St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-11
The New Directory Would Indicate a
Population of One Hundred and
Twenty Thousand,
If Directory and Census Bear the Same
Relative Proportion As They
Did in Eighty.
A Bold Railroad Move--Cantieny Re-
arrested and VIII Go to the
Penitentiary.
Fell to Death Evening Entertain
ments--SpecfaI and Routine
News of Yesterday.
POPULATION OF MINNEAPOLIS
Shown by the New Directory TO be
Nearly 100000,

Shown by the New Directory to be
Nearly 10000.
A verified method has at last been de-
vised by which the population of Mime
apoliS may be reached i'll advance OF the
census, and the result be sufficiently cor
rect for all practical purposes. This Is by
means of the new directory, which Mr.. e.
Wright Dawson will issue to-day or Mon
day. Early in the week an effort was made
to steal the concluding pages OF the work,
and from them estimate the result. The
INSCRIPTIONS paper that devised the theft
made a serious blunder in the calculation,
and as a result had the ignominy of the af-
fair for its pains. The summary OF names
was made only yesterday and was care
fully verified so that the totals are abso-
Iutely correct and may implicitly relied
upon in the calculations which follow.
THE CITY's POPULATION.
To ascertain the population of Minneap-
oils by means of the names in the directory,
calculation by comparison is necessary.
The basis for this is found in the names of
the directory for 1880 and the census for
that year. A careful calculation shows the
population in 1880 to have been 2 and 7-10
times as great as the number of names in
the directory, and by applying the same
multipler to the number of names III the
directory of 1885, the present population is
approximately Obtained-nOt accurately, of
course, but nearly SO for all practical pur-
poses. In 1850 the population of Mime
apoliS was As, 3S3, as shown by the United
States census for that year. That of the
city proper was 46, S67, and, including South
Minneapolis, which has since been taken
into the corporate limits, the total is
swelled to 4S, 1888. This was the popula-
ton of the territory to be enumerated this
year and is the same territory covered by
the directory, not only this year, but for
every year since 1876. The directory names
for that year numbered IS. 220, which, used as
advisor OF the population, gives a ratio of
9 and 40. The ratio is really a shade less
than that, but the difference would not fig
ure in the result. This years directory has
AZ. $50 names. and if the same ratio holds
out, the population of Minneapolis should
show
A TOTAL OF 119. AIS.
Mr. Dawson and his corps of canvassers
are willing to be qualified as to the correct
ness of their figures, and prominent gentle
men interested in the result are willing to
back their belief in the correctness of the
comparison by any amount of money.
Tables are given showing how III other cit
les from year to year the relative proportion
of directory to census holds out, where the
directory has been conducted by the same
man on the same general principles.
This years directory has ~, $50 names, a
gain Of 4,717 over last year. The following
table makes an interesting showing: