St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
ST. PAUL,s POPULATION.
The Showing Made by the Director
Soon 10 be Issued,

The Showing Made by the Directory
Soon TO be Issued.
In advance of the completion of the work
of the census takers comes the finishing of
the directory and the approximation of the
population which can be made from it, The
book is now printed and complete, and will
be bound and issued to subscribers about
Wednesday of this week While the show
ing of increase is not so great as it was III
the boom time of 1882, it is still gratifying.
and does the city much credit. 1t gives as
surance that the city has grown several
steps beyond the one hundred thousand
mark The directory, which contains over
sixty pages more than last year, begins with
the usual introduction, in which is given
statistics of the city's business, public lm-
provements, etc, for the year 1884. The
following is that part of the introduction
which relates to the population:
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND.
Notwithstanding the universal depres-
sion in business throughout the entire coun-
try, the past year has been one Of success
in st. Paul. No heavy mercantile failures
have occurred, many important enterprises
have been established, and the thousands of
substantial buildings and artistic homes
erected during the year evidence the mate
rial prosperity of our city.
''This edition of the directory marks an
increase OF 4, 231 names, making total of
43, $50 names, indicating, by our usual ratio
of 215, a population Of 100, 300. 1t is a
well known fact that our multiplier is the
lowest applied anywhere. In estimating
population from directory statistics, Buff
falo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Kansas City multiply the number of names
by 80. In Denver, indianapolis, Milwau-
kee and Toledo the multiplier is used.
If the lowest ratio accepted by any of these
cities were employed it would make the
population of st. Paul 131, $50.
but whether the directory estimate of
population be accepted as authority or not,
tine increase in the number of names can
not be disputed, and together with other
reliable statistics herein contained, is proof
positive of the city's prosperity; and for
the incredulous there is ample data from
which exact deductions can be made"
TIE MULTIPLE OF TWO AND oNE-HALF,
which is used above, it should be said that
it is by all odds too low. This figure is
smallest in the newer cities-that is, in
young cities there are propOrtionately
fewer married women, children
and other dependents whose names
are not put into the directory. st. Paul is
growing, however, not only III these ele-
ments Of population. Families are becom-
ing larger and more numerous and employ
more domestics, all of which implies that
this multiplier of ~ should be increased in
order to adequately represent the city'S
population. Minneapolis finds it so, and in
her directory about to be issued uses 2.72
for the factor. In 1880, when the directory
people had the last opportunity to compare
their estimate with the census, they used
the same factor, and found themselves
over 500 short. The reasons for increasing
the multiple are greater now than they
were then, and so, when the census is pub
lished we may expect to see it mount up to
at least 112, 900.
The following table gives the number of
the names in the directories and the increase