Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-09-03

Washington. D. c., Sept. 2.-Greater
New York has a population OF 1885,
SS3. This figure is the one given by the
official count of the returns of the thir-
teenth census. OF this population 1884
|351 persons live in Brooklyn.
The census figures, as announced
last night by Director Durand place
New York as the second largest city in
the world. 1t is as large as any two
foreign cities, excepting London.
New York had population of 3,437,-
202 in 1900 and 2,507,414 in 1890. The
increase from 1900 to 1910, therefore, is
1,329,681, or 38.T per cent, as compared
with an increase for the preceding de-
cade of s29,7Ss, or 81 per cent.
Bigger Than Nation in 1890.
than did the whole of the United
States In 1890 the time of the first
census taking. Then the population Of
the country was 3,929,214. The popula-
ton of the United States in 1900, at the
second census, was 5,30S,4S3.
In 1890 New York had population
of 49.401, made up of the following
boroughs: Manhattan 33,131; Bronx.
1,781; Brooklyn, 4,495 Richmond. g.
S35; Queens, 6,159. In 1900 New York
City, counting all these boroughs. had
population Of 1926. It's gain by de-
cades was as follows: 1910, 119,734;
1920. 152,O5s; 1880, 242,27S: 1910. 3s1,-
114: 1850, 696,11 1860, 1,174.779; 1870,
1,47S,103; 1880, 1911 $685. 1890, 2,507,-
414: 1900. 3,437,202.
New York City now contains only
164,649 fewer people than the combined
fourteen cities of more than 100000,
the population of which already has
been nnounced-namely: Pittsburg,
r ic nofr Prff al frn
Newark, Milwaukee Washington,
indianapolis. Jersey City. Kansas City,
Providence, st. Paul. and Denver. The
aggregate population of the cities
named is given as 4, 9S1, 5s2.
Bronx Shows Greatest Increase.
The borough OF the Bronx showed
the greatest increase in the last de-
cade of any in the greater city, Queens,
Brooklyn, Richmond and Manhattan
following next in order The figures for.
these boroughs, together with the in-
creases, are as follows:
Bronx 430. $50; increase, 230. 473, or
.1149 per cent.
Queens. 2s4.o41: increase, 1902, or
S56 per cent.
Brooklyn, 4. 63A, 351; increase 1859
or 401 per cent.
Richmond. s5.96s; increase, 1s,s4S,
or 2S.o per cent.
Manhattan. 2,331,542; increase, 4S1.-
449 or 26 per cent.
Figures on European Cities.
According to figures at the census
bureau, the population of Greater
London in 1901 at the official count
was 6.5S1.372. The estimated population
for 1909 is 7,429.74O.
Paris in 1906. by an official count,
had population of 2,763.393.
st Petersburg in 1909 had an official
count of 2,740.300.
Berlin in 1905, by an official count,
had 2,040.14S
Rome, in the 1901 official count. had
1 .196. 909, and an estimated population
in 1909 of 1.323,699.
Peking, China. at one time supposed
to. be one of the largest cities in the
world, with a population of more than
a million. has population estimated
to be somewhere in the neighborhood
of 100000.
Yonkers Now Has 79,803.
The population of Yonkers. N. Y. is
79,s03, an increase of 1882. or 66.5 per
pent, as compared with 47.931 in 1909.
The population of Fslmira, n. y, is &c.
176. an increase of 1904. or Az per cent
as compared with 1852 in 1900.