Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-20
10, 900.
That is the Population Of Washing-
What the Census St0,rs.

The census returns of the District OF COlum-
D1a have not yet been sufficiently tabulated to
bring out all the interesting and useful facts
intended to be shown by these decennial taking
accounts Of national stock, nor to enable COM
parsons to be made between the results of this
years enumeration with those of previous years;
but so far as merely taking the census of the
population is concerned, that work has been
done, and the figures now arrived at are be-
heved to be correct, or at least as nearly so as
such statistics can be made.
of Washington, = technically considered
Chat h, ,o i. ,,,iI within the actual oldes-
p sna 1 what % Was formery 81 ey Rnoper
to be 161, Ill. This enumeration excludes,
however, all that part of the population Of the
city living beyond Boundary street, but which
belongs to It, to all intentS and purposes as much
as f1t was located In the grounds which now con-
stitute the park around the Capitol. UniOntown
and the other settlements lying on the other
Side OF the AnacOSt1a are not included in this
count. Neither are LIE Droit Park, nor the thickly
settled localities along the extensions of ~ 18th,
eth, lth, Sth and 9th streets, between Boundary
street and the 18th street and Soldiers Home
Road. Mount Pleasant is likewise excluded,
and also the settlements on the hill, including
and adjacent to the grounds of Columbian Col
lege.
These points are separated from the old cor
poration limits OF Washington by an imaginary
line, it is true; but the people living there are
JUST dS uuCu d ptII vi Uut populdtlou VI Iue
city as though they lived in its geographical
CENTER and In truth and justice they should be
counted and considered such in any statement,
official or otherwise, which pretendS to show
the number OF its inhabitants. That these out
growthS or overflow of the city include at least
half the population of the District lying outside
the technical limits OF Washington we presume
nobody would doubt. The population OF that
territory is shown by the official figures to be
16,690. Take half OF this number and add 1t to
the ascertafned population OF the city within
the old limits and we have total of 1859, ,456. Or
say in round figures, as we have given them
above, 100000, as the actual population Of
the national capital as 1t stands to-day.
In this connection the following comparative
tables will be interesting:
Population Of the entire District in 1890. III So1
Increase IN 10 years. 46, 1O1
Population Of Washington qncluding
Georgetown only) in 1880. 161, i'll
Do. do. 1870. 12O 5S3
Increase in 10 years. Observation-Disclosures. 4O, ,52S
Population of Washington in old limits
in 1850 .....................14S,4O las, ,4O4
DO. do. 1910. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 109, 1879
Increase in 10 years. ............. s9, 9,2O5
Population of Georgetown (old limits) In
1885,. ..................... ................ 1901
DO. 90. 1870. Observation-Disclosures. II, ,3S4
Increase In 10 years. 1923
Population of District Outside OF cities) in
1850. 16, 800
DO. DO. 1870. SaO....................... II III
Increase in 10 years. rS.................. 5,573
The increase Of 6,5I3 in the District proper