New-York tribune., 1909-09-06


s4fassts E9aasssr isSs9s is s5i51 s$ 50 5SSS5 5Ss
Total estimated increase for above seven cities i'7
from 1900 TO 1905 993, SIS
Census statistics show that the population of
New York increased from 34G12O. in 1890 TO
s53, in 1890, a net gain in population for
the one hundred years of 5.657.733 In the ten
years from 1880 to 1900 the population of New
York increase 3S1,021. whereas the estimates
for 1900-'08 show an increase of almost 100000.
The estimated increase of the population in
sixty of the principal cities of the United States
shown by statistics of the Census Office, is
5,432,40s The number of immigrants admitted
into this country between 1901 and 1908 was -
h92030. These two sets of figures added to
7s.3oS.3S7, the census figures of 1900, bring the
total estimated population up TO last year to
S6,757.S24. Little doubt exists in the minds of
statistical experts that the census of 1910 will
reach almost 100000
CENSUS CORPS OF 65,33l PERSONS
Director Durand with his corps Of $50 super
7isors and $4,000 enun1erators. has almost COM
pIeued the plans for taking the thirteenth de-
oenntaI census. This Will include not only pop
ulation. but also statistics relating TO agricult-
ure. manufactures and mines and quarries of the
United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
The census. which will be the first taken since
+he placing Of the Census Office on permanent
basis. must, according 10 Law, be completed by
July l, 1912. AS the supervisors and enurnera-
tors begin their work three n1cnths earlier than
has been customary, the census returns will be
received by the Census Office much sooner than
the past, and the population statistics will be
given 10 the public within six months after their
receipt
The census of 1910 will cost the United States
government more than that of 1900, despite
the fact that there thirty more supervisors,
about fourteen thousand more enumerators and
greatly increased population. entailing more
work The last census cost s14,000,000 and
when il IS taken into consideration that the gov
ernmeut employs larger force, and therefore
will have greatly increased expenditures. for the
CENSUS OF 1910, it will be seen that this means
the practice OF rigid economy
The census law passed al the last session of
Congress requires the taking OF the census of
population, agriculture, manufactures and mines
and QUarries. The law provides that the sched-
ues relating to population shall include for each
inhaDitant the name, relationship TO head of
family. color. sex. age, conjugal condition, place
II birth. place Of birth Of parents. number OF
Tears in the United States, citizenship, occupa-
tion, whether employer employe, and, If
ploye, whether or not employed at the date of
enumeration and the number of months unem-
ployed during the preceding calendar year,
"hether or not engaged in agriculture. school
attendance, Lteracy, tenure Of home, and
whether or not a survivor of the Union Con-
federate army navy, and the and ad-
dress Of each blind or deaf and dumb person,
and for the enumeration Of institutions, shall
include paupers, prisoners, juvenile delinqucnts
iritaue feeble minded. blind. deaf and dumb and
inmates of benevolent institutions.
\ DECREASING BIRTH RATE
The United States is following the tendency
of Western and Southern Europe in a decreasing
birth rate and a less rapid increase of popuIa-
1on. says the census office. The population Of
Europe. excluding Russia and Turkey, increased
per cent during the ten years ending with
1880 slightly less than S per cent in the ten
zears ending with 1890 and slightly more than
per cent in the following ten years. These
PEOPLE belong 10 the stocks of the United
states.
In this country the increase Of population is
complicated by an influx Of the foreign born and
with higher birth rate among the foreign born
than that Of the old native stock. These are
having a temporary effect upon the actual rate
"f increase; after an elimination Of these tenn
rorsry elements. which serve only to mislead TO
cAtravagant computations of popula ton at dis
amt years in the future the natural rate OF in
rrease Of the population of this country, native
born Of native parents, appears 70 he approx
r1ately 1919 per cent during decade, or ~ per
cent yearly with a tendency toward diminution
. the rate.
With the exception Of the Census Oflce. no
branch Of the government is better qualified to
treat the subject of agriculture than the de-
Iartnent so designated. Secretary Wilson, one
II the best informed men on agriculture in the
United States is thoroughly familiar with all
ubjects pertaining thereto, and delights to con-
verse the rapid growth in this branch OF
american life The number Of farms has IN
'reased from 4,J64, ,641 in 1890 TO G1OOOo0 in
1905 the total acreage has increased from 623-
100000 in 1890 TO over 1.DUo,ooO,0O0 in I3oo
1he capital Of the farmers in the form OF land'
buildings improy ernents, livestock implements
and machinery is computed at $280OO,0Oooo,
which represents an increase OF 70 or 50 per cent
over 1890
The percentages of increase Of crop production
"h acre now have a significance No one
lleea fear that the farmers OF this country viii
ever Le unable to provide for its population
'hey are already demonstrating in the cases OF
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