The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-20

1hat eternal war DoSween oC' ALouiS,
Chicago and Cincinnati, as to which Ia the
greatest, most progressive and enterprising
city, still continues with undated fnry- ST.
Louis has had the last say which the Demo'
crat gives as follows: y "a e ~
THE GREAT CITY OF THE WEST.
In our local columns will be found some
interesting fgures from Gould's Directory,
showing the astonishing growth ard pros
perity of ST. Louis, and her present I'M
mense population. The compilation ior
the latter seems to have been made viii
great care, and we have the authors as-
surance and his we'll esta blished regulations
for the fact that it ia strictly accurate. The
total foots up 42S ,l25, exclusive of what is
now tho Thirteenth Ward, which was not
part of the city on the first of February.
when the work was put into the hands OF
the printers. 1t is safe, then, to say that
Plumbers, 43O, OOO On the authority of the
United States census, St. Louis is the fourth
city in the Union rs to population, and the
third as to ma manufactures. We might, wiA
greater truth, say she is the third city IN pop
ulation, and that she ia destined to De, In
very short time, the second city In manu-
factures. In rating her as the fouseh IN
population, Brooklyn, which is in reality Q
part of New York, Is rated third. But en-
itipg Brooklyn, the relative position Is
this: New York-Philadelphia-S Louis.
Five years will change that, and leave sc.
'yn com bined, or to New York separately.
making her in any event the second CITY OF
the Union in point of population.
| BY the United States census for 1871,
the population of St. Louis Twelve wards,)
was computed at 3i0,664. Goufds Direct
DRY shows an increase OF ll7,2oI, or more
than one third in three years. This Is not
greater than tho ratio OF increase, accord
| ing to the United States census from 1860
to 1870, if we make the necessary allow
ances for tho tendency of the war to build
up Chicago and other cities Mt our expense.
In 1850 our population was 1900 IN lSoo
in was IGO 900 and ten later, which in-
Guided the four years OF. war, it had nearly
doubled again, being $4,000. In the three
succeeding years we have no more than
kept up our ratio of increase OF little
over 10 per cent. for each year. But what
we have done in the past is not fair crit
erion for what we shall do in the future. We
a city's greatness much fast or than IN popu-
lation. No city in the coustry can show
progress in the building of railroads DEEPEN
dent upon it az can be shown in the past
ten years. history of st. Louis /; and the
completion of the great bridge will, so far
start. Henceforth St. Louis ceases to acknow-
ledge any rival west of the Alleghanies.
She is the superior OF them all, not only
in population but in wealth, industry and
stability. Chicago is . city of Newspaper
puffs and real estate agents-Dulutl, null
tiplied by ten. A prolonged strngency in
the money markets OF the county W ould put
her under the Sherifesi hammer. She is
constructed on the idea. that debt is
thing that may be contracted, but need
never be paid and even with their limits
extended to include two degrees of latitude
AID several degrees of longitude, she can
not muster more than 300, 900 rsmes with
out copying from the tombstones Of half
j century. Cincinnati is in what Mr. Walsh.
would cal! state of decadence, which be-
gan as soon as railroads began to supersede
rivers as means of travel and commerce.,
and has ontinued steadily ever since. She
makes beer and whisky in abundance, but
as the Enquirer complains that she is oner-
ously taxed on these articles, we suppose
she drinks all she makes, because, other
wise, her customers, and not herself, would
be the tax burdened parties. She also makes
chairs, and n few other articles, but she is
chiefly remarkable for making as much
smoke as Pittsburg out of about one-ten til
the man ufactule s of Pittsburg. Her popu-
latIon can't possibly be more than $50 900.
It was officially put at 10000 three years
ago, and its rate Of increase since hae
not been half that of st Louis for the same
period.
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