The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-04
THE CENSUS.

The great increase in our population,
as shown by the Census, is most gra-
tifying. 1t will be still more satisfac-
tory when we are informed what ma
terials constitute the population. How
many Hawaiians there are, how many
part Hawaians, how many Americans
and Europeans, and how many Asia
tics of sorts. One gentleman has es-
timated the Japanese at 10000, but
when the real figures come out no such
number will appear. 1t is only an in
stance of how wild the guesses upon
such points are. These details will
take time to furnish.
The first Census taken was in 1882.
That gave 100 313 people, and showed
a tremendous falling off from the, es-
Inmates of the early voyagers to the
Islands. But even allowing that in
1892 there had been a considerable
diminution of the Hawaiian race, it
was nothing like so great as it SEEM
ed. The fact is the early voyagers from
Cook forward, overestimated the po-
pulation. They saw swarms of Ha-
waiians at the places they landed, but
these people were not residents of
those places. They had come in from all
the country round, some of them COM
ing enormous distances to see the Won
der.
But in this we can take satisfaction
that the end of the century finds us
far ahead of the population Of the third
decade of century. A population of
$4,000 is far more than we have had for
over eighty years, and in the opinion
of some who have made estimates
through their researches, greater than
inhabited the Islands in 1900.
In the published tables there are evil
IDENTIFY some minor errors which will
be corrected when the results of the
Census are printed in book form. Thus
Molokai and Lanai are given as 1854,
which was the population of Molokai
alone, the population of Lanai, 619, was
included in the Lahaina District to
which it belongs. If the 619 were add
ed to the 1904 Of Molokai it would give
1928 for the two Islands which would
be an increase upon the Census fig
ures of 1890, ana not a decrease as
SldlSu III lle report. Inc population
of the two Islands in 1890 was 2,S26.
Another error of arrangement is shown
in putting Spreckelsville as a separate
district it belongs to the Waikiki dis
trict and should be added to it for the
purposes of comparison, with previous
district statistics.
AS compared with the Census of 1896
fell astern, and all districts showed
an increase over 1890. The two dis
tricts which fell back in the last four
years were Hanalei, Kauai and Waia-
nae, Oahu. Both cases are explain
able. At Hanalei the plantation has
been entirely given up. AT Waianae
certain lands have gone out of culti-
walton and the number of laborers has
been reduced. At the time the Census
returns came in the subject was care
fully examined to see the reason of the
decrease.
There is every reason to be satisfied
with our standard of population. In
actual numbers we stand above Ari-
zona, Wyoming, Alaska and Nevada,
while according to order of increase
during the last decade we are ahead
of South Dakota, District of Columbia,
Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, New
Hampshire, Maine, Wyoming, Della
ware, Alaska, Vermont, Nebraska and
Nevada Our increase in the ten years
was 64,O1l and all the above named
States and Territories We're below that
figure. Nevada showed a decrease of
5000,