The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-11-13
nEwTowS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1891.
Country Loss, City Gain.

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Newtown has fallen off in population
in 30 years 80, from 1878 to $3.50; its
grand list, now $l,574,s6s, has shrunk
$l5l,5SO.
Monroe's population has diminished
1888, 1882 In 1860, 994 In 1890; the grand
list has almost halved itself, $e74,3l4 in
1860, 1878 1855 now.
Brookfield has lost 235 in population in
80 years, falling from 1924 to $50 and its
grand list from 1857 1850 to $49l, All.
Easton has lost over quarter of it's
population in the last generation, 1850 in
1860, lOOl now; its grand list, $410,472,
Is $270,S07 less than in 1860.
Reddng's population has fallen from
1852 to 1916 and its grand list is less than
half what it was in 1860, 81, 2S6, 764 to
$526,3s4.
Bridgewater has gone from 1O4s to 617
and its grand list from $500, 012 to $780,
800.
Roxbury from 992 to 936 and it's grand
list from $50s, 759 to $4O6,ss9.
Southbury has 1889 people to 1916
In 1860 and grand list of $780, sos
against $S79,s52.
Trumbull has lost some, 1474 to 1853,
its grand list shrinking from $734,s7s to
$597,1
Stratford, robbed by Bridgeport, has
260S people now to 1894 in 1860; its
grand list, now $973,SsO, was then ST.
546,3l7.
Fairfield's population of 1858 was 1879
in 1860; its grand list of $2,17l 1896 was
3,l93,663.
Weston has 773 people to 11I7 in 1860,
a grand list of $36s, 5O7 to $5l9,126
But while the war and its subsequent
activities have robbed the hill towns, the
villages and cities have profited by the
loss.
Bethel's population has grown from
17ll in 1860 to 34O1, its grand list from
1927 ,429 to 81, Os2, 5s3.
Danbury has swelled from 1884 to 49,
473, it's grand list from SO ,976, 44O to ST.
197,l37.
Huntington, thrilled by Skeletons vi
tality, has sprung from l477 to 4006 and
its grand list from $736,O9 to 81, 463,
267.
Westport, with 1898 people in 1860,
now has 3715. Its grand list of $2,069-
$50 is now 80, 100,397.
But Bridgeport, growing by expansion
and immigration, has risen from an in
significant town of 13, 300 in 1860, then
about four times the size of Newtown,
less than twice as large as Danbury, to
bustling city of As, 1866 souls, overlapping
everything in the county. Fairfield coun-
TVS next four largest towns, Danbury,
Norwalk, Stamford and Greenwich, all
we have with over 10000 people, have
combined population of 63,051 and the
Park City will not rest satisfied, proba-
bly,, until 1t has more people than all the
rest Of the county put together.
But while Bridgeport seems likely to
continne its growth in population, manu-
featuring industries, mercantile enter
prise and municipal demagoguery and
confusion, reflex wave from city aid
the West is setting back into New Eng
lands deserted hills, so that the dawn of
the Goth century is likely to find New
better off, numerically and financially,
than to-day. This necessitates some
change in industrial and financial condit-
ions, so that farms and farm produce are
worth carting to market. Such change
is surely coming, if not in 10 years, GER
tainly in %. The West is bound to be-
come more thickly populated and con-
sumo more of its surplus produce and the
farmers rights and interests must event.
ually improve. We must all derive our
food products from bountiful Mother
Earth and, let American shipping once
crowd the ocean with American products
from farm and shop, bound for foreign
ports and farms will regain their natural
value.
America for Americans and all the
world for their market should be Uncle
Sans motto.