The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-25

per cent, in Baltimore z.52 per cent. in
Cincinnati Is 40 per cent. in Buffalo -. ii
per cent, in Newark -. IS per cent, and In
Jersey City 44.95 per cent.
The results regarding families and
dwellings i'll New York city differ so
widely IN all respects from those for any
other city that il is not only interesting
but highly instructive 10 pursue the an
aiysls IN detail, by wards arranged geo.
graphically. as follows: Wards 1, = and 3.
representing the extreme lower end Of the
city; wards 4, 8, Z. 10, IL. IL, II and IL. rep
resenting the great tenement house dis
tricts on the east side below Fourteenth
street; wards 5, s, . and 15 representing
the business districts on the west side be-
low Fourteenth street; wards IL. Il,
-, %, Il, % and "a, representing the
residence districts above Fortieth street.
While for the entire city 70. 81 per cent. of
the dwellings contain more than twenty
persons, the per cent for the tenement
house wards on the east side, below Four
tenth street, taken collectively, is 5i.34;
for wards Ten and Eleven the percentages
are 51.49 and 81 - respectively. Consld-
cred as regards population, the results for
these same wards as a whole show that
dwellings containing more than twenty
persons represent S2.37 per cent. OF their
total population. In the other districts OF
the city the per cent. of population III
dwellings with twenty-one persons or
more range from very nearly 80 to upward
OF 20, except in the extreme northern
wards, being 22.75 per cent. for ward
Iwenty-three and Gal per cent. for ward
Iwenty-iour; in ward Two, also, a small
ward at the lower end OF the
city. the per cent. is only 80 Is.
In the great tenement-house district On
the east side - per cent. only OF fam
lilies live in dwellings, by themselves, 1862
per cent. live two families to dwelling,
15.5S per cent. three to five families TO q
dwelling, 20.2i per cent. six to nine TAM
lies to IA dwelling and 57.43 per cent. ten
families and upward to a dwelling. In
the remaining districts from one-fourth
to one-third Of the families live in dwell
lngs containing ten faiuiirs or more.
1T similar statistics derived from the
returns of the tenth census mad been COM
piled for New York city by wards, COM
paratIve tables could be made from which
exceedingly valuable conclusions could be
reached. As 1t *, the conditions OF lie
revealed by the census of 1890 regarding
New York city must be accepted as being
IN themselves strongly indicative OF the
great changes which have taken place
since 1850 in the growth of its business
interests below Fortieth street and the con-
sequent exclusion of population to very
considerable extent. The suburban cities
| and towns contiguous to New York on the
east and west have protlted to n very large
extent by this phenomenal growth OF busi-
ness in New York city, and while the
great metropolitan district as a whole has
shown remarkable increase in popula-
ton since 1850, almost all the increase i'll
New York city itself during the decade as
been in the wards located above Fortieth
street. The figures presented furnish al
most unmistakable proofs that population
In the districts below Fortieth street has
reached its maximum, and that In 1900
New York must expect very material de-
cline in population in this part of its terri
tory at least, however great and gratifying
may be the increase in the more northern
wards, which are at present almost wholly
resident sections, and in which there has
been since 1880 an increase of over 50 per
cent. in population.