The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-07
Study MADE OF HEROES
IN BUCKEYE STATE TOWN

Washington. September 4--(Special)--
Commissioner of Labor Carroll ID. Wright.
in a bulletin issued toda., publishes
finely and exhaustive stuy OF the ne
gro population of Xena. chic. by Rich
ard r. Wright, Jr. %enia with total
population in 1900 OF 5000 and a negro
population in that year OF l,9SS. was Sc
lected as the field for this tudy as being
, commemorative northern town with
large percentage of negro jopulation
Bv selecting such comparatively
small community it was posibfe to make
the study very complete ad one OF us
most interesting features isthe fact that
II tends to confirm the confusion drawn
from The CENSUS reports. tht but for thet
migration of o. ,roes from ne country 10
the towns snd cities the POPULATION Of the
latter would tend TO de2reae rather than
increase by natural optatons OF births
and deaths The 1irst eVdence in this
direction is afforded by he table OF pop
uIation which shows that Vlile the Wnlte
population OF Aenla lES Increased from
90, IN 1880 to 6.1UO in l9A the cotored
population remained praueauy stationary
anu WAS 1.s45 IN 1851 tno 1855 IN 1875.
Ems was. IN splts OF IT, lact mat there
mas peen CONSTANT ilaauon or ne
SrUeS from The SpQlhti ustetS ~
,,5 OF Al 4 per cent OF II leSfo Popu'
ton OF tue AoWn haVln. Hen poi - 80
,.. s.u.thet n states Iucl- as. OF So"i9N
n..,, misra,ton from N.pj though no
80. bSY5n is 10 It's
extent. during the tWo,r.. yvar f,lt>
tcSiis tii8- ~ -, a deaths amC n.
live births and forty-I sinr tho exrer
the negroes OF Aenia, ..' ,an. ~,
Of births J. Taking T1onuIati,n during
very sllEhl increaSeE , ~, =, lun,
~ - - > 90. discovered by Mr..
Wright Of m1graI 49,, ess,p,-if
seem De pI"Dhu deaths wac usuaI
excess of births O{stics mad E. ed
and that If the e., MA no, show
number of years over births
an excess of do renort throws some
Incidentally, M IN which the negro
light on the emixed with the white
blood IS tight found eight cases
bloo1. M. between whit.- ana ne
OF ln'erniall- of which a negro man
sroes. N % white woman. Offspring
mao niai,le'.rn all except one Of these
mad :esulle Wright's observations and
marrlasesi him to the conclusion that
INQUIRIES !se IF pure blacks among
the precipitation of Xenia was very
| the nesrd and that fully As per cent
small Hroes Of the >~,,n were at
or he white. He found eight illegitl-
! -uitH ullutI Ten yedlS VI dSc.
! mate report contains no informal
! nue TO the color OF their fathers.
| tlon he intermXture of the races is.
| ~ not much larger in Xenia than
| peer parts OF the country is shown
IN e fact that in q similar study OF
! DEyegro population of Farmville Va,
u in 1898. ii was found that. despite
! Flaw In that state forbidding mixed
| riages, there We're two cases Of in
marriage Of colored men and white
linen. and OF forty-four illesitimate |
Iildren under ten years of age that
I'd been born to negro women ten were |
ported as being the children of white |
en-. Similarly W. r. p. DuBcis. il his |
aborate study Of the negro population |
Philadelphia, in 1926 found in the
venth ward, Of that city, IN which the
gro population was 1851. thirty-three
ses or lntermarrlage In four Of these
1ite men had married negro women
ID IN twenty mine cases white women
d married negro men. The majority Of
csc mixed families were very low in
e social world. but several OF tham
re IN comfortable circumstances