Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-05

tlon is a.137 with ratio OF 0i5 TO
the acre.
Mr.. Finley has found that altogeth.
or there were In 1905 fifty.onc blocks
In Manhattan that had more than 81
900 inhabitants. or these twelve have
II density of population Of more than
LOO to the acre. Most of these
blocks have an area of from two to
four acres.
The block bounded by Cherry, Jof.
; fcrson. Monroe and Rutgers streets
Is the most crowded In New York
It's population In 1909 was 1866, max.
ing 1t the tenth on the list of popu.
lation. 1t has, however. 1,i5S inhabi.
tants to the acre, against 1000 III
1900
The newt most crowded block is
| that bounded by Cherry. Clinton, Mon
roe and Jefferson streets. Its density
of population Is 1,422 to the acre Tho
| third on the list Is bounded by For.
syth, Houston, Chrystie and Stanton
| streets, with 1901 inhabitants to the
acre.
The fourth is bounded by Clinton,
Stanton, Suffolk and Rivingtoh
streets with density of 1921, and
the fifth is bounded by Rivington,
Sheriff. Stanton and Willst streets.
The block having the largest popu.
,, lation In the city. that on the upper
West Side !s tenth on Tic list of
density, the figures being LAS. or
the twelve blocks with density OF
more thnn 100 to the acre, eleven
are on the lower East Side.
Mr.. Finley points out that the com.
bincd population of the flfty.one
blocks in the city having more than
1000 population each was 132,SS1 In
1900. with an average of 2,605 to the
block. Five years later the popula-
ton in these same blocks had incrcas-
ed to 1779SS, or by more than $4,000
with block average Of 3,i9O. an
average Increase by the block of SS4.
This was an increase In five years
of 81 ncr cent. In the most crowded
part of MOnhattan. In the same time
the entire borough of Manhattan in
creased only Il per cent. Commenc.
ing on these figures and percentages,
| MIR. Finley says:
"Thoy mean that during these five
years the percentage of Increase In
blocks already worully. overcrowded
] was more than double that of the
| total of the borough. They mean.
further, that II per cent of the total
Increase of the borough of Manhat-
| tan between the years of 1900 and
1905 is constituted of the increase OF
these filty-one blocks alone"
Mir. Finley has made some study of
the alien population of tlfe fifty.one
blocks and he deduces the rule that
"the greater the density the greater
the alien percentage" The one OK.
ception to this rule is the 5000 block
on the West Side, where practically
every one of the population Is negro
and the only aliens are from the Wes'
Indies.
In. speaking of what population
of 5000 to- block means Mr.. Finley
says:
"Out in the big, open Middle West
when towns without Court houses ap
proach the 5000 mark they begin 10
plan county seat fights. A live town
of this size in Iowa or Missouri
boasts of a city council. electric light
plant. fire department, women's club
city debt. Il college or two, policemen
with uniforms and Carnegie library
Can we imagine the respective
populations of the fifty-one most pop
ulous blocks In Manhattan to be pop
ulations of fifty-onc live county seats
of tho great State of Iowa? Can we
conceive of these ffty-one count,
seats being uprooted and transplanted
TO this city here TO lie crushed down
into noisome area of 200 acres
That is none too vivid a way of illus
irating just what the actual fact OF
| 1888 people crowded into 200 TEEN,
ing acres of Manhattan Island means
MANY New Workers can go back
in memory to some small towns OH
circus day. Let us in fancy crowd
ourselves with all the other able
bodied citizens of the town and hall
| the countryside into five ache LOT