Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-18
COUNT OF 70 CITIES
THESE SHOW TOTAL POPULA-.
TON OF OVER Is, 900, 600.
They Comprise Those of About 25,--
OOO-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,O0O
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 10 get a good view OF
the relative prosperity of different cities
and sections. The seyenty-three cities
enumerated foot up total population of
1924, 566, or nearly one-flfth Of the total
for the whole country.
The percentage of movement in popu-
lation as compared with 1920 runs from
decrease of PHI FOR Lincoln, Neb,, to,
gain of 1924 for Atlantic City, n. j.
OF the seventy-three cities completed all
are of the usual commercial type except
Atlantic City, with gain of 1924 per
cent, and Bayonne, y. j., another small
place with a big boom, which sent it up
to a percentage of 1892.
The other cities readily group them
selves il classes, and the figures show
that there is one with percentage be-
tween 80 and 100 and taree with a per
centage of gain of between go and 40 per
cent, and the same number between 90
and go, while there are seven between
40 and So
No less than 10 cities have percent
age of gain between 80 and 40, and II
between 20 and 80, so that 40 cities have
a ratio between 20 and 40, and places
80
bic middle class of American urban life.
There were nine cities with a percent
lage of gain between 10 and 20, and four
were below 10 per cent but nevertheless
showed some gain. Finally. there were
-four cities with positive loss in the
decade covered by the comparison.
The twenty-one cities with q percent
age between 20 and 80 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, 1857; Mobile, 23.79; VIII
mington, Del, 24.54 Boston, 2507; Den
yer. 25.44; Jersey City, 26.64; Louisville,
2706; St Lonis, 2733; Fort Wayne,
pat; Trenton, 27.5S; Altoona, 2S.47;
Manchesters n. H, 29.15; Lancaster.
Pa, 29,5l; Galveston, 29,93. In this
list of twenty-one cities there are two
from the South, and both OF these, Mo-
bile and Galveston, are ON the gulf.
In the list of nineteen cities with per-
centages between 80 and 40 are Daven-
port, Bio; Providence, 32,SS; Kansas
| City, Kan, 34.t9; Paterson, 34.24 Pitts
burg, Bats; Newark, n. j., 1888; Scran-
ton, 1855; Buffalo, 1877; Hoboken,
36O1; Peoria, $3.50; New York, 37.9;
Wilkesbarre BIB; Atlanta, 81 ID; Oak
land, Cal. 1866; Portland, Me, 1861;
Racine, 3S.4S; Detroit, 3S.TI; Dayton,
5000; Milwaukee, 39.54
The four cities which narrowly escaped
a black mark with their percentages of
increase are Charleston, $. c., so; Rich
mond, Va, 49, Nashville, 6.17; Cincin-
natl, 9.77 1t will be noted at once that
three Of these four are distinctively
Southern cities.
With a percentage of gain between 10
and 20, which is still largely below the
average, are nine cities: San Francisco,
Col, 1864; Covington, Ky, 149; Quin-
cy, H.. 1911; Elmira. y, Y, 1917; Ev-
ansville, 1926; Canton, Ohio, I'll; Bal
timore, 1715; New Orleans, 1916: Salt
Lake City 1897. The people of all these
cities win have to do little explaining,
as a ratio below % per cent is considered
distinctly disappointing.
Comparing the total gain Of the seven
| ty-three cities with the total population
at the last census year, the average rate
Of gain is $50 per cent. The enormous
increases of New York, Chicago and oth-
err large cities bring up the general av-
erage. The population total of the sew
enty-three cities reported Is 1924, 500,
with a gain of 3,S1S,509 over 1890.