The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-04-03

"Huh!" shifted the Jerseyman, roost
ing on an oyster bin with p rblic doc
ument spread before him; "some folks
have a way of making remarks of de-
rogatory and defamatory character about
my State, but, by hockey! Jerseys all
right when it comes to a show down:
don't make no difference If she does have
mosquitoes and malaria. They don't
show in the census returns any way, and
that is the question before the house now.
see by this here document that Uucle
Sam sends me, with his compliments,
that New Jersey has population OF
/ 1888 coo, which gives her seventeenth
place in the list of States, and her in
crease for the last ten years was greater
than ever before. And all these people
are on territory less in size than any
other State in the Union except Connect
cut, Rhode Island and Delaware.
Texas, for instance, with an area
twice as many people, and even New
York, with nearly seven times the area,
has only four times the population. Kan
sas, with ten times the area, has nearly
| half a million people less, aud Montana,
| in the wide aud wonderful West-also
| woolly-with over eighteen times the
area, has only one eighth as many people
az Jersey California, the land of gold,
with nineteen times the area, has 400, 600
less people And so they go, with Jersey
in the lead of most of them. When it
comes down to per cent of increase we
knock en- out in the Same way with our
30 A, when Illinois shows only 20, Geor
gia 90, Connecticut 21.7, Delaware 8 6,
Vermont 3, Massachusetts, %, and our
two neighbors, Now York with 81 and a
fraction, and Pennsylvania with q and a
fraction. Aud think of Bryan's State,
with only nine tenths of one per cent. to
Jerseys 30.4l Oh, Jerseys all right,
hands down, and don't you forget it.
Look at her towns, too. Atlantic City
increased il3 per cent in tho last ten
years, Bayonne jumped up 7l.9. Passaic
comes up with exactly tho same per cent
that Atlantic City shows. Patterson, not
withdrawing her morals, shows 81 2 per
cent Increase, and old 'Lizbe,h, that
used to be only taxing district, shows
8S per cent ; Hoboken, with name that
would fade carpet, goes to SO; Newark
35. 81 Camden's too near to Philadelphia
10 be very fast, but she drags up to 80 2,
and Trenton, Notwithstanding all the
trusts that are organized there, gets to
27,G, the lowest showing Of any of the big
towns. These figures show bigger in
crease than Philadelphia, 1915; Boston,
90; st. Louis, 81 3; Baltimore, II 1; San
| Francisco, IA 8; Cincinnati, OF; Wash
,ngton 209 aud n whole string moro
The State has 100 incorporated places,
ten OF them with more than $4,000
pcople-Newark with 24T070; Jersey
City, 206, 433; Paterson, l05, III; Cam
den. 75. 995; Trenton, 73,307; Hoboken
50, 1914; Elizabeth, SO. 1870; Bayonne, 80,
1872; Atlantic City, 27,S3S; and Passaic,
| 27,777 There are thirty two towns of
less than 5000 people, sixteen come DO
'ween 5000 and 10000, ten from 10000
to 90, 600, four from 90, 900 to 90 900, and
ten over 25, 000 which is distribution of
centres that makes Jersey good for all
time. SO much for the last ten years of
the nineteenth century; now you lay low
and watch her rise and shiue in the first
ten of the twentieth. w. j. l.. in
Lesbos Weekly.