The daily gazette., 1881-01-10
PHILADELPHIA IN THE CENSUS.
From the Phila. Times.

The position of Philadelphia in thu
eehsas which has just been taken IL sC
exalted among all its sister commu0i
ties that It's ciLiiies may feel . paIdona
ble degree OF PRIDE In Its growth, de
velopemeDt and prosperity. In the ten
years that have passed since the last
enumeration was made il has more than
held lis own In point or population, and
we feel certain that when the industrial
statistics Of the Republic are published
II will be found in the very front rank
as the greatest manufacturing city on
the Western Continent. 1t Is surpassed
10 this respect by London alone. But
It 10 only with the question Of popula-
ton thai we have a. present TO deal.
With It's imperial hgHres OF nearly eight
hundred and ffty thouszad inhabitants,
Philadelphia ia round numbers barely
lacks eighty thousand Of being as large
a. Chicago, The capital Of the Northwest,
and Of Boston, the capital OF the East,
combined.
We have twenty thousand more pop
ulaaion than 81. LOUIS, Cincinnati and
New Orleans put together. IL a compar-
fson be instituted between Philade ID hi a
q I'd the exreme great city on the eastern
oJasf, Brook } n snd San Francisco, he
gieaI city OF tie Pacific slope, We have
In our surplos OF fouy thousand over
bo b the material for a community equAl
In size TO one u the minor cities IKE
reading or Wilmington. Again, II We
take the cities under one hundred thous-
and population, We are larger thani be
following 90 senteen all rolled into oDe:-
Rochester, Indianapolis, New Haven,
Worcester, kansAs City, Syracuse, Pat
oUO1, Char eston, Minneapolis, Nash
vile, Hartford Camden, Lawrence,
Lynn, Oakland, Cal, Utica and Mem
phis.
But IL is not only with her sister cities
that Philadelphia can measure her stat.
ure with satisfaction to herself To be.
giD Ia the extIeme SouthWe.t, we have
naore than forty thousand more D0pula-
ton than Arkansas, and We only lack
half that mum Der OF being a large a.
California. We can count more than
onr gallant little DeIRb Dor Della are, and
Connecticut comb. bed, while We have
over two hundred thousand m ore lnhab-
ttaotsz than Name. Baltimore and
Maryland lead US by only eighty thous-
and, while We lead Minnesota by Aixty-
six thousand.
We are twice as large a. Nebraska
and tblresn lines, with thirty thousand
20 spare, greater thau silver Nevada
There are three times more Philadsl-
phians than there are Rhode Islanders,
and Vermont will have TO double her
population before she can touch our
STANDARD. South Carolina has only
about one hundred aud nifty thousand
more than We have, while We have Two
hundred thouand more than West VIr-
ginia. the States OF Rhode Island, Vrr.
mont and New Hampshire have only
about one hundred thousani Inha abitants
more than are Included n our municipal
limits, while we overlap by twenty
thousand the united population OF the
hve States Of Colorado, D-iswsre, Flori-
da, Nevada an 1 Oieg ~. Turning o the
Territories, the States that are To be, W.
outDumDer Arizona, Dako a, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico, Utah Wa,hing-
ton, Wyoming. with the District OF Co :
nmbia and the Federal capital added
The City OF Brotherly Love, it will be
Seem makes a very handsome exhibit
when show Of hands is demanded.