The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-21
w.rcu CHARLESTON GROW.

some more figures were given out by
the census people in Washington yes
terday. They relate to the population
of two places in South Caroilna--
Charleston ''the most convenient port
to Panama. and Columbia, the state
Capital and until recently the mead
quarters of one Of the largest whiskey
establishments in the country. Charles-
ton is credited with a population OF
bS.S33, an increase of 3,O26, or "a per
cent. over 55,S07 in 1900. Columbia is
said to have population of 26,3l9. an
increase of 5,211. or 2i7 per cent, over
21,10s in 1890.
There must have been something
wrong with the adding machines when
these statistics were made up. 1t Ger
tainly cannot be said that they are ex-
travagant Less than year ago thc
City Directory census of Charleston,
prepared with unusual care by Walsh,
gave that town something over T2,Oo0
people, and, Judging by the business 1t
is doing and the position it holds by
right among American municipalities,
we should say that there are not far
short of 100000 people in Charleston
Last year the business of the town ag-
gregated In value s10o,oOV,Ooo. 1t Is
1.-THE largest fertilizer manufacturing
centre in the world; it is the centre or
| the second largest truck-growing dis
| trlct in the United States; it has more
money on deposit in its banks than any
| other town of anything like the same
size in the country; 1t possesses one OF
tile finest harbors in the world; 1t Is
better fortified than any other port Of
/ the United States. 1t has more than
| thirty feet of water in its main ship
channel. and it has been doing great
things all the time, Durand probably
| left off cipher at the end of his row
| of figures; at least, he will have to put
on two ciphers by 1920. or we shall be
| greatly disappointed. Besides, it must
be said that 3O26 people of the sort
| that live in Charleston is not so bad
after all. Down that way it is not
quantity that counts so much as quail
tity: at least, this seems to be about
/ the right thing to say. in the circum-
stances.
But look at Columbia IL you please
Columbia. with it's sky-scraper and
university and colleges and suburbs
and State Fair and Legislature and
brass bands and all that, and even with
all that it has been able to count only
! 26,319 population of a very much mixed
! sort, when we have been saying and
believing all along that there could
| not be less than 10000 people there
and more coming in all the time. Few
and only about as many as there are
lin Wilmington, and something like the
population of the average village in Vir.
ginia Oh, Columbia! Columbia! no"
often would we have gathered you as q
hen gathereth her brood under hel
wings, and here you come piking along
with less people than are served by
the early trains in Virginia with The
/ Times-Dispatch.
/ There must be something wrong, W.
repeat, with Monsieur Durand's add
ing machine; but we don't care. Boil
/ of the South Carolina towns are flint
towns, and are growing surely bu
steadily. They might have been lik
st. Jo Missouri but they are not, ant
they must be taken for what they are
and not for what they have though
that they were, and they are, in tn
things which make communities reall
great, exactly what we should lis
them to be-selt-respecting and self
reliant.
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81 AN A DEMOCRATS"
David Bennett Hill died yesterday