Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-10
CENSUS SHOWS
CITY IS AMONG
j. 6. LEADERS
Southland Metropolis Makes Re-
markabIe Jump from 36th to
Sixteenth Place in Rank
GROWTH TREBLE IN 10 YEARS
Figures in 1900 Were 102,479,
While Increase Since That
Time Is 216,719
| HEADS PLACES OF ITS CLASS
Washington Officials Amazed by
Leaps of Business and Com
merCe as Well as Size
GROWTH TREBLE IN 10 YEARS
HEADS PLACES OF ITS CLASS

"Los Angeles, 10,198," is the
message that flashed from Wash
ington to The Herald last night.
Quickly it spread through the
city, stirring the pride and arous-
ing the enthusiasm of the thou
sands who, by their coming with
in the last decade, helped to make
possible the magnificent showing,
and those other thousands whose
earlier coming laid the foundation
of the great city of today.
Two hundred and eleven and
five-tenths per cent is the city's
gain in ten years. Its population
in 1000 was 102,479. Its gain i'll
population was 216719. 1t still
ranks as the second city on the
Pacific coast, leading Seattle,
Portland and Tacoma by large
margins. Its wonderful growth
has put it in small group of the
nations greatest cities. Los An
geles will rank 10th, appearing
in the list just ahead of Mime
apolis. In 1900 Los Angeles
ranked Both and Minneapolis
10Th.
Bert L. Farmer, who took the
census in Los Angeles with a
corps of assistants, said last night
that Los Angeles showed a
greater increase in percentage
that any other city of its size.
I'm Washington" he said, they
have always looked on us, even
to later date, as city in the
100000 class. The figures which
have just come from Washington
have astounded the census Off
cials. Hart Momsen, special in
spector from the census bureau,
who was out here checking over
the figures in certain districts,
told me he had no idea Los An
geles had grown in population as
it had. 1t was possibly this, to-
gether with a desire to show Ia
coma and Seattle that all cities
were being treated alike that Mr..
Momsen was sent here. / am glad
he was, for in no part of this
country can they intimate that
Los Angeles figures were padded.
The east could scarcely grasp the
import at first that Los Angeles
was no longer a tourist town but
a metropolis.
Business Also Leaps Ahead
"There is even a greater sur
prise" continued Mr.. Farmer, "in
store for the east and many of our
new residents when they learn
the figures from the census taken
among the manufacturers and in
dustries of various kinds. This,
even greater than the resident
census, shows a most remarkable
increase IN point of growth and
expansion. Firms in business
years ago as mere drops in the
bucket of commerce now show a
growth that is astonishing. These
figures will probably not be made
public before five months.
81 would add that Los Angeles
has been the best checked city in
the United States. That her peo-
pie most readily responded to the
call of the census man and that
in the canvass of all these thou
sands only three persons were ar
rested, while in other cities of
much smaller size there were ar
rests by the score.
"Mr. Momsen shortly after he
arrived here remarked on the
number of people he saw in the
streets. He had been in the sery-
ice ten years but had never been
to Los Angeles, and he told me
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