New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-30
now THE PERCENT; GrS. bl,.X,.s

HOW TIE PERCEgNHlIrf&f rhhASr.s the
subject Of the enumeration III New lork tiii ~
all .is phas II show, fhc boundaric' 81 every As
senblv district, including the Iwenty-thiri AMI
rwcnty-fOurih Wards. In each District. nslrcS
are given showing the results Of the Fedora cen
slis, the police emu ration, and tie firc chiuiTi
ton, showing also tie lnciclsc "a fhe hic'
enumcratio over the Fedora census AMI showing
the percentage If such IncT ANY one nc
qu'iut"d with the cftN VIII easily uunriS'%hd
the Significance OF these figures Inc fliSi )i
trci where Rice has made an Increase oi l,'@-
over the Federal census. an Increase oi 4l.s per
cent II, ~ everybody knows, not an ln'i'asIhe'
but actually decreasing district Nobndy lives
down there except Janitors and very Few Pr'pie
in small fcucm,ntS Tie second District, IN
which Increase is found Of 1,o5N. l. also part
Of the city ~ which there has been no resident
increase whatever. The same fact - true II the
Fourth District where Rice has made an ln,r"iSc
over the Federal census of 1851. OF 22."' per
cent: Of the Sixth District, where his increase
is 1850, or 2'9l per cent; IN ne Eishth.
where his incrcrsc is ~ 1872. or 25.'G per cent
in the 7 nth, the Twelfth, the Finh. the Ninth
and Tc Fourteenth H. ther,e di,trict,
there has bccn substantially no increase whatever
during the last two years And even IN ;le STREETS
SXtecntai. T. cy-nih, Fifteenth and Eighteenth, the
growth has been very small They were densely
populated in 1890 They are denSely populated
now; hut the natural movement of population
has been not into them bat out of them nJrth-
wards towards the Park and Harlem; and yet
Rice makes increase in the Eleventh District
of 22O1 per cent in the Fifteenth, Of 1919
per cfllt, anu III hF VI i''"i Pi
A TALE OF COMPARISONS.
These districts. as may he by CHANGING
at the map. are Immediately adjoining one an
other directly across the city from about twenty
thrd-st 10 Fortieth-st. The Fifteenth District
runs from Scvcnth-avc. across 10 the North RIVER.
Here Mr.. Porter. in 1890. found Gj,54s people.
SIX months later the police able TO find only
Ga, s26: but in another year Rices cnumcrators
come along and run the population mp 10 1902,
an increase above Porter and the police both Of
AnA .h.tt = NAT. Iflfr al
trict. IL has been for the last five Years heavily
populated. But there is grave doubt whether
during that time the actual resident population
has grown hundred. The Eleventh District
adjons the Fifteenth and extends eastward TO
LeXington-ave. Here Mr. Porter found 32,'3J
people the police found 39,67j and Rice found
Ricc's enunerators were able TO OBTAIN
no increase whatever over the police;
but in the Eighteenth District, extend
ing from Lcxington-avc. across to the East River
Mr.. Porter found j2,j1l people, the police g.
4G2, and Ricc's cnumcrators only 19,675, or
7,7s9 fewer than ire police This /. Gucer
counting. In a belt extending straight across
the city, in the most dcnSey populated part oil
the in one district RE coe ana onr 1hs police ,G
police. and in the third, 1850 behind.
A CLEAR STEAL OF 100000.
Looking at the percentages of increase all over
the city, the fact develops. which OF itself inn
peaches the entire enumeration, that tie largest
percentage Of increase, AIS Is found not uptown
ton has been growing, and where everybody cN-
pcccd TO see Il notable increase, but IN the First
District from TIE battery north To Cana-st. The
percentage Of increase in the Twenty fourth Warl
is III. In the Twenty third it is only FOL
In the XIXth Assembly District, running on
the West Side from West Fifty-sccond-st. north
ward along the Central Park to the Harlem
River, "a sp cnddy growing part Of the town, the
percentage is only 301S. In the twenty second
District, over on the East Side, running from East
Ffty-ninth-st. north 10 East Ninety -irst-st., the
percentage is only 1922. In the Twenty seventh
District which hos between West Forieth ST., AMI
West Fifty -setond the percentage of increase IS
Only 27.4t In the Twenty-iirst District, ius-
nediatey adjoining and running north 10 and along
the Park, a district that has grown as largely a.
any in NewYork. the percentage is Only 26.74 In
tie Twentieth District. which extends from LcN-
ington-avc. 70 the East River. and from East
Forty second to Fast Fifty ninth, there has been
an actual decrease the only one that occurs any
where in the city. Of 2s2 and yet Rcc's
enumcrators want TO say that they have made
ar increase in the Ist District composed almost |
entirely of office buildings, greater than the in
crease in any other district In the town They |
have the impudence to alice that the increase |
in the Divis, INST. district il great as in the |
districts around Central Park that the two |
districts south ~ Stanton-st. have grown much |
more rapidly than the STREETS around thu Harlem |
River The fact that the Rice enumeration is |
a cle1r steal Of al least 1000 population for |
the purpose Of fraudulcn'ly increasing Tammany
Halls strength in the Legislature by one Senator
and four Assemblymcn Is As plain from this
map and these figures as the sunlight in the
sky. L. T. 9.