Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
FORT WORTH CENSUS.
The Rolls We're Closed Last Night.
The Figures.
Fort Worth VIII Make Better Showing Of
Progress Than ANY Other City iu
TeXas-The Averages.

Worth last night.
What is Fort Worth IS population &C.
cording to the returns?
Fort Worth's population according tc
the returns will lack fully 5000 of being
as great as the actual figures.
reliable estimate based for the HsS 81
| part on the official returns and PARTITION
close calculation indicates that the aRp-
sus returns when published will give f&is
city 80 200 Inhabitants. "a
| While those figures fall at least 50de
short of what they should have been ,
| yet the citizens have been saved
much greater shortage By
the active and interchangeable efforts
| of Secretary E. S Biden of the Chamber
of Commerce and J w. Swayne, chair
| man of the census committee of the
chamber. These gentleman have de-
voted themselves to the work of gather
ing names, and it is safe statement
that through their estimates the popula-
ton has been raised 20, 900.
They have been aided to large ex-
tent by activity on the part of some of
the regular enumeratOrs and some
of the chamber of commerce
clerks. OF the census enumera-
tors Messrs. Swayne and Bideu accord
Loney, George wray, Tom Martin, Ed
Rowe, MeSsrs. Ryan, Jones, MoMichael
and Shattuck. Messrs. Loney, Wray
and Martin, they assert displayed the
abilities and qualifications of which
successful business men are made.
OF the chamber of commerce clerks
special mention Is made of Messrs. Sam
Lane, Hill Deering and Frank Fairfax,
who exerted themselves nobly in the
good work.
1t is to be regretted that some of the
districts were not fully taken care of.
Some of the districts in which were a
great many railroad men were not fully
covered, and they would have made u
better showing if they could have been
gathered into the fold. 1t is calculated
that fully 5000 names were lost in two
districts alone.
But Fort Worth makes a very good
showing. With population in 1880,
according to the census of that year of
$500, the gain during the decade is over
400 per cent.
If the estimates of returns from other
cities of the state are nearly correct then
Dallas will have increased about $50 per
cent. San Antonio 300 per cent. Gal
weston $50 per cent.
q But who can look at the figures for the
whole state without being amazed at the
rapid gro tn during the past ten years?
The showing for Fort Worth, however,
fails TO do this city justice in more re-
spects than one. For instance, included
IN the returns of this city is
an area of only four square
miles. In Dallas is nine square miles,
and in San Antonio SO. If Fort Worth
had been given an area of nine square
miles she would have shown an addi-
tional 10, 900 population. That area
would include all those new factories
on the North side the Union stockyards,
the packery, the rolling mills, the shoe
and leather factory, the wagon factory;
on the West would have been found
all the Arlington Heights improve
ments, the stove foundry and the wood |
working factory, while Oh the South |
would have been found all the unan- |
nexed South Side and the WOODEN mill.
Fort Worth is not big enough.
Even with the extension of time many |
very well-known citizens have been |
omitted from the census rolls as closed
last night. The following names were |
left with THE GAZETTE yesterday as
having been omitted:
Sam Lazarus, SO Houston street;
Charles w. Tunnel, corner Texas and
Macon streets; W. C. Allen, 40l East |
Fourth street; Frederic T. Moss, GAZETTE
office; Thomas 2. Stone of Nav
ield & stone, on Weatherford, be-
.ween Main and Houston streets;
Bill! Wells, age twenty-seven, working
nan; Mathew Wells, twenty two years
I'D, teamster; Lys Wells, twenty years
I'D, workman; Thomas Minter, twenty
Tears old, workman; Charles Lincoln,
wenty years old, teamster: w. NJ.
Hays, nineteen years old, workman.
1t is due elumerator T. P. Martin
r., whose work was quite complete
o say that the name of j. E. Murrey
vas on his rolls at the time of the pubIi-
atiou to the contrary.