The Washington bee., 1907-08-31
BABY CROP is SCANT
WOMEN m EVANSTON, ILL.,, HOW
EVER, ARE PLENTIFUL.
Feminine Pcr1!ssIon of Fashionable
Chicago Suburb Greatly Out
numbers MaseuIine-Figures
Of Recent Census.

Chicago.-Evanston, north shore
ciCy of wealth. pride and culture, is
gaining in feminine population, is los
ing her masculine Inhabitants and is
confronted with race suicide.
This situation, regarded by sociolO-
gists as afording food for reflection,
was revealed the other day with the
completion Of the citys annual school
census
The figures showed an increase of
40 in the feminine population, a de
crease of 42 in the number OF mascu-
line inhabitants and an increase Of
only seven in the number under y
years of age.
The census taker found that race
suicide was prevalent almost alto
getber in the homes Of the wealthy.
In mat part of the city given over to
luxury. which furnished "a total popu
latiOn of about 10000 in school dis
trict No. IS, there were just about the
same number Of children that there
we're in the Fifth and Sixth wards
/ which furnished only 1000 people. Vic
| Tor McCulIoch. the census taker, who
/ IS a Northwestern university student,
| said that even this showing in the
wealthy homes was much better than
! It would have been had il not been
lat the maids and other servants
/ luder q years Of age were included
| as among the children.
| q .I.,,4. J, IL Loco chill.
dren altogether in proportion to adults
| than there were a year ago. Especial
| ly in large districts of the city, which
show an increase in the total popula-
ton. there was a sharp decline in the
| number OF children from last year. In
| the city as a whole there was an in
| crease of Just seven children under p
wears Of age during the year There
/ are 4.l97 boys under u years OF age,
a loss OF FIVE for The year, and there
+ are 4.769 girls under p years, an in
crease of u. School district No. IS,
which includes the Third and Fourth
wards in the souther- part Of the city.
showed a total growth of ~, but at
the same time loss of sc children
under q years OF age.
That Evanston is W mans para
disc is shown in tne censUs revelation
that there are !, ,96S more females than
males in the city Last year the pre-
ponderaHce of women was only l.456,
but with AZ men gone there were
enough females born or who moved
into the town to add 512 to their ma
iority. In fact, the city's growth has
been entirely among its feminine pop
ulation. no male having arrived to re
place the AZ who departed. So the
women have brought the total figures
TO 24324. an increase of 42S over last
year.
IF the women continue to in
crease and the men continue to de
crease the situation will offer prob
lem too deep for even President
Roosevelt" said one observer. nc
matter how much the women might be
inclined toward matrimony. their op
portunities are lacking. Evanston VII
become an old maids home
) A circumstance that has proved {
! surprise is the growth of race suicide
among the negro population. Mr. Nc
CuHoch said that on Benson avenue
i and in other districts occupied by ne
groes. the number of children was sur
prisingIy small. not larger, in fact
than in the homes of the rich whites
Almost the only exception to the rul'
2 of cD,aU families among negroes wa
l in the home of Rev. Mr.. Gales paste
of the Second Baptist church, wher'
= there was a family of eight children
4 University students were not in
7 cIuded in the census. Had they been
r the total population would have beer
e nearly 1000 greater and the dispropoT
+ ton Of women even larger.
e cIcNS PI EDGE NOT TO FLlRT.