The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-26
COUNTED IN THE CITES
SUMMARY OF URBAN POPULATION
ISSUED ny THE CENSUS
BUREAD
THE COMPARATIVE FIGURES
Absolute Increase Frem 1890 to 1900
Less Than ihI the Previous
Deeade-ChaPge In the ST.
Paul Count.

WASHINGTON, Oct 25.-The census
bureau. in bulletin issued today, sum
marizes the returAs sof population of
cities having 25, COO inhabitants or more
in 1900. the individual census of each of
these cities having been officially an
nouneed heretofore. h There are 159 of
these, and the bulletin shows that the
percentage of increase in their pon,JIa-
tion from 1880 to 1900, was 80 5. as against
1875 for the same cities In the previous
decade. The absolute increase in the
population of these cities, from 1880 to
1900, was 4,S39, 1876, or 81, 426 less than the
absolute increase from 1880 to 1880, when
it was 1921, 562. The 159 cities combined
have a population in 1900 of 49, G94 625.
against IA, S55, 4S9 Ia. 1880, and 1888 927 in
1880. Of these 159 cities, divided into
four classes, 10 had 100000, and over 10
had 100000 and under, 10000; 40 had SO, 1908,
and under 100000, and 81 had 5000 and
under $4,000, 4t
In 1880 there was but twenty cities
which contained more than 100000 in
habitants, but in 1880 this number had
increased to %, and in 1900 to 49,
In 1900 there are Is cities of 10000 in
habitants or more, as compared with IS
in 1880, and So in 1850.
The combined population in 1900 of the
IS cities of the first class is H. 795, 500, as
against a population in 1890 of SS79, los.
years of 2,9f6,704, or 1928 per cent. The,
same cities showed an increase from 1850
to 1890 of 1857, ASP, or 40.6 per cent
The 19 cities of the first class COM
prise New York, which, with more than
100000 inhabitants, properly stands by
itself; two cities, Chicago and Philadel-
phia, each of which has a population in
excess of 100000; three cities ST. Louis,
Boston and Baltimore, which have a
population of 100000 each; five cities,
Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Gin
cinnati and Pittsburg,. which have a pop
ulation of betweeni 300, Geo and 400. 600
each and eight eities,oNew Orleans, De-
troit, Milwaukee, Washington, Newark
trio, Milwaukee, Washington Newark
n. J., Jersey City, Ned, Louisville and
Minneapolis, which5shaNe a population of
between 200, 600 andsc390,000 each.
Since the announcement through the
newspaper press of the population of
cities having 25,OOQs, inhabitants or more
at the present census. the following
changes have beens made:
Buffalo, N. Y.-Pepulation increased
from S52, 219 to 352, 3S7,t, owing to an in
crease in the population of ward % from
1913 to 1857. s1aDlf
Joliet lll.-Popula tion decreased from
3072O to 29,353, owihg-Eto decrease in the
population of ward6 from 1856 to 1913
Philadelphia, Pa.-Population of ward
% decreased from CA, ST. to Ga, GEE and the
population of ward "a Increased from %,
OBS to $1,000. This makes no change in
the total population of the city.
ST. PAUL COUNT LESsENED
st. Paul, Minn.-Population decreased
from 1852 to 169, 065, owing to a decrease
in the population of ward II, from 5,0i7
to 44SO. O. l5ii
New York. under the act of consolida-
tion,. which became effective January 1,
1885, has grown to be a city of very near
ly 3,5000o inhabitants in $780,
AS compared with a population what
was formerly New York city of little
more than 900 in 1890, and of sub
stantiaHyi T. 300, COG in,lfSS09] The popula ton
of the territory now comprised within
the present limits of New York, was ap-
proximately 2,50o000 in 1880 and 100000 in
1880. 1t is the premier city Of the country
in point of population, a position, which
it has uniformly held at each decennial
census since and including 1890.
Chicago, with practically 100000 in
habitants, and Philadelphia with not
quite 1900 900 Inhabitants, hold the second
and third places in 1900, the same as in
1890, although at the census of 1880 their
positions were reversed. Philadelphia
then having very nearly $4,000 inhabi
tants as compared with not much more
than 100000 in Chicago.
The most significant growth of cities
is that for the three cities in the state
of Washington, namely, Seattle, Spokane
and Tacoma. These three cities combin-
ed had only 4,9S1 Inhabitants in 1880, but
their population mad increased to 9S,755
in 1890 and to 155, 23S ii 1909, the increase
during the past decade being equivalent
to ISL per cent.
Nebraska is the only state in which
the combined population of the cities
contained therein shows decrease from
1890 to 1900
OF the total population represented by
or 51.3 per cent is contained in the seven
ty cities situated jim. the North Atlantic
division and 6,On,S61 or 3o.S per cent in
the forty-eight cities situated in the
North Central division, leaving only g.
524, O6S or 17.9 per cent for the remain
ing cities situated in the other three
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