St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-04

THAT THE NUMBER OF ST. PAUL
PEOPLE WHO ARE OEFI-
CIALLY COUNTED.
GOOD FIVE YEARS GROWTH
OVER SEVEN THOUSAND MORE
PEOPLE THAN THE CITY
HAD IN 1890.
GOOD FIVE YEARS GRoWTt
CENSUS COMMITTEE PLEASED.
The Heaviest Growth in the Hill
District-An Estimate on
Minneapolis.

One hundred and forty thousand
two hundred and ninety-tWo people
was the population of st. Paul on
June last.
This is on the authority of the state
census bureau, which last evening
gave out a bulletin setting forth
the population of this Capital City in
detail, by precincts and wards.
The increase over the figures of the
government census of 1890 Q33, 1860
is 7,136. There are three wards cred
tied with decrease of population
the Third, 918; the Fourth, 1,536; the
Ninth ward, 5O9 The Seventh ward
shows a gain of 1885, and the
Eighth gains 1,4S6, which gives it a
population Of 25,823, against 1885
for the First ward, next highest in
the list. 1t is easy to explain the
falling off in the Fourth ward, be-
cause many sites formerly occupied
by residences are now given up to
business purposes, and many old
time dwellings are now empty or
being used for some small line of
trade. The same process of develop
ment will, account for the decrease
in the Third, very large part Of
which is now devoted to business
structures.
COMPARED WITH THE VOTE.
The total number of names of
electors registered in the First ward
at the last state election was 3,437
for population of 1895; in the
Second ward 2,794 registered, for a
population of 1925; in the Third
ward La, for a population of 6,596;
in the Fourth, 2,913, for a population
of H. ,1G6; in the Fifth, 1889, for a
population of 1858; in the Sixth,
2,S17, for a population of 1875; in
the Seventh, 2,546, for a population
of 1919; in the, Eighth, 1855, for a
population of 25,S23 0his ward is
| the principal seat of the rising pop
-ulation) in the Ninth, 2,792, for a
population of 12,74S; in the Tenth, S72,
for a population of 1852; in the
Eleventh, 704, for a population of
3,409.
About the time the census was
completed the G l o b stated that
the figures for st. Paul would not
greatly exceed 100000, and the bull
letin issued last night shows the
estimate was wonderfully close.
Mr.. FULLER TALKS.
H. H. Fuller, secretary of the citi-
zens' census committee, was seen at
his residence last evening, and, upon
being shown the official figures, stat
ed that on the whole the result was
very satisfactory.
I'VE labored increasingly" said
Mr.. Fuller, ''to aid the state enumer-
ators to facilitate the count and at
the same time to procure accurate
and complete returns. With this
purpose in view, the committee, ear
ly in it's work, met in Mayor Smiths
Office, at whose request the heads
of the county and city governments
had assembled to confer with the
committee. At this meeting" con-
-tinued Mr.. Fuller, sit was decided to
merge into one body the two pre-
NAOoo4y oPPO1ll(Co OllS
from the chamber of commerce and
one from the Commercial club, and
to call in 0. o. Cullen as chair
man, and it is largely due to the
efforts and attention of Mr.. C&llen
that the committee has been so sue
cessful in it's work. Owing to his
previous experience and knowledge
of the work Mr.. Cullen has been of
inestimable value to the committee
Well" continued Mr.. Fuller, 1--WE
found all hands ready and willing to
aid us in every possible manner, but
we are particularly indebted to Chief
Clark, and, in fact, the entire po-
lice department.; also to Assistant
Chief Martin, of the fire department.
These gentlemen, as we'll as other
heads of the county and city govern
ments, furnished us with
SPECIAL ENUMERATORS,
whose duty 1t was to take an inde-
pendent census. Our system" said
Mr.. Fuller, was one which paid par
ticular attention to accuracy and de- |
tail. Had the returns of the state |
enumerators been accessible our
task would have been very much |
simplif1ed. but as it was we started |
in by making a check on the direc- |
tory and then verifying our results. |
which were handed over to the state |
enumeratorS to be compared with !
their lists. In this way were COM
piled annex schedules containing the !
names Of those supposed by our COM |
mittee to have been overlooked. !
Those annex schedules" said Mr..
Fuller, were put into the hands of |
special enumerators appointed by
Secretary Berg, whose duty it was
to ascertain if the list of names was
included in the original schedules. In
this way" continued Mr.. Fuller.
I'VE have been instrumental In see
ing that the names of about 1900 !
citizens, which otherwise might
have been omitted, have been prop
erly entered upon the census reports.
CULLEN IS PLEASED.
Mr.. Cullen was found at the Windsor |
hotel and being interrogated upon the |
census question said: altogether, 1 |
am very we'll satisfied with the figures |
We have a decided increase over the |
census of $780, and when you consider |
the condition of the country in general |
and the fact that many cities have
actually fallen behind their returns for
1890, we have every reason to congratu
late ourselves upon so marked an in
crease in our population, and let me