The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-08
NEW HAVEN GIVEN
  POPULATION OF ti4,6OO
THAT OF THE UNITED STATES
 PLACED AT go, 900, ,3s0.
This Exclusive of Alaska and the In- suisr Possessions-census Rureau Issues First of Annual Estimates Based on me es'Arithmettcal ,hod"- Tho Populations of Other Comments cut cities.
cut citie.

| St@~ N-~~N''
 Washington, April 7.-The census bureau to-day issued bulletin which gives the estimated population of the United States for 1903, exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions of the United States, as 79,sOO,sS9. This is an increase of S,9o5,S14 since the census of 1900.
 An official statement accompanying the bulletin says:
 ''The bureau of the census has decid- ed to make annual estimates of popu- lation based upon what is known as the arithmetical method. This rests upon the assumption that the annual in- crease for each year since the last cen sus will be one-tenth of the decennial increase between the last two censuses. The country as a whole and most of the states and cities are growing with a steadily decreasing per cent. of in crease. As this condition has obtained in the United States for the last twenty years it is likely to hold good in the immediate future. Under such condi- | tions the arithmetical method has been proved more accurate than any alter native method. Estimates by this method, based on the census population of 1880 and 1890, were made for the sev- enty-eight cities, each of which had over 50,000 inhabitants in 1900, and the results compared with the census count. The estimates gave these cities a total annual increase between 1890 and 1900 of 407, OPS. The count showed an actual average increase of 414, ,79S, or closer ] than estimates based on the vote cast or number of names in directory or | local census of school children. Of course, in a number of individual cases the estimates which have been made will ultimately be proved to be wide of the turn, but even in such cases the bureau of the census believes that they will be of value for the only purpose | for which they have actually been pre- pared, namely, to establish a basis for the computation of death and birth rates, etc. After correspondence with l all the cities reported very careful com putations have been made of changes in municipal areas, and yet in many cases the population of cities may not ! be estimated to be as large as local conditions really warrant. These esti- mates have the advantage of being prepared in a conservative and unbias- ed way
 i The following aie tiis estimates of the population in 1903 of all cities in New England given 25000 and upwards:
 ,Connecticut-Br Bridgeport, 776S5; Mer- iden, 25,OSS; Hartford, S7,SS6; New Brit ain, 2S,506; New Haven, 114,60O; Water bury, 56,521.
 Maine-Portland, 52625.
 Massachusetts, Boston, 594,61S; Cam bridge, 9S, ,444; Brockton, 4S,S7S; Chelsea, B, 1920; Everett, 2S,317 Fall River, 114,- OO4 Fitchburg, S4.37S; Gloucester, 25,- 526 Haverhill, 3S,9S7; Holyoke 4S,7S6; Lawrence, 67,932; Lowell 1OO,150; Lynn 72,S5O; Maiden, S6,S52; New Bedford, 6S ,955; Newton, 36,35O; North Adams, 26,519; Quincy 26.O5S; Salem, 37,504; SomerviIle, 6SO9O; Springfield, 67,42S; Taunton, S2,713; Worcester, 12S,552.
 New Hampshire-M Manchester, 6O,S45; Nashua, 25,275.
 Rhode Island-Proyidence, 1S9,742; Pawtuclxet, 42,711; Woonsocket, SO,415.