The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-27

INCREASE OF BosToN.-It may be here remarked
that the population OF Boston was Is 800 In 1865,
ana during me following 20 years including the period
l,S00 or lls9 per cent; that OF the whole State was
1868 50 per ccntwhich greater than hacen
in any period OF thirty years SINCE except from lsl0 to
1910, when il was only per cent greater During the
forty years. from 1890 to $780, was only per cent
greater The increase of Boston from 1890 to 1900 was
6.67 36lI per cent from 1900 to lslJ $3.50 or IS As
per cent; from 1910 to 1920 95li 2s4 per cent? from
1870 to $780, 1894 or AIS per cent and from 1880
1910, 1891 81 10 per cent Thus appears that the
increase has been unequal being the least from 1910 to
1920 and the greatest during the last decennal period
cent per annum during the fifty years. The increase
from 1870 to 1910, was 1908 400 70 per 1t was
wealth. In 1890 the population OF Boston less than
twentieth part OF that OF tue whole States in S40 more
than eighth part This increase shows the tendency
to Capitalization of the population in Boston during
the fifty years. Generally also the rease has beer
greater near Boston than in remote places This
tendency to Capitalization is also shown by fact that
a circle with Boston the centre and with radius OF
thirty five miles, enclosed about half the population of
the State in $780, but circle with radius Of twenty
nine miles embraced about half the population in 1870
thus showing the diameter of the circle have been
contracted about twelve miles in fifty years Also the
population embraced by circle with radius of thirty
miles in 1910, was over eight thousand greater than
the whole number in the Commonwealth in 1870
II appears further, that line east and west, carried
through Boston in 765. and at each of the six eochs
taking the United States census, divided the population
Of TIC state into two very nearly equal parts,
north sdc and the other the other side Of it ae
north and south, dividing the population of the to
two equal parts, had its point of intersection with the
first line in l765 the western limit of Boston THIS
point the centre of population ani moved westward
until $780, and continued TO ghy till il attained
its maximum in 1900, in Weston about ten miles from
the place where tw in l165 % years before. From
the of the present century this point has
moved eastward until 1870 when 1t stood nearly
east scventyfvc years before, namely, the
western limit OF Boston strong impulse is given
the activity and enterprise Of the citizens OF Boston,
and the prospect is that for years to come in.
crease OF the population will be great has been
during any period since 1890 Its population according
to the United states census, 32s3 in 1910 The
number now probably about 600 In 1850 the num-
Der win probably be at least 600 Among the means
calculated to sustain this activity and enterprise OF is
citizens, obvious than the of
munication. especially by railroads, which adate from
Boston centre northeaserly to Portland the princi
pal commercial place in Maine; norhcrly to Concord
the capital Of New Hampshre westerly to Albany the
capital Of New York; southwcsterly through Connect
cut southerly to Providence, the capital OF Rhode
Isand and southeasterly to Plymouth, where the first
Pilgrims landed Branches communicating with these
main trunks constructed for local purposes
that the whole territory is overspread with sort of
work, whose iron rods approach within few miles of
every considerable town in the commonwealth. These
roads have been constructed al cost of twenty
millions oil dollars mostly at the expense Of individuals
who will not willingly suffer these works to fail of fulfil
ing their destiny Of conveying men and merchandise
from and to the city of Boston.