The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-01-31
THE CENSUS.
Valuable Information Cleaned from
Special Bulletins.

Where the Gentle Sex are In the Maori
ty-Family Statistics-I lliteracy-Infor
nation About the Newspaper World
Farms and Products-A Heavy Increase
New England Steamboat Industry
Manufactures.
The different bulletins issued out Of the Gen.
sus Bureau from time to time contain informa-
ton Of interest to the people. A bulletin Civ
ing the area in square miles of the different
classes of settlement in the States and Terrific
ries has been issued, but it is too extensive to
be reproduced in full. The total settled area
of New York State is 45 400 miles. There are
$500 square miles containing to 1S people to
the square mile; $500 square miles containing
Is to IS people to the mile; 80 600 square miles
with IS to 80 people to the mile, and 2,429
square miles with population of above 80 to
the mile. The settled area Of New Jersey is
02,160 square miles; Pennsylvania, as 600
square miles; Texas, 124, 900 square miles; Ten
nessee, Al $50 square miles; Rhode Island, L.
0S5 square miles; Missouri, 6S,735 square miles;
Massachusetts,, 9,840 square miles; California,
1880 square miles. The total settled area of
the country is 1,569,570 square miles, There
are 3S4 800 square miles with population of
to to the mile; 373, 800 miles with popula-
ton of 6 to Is to the mile: 554 300 miles with a
population of IS to 45 to the mile; 1872 0l0 miles
with population Of 45 to 80 TO the mills; 24,-
$50 miles with population above 80 to the
square mile.
POPULATION OF CITIES.
Bulletin 274 gives q statement Of the popula
tion Of the one hundred principal cities of the
United States, by aggregate and by details,
and the increase in ten years. For instance
New York City has population now of 1906
$685. whereas in 1870 the population was 942, 292,
OF males there are 599,5l4; females, 1878;
native born, 1899; foreign, 47s,670; white,
Use, SAB; colored africans only, 1865 Chi
nese, 73l; Japanese, 16; Indians 46. The City
of Philadelphia stands second in population,
the number reported being 847, ITO. In 1870 the
population was 674,022. There are 4O5, 975
males; AL, 1875 females 642s35 natives; 204, 1886
Foreign; 815,362 white; 81, 500 colored; rs Chi
nese; l japanese; so Indians. The City of
Brooklyn ranks third with population of
666,663 as against 396,O99 in 1870. This city
contains more females than males-the number
of males being 272 .24S, females 294, 415 native,
1888, 969; foreign, 1864; white, 55S, 427; COL
ored, S,O95; Chinese, 12l; Indians, 20. Chicago,
being fourth in population, has the characteris-
tic OF containing more males than females. The
population, 503, 185. 1t was 29S,977 in 1870
There are 256, 905 males; 245 $50 females: $685.
326 natives; 204, S59 foreign; 406, 495 white g.
4S0 colored; Ill Chinese;2 Japanese; 81 Indi-
ans. Boston ranks fifth, with population OF
1862, S39. of which 172, 268 are males and l90,571
females. the population of San Francisco is
233,9 59 and the number of Chinese is stated at
l,744. The City of Oakland, in California,
has population of 3l555, having more than
trebled in ten years. The Chinese population
l z1x~1 -
ulation OF 1876 $685. Buffalo, I35. 104; Jersey
City, 120,722; Albany, 90,758; Rochester, &c.
366; Troy, 56747; Hoboken, 1850; Utica, 49,
914; Baltimore, 1872 ,313; St. Louis, 350,S18.
There are more males than females in the
United States the relative figures being,
males, 20, 618, $40; females q, 636, 1863. The
tive population is 49, 475 $40; foreign, 6,679, 943;
white, 43, 402,976; colored, 6,5SO793; Chinese,
105, 465; Japanese, 14S; Indians, 66.407. The
State OF California contains 1912 Chinese, sc
Japanese and 16, 277 Indians. The population
of the States is 49, 81 $40 and of the territories
7S4, 443. The total increase Of population in
ten years is about 100000. The States con-
tain SO, 7S2 Chinese and the Territories 1853
Oregon has $50 Chinese, Nevada, ,416; Ari-
IONA, 163O; Idaho, 1879; Washington Terrific
ry, 3,1S6.
FAMILIES AND DWELLINGS.
The total area of the States and Territories is
2,900,17o square miles. The number of fam-
lies is stated at 9,945, 916; dwellings, $3.50, S12;
persons to square mile, 1,729; families to a
square mile, 3.43; dwellings to a square mile,
3.02; acres to person, S7.01; ucres to family
1862; persons to a dwelling, 500; persons to
family, 5.o4 There are 1,07S, 1906 families in
New York State, 203, 800 in New Jersey, 84c,-
452 in Pennsylvania, 1856 in Connecticut
and 379,710 in Massachusetts New York
State contains 772512 dwellings, New Jersey,
100 ,403; Pennsylvania 776,124; Connecticut,
10S,45S and Massachusetts 281, 1888. In stating
the area by square miles the land surface only
is given, and the total Is exclusive of the In
dian Ter ritory and tracts of unorganized terri
tory, aggr egating 69,830 square miles. There
is great illieracy. OF &c, 761 607 persons of ten
years of age and upward 4,923, 45l-cannot read,
and E, 239, 95S cannot write. The number OF
white people who cannot write is 3,0l9,080
and of eolored persons, 1920 1878, or 70 per cent
of the colored population. The native whites
who cannot write number 2,255, 460, and the
foreign writes, 763,620. The facts of illiteracy
applicable to New York State are these: Mum
Der that cannot read, 66,625; number that
cannot write, 2l9 600; white persons who can
not write, 2C8. 175; colored, II ,425; native pep
ulation who cannot write, $3.50; foreign,
1869. Eighty per cent. of the colored popu-
lation of Alabama cannot write, 81 per cent is
the proportion in Georgia, 70 per cent. in Lou
isiana, 81 per cent. in New Mexico, n per cent
in North Carolina, 70 per cent. in Mississippi,
and 20 per cent in Kentucky and Florida
THE VOTING POPULATION.
The males of voting age in the United States
number 12,830,349, classified as follows Ma
tiyes, S,270,51S; foreign, 3,O72,487; colored,
1,4S7, 341. Out of a voting population in Ala
bama of 259,SS4, 11s, 432 are colored people.
New York State has voting population of
1,40S,751 native, S52094; foreign, 536,598.
cclored. 20059 The voting population Of New
Jersey is 30o,635, 190,65S being native, 1909
foreign and 10,670 colored. Pennsylvania
stands next to New York in the magnitude of
its voting population, Illinois ranking third.
OF the population of Alabama born in the State
506,917 are white and 507, ZIG black. In South
carolina the white people born number $685.
OH, and the colored people, 588,818; Florida,
84,678 white, and 88,803 colored These are
the only States in which more colored people
than white people have been born.
THE sExEs.
The males outnumber the females not quite
1000 in the aggregate of population. The
sexes seem to have stood in that numerical re-
lation for decade. Alabama has majority
OF females, and SO have Connscrout, Georgia.
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire New Jersey, New York,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. The
greatest majority is evident in New York,
where the males number 2.506, 2S3, and the fe.
males 2577527, being a majority of over IT,
600 for the gentle sex. The females have
gained in the last ten years. In 1870 there
were 102,603 females to every 100000 males.
Now there are 102, S43 females to every 100000
males. The predominance of females is in the
Atlantic region. In the whole tier Of States
which lie along this coast, with the exception
Of Delaware, females are in excess The rate
Of increase in New York is at the rate of 240
females to every 100000 males. The lowest
rate of increase, fourteen, is in Maine, and the
greatest, 26, 1854, in Idaho. The lowest rate OF
decrease in fem ales, 1874, was in Indiana, and
the highest rate of decrease, 1884, In Colora-
do. In the United States, as whole, there is
loss OF 1882 in the ration on 100000 males
in the last decade.
The tstsl white population OF the United
States is 49, 400 876, and of colored people 6577-
ISL. There are 10, 153 colorsd persons to every
100000 whites. an increase of 625 on 100Ql0