New-York tribune., 1900-08-19
SOME CHANGES IN BROOKLYN

A comparison of the population Of the other
boroughs according TO their wards however. shows
many interesting changes. In the Borough of
Brooklyn three wards in contrast with all the
others show a decrease. Making due allowance for
the Iapses and errors Of enumerators. the COM
parison shows the ebb in population, which has
resulted from greater use Of these districts for
commercial purposes. Thus decrease is noted in
the Second Third and Fifth wards, all Of which
in the Oldest part & oI IN Inns S OqT0ugh q5g &, a,eed
in the centrally situated wards such as the Twen-
sixth and Twenty-eighth, All of these with
the exception Of the Twenty-sixth Ward, East
New-York lie in a belt which is Just beyond the
business section The ward showing the greatest
T0wt is Sod to he hay o been f5 greatly due to the
Under the OF 1894 the towns of FIatbush. Flat
lands Gravesend and New Utrecht were absorbed
coming the Twenty Ward, the town of New
tae ad aee f bira thg 'T%nS gyms OF OF
that city. The city thus became coextensve with
Broeyn became the Borough Of Brookiyn. one Of Of
the hye 6oTSughs Of the city OF New,9ork BY BY
I,1665s9 with the population Of Kings County in
IN this area representing an increase of 3912 per
cent during the decade
RICHMOND AND QUEENS
Richmond County. what is commonly known
as Staten Island. became the Borough of Richmond
OF New-York on January !, 1898. The population
Of the county in 1880 81 693, which compared
with the population Of the borough on June / 1900
(67o2 gives increase for the decade of Is 32s or
Z5-b per cent queens Borough of New York
organized on January I, 1888. from what was Long
Island City the towns OF Flushing Jamaica and
Newtown. and a small portion only of the town of
Hampstead. all of which were civil divisions of
Queens County. The remaining towns of the
county. Oyster Bay, North Hampstead and the
greater part of the town of Hampstead were taken
TO form the new county Of Nassau.
The First Ward Of Queens Borough comprises
Ward what was forroeTIv the town nf t1p; g MIRO @
of Ia
maiea and the Fifth Ward that part of the town
Il is impossible TO state definitely the popuiati IN
into ybe boro,ISb ~ I,t me lo~ & OF n If1enpstead taken
prOximately the increase in population since 1890
of the Borough Of queens it can be assumed that
one-ffth Of the population Of the town of Hemp
stead was contained in that part of the towl now
comprised within the borough. On this basis the
in 1890 approximate population of 81 90 las as
against population in 1900 of l52 $50, showing
cent.
SUPERVISOR WILBUR PLEASED.
Charles A. Wilbur. Census Supervisor for Man
haitian and The Bronx said yesterday TO a Tribune
reporter that he thought the official count of the
returns Of the census highly satisfactory. He
added:
The figures only fall 10000 below what I had esti-
mated the population TO be at the end of the work
cause of our letter system. by which out Of town
New-Yorkers ,a were asked TO send in their names.
ing 20 do So thus slipped through our fingers
10 census can Dc absolutely correct. We could
only DO our best ] suppose a more nearly exact
count could be taken If we had followed a system
similar 70 that followed in London. There, when
houses closed and locked at the sound OF the
midnight bell. and nobody come out until he
has been nted.
The census returns for Manhattan and The
Bronx surely show one thing and that is the nom
conformity Of the Assembly districts in respect Of
their respective inhabitants There is the Isl Dis
tTct for instance. at the southern tip of the island
with population Of 1853, and in The Bronx is
the XXkNth Assembly District, with 122 395 In
habitauts. In the first district il took thirteen
enumerators 10 take the census whereas fftV-fUyo
needed for the northern district. "
OF course such conditions are said by some IN
demand reapportionment Of these districts Ac-
eonding 20 the Constitution of the State however