the government, census figures at Washington, give New York a population of but a mere 5,621,151, whereas all the boosters are ready to' wager that there are 6,100,000. ' It is nob dear how the 6,100,000 figure is arrived at, but 'this much is perfectly clear. - coming from Stewart Browne, president of the. United Real’ Estate Owners’ association: ' I .ffu “The figures showing a decline of. 47,439 in.Hanhattan.AreiLpreposterous. Go [back ten yeare ap^,.-one-third of tha houses afid hotels were vacant. Consider the increase in apartment houses and ss it is apparent how ip.” • ■*—