The age-herald., 1897-09-09
Building Up Cities.

Comparatively few people in this country know that the big German cit ies are growing about as rapidly as our western cities. This rapid growth is due ito manufacturing. Take care of the factories and they will build up the towns. During the transformation of Germany from an agricultural country to a manufacturing country, in the present. generation there has been a steady drifting of population from ths rural districts to the towns. In 1885 43 per cent. of the population lived in the towns. In 1890 the percentage had reached 47. In 1895 it was 53 per cent. and now probably 55 per cent. reside in citiss.
 Many German cities have grown as fast or faster than Chicago, Minneapo- lis, Omaha, Kansas City, Buffalo. Cleve- land, Indianapolis, Detroit and other notable American towns. Here are some official figures:
 Minneapolis is looked upon as the banner town of the United States for SSao tn, lasoo I19,ovV people m 1oS0, 1S2, 0o0 in 1895 and claims 21OO00 iffs 1897. Madgeburg, Germany, surpassed that record. In 1885 she had 97 OO0 in 1S95 225,oo0 and in 1887 claims 243,OOO.
 Dusseldorf had 115,o00 population in lSS5 and 176OOO in 1895 by the official census, Chemnitz had 95,000 in 1885 and 161,000 in 1895. Altoona had 91. .OOO in 1SS5 and 14S000 in 1885, Frankfort iumned from 13e,000 in 1885 to 229, ,0OO in 1893 Tn growth of these cities is by no means exceptional
 There is prevailing an impression thai Leipsic is a sleepy, old university town staid, conservative and Steeped in tn. slumber of the middle ages. wherea. 1t has increased in population from 127.. 900 in 1875 to 399, 900 in 1895, and proba. ply to more than 420,0O0 during the las, two yeans. St. Louis has grown from $50, 900 to 472,0OO during the same time Cleveland from 160.000 to 261, 900, Buffalo from 155,000 to 255000, Pittsburg from 166, 900 to 23S,000.
 Cologne has increased from IA, ,00O in 1885 to 321 900 in 1895. Breslau from 272,. 900 to 373,000, Munich from 193OO0 to 407. 900, while Hamburg has grown much faster than Boston or Baltimore or any city of it's size in the United States. In 1875 Hamburg had 34S, 900 inhabitants. Baltimore 332,0000 and Boston 342,00O. In 1890 by the official census Hamburg had 569,000, Baltimore 434 GOO and Bos- ton 44S.000. In 1897 the official popula. tion of Hamburg is 626 900, while Bos- ton claims 520,000 and probably. has about 475000 Baltimore claims 500, ,OO( and probably has about 460,000
 Take th- old town of Nuremburg, fol example, which is the very ideal of an. tiquity. Thousands of tourists go there every year to look upon a picture oi ancient Germany, yet Nuremburg has grown faster than Omaha. Twelve
 wars ago it had 72,o00 population; il had 162,000 by the census of 1895. ana probably it has 175.000 in 1897. This In crease of population has not come from outside the limits of Germany
 Berlin has grown as fast as Chicago In 1880 it had S00.000, in 1895 nearly l.. | 670.000, and in 1897 claims 1,75000o The increase was not due to annexatoin, but to Immigration and brains. Berlin has grown twice as fast as Philadelphia. It would be easy to give a column ot similar figures. These growing cities are built more solidly than ours. They have better buildings and better streets