The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-28
GROWTH OF POPULATION.
It is Very Evenly Spread all Over the
Nation.

American Contractor Whatever
explanations there may have been of
radical changes, the fact is now evil
dent that this years Federal census,
unlike any of the preceding ones.
shows an almost uniform increase in
the population of American cities and
very little change in the relative posi-
tlon OF one city to another, compared
with the enumeration of ten years ago.
Between 1880 and 1890 there were
many striking changes in the position
OF American cities as to population.
Chicago rose from fourth to second
place. Philadelphia fell from second
to third. st. Louis and Boston changed
places. Boston being the more popu-
lous city of the two in 1880 and st.
Louis the more populous in 1890. Dur
ing the decade Cleveland rose from
eleventh to tenth place, Buffalo from
thirteenth to eleventh, Detroit from
eighteenth to fifteenth, Minneapolis
the most surprising change of all, from
thirth-eighth to eighteenth. st. Paul
rose from the forth-ffth place among
American cities to the twenty-third
Denver from fiftieth to twenty
seventh. On the other hand Charles
ton, S. c., fell from thirty-sixth to
fifty third place and Hartford from the
forty third to fifty-fourth.
So far as the cities are concerned the
census of the United States for 1900 is
practically complete and shows few of
the changes that marked the census of
ten years ago. The six chief cities of
the country-New York, Chicago.
Philadelphia, st. Lewis, Boston and
Baltimore remain in exactly the same
poSltion as ten years ago, something
unprecedented in the history of the
country.
The cities, Cleveland and Buffalo,
have by the operation of like causes
the development of railroad business
in connection with the lake trade
gained some in position; instead of
being ninth and tenth among Ameri-
can cities respectively they are now
seventh and eighth, and the two cities
which exchanged places with them,
San francisco and Cincinnati, occupy
ninth and tenth places respectively.
Among the ten cities of the United
States which were at the head of the
list ten years ago, there is not one
which has fallen out of that place.
For eleventh and twelfth places
Pittsburg and New Orleans have
moved, Pittsburg one point up and
New Orleans one point down. The
thirteenth place, occupied by Wash
ington ten years ago, is now taken by
Detroit, the fourteenth by Milwaukee
and the fifteenth byWashington. Louis
vile has moved point up, from min
teenth to eighteenth place, and Jersey
City, possibly through it's proximity to
New York, has moved up also.
An illustration of the evenness in the
growth of population during the past
ten years is given by Rochester and st.
Paul, two cities in different parts of
the country which have little in com
mon, but share the general growth of
prosperity of this country at this time.
Ten years ago, Rochester had popu-
lation of 133, 9S6 and st. Paul had
1873, 1885,. After ten years, Rochester now
has 1852, 435 and st. Paul 1862, 632.
The increase in population in the two
cities has practically been the same ;
but between 1880 and 1890 Rochester
gained AZ, 900 and St. Paul 90. 900.