The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
BABES ARE SCARCE
WIOHITA'S TERRITORY Is DELIN-
OUENT IN THAT ONE RESPECT.

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Wichita is Recorded to Have but Three
Members to a Family on a General Aver
aee-In this Respect this Vicinity Diff
fers from, the Southern State.
In Sedgwick county and Wichita
there are only little over three mem
bers to each family. Up around Atch-
| ison, Topeka and Kansas City there
are on an average of five members to
a family. Back in old Virginia and
eastern Kentucky the average size of
family is over five members.
This fact, with many other interest
ing data is brought out in the eleventh
census of the United States.
The distribution of people is shown
very clearly in a series of colored maps
The first map shows the density of dis
tribution of inhabitants. Wichita has
ninety inhabitants and over to the
square mile and the country surround
ing it has under eighteen inhabitants
to the square mile. This is the same
number as in the country surrounding
Kansas City, and st. Louis. AS far
west as Pratt county there are under
six inhabitants to the square mile. SIN
gularly enough the area in which But
Ter county is included averages only six
inhabitants to the square mile. The
area which has under eighteen to the
square mile extends in the main clear
from the Atlantic coast to a few miles
west of Wichita, Wichita being on the
edge.
The next map shows the gain or loss
of rural population between 1880 and
1890. The whole nation of course
gained in rural population wonderfully.
The territory around Wichita shared
in this, except for certain tract north
west of Wichita which lost in rural
population. Larned is included in this
tract. All the New England states,
New York, Ohio, Indiana and especial
ly Illinois and a small part of Missouri
and a still smaller part of eastern
Kansas lost in rural population.
The next map shows the predomina-
ting sex in different localities. In the
country Immediately surrounding
Wichita the males are in excess of the
females less than five per cent. This
holds good also in Cowley county, but
in Sumner and Harvey counties the
males are not so much in excess of the
females In Oklahoma the men are
greatly in excess of the women. All
through the east and particularly in
the south the women are greatly in ex-
cess of the number of men.
In all the New England states, in
eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia
Georgia and North Carolina women
are in excess of men. The only place
west of the Mississippi river where wo-
men are in excess of men is down in
the southern portion of Arkansas.
Colorado, California and Oklahoma
are overcrowded with men with women
few and far between.
The next map shows the proportion
OF the foreign population to the total
population. The proportion of the for
eign population in Wichita's territory
to the local population is below five
and ten one-hundredths per cent. There
are still less foreigners Immediately
south Of us, but a great many more in
proportion to the total population just
north of US, beginning with Harvey
county. The country surrounding
Topeka, Kansas City and Atchison
mas a great many more foreigners than
the country around Wichita. Law
renee in this respect is in it with Wich-
tia. In view of the talk OF war 1t is
interesting to note that the foreign
population of the United States is most
dense all along the Canadian border.
The next map shows the density of
distribution of the colored population
of the United States. In this respect
the colored population of the country
surrounding Wichita is the same as
that around Chicago. They are very
dense around Kansas City, Topeka,
and Indianapolis. Oklahoma has the
same proportion that the country in
Kansas around Wichita, has. which it
is a littleb it singular as Oklahoma, it
has been understood, had big colored
population. Most of the colored peo-
pie in the United States live in the
south, east of the Mississippi river
The next map shows the density of
distribution of the natives of Ireland
in this country. The country around
Wichita in this regard is like the great
er part of the United States. In New
England and the eastern and middle
states the Irish are particularly thick.
They are particularly numerous in IL
linois. But they begin to thin out as
they come west and spring up thick
again around Atchson, Leavenworth
Topeka and Kansas City, which all
have a great many more Irishmen than
the country around Wichita has
With the natives of Great Britain in
this country. ii is different. Wichita's
territory has more than an average of
Engiishmen. 1t has more than any
other portion Of the west except Kan
sas City and Omaha, Denver, Salt
Lake City and San Francisco.
Following this is the map showing
the distribution OF natives of Germany
Kansas City, Leavenworth, Topeka |
and Atchison all have a larger number |
CT Germans than the country around !
Wichita Harvey county has greater |
number OF Germans than Sedgwick. |
while Sedgwick has a larger number |
than either Cowley OF Sumner. The |
Germans are thickest in the United |
States just where the Irish are-that |
is, in the eastern and middle states |
Nebraska has more Germans than Mis- |
souri, and Kansas put together.
Kansas comes up well in the Scandi- |
navian races : the next map shows. /
The Scauds are thickest~ in Illinois. !
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Dakota. Iowa /
and Nebraska and reaching down into /
Northern Kansas The country 1
around Wichita, in which Oklahoma IS l
included, has less than one-half a Scan 1
Clnavian 10 the square mile.
one Of the most interesting maps 1
shows me relative sizes OF families. The /
average number in a family in the coun 4
try around Wichita is the same as IL \
i IN Indiana. Illinois and Ohio. All |
TIE Southerners have big families and 4
this is true OF the foreign born popula-
ton There is strip OF territory
across the country reaching from west
en- Kansas 10 the Atlantic coast IN 4
which TIE relative size OF families Is
small on the south OF this are the 4
soUtherners where the families are
large and on the north the foreigners