Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-31
NORTHERN NEGRO TOWNS.
The Government Makes Study Of
Their Condition.

washington. Aug. a0.-CoTnEsiasi0ner q
Labor Carroll ID wright In bulletin H.
sued. yesterday. publishes timely and
exhaustive study u the negro population
] If xenia Ohio. By Richard r. Wright. Jr
ixenia. with total population II 1913 If
SIS and a negro population Ia that year
OF SO was selected as the held for this
study a. being representative northern
town with a large percentage Of negro
By selecting such comparatively small
community ii was possible TO make the
study very complete. and one Of its most
interesting features il the fart that IL
itends 10 confirm the conclusion drawn
from the census reports that bot for the
migration Of negroes from the country 10
1.-The towns ard cities the negro population
lof the lat4r vOald tend To decrease
rather than increase by the natural OPP
EZRA tons Of births ard deaths In@ first
levidence in this direction Is afforded by
the table Of population, which shows that
while the white population cf &e-sia has
increased from 5.G7 IN $3.50 10 70 % 1870
the co5o-ei popula ton remained practical
II stationary. and was 1-ssS In lssg and
50 in 1850 This was liz spite Of the fact
that there has been constant migration
OF negroes from Southern States 20 Senia
40. or IA per cent Of the negro Ttppule-
tion Of the town. having been born IN the
Southern States. There ms. Of course
been migration from xeHia, though 10
exact statistics can be given as 70 rs ez-
tent.
During the twelve months preceding the
investigation there were s. births and Il
deaths among the negroes Of $e.ia. max
ing tt@ excess Of births buy one Taking
INTO consideration the VERY slight Increase
N population during the tyenEy-year
perlnd from $50 10 $3.50 and the evidences
discovered by Mr.. Wright Of migration To
even this small excess Of births oyer
ctatns was unusual, and that il the sta
uSt,cs had covered a number Of years
deaths over births.
Incidentally. the report throws Some
ilGft on me extent to which the nero
blood IS being mixed with white blood
AF. " T1gnt found eight cases Of inter
marriage between whites and negroes II.
each cf which q negro man had married
a white woman. Offsprin2s had resulted
from an except one Of these ularriage
Mr wight observations and INQUIRIES
leo him to the conclusion that the ra--
centage Of pure blacks among TIE negro
population Of &e:lia was very small IN
deed. and that fully = per cent Of the
negroes Of the town were az least FaIf
white He found eight iliegiti!rlates ch5i
drcA under ten years Of age bur The re-
l"lt contains ~ information as to the
color Of their fathers
hat the iDteruixture Of the raca Is nor
maps not much larger in Xenis than in
ot1er Parts Of the country is shown NJ
| Aes fact that in a similar stg1s.- If ~,
negro poEIiIation OF Farru1iIie. ia md
n iSa. II yaS found that Gsasg,ste ne Iavv I.
70 mat Sta1eSf orss,idding mixed marriages
1lsse nerN tS4SeaSes OF sEteTTEsarrfa &c Of
coso.iel men ard white women. and 81 a
III sItIrna ter children under ten x-a-s ~
age tlat had beeH born TO nero v,7r,,.9 81
" were g-reI'orted as being the cE1fId9,sT, ~
WILL men Similarly. w z y. D1I pics
2 ms elaborate stuag of the negro uon,,,
r non IN Philadelphia in 1886 foty.d :,
the Seventh ward of that CITY III 1T-t,;5 -
the negro population was s So. q cas- -
nterrlaTriage- In ( Of these cases g-l,jte
men mad married negro won7ensysnd In, "a
-StSes Enite women had married negro
men The majority of these mixed fsTajD
les We're very low in the social scsIa
,uI several of them were il ee-nfartatio