Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — NEW CENSUS FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

NEW CENSUS FIGURES.

POPULATION OF UNITED BTATES ESTIMATED AT 79.900,389. Increase In Three Years Has Been 3,905,8 14-New York Stilt the Greatest City and Chicago Second with 1,873,880 Inhabitants. The census bureau has issued a bulletin which gives the estimated population of the United States for 1903, exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions TJf tiie United States, nt 79,900,381). This is an increase of 3,905,814 since the census of 1900. The population is estimated for 438 cities having 10,000 or more inhabitants in 1900. How Chief Cities Rank. The estimated population in 1903 of the fifteen leading cities and the census figures of 1900 are as follows: Estimated Population. ~ _ population by census 1903. of 1000. New York 3.716,J30 3,437.202 Chicago 1,873,880 1,608,575 Philadelphia ...1,367,716 1,203,007 St. Louis 612,279 575,238 Boston 604,618 600,892 Baltimore 531,313 508,057 Cleveland 414,950 K81.76S Buffalo ...381,403 352,387 San Francisco 855,019 342,782 •Pittsburg 345,043 321,616 Cincinnati 832.034 825,902 •Milwaukee 812,736 285,315 •Detroit 809,053 285,704 New Orleans 800,625 287,104 Washington, D. C. .. 203,217 278,718 •Pittsburg passed Cincinnati; Milwaukee passed Detroit, and Detroit passed New Orleans. New York State Is Biggest.

In the number of towns and cities having over 10,000 inhabitants, Massachusetts is in the lead with 47, containing a total of 2,197,700 inhabitants, but this Jtgtal of urban population, of course, is not as large ns that of New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. Considered by States, New York leads in population, With more than 7,500,000; Pennsylvania exceeds 0,500,000, and Illinois has passed 5,000,000; Texas has over 3,000,000, having passed Missouri. Only 22 States now have less than 1,000,000 inhabitants, and 14 exceed 2,000,000. The estimates are made in a bulletin giving estimates of population in 1901, 1902 ano 1903, for all cities of 10,000 inhabitants or more in the United States. It shows that the number of incorporated places having a population of 10,000 Inhabitants or more in 1900, including cities, boroughs and villages, and New England towns not having municipal corporations within their limits is 438, with a total population of 24,047,3G7, while their estimated population for 1903 is 25,806.987, an increase of 1,759,620, or over-7 per cent during the three years.

The same cities between 1890 and 1900 increased injiopulation over 32 per cent. Part of the increase during the three years is due to the inclusion of suburbs. How Population Is Divided. The estimated population in 1903 in cities of 10,000 or more is distributed as follows: States. No. cities. Population. North Atlantic 188 12,818,090 North Central 140 8,272,105 South Atlantic 88 1,841,215 South Central 37 1,530,855 Western 26 1,343,822

An official statement accompanying the bulletin says: “The bureau of the census has decided to make annual estimates of population based upon what is known ns the arithmetical method. This rests upon the assumption that the annual increase for each year since the last census will be one-tenth of the decennial increase between the last two censuses. The country as a whole nnd most of the States and cities are growing with a steadily decreasing per cent of increase. As this condition has obtained in the United States for the last twenty years, it is likely to hold good in the immediate future. Under such conditions the arithmetical method has been proved more accurate than any alternative method. Referring to the inclusion of suburbs iu cities, the- bulletin says that of the 438 cities with 10,000 or more population, 162 annexed territory between June 1, 1890, and June 1, 1903. There are no cities credited with 25,000 population in Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming, Vermont and North Carolina.