The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-29
WE'RE A BIC NATION
Census Returns Show We're Close I,
a Hundred Million

CGOblt nCluFnb 0NOM were OiOcC "
a Hundred Million
Washington, Nov. 29.-The United
States has passed the one hundred
million mark in population. says the
Washington correspondent OF The
New York Tribune. Including the
Philippine Islands and Porto Rico and
not including Guam and part Of the
islands of the Samoan group, the Am
erican floats over a population OF
103, 992,757 Exclusive Of the Philip
pine Islands, Porto Rico, Guam and
Samoa, bur including Alaska and Hs-
wall the population of the United
States is 93,417,64s Ten years ago
the population of the same territory
was 76.SOSSs7.
II will be several weeks before the
official figures are made public by the
Census Bureau, but there is no doubt
that the foregoing figures are very
close to the mark. They are based
on the percentage of gain shown by
the population statistics of eighteen
states and territories which have
been compiled officially by the Census
Bureau experts.
These eighteen states and terrtor-
les show total gain in the last ten
years of 5.151 ,425 or 21.S per cent.
According to the census experts the
percentage for the country as whole
will be slightly greater. II is be'iev-
ed that the percentage Of gain for
all the states and territories will be
approximately 22.5 over the census
OF ten years ago. On the basis OF
this percentage the United States has
gained 19,100,701 in population in the
last decade. Excluding the Philip
pines and Porto Rico, the gain of the
nation in ten years was 17,16S,26l,
The percentage of gain for the
country as a whole was greater in
the last ten years than in the proceed
ing decade. From 1890 to 1900 the
gain was 20.7 per cent as compared
with 249 per cent from 1880 to 1890.
The greatest percentage of gain
made by the United States was 1853
this being in the decade from 1910 to
1850. The gain in continental United
States, including Alaska and Hawaii
In the decade from 1899 to 1900 was
ll3.16S,26l, as compared with 11l6S,-
261 in the last decade.
| OF the states and territories whose
population has been compiled and an.
lnounced officially all except Iowa
show an increase over the census OF
1900. Iowa shows loss Of 1882. The
greatest gain was made by New York
IL, S44,3SS-while the greatest per
centage of gain 67.7 was made by
New Mexico Arizona was second
with a gain Of 66,2 per cent.
Some striking facts are contained
lin recapitulation Of census an
lnouncements made public by Director
Durand. This report shows that
three OF the ten largest cities of the
world are in the United States-name
lily, New York, Chicago and Philadel
Dhia. New York is the second city
Chicago the fifth and PHILADELPHIA
the ninth. Eight American cite:
have a population exceeding 100000
In the order of their rank they are
New York. Chicago, Philadelphia, s.
Louis. Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore
and Pittsburg.
.
population exceeding 100000. This lis
includes Albany Buffalo, Rochester
and Syracuse. OF these forty-sever
cities thirty-one made a greater abso
Lutte increase In the last decade thar
N the preceding one and twenty-on'
also made a greater percentage In
crease. The aggregate population
given to these forty-seven cities is 19
I754.237. Ten years ago these same
cities had an aggregate population o
1891 ,430 although the rates OF in
crease in the last decade for the indi'
idual cities ranged from 6.5 PAS
per cent. It Is noteworthy that tel
important cities showed approximate
ly the same rate OF ncrease-namely
Boston, Buffalo. New Orleans. Oma
! Ina, Paterson. Philadelphia, Pttsbure
St Louis, San Francisco and Wash
ington.
The highest percentage Of increas
! Iamong the cities was 1897 this show
,, ing being made by Oklahoma City
Muskogee. Okla. made a gain Of 1914.
per cent while Birmingham Ala an,
/, Pasadena and Los Angeles, Cal. eacl
gained more than 200 per cent. Tw'
New York cities made EXCEPTIONAL
large percentages Of gain. ScheneC
tady showing 1898 per cent. and Ney
: Rochelle 96.1 per cent.
With only Portland, Ore. Seattl
and Spokane, Wash, Duluth. MINI
and Superior. Wis, missing. the cite
. OF $4,000 and upward have an aggrS
Oata ponuta tfon NJ Of ono COZ