New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-31
HAS H,e9P MORE NAMES,
Nee Directory Shoes Decrease IN
LO7cer East Side Population.

The l2Sd volume of the General Directory of the
Boroughs OF Manhattan and The Bronx for the
year ended August l. 1910. has just been issued
by the Trow Directory. Printing and Bookbinding
Company. Copies will be placed on sale tomorrow
The volume contains 503,769 names. increase
over last years directory OF al .292 names.
Chicagos chest has been expanding. and s5uItant
notes have come from that city. which geographic
cay, is on the level. because It's new directory By
some mysterious means. contains 76S.6oO names
Chicagons insist that all Of represent persons
siill living. Multiplying this number OF names BY
%. which the publishers out there say is a small
but safe figure that city's population Is I: to-
In most cities 90 is used the multiple. and
adopting Il 10 help the cause OF the metropolis
Chicago would have Il appear that Manhattan and
The Bronx with i.7s3.i9I residents had better 80
West n they wish 20 mingle in a thToug As a mat
ter OF actual count. however. Manhattan and The
Bronx Tor seventeen years has had a larger popti-
lation than that The census of 1852 gave IL sol ss
people. that 81 iso 2OOso and that of 1876 assoc
The New York directory Is shapely convenient
and honest There are few Egges in H. albeit
one has been dropped by special request OF its own
81 and the intercesson Of the sympathetic court
A short time Mr.. ESge made legal application
20 be known otherwise by his fellow man He then
said he did not care what else might happen to him
only he could escape being looked upon as Iegit,
mate food Tor fun and frolic by every friend he mad
or he met
Compressed Air lives periodically AZ No II Rroad-
Ins the rest OF his address To remain mvsteriousl,
hidden.
feicitous and fitting name found i'm the di
Fectory' that should be aid its owner and n
constant source OF wonder To others that his
parents should have hit the mark so neatly. Is
that OF STRAIGHTFORWARD Ray a missionary The
International Engagement Bureau causes the i'm
agination 10 become alert. and almost countless
others help the reader OF this volume 20 while
away profitable hours in company with the brave
and gay from the eRrths far corners.
The greatest increase in population was found
by the publishers in the Washington Heights and
Bronx sections while the lower East Side shows
a decrease in part due the demolition OF a large
number Of tenement house buildings for bridge
extension TO erection OF factories and removals 20
the eastern section OF Brooklyn
The erection OF such immense business structures
as the Hudson Terminal. Singer Building civ
Investment Building and Metropolitan Life Build
ing, the four furnishing six thousand names and
others less pretentOus has also assisted i'm th,.
increase. While these buildings are almost fully
tenanted there many vacant business
buildings. condition which illustrates the won
derful increase OF commercial activity in New
York
Il is said To have required the services of more
than two hundred men for eighty-hve DAYS To can
Nass and compile the present volume The first
volume 81 the directory Of New York was pub
lished In l7S and contained So names