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1890. and is now the eleventh largest city
In the country. having exchanged places
with New Orleans,

1890. and is now the eleventh largest city
In the country, having exchanged places
with New Orleans,
Changes In Rank.
Among the most notable changes In the
rank of cities which have taken place in
1900, as compared with 1880, may be men
toned that of Seattle, which has advanced
from the 151st to the 4Sth place; that of
Los Angeles, from the 135th to the 36th
place: that Of Duluth. from the 1,2d to the
I'd place; that of Kansas City, Kan, from
the 1ooth to the 18th place, and that OF
Portland, Ore, from the 106th to the 42d
place. Other noticeable changes in rank
from 1850 to, 1900 are Birmingham, from
156 to 100; Tacoma from 151 to 104; Spo-
kane. from 15S to JOG; Dallas. from l37 to
". and Saginaw. from 1856 to 3D.
1.-THE 161 cities c6mbined have popula-
tion in 1900 Of 10, 7s7 ,61S, as compared with
populationefor the same cities OF l4.9OS'-
TO- IN 1880, giving an increase IN the popu.
lation of these cities from 1880 to 1900 OF
4.s54.45s. or 32.6 per cent. No similar COM
parison can be made for the preceding ten
years. 1880 to 1880, as no census was taken
In 1850 for one city, namely, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
1.-The leo cities, exclusive of Honolulu, had
combined population of 10. 1882 In 1An,
as compared with a population for the same
cities of l4.sS0,255 in 1890, and OF 9's5l.3lS
In 1890
OF these 100 cities from 1890 to 1900 was.
therefore. 4.S3S,057 or CO. $50 less than the
absolute increase from 1880 to 1880, when
1t was 4,92S 937
"The percentage of increase in oopula-
tfon of the same 100 cities from 1880 to
1890. '--'
'The combined population of the 161 cities
at each of the three census periods Is dis
trlbuted In table 10 by classified sizes. CIV
ing, IN addition, the number of cities In
cluded under each class, respectively.
Ihere are nineteen cities which have
2OOD0 inha bftants or more in 1000, nineteen
cities which have between 100000 and 2O0,-
900 inhabitants. forty cities which have be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 Inhabitants, and
eighty-three cities which have between 25,-
600 and $4,000 inhabitants There were 124
cities in 1890 which had a population of
25,OO or more, but of these cities Brook
lyn and Long Island City now form part
OF New York city, showing a net gain of
thirty-nine cities in 1900. as compared with
1880 OF the 124 ciries in 1880, sixteen had
100000 inhabitants or more. twelve had be-
tween 100000 and 200, 900 inha bitants, thirty
had between $1,000 and 100000 Inhabitants
and sixty-six had between 25,O0O and $4,000.
In 1880 there were but twenty cities
which contained more than 100000 inhabit-
ants. but In 1890 this number had increased
to twenty eight. and in 1900 to thirty-e eight.
In 1900 there Ire Seventy-eight cities or
$4,000 inha bitants or more. as compared
with fifty-eight in 1890 and thirtyfive in
1880
Increase in Ten Years.
''The combined population in 1900 of the
nineteen cities Of the first class is H. 500.
as against a population in 1890 Of Ss93.82S,
representing an increase during the ten
years of 2,s01. .s91. or 326 per cent. The
same cities showed an increase from 1880
to 1890 of 2.571 800. or 4O.7 per cent.
THE nineteen cities of the first class
folo ho N
5000. 600 inhabitants. properly stands by
itself; two cities. Chicago and Philadelphia.
each of which has a population in excess
of a million; three cities. ST. Louis. Boston
and Baltimore, which have a population of
half million each; five cities. Cleveland.
Buffalo. San Francisco, Cincinnati and
Pittsburg, which have a population Of be-
tween 300, 600. and 100000 each, and eight
cities New Orleans. Detroit, Milwaukee,,
Washington Newark, Jersey City. Louis
vile and Minneapolis, which have a popu-
lation of between 100000 and 100000 each.
Nebraska Cities Show Decrease.
''The following named states and terri
tories in 1900 do not contain any city with
a population Of 5000 or more: Arizona,
Idaho, Indian territory. Mississippi Neva-
da, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Da-
kota. Oklahoma. South Dakota, Vermont
and Wyoming,
"Of the whole number of cities having
found In the North Atlantic division, 40 in
the north central division, 1S in the south
central division. II in the western division.
II in the South Atlantic division and 1 in
Hawaii. Massachusetts has the largest
number of SUCH cities. namely. 20, and is
followed by Pennsylvania with IL and New
York with II.
THE most significant growth of cities,
shown by the above table, is that for the
three cities In the state Of Washington,
namely, Seattle. Spokane and Tacoma.
These three cities combined had only 1881
inhabitants in 1880, but their popuia ation had
increased to 9S, 765 in 1890. and to 15J, ,2S3 in
1900, the increase during the past decade
being equivalent TO 57.2 per cent.
Nebraska is the only state in which the
combined population Of the cities contained
therein shows decrease from 1880 to 1900
THE city of New York. as constituted
prior to the act of consolidation which be-
came effective January /. 1893, had popu-
lation In 1890 of 1.5l5,30l, compared with
population in 1900 of 3437 POP, showing an
apparent increase Of 1921 .9Ol, or 1858 per
cent"
Growth of the Cities.
The following additional facts Of interest
are contained in the bulletin:
There were in 179O but places having
S,OOO inhabitants or more, containing In all
but 131.472 persons. or only 3.4 per cent
of the total population at that census At
the census of 1880 the proportion of the
total population living In places Of like
size had been increased to 81 per cent.
representing s64,509 persons living in 20
places, out OF total population for the
entire country of Il, 500 O2O. At the census
Of 1850 there were 2.s97, ,5s8 persons living
in 50 places of upward of 5000 Inhabitants.
equivalent to 125 per cent of the entire
population. which comprised then %, ,191 .S78
persons. In 1880 the proportion. as COM
pared with 1850. had nearly doubled, there
being. out Of a total population Of so 155,.7S3
at that census. 11.31s,547 persons, or 22.6
per cent. living In 2s8 such places During
the succeeding decade there was a very
large increase In urban population. so that
at the census of 1890 very nearly 80 per
cent Of the population was found living in
447 cities equivalent interpretations Of
5000 inhabitants or more, comprising, as
before stated. 1s.2725O3 persons out Of
total population Of 62,622. go. The proper
ton Of urban population has increased
during the past ten years at less rapid
rate, there being. according to the figures
Of the present census, not quite one-third
(33.1 per cent? Of the population now living
In places Of 5000 Inhabitants or more. ex-
reseryations Hawaii and persons enun,ar