Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-22
FORT WORTH CENSUS.
The Rolls Were Closed Last Night.
The Figures.
Fort Worth VIII Make Better Showing Of
Progress Than Any Other City iu
Texas-The Averages.

The census rolls were closed in Fort
Worth last night
What is Fort Worth's population ac-
cording to the returns?
Fort Worth's population according to
the returns will lack fully 5000 of being
as great as the actual figures.
a reliable estimate based for the most
part on the official returns and partly on
close calculation indicates that the GEN.
sus returns when published will give this
city 30, 200 Inhabitants.
While those figures fall at least $500
short of what they should have been,
get the citizens have been saw d
much greater shortage by
the active and indefatigable efforts
of Secretary E. S Biden of the Chamber
of Commerce and J. W. Swayue, 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-
tion 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 Biden accord
particular commentator to Charles
Loney, George Wray, Tom Martin, Ed
Rowe, Messrs. Ryan, Jones, MoMichaeI
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
great many railroad men were not fully
covered, and they would have made
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 n 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 800 per cent. Gal
weston $50 per cent.
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 Sc. 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, Will on the South !
would have been found all the unan-
neXed South Side and the wooden mill.
Fort Worth is not Zig 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, DIV houston street; !
Charles w. Tunnel, corner Texas and |
Macon streets; w. C. Allen, 40l East |
Fourth street; Frederic t. Moss, GAZETTE |
office; Thomas z. Stone of May
field s. stone, on Weatherford, be-
tween Main and Houston streets;
Bill Wells, age twentY-seven, working |
man; Mathew Wells, twenty two years
old, teamster; Lys Wells, twenty years
old, work man; Thomas Minter, twenty
years old, workman; Charles Lincoln,
twenty years old, teamster: W. N.
Hays, nineteen years old, workman.
= 1t is due e umerator t. 2. Martin,
Jr. whose work was quite complete,
TO say that the name of J. E. Murrey
was on his rolls at the time of the publi-
cation to the contrary.
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