The herald., 1895-05-12
TAKE THE COUNTRY AND THE CITIES
WILL COME

The question OF population is interest
ing many citizens of San Francisco. Post
master McCoppin gave some interesting
statements today to Daily Report re-
porter on the present population OF San
Francisco. He estimates it at 377. 800.
How did you reach that figure?' asked
the reporter. The last census gave the
city something under 300.
II took the 81, 900 voters who registered
at the last election and multiplied them
by five, as is always done in estimating
population. Statisticians have found
that one voter repre- sents a family of five.
Now that multiplication gives 335. 600
white people, and adding 10000 Chinese
to them the total is 365 600. Now there
are 80, 900 school children in San Francis
CO. according to the last census. TO get
the total population statisticians say that
this must be multipied by four. This
gives a result of 800, 600, and adding 80. 600
Chinese makes a total of 800 600. Now
you have two different totals arrived at
by entirely different processes. fair
way then is to add the two totals and
divide the result by two. The sum of
365, 900 and 800. 900 makes 755. 600. Divid-
ing that by two you have 377, 500. | be-
lieve that to be fair estimate OF the pop
ulation of San Francisco. Some may find
fault with the 81. 900 voters registered. al
leging that many were suffers. 70 offset
that | will call their attention to the fact
that many men do not register at all. -
San Francisco Report.
According to this estimate the city of
winds and manslaughter will need only
I'D, 800 more people to throw the Half
Million Club out of Job. If that organ
lzation will really carry out the plans
they have recently avowed, there is lit
tie doubt that San Francisco will in few
D,,&
the proposition is simply to boom the
city, and with its real merits exaggerated
and some others not possessed. claimed,
then the club will and should be some
time realizing its ami btion. The quickest,
surest and most honest way to get 500, 600
human beings in the Golden Gate city i S
to boom the whole estate. A great city
can, and in the name of reason and hut
manity should. only exist as the product
of and auxiliary TO highly developed
and populated tributary area.
The only justification for big city is
its necessity as a mart workshop and
counting room for the country. The sole
exception to this is when for certain
reasons it becomes a resort for health and
pleasure. 1t ought never be resort for
misery and want.
The latter San Francisco will be if she
is doomed independent of the state at
large. Such she is in fact now, because
the resources of the state are insuffic-
iently developed and the interior but
sparseIy populated. In numerical strength
she is already a long way ahead of the
requirements of her field. The thousands
of idle hands, naked bodies and empty
stomachs she has and has had for many
years afford touching and unimpeachable
evidence OF this fact. Under present con-
ditions an increase of population means
an increase OF woe.
But with the development of the state
as whole, and the utilization of its
boundless and diversified advantages
population will come to San Francisco
naturally and in normal proportions, be-
cause the increased functions that the
settled and busy interior of California
would impose upon the metropolis would
make large city necessary. Instead of
there being a Half Million club of San
Francisco, there should be Five Million
club of the state of California, with mem
bers in every county and the good of the
entire state as its object.
Ii we take care of the acreage, the mines
and the forests, the cities and towns will
t re care of themselves.