Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-09-14
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FIFTH PLACE:
Census Bureau Announces Pop
ulatIon Of 67O595
Increase OF 1876 PERFlGG1E:9Gll1g

With Suburbs Inclut.ed, Making Ter.
ri&ory Equal to That OF Philadelphia, /
New England Metropolis Would
Have Well Ahz.ve a Million tnhabi
tants-aGaininq on ST. Louis, Her
Chief Rival For Many Years
Bosten. seps 12,-The city of Bos-
ton contains $50, 585 people. These
are the Official figures as given ont ia
Washington BY Director Dslrand Of the
cens1ls bureau. It is an increase o.
abo8t 10, c percent since THE last cen
sus of 1866
Boston easily retains her position as
fifth largest city Ia the United States.
81 e is surpassed only by New York,
Chicago Philadelphia and ST, Louis.
he c1il4f rival OF Boston in growth
for many years has been 81, Louis
The population of st. Louis is $751;
1929. During tine Hast ten years Bos-
ton gained slightly on st. Louis,
. beating her 9 percent.
Boston nsa1 point cut that the
I tendency of Gs0sttt1 for YEARS has been
a movement toward the suburban dis
tff1sts for residential purposes and that
| the real ma&9nitude of this city is not
Indicated by 4tas 1919 census report.
| Taking this fant into consideration,
general EsttIsf8E ton is expressed over
!! Tn GROWTH ajft1he Ngw ENGLAND CAPT.
ISL.
+ While corporate Boston, with thirty
h light SGTaTeEzliles CT area. retains it's
/ rank as 18th among American cities !,
TT must bae Understood that its closely
I Quilt up qlnH contiguous gnvirEfns, COW
| ering an ~arGa equal to Philadelphia ,
/ and which are nGs incluhs1 in the
+ figures given, viii show at the same
F ratio OF iillc-ease q population of -
I, 177 ,SO5
I If compared w:7tfh the esfkcy-one
/ Square miiazs of 81 Louis it will be
fogEnSl 17lat Boston and contiguous en-
vjgGxfs 8Ias:sa popytati CG f:s47 ,902,. or
2Sta. STE in excess OF St Louis.
Although Boston does not wrest
| WNtE I'll ljlc1-'G I1SIh oL. AEOufS, sIuS
wessEegm oz1y's IesG3 of ~ ,~,346 in 190C
lis INCREASED only TO 16, s444, in spite
OF the fac that TIE area ri St. Louis
LIE 80 D-3 square miles, as compared
with a1n1y .382 FGr BOstpn.
! The percentage of Increase shown
+ by BsestoK fully measuTes up to the
!! nIorrnfd5 healthy growth 751 cities, ,es-
i peaciaE.g ceseB tern cities, 'iagfsug the pas
!; stlecaJfe In percentage of gruwz1
/ BossUI easily maintains us position
;EanoUng thz= vigo1nGs cities of the
/. sccfUEuv,-
|. As compared with her 7In.6 percent
/ al Effg3se8Se ST. Louis, her next high
i est rival, Increased 19-h percent
/ lE1ice.ssBtz~g EncreasBE 1872 percent;
i E't5tsstrta pfIis. increased IS:7 percent;
+ Buffalo 90 percent; Cincinnati II Z
/ percent, NezV Haven % z, and New
Work, gwhoas growth was enormous,
IrEereaBsel '33%-7 percent.
L The figures given out give simply
tbs population of Boston proper. He's
= Munrsrotas po9rlllous suburbs, cities
sueh as Hyde Park, Cambridge.
i SonervfEle, Bs0okline,. Quincy, Chel-
sea and Eaany others property consti-
ta1gsglg a sart OF & Greater BosEIn, are
not Included in these figures
( With hea- new honC1-s attaching tt
population of go ,5S6 Boston leaps
forward in the list of tf1s largest cities
of the world. She H1uves ny from
the twenty-ninth city OF the world tC
the tweEty~ifth city. Boston passes
Bangkok, Manchester, Eng; B1us-
+ sells and Cairo, and now ranks among
/ the cities of she earth next h&3bow
+ Liverpool.