St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
Which Would Make the Pop
ulation of st. Paul
1910, 600,
Using the Multiple Common
ly Employed in Large
Cities.
Reasons Why a Larger Null
tiple Should Be Used on
st. Paul.
Some Of the Interesting Feat
ureS Shown in the New
Directory.

In the absence OF Ottlclal census hg-
ures, the peopleof ST. Paul have learned,
through long course of years, to rely
largely upon the directory census. For
comparative information it is OF the
greatest value. and just now, when it
has been shown that under the miser-
able federal law an accurate census. is
impossible, the directory census will be
accepted where the federal census will
be eyed with suspicion. For years the
same methods.of directory enumeration
have obtained and the men employed
are experts at the work, so that, at
least, the comparative growth of the
city from yearto year is accurately
shown by the directory compilation.
Messrs. r. L. Polk & Co. will issue
the directory fer 1890 on next Wednes
day, and the advance sheets placed with
the GLOBE are filled with inter esting
information. Giving the totals of names
and comparing with the Minneapolis
directory, just issued, the result is as
follows:
Names. over 1889
st Paul .,,..............-..a S,271 q, 96a
The directory publishers at st. Paul
say in their introduction:
The tWenty-sixth edition of the st.
Paul City Directory. being the twelfth
annual volume complied under the
present management, is submitted to
the severe and searching test to which
it will be daily exposed, with a conf
dence acquired by the experience of
years. All those features which have
proven of value in the past have been
retained, and new ones such as change
in conditions and thorough knowledge
of the business would suggest have been
added, and in appearance as well as in
accuracy and completeness, the st. Paul
directory is eXcelled by no other of its
kind.
A high degree of perfection has been
attained in TX. l.. Polk & Co.'s system of
canvaSSing for Names which admits Of
no omissions or errors that should not
be detected in the series of checkings
and examinations to which eachitem of
information is subjected.
Names are taken in duplicate and the
facts proven, as are accounts in double
entry system of bookkeeping; where
they are not verified with the result Of
the first canvass. special messengers are
dispatched to ascertain the cause, cor
rect conflicting reports and supply de-
ficiencies.
In every process of collecting, COM
Diling and printing the matter expert
enced men have been employed to ,ex-
anime and superintend the work, and
the utmost care has been taken to secure
accuracy and completeness.
This company, through its agents.,
having come in frequent contact with
every inhabitant of the city, has had an
abiding faith in the estimate of ipopula-
ton made upon the basis of two and
one-half persons to every name con-
tanned in the directory, and an actual
count of women and children, whose
names do not appear in directory, has
demonstrated that the multiple of 81
is not too high for an enumeration
made with tie same system and princi-
pies. 1t is, however, certain that the
figures produced by these methods,
which account for all persons who make
st. Paul their home, will be consider
ably in excess of the census figures.
or in the law under which the census
was taken. the reader must decide for
himself.
In any event the increase of names
with each succeeding issue of the ,di-
rectory evidences steady, continuous
and prosperous growth, which must in
| Spire any thoughtful person with conf
| dence In the future of st. Paul.
| There are 1921 names in this edition
| of the directory, an increase OF 1867
| over last edition, and whatever, there
fore, may be regarded as the exact pres
ent population. it is apparent that the
| progress in growth of this city has not
been interrupted. and Notwithstanding
| the general depression in business
throughout the entire length and
breadth of this land, there is no cause
for disappointment in the condition Of
| ST. Paul to-day. That the situation may
| be more fully understood and appre
| ciated, the following comparative state
ment is presented, showing the number
of names in each directory, With the in
| crease during the, last decade: