Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-09-19
COUNT OF 70 CITIES.
THESE SHOW TOTAL POPULA-
TON OF OVER 5000, 900.
They Comprise Those of About 25,-
OO0-Four Show a Decrease and Two
an Unusual Growth - Majority of
Them Show Respectable Growth.

Day after day the punching machines
Of the census office knock out the popu-
lation of the United States, and the work
of tabulating the returns is now far adj
vanced SO far as the cities are concerned.
With the figures given Saturday seventy
three cities having population of 2o,ooO
have been completed. They are scattered
over the country from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific and from the lakes to the gulf, SO
that it is possible to get good view OF
the relative prosperity of different cities
and sections. The seventy-three cities
enumerated foot up total population OF
1924, 566 or nearly )ne-tifth OF the total
for the whole country.
The percentage Of movement in popu-
lation as compared with 1890 runs from
a decrease of 27.17 for Lincoln, Neb., TO
gain of 1924 for Atlantic City, \. ].
OF the seventy three cities completed all
are OF the usual commercial type except
Atlantic City, with a gain of 1922 per
cent, and Bayonne, n. j., another small
place with big boom, which sent 1t up
to a percentage of 1872.
The other cities readily group them
selves in classes, and the figures show
that there is one with q percentage ne
tween 80 and 100 and three with a per
centage OF gain of between 60 and 10 per
cent, and the same number between 81
and so, while there are seven between
40 and So
No less than 10 cities have percent.
age of gain between 80 ard 40, and Il
between 20 and 80. so thsI 40 cities have
a ratio between 20 and 40, and places
with these figures belong TO the respecta'
bic middle class of American urban lite,
There were nine cities with a percent
age of gain between 10 and 20. and -four
were below 10 per cent, but nevertheless
showed some gain. Finally, there were
| four cities with a positive loss in the
decade covered by the comparison.
The twenty-one cities with percent
| age between 20 and 30 are Washington
20.9S; Rochester. 21.31; st. Paul, 22.S9
Syracuse, 22,95; Minneapolis, 300; AL
| legheny, 23.37; Kansas City, Mo-, 23.39
Philadelphia, 1887; Mobile. 23.T9; vii
| mington, Del, 24.54; Boston, 25.07; Den
yer, 25.44; Jersey City. 26.64; Louisville
2706; st. Louis, 2733; Fort Wayne
2747; Trenton, 2T.5S; Altoona, 2S.47
Manchester, y. H., 29.15; Lancaster
| Pa, 29.51; Galveston. 29.93. In thiI
list of twenty-one cities there are TIVE
from the South, and both OF these, Mo
bile ard Galveston, are on the gulf.
| In tht st Of nineteen cities with per
eentages between 80 and 40 are Daven
| port, 3f.19; Providence, 32.SSi Kansai
| City, Kan, "a. 10: Paterson, "a "a; Pitts
burg, BATS; Newark, n. j., 1888; Seran
ton, 1885; Buffalo, 35.77; Hoboken
| 1901; Peoria, 1915, New York, $40
| Wilkesbarre, 37,13; Atlanta, 81 IA; Oak
land. Cal, 1855; Portland, Me, 37.67
Racine, 3S.4S; Detroit. 3S.IT; Dayton
3639: Milwaukee, 1864.
The your cities which narrowly ESCAPED
black mark with their percentages o
increase are Charleston, S. c., LOS; Rich
mond. Va, 40; Nashville, CIT; Cinein
natl, OFT 1t will be noted at once tina
three of these FOUR are distinctivel
Southern cities.
With percentag. OF gain between /
and 20, which is still largely below th
average, are nine Cries: San Francisec
Col, 14.64: Covingt,n, Ky, If.9; Qulr
cy, H., 15.11 Elmiia, n. Y, 15.4T' l1v
ansville 1926; Cation. Ohio, al; Ba
timore. 1915; New Orleans. 1916; Sal
Lake City, 1887. The people OF all thes
cities will have to do little explaining
as a ratio below 20 per cent is considers
distinctly disappointing.
Comparing the total gain OF the seven
| ty-three cities with the total population
at the last census year. the average rat
of gain Is $50 per cent The enormou
Increases Of New York, Chicago and 9th
er large cities bring up the general ay
erage The population total OF the sew
enty-three cities reported is 1924 $3.50
with a gain of 3,sls509 over 1890.