New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-25

TOE have spent and how much excellent work they
have done ana are GGns T'h mo yHr change
The situation which confronted us rev EedIs
ago is the same as il Is now; 50 that IN" NoiN
Of the committee in making even statistical IN
curry arl in showing ne the area 81 mgr u'lsir r!
soine thoroughly the question of AlepEno99l
matter Of he strength and safety OF late. Nc
ings and will investigate with equal th"iniubnr
arrargernents There IS not a big city IN l;urole
that has not found II necessary some ''"t - bmsn
matters and to MAKE now regua lions and new
laws in regard to construction ana All inc o'"e'
matters which have mentioncd ,.,.
What recommendations VIII be mace.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE MADE.
..You know" replied Or. Shaw. that not beng
a member of the committee can't answer '""''
but l know enough to say that whatever '''o"i
mendatons the committee may make VIII De OPP"
to public criticism. which Will help 10 tu'ne 'ne
la,ure when the matter is called u? or thclI
consideration. There VIII be iacts AZ Inc actuel
our lawmakers not alone as reE1ru f Inv f"rern
condition Of things in this city. hut lh lpi,rir"
CUES anu nc ' With WV w@dom Intelligence and true
conservatism for the best interest oil 'ne i'''
The next man from whom information was ,va,n
was F. r. Pierce, an eng,nec o, NIT Two maps
nn which a great deal Q. time has been spent ana
which interesting specfinehs oc oi ~ Pierce
tckes pride in his work. which shows II a sIn'V-,
not alone the density q int d whch the city is
divided but also the nationality of the pseo,nt"e
THO mans re based on the Federal census "i -
although the estimated population on Jun ~ tbn
lS5i52, according TO- r 6c *, - ,bnn the Fed
eral figures one is called n nationality map "ilg
the other density map Tne former nH pas Ii@k Hc
patchwork quilt. Rcd stands FOR German srefin n
irish and b.ue, American. There are roio'H "h'
"a desicnate the other natonalities. All are dcsis
mated foreigners whose mothers HrG ~, ,h,s
meuh0,i q! t RAJ Year 4os7Si Germans 399,$4s
aliies Russians and Poles Qaken toSr,me7 q ~
I'rnch rs Boa Uunearlans l555: rohemiaus. l2,2Ni
other foreign nations, olS5, and HIS" le'So"S "0'
In the nationality map there is something about .,
ireland more striking even than hcr mere nun,
be- fonnd simply in one or two corners. but they
extend almost equally over cHery paw won Ill show
haitian Island \ glance ct TINS man maD W t The oil
that there is more fact than ne'i0n N nfricnd
that Erin ever had. As general rule, German.
Polish ana Russian Hebrews are IN ms nn a,
wherever the population is most dense. The dehscst
snot f',nJ ~ - sanary district in the Eleventh
Ward. bounded by Rivington and Second SITS. and
Avenues h and i. which contains from goo to ~
people to the acre. The next denscsi Is IN SAM
iary district in the Tenth Ward bounded by Dl-
vision. Norfolk and Grand SITS ana ne Tower,
to the acre The same proportion is found in a
district in the Eleventh Ward. which ad{3 I, the
BoweTy and Baxters ana also in !he hey anG
Clinton SITS. and First-ave. and Avenue Il.
THE THINNEsT POPULATION.
The place where the population is thinnest is
In the Eleventh Ward. in districts OF which there
are only fifteen persons to the acre one would not
think it. but it is fact that between Seventy ana
Seventy-slxth SITS and First and Third ayes, the
centre OF the German and Bohemian clgarmakcrs.
there is a population of between so and coo per
sons to the acre. Nor might one think that there
few a hundred 10 the acre between
Bowery ana Sixth-ave and Houston and Fourth
People are interested in being told what sort o.
elbow room their rich brethren have who dwell
n What IS know as the rS 1s,Tct
bounded by Ihirty-sixth and ftity-ninth SITS. ana
Only nnety people to the acre there Most Of the
people who live there are Americans. But this -
district, which. TO be more nearly accurate be-
gins at about Houston-si. and runs straight through
continues on its way each side Of the Park as
more intermixed with many foreign nationaliics.
NOR especially the ubiquitous sons Of ireland and
West of Ninth-ave. The part between Foreth
and Fifheth SITS has the arg.si propQri!onal Ir.sh
population Of any sanitary district In the city Mr.
Pierce rot being concerned. 81 course. with any
wheels within wheels. does not know. and. there
fole Goes not say "here ne lI.h come from VINO
dwell here. but 1t II fact that from Forty second
70 Ffiy.nnth-st ana west OF Ainth-avc the
Those Of them who are Orangcnen have lost th-ir
the Pope" for With ticre IS penalty ty Of -
sfnlnrs and costs in Belfast. Will hose OF then
TO he'll With King william fof when tAcrc Is
also d penalty OF T. In the sam" city.
IRISH ALSO THERE.
The next district Of the city which is most dcilscy
| peopled with Irish !s that extending nom Fifth
ave to the River and from Niuety-nfth to one
! hundred-and-tenth SITS. You find nobody else
save Irish. Germans and Americans in the
! lying between Twentieth and Twenty-siNth SIS.
and between First AMI Fourth ayes In tn7 district
every ttr-~ and three-t-nths Americans Thi. g. tn
| Eighteenth Wari 1u ta- detrc; between Fourteenth
aJd Twenty sixth St.. AMI flrsi-aye ad the river
| there are Eve irish Tor every four Germans. and
few Of anybody else. while the nearest condition To
reversal OF TINS rati0 - found between Egniy-
! sixth and Nin"ty-fOurth sis and First AMI Third
six freshmen That poIulous cenirr When Is worth
cnes while to go through. from Seventieia 10 Sev-
| about 90 per cent Of bohemian population The
| rest a'c Germans ana other acknowledgement no
TAKE the biz tract Of land between ore-hundred-
and IonneH by ,h' rvrra ana y 9rei bavs s'
popdlaton. on a rough estimate. Of about l52oOO
this newly settled territory the bona ndc sons Of
greater number at least with an equal number. OF
Of ali the figures that have been gwen the Wonder
| is how the poor fellow with 'goatec" and th~
The place wherc all the French restaurants are TO
De co o4na d Of h %h on thu old ' rS Th
colony which Sun Gngs to the neighb9rho2a Of
ave. il designated by Il white circular spot As to
The movement OF me population. Mr.; P1erce ex-
in the population Of TIE TIE Eighth District for IN
/ stance, between 1917 ana h'u, IRON about III
TO $40 per acre, while within the same period there
increase Of from 212 to 27S per acre in the
Tenth Ward In the next decade this Increase
1872 per acre. and In the ten years ending ia 1890
| to J23 per acre.
| II was in 1860 that the movement uptown on the
| East and West sides above Chambcrs-st. began
| Between 1870 and 1850 this movement uptown con
tinued the "httcrs." the Scotch would cali
them. pitching their tents between Twcniy-third-st
| and Fifty ninth-st. Then came the great If
! building which followed the elevated rairoads and
once asan this re- es ne IN b
| Hemisphere began to take 10 It's feet ard this
| time didn't stop until 1t got IA far rs Ninety
| siXth-st. both sides Of the city. Ana stiA IT
| moves. When one surveys this map carefully ana
thet bright spot which IL marked "tcntra!
! Park" where there no buildings one feels more
| than that vote Of thanks should b. gwen To
| be vhO deSgnel fhlt beautiful pIlAsnre-