New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-02
CJrRIOsJTIEs OF THE CENSUS.


easy comprehension TO the general reader since the
census of s7O7 was TAKEN the various election bOn-
diaries been changed and consequently in no single
election district do the comparative nguics sho" TIC
actual increase decrease for the election district But
in every Assembly District has been found possible 10
group the election districts covering the same territory
Of ground by their old and numbers and thus to
show the actual changes In those districts Thus under
the old apportionment Of the Is Assembly District the
Is Id lid, WITH. vth WITH and Ixth Election Dis
trcts covered tho territory which the Is Ill., Ni
With and With Election Districts OF the present ap
portionment now Hence the figures 105Os IN
1e-O71 and 1896 in 1875 indicate the loss in that ter
rtoria fraction of the First Ward 1t has cost grea
amount OF labor the examination Of maps and tables TO
make this thorough aud comprehensive comparative
statement has been done with great care ana the
reader is assured Of accuracy The change in wards
and Assembly districts have been noted In the
same detailed manner and with the greatest care.
Examination OF the figures with reference to the various
localities OF the city show many curious features OF the
change in population Of which are noticed below
II WAS natural to suppose that there would be de-
crease in the population OF the First Ward which is com
posed OF that part Of the city lying south OF Lberys
extending from river To river But II Will be seen by
examination of the figures that there has been small in
crease Of 1872 in the total population OF this ward,
which is l4G55. The whole increase in the ward
has been in three Of the election districts lying
near Greenwich-st., on the west side OF the CITY,
There was falling Off Of nearly 1000 in the other
districts the east side OF the city and along Broad
way The population OF this ward is largely made mp
OF the families of anors and Others living in the large
business houses and public buildings in the southern
part the city, and of the residents in Greenwich Nor
r and other streets OF the ward There has been fall
ing of Of 900 in the Second Ward which lies entirely on
the east side Of Broadway, between Liberty and Cham
bers-sts The Improvement of Churcst and the cree
ton of many large business houses in the Third Ward,
tt,a ,plafnp infn tho
First Ward and the other localities alluded 10 above
There is slight increase will he SEEN in the Third
Ward and very considerable falling of In the Fourth
Ward.
An examination of the figures by election districts
shows that section OF the city south of New Cham
bers-st there has been falling off IN the population
since the census Of 1870 Iut it is not very large.
There considerable decrease Of over 1000 in the
population of the Sixth Ward, OF which the Five Points
is This IL doubtless owing TO the improve
ment of Worth st. the erection of large number OF
factories IN that disrepuable neighborhoOd The
character OF this ward has greatly changed for the better
in the last three four years and many of the old haus
of the lower and criminal classes In 1t have been
broken up.
The Fifth Ward, which lies the west side OF the
city above Chambers and below Canalsts., has
slightly increased to the number OF AS. This pop
ulaton has been attracted toward the extreme west
ern side Of the ward where the North River ship
improvements in this district have been very great
within the last years. but business has not entirely
driven the residents from their favorte hauns about
the old Saint Johns Park although the Park itself has
disappeared. This is of the most thcky populated
parts of the western side OF the city,
The nroads which business making in all the lower
wards along Broadway is indicated by the small increase
in the Fourteenth Ward This is popuous ward, lying
between the BOwery and Broadway, and between Canal
and Houston ss including the thickiy inhabited district
south of Police Headquarters. Here the increase has
been little more than $50. On the opposite side OF
Broadway Lies the Eighth Ward, which has suffered
diminution Of over 200 The erection OF business
houses in Greene and Mercersts has driven out large
number OF very disrepuabe class though its represen
talves still very numerous in that district.
The increase Of only $500 in the Seventh. Tenth and
Thirteenth Wards, which lie upon either side OF East
Broadway and Grandst in the extreme eastern part OF
the city, will probably be thought surprising in view Of
the larger increase in other parts OF the city, The part
of the city embraced in these three wards is the most
hcky settled Of any part Of the City OF NewYOrk, and
it been asserted that some OF its blocks are more
densely populated than those Of any of the European
cities II would almost from the figures that there
is hardly for further increase Of inhabitants in
these wards Many of the residences large tenement
houses and there few Of the smaller dwellings which
do not give shelter to two or more families.
More than half the total increase Of the ctys popula
ton for the last five years has been in the two wards
which border the southern extremity Of Central Park
The Twenty Ward the West side and the Nine
teenth Ward the e.s side OF Sixtiove extend from
Forteth to Eightietllst. and the wards Of very
nearly equal size in territory. The Nineteenth Ward has
increased 80 026 the Twenty-second Ward to the
OF 1929 making total Of SO 055 for this parcu
larly attractive locality Of tho city.
The only other ward which has increased in like pro-
portion to the above is the Twelfth which upper
terminus of Central Park; but it is very large ward in
hein he Of fhern NJ the
named. The increase here, including Harlem, has been
IL 400.
The Twentieth Ward which lies west Of Broadway and
between Twentieth and FOrtieth-sts has increased at
ratio fully equal to that Of the Twenty second Ward
which 1t adjons The ward is a small territorial
dimensions but the increase here has been $500 very
nearly half that Of the Twenty second which nearly
three times as large
The ward in which the lower part Of Ffthave is sit
in which 10 be found most OF the costly residences
OF the rich and fashionable people, has actually lost
within the last five years population OF 1888. II is
easy understand from this fact the increase in the
Twenty first Ward Of 20, for this ward is
in which the majority Of the finer residences situated
1t will be seen by the reorganization by wards which is
published that the total increase of the city exist
ing has been, for five years past 81 I66 BY dednctng
the increase in the population Of the annexed district OF
Westchester County II that the total increase OF
population the Island Of Manhattan IL about IS 900
In the following table the asersk indicates that the
territorial boundary Of the election district remains un
changed, excepting the enumeration. The or dag
ger indicates estimates where official returns have not
been made The figures of these tables are from the
official reports Other tables which have appeared from
time t. time and which It viii be found differ materially
records In an evidently careless manner:
Ist ASSEMBLY DISTRICT.
WARD.