Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-15
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CENSUS STUDIES.

In the New ork Nation fr0f. y. u.
Butter has the following relative to the
cities of the United States:
Census Bulletin No. 274 shows'the first
! 100 United States cities with their popu-
lation, and is a very suggestive paper.
The round number fixed as the limit can
not be called arbitrary, for it includes all
our cities which are more tnan 10000
strong, and one more. 1t also happens,
oddly enough, that we haye just ten cities
over 100000, and ten more over half
that number. The very names of many
are significant Of mu h. Those of the
first nine on the list represent eight Ian
guages,-and 50 are monuments of our
polyglot origin. New York is English;
Philadelphia, Greek; Brooklyn, Dutch;
Chicago, Indian; ST. Louis, French; Bal
timore, Irish; Cincinnati, Latin; and San
Francisco, Spanish. If we divide the
east from the west by the line fixed be-
fore the Alleghenies bowed down their
backs like camels for the burdens Of COM
merce, four OF the first five are eastero
cities and one western, while Of the sec
ond five, four are western and one east
ern.
In regard to Mr.. CARROTS proposed
new grouping of our states, it was remark
ed in No. 366, that ''the population Of his
five divisions, with the exception Of the
last, are not very dissimilar." But In re
spect to our urban elements they are quite
unlike In this first division Of nine
Northern Atlantic states, we find no less
than fOrty-nine of our first hundred cities,
while only nine of them Gncluding Wash
ington) are contained in the nine South
ern Atlantic states In his Northern Cen
tral group of eleven states, there twenty
| eight of our foremost cities and only
nine in the eight states OF his southern
central group. The five remaining cities
| lie in three members of his western group.
Nor Is the disproportion in the urban
| population of the various groups less than
| that in the number of cities.
The inhabitants of the hundred largest
OF our cities are trife oyer nine millions
| (9,076,5 q full sixth and more of
our whole census. OF this number more
than fve-ninths (5,214,064) are in the
forty-nine cities of the Northern Atlantic
group, 726, ,62f are in the nine cities of
the Southern Atlantic group, 2,250, 668
in the northern central, 538.883 iii the
southern central and remnant Of little
over = of q million 1856, 331) are In the
so-called western cities. The urban dwell
| lers in the 2 2northern groups are well-nigh
II millions (7,464,734 in contrast
with one and onethird millions Il, 362,-
694) in tie two southern.
OF the hundred cities fourteen are In
Massachusetts, twelve in New York, nine
in Pennsylvania, seven in New Jersey,
six in Ohio; Illinois (including Spring
field, 10,743) and Indiana have four each,
| Connecticut, California, Georgia, Iowa,
Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Vir-
! ginia each three, Minnesota, Tennessee,
and Texas each two. The remaining IA
cities are scattered, at the rate OF one
apiece in the District of Columbia Utah
| and in the states of Alabama, Colorado,
| Delaware, Louisiana, Maine Maryland,
| Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wis
consin. In eight states, Arkansas Florl-
da, Kansas, mississippi, Nevada, North
Carolina, Oregon and Vermont, there IS
no place with population Of 10000.
The largest town in any OF them IL VIII
mington, North Carolina, with II, 36l IN
| habitants. It's census number was l33,
showing that twenty-five places larger
than it were smaller than the smallest OF
the first century of our cities.
! IT is noticeable that our foremost cities
are concentrated into few states ma
jority of the njnety-nine, that is fifty-two,
are situated in the six states OF Massachu-
setts, New York, Pennsy lvania, New Jer-
sey, Ohio and Indiana.
Ifanyone will learn the name OF the cities
as arranged in the bulletin, he will cor
rect many misapprehensson into which
he may have fallen concerning their COM
parative size. When he suffers from in
somnia, he will find, in running over
those names, better soporific than any
poppy or mandragora he can buy. Let
him further note that No. 10, New Or
leans (216, ,090) is the smallest city over
200 900; that No.20, Providence 4,8o6)
is the smallest over 100000 ;sthat No. 81,
Toledo (50.137) is the smallest over 90
900; that No. As, St. Paul al, ,473l is the
smallest over 10000; that No. 63, Omaha
(3O,51S), is the smallest over sc, 900, and
that No. II, Lancaster (25,7696 is the
smallest over %, 900, and those SIX num-
bers will afford him master-key to the
size, both ab olute and relative, OF the
| 'head-centers' of the whole country