The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-28
FIFTY CITIES
 HAVE 100000
Nineteen in United States Now Have More Than
 250,00O People
OKLAHOMA GAINS LARGE
Two Cities of New State
 Lead Country in Percent
 age of Increase Since 1900

The final recapitulaton of the re- cent census figures of the larger cities of the United States show that there are 1S with more than 250,0O0 inhabi-
 tants. and of these three rank among the 10 largest cities in the world. These. in the order of their magni- ture. are London, New York, Paris. Tokio, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersbur~ Ph ladelphia and Moscow. Four American cities have reached the 2oO,0O0 mark since 1900-Newark, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Jersey City
 The order of the five largest cities Of the United States has remained the same for 20 years. They are New York. Chicago, Philadelphia. St. Louis and Boston. Baltimore and Cleveland, which were sixth and seventh in 1900, have changed places in the interval. Los Angeles, jumping from 34th to 17th has increased in actual popula- tion in 10 years from 1O2, ,479 to 319.19s
 Los Angeles is one of g cities. which have doubled their population since the last census, 10 of which are in the west eight in the south and four in the north. For rate of increase, two Oklahoma cites lead the country, Oklahoma City itself with a percen- tage of 5S9.7 and Muskegoe, with 494.2 The next in the list, Birmingham. Ala, with a percentage of 245.4, grew less than half this speed.
 The other cities which have more than doubled in the last decade are: Pasadena: Cal; Flint, Mich; Seattle, Wash: Spoke. Wash; Fort Worth. Texas: Huntington. West Va; Fl Paso. Texas; Tampa. Fla; Schenec- tady, N. Y.; Portland. Ore; Oakland, Cal: San Diego, Cal; Tacoma, Wash; Dallas. Texas; W chita, Kans.; Water loo. Iowa. California leads the coun- try with five in this group, Washing ton and Texas each have three, while New York has only one.
 The United States has 22S cities with populations of at least 25,00O. and If these just 50 have population of 100000 or more. Fourteen of them have risen above the 100000 mark since 1900. They are Albany. N. r., Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham, Ala, Bridgeport, Conn. Cambridge Mass, Dayton, Ohio, Grand Rapids. Mich, Lowell, Mass, Nashville. Tenn, Oakland, Cal, Port land. Oregon. Richmond. Va, Seattle Wash. and Spokane, Wash. Of these 50, 24 made a greater absolute increase of population during the decade of 1900 to 1910 than during the preceding decade and 24 made also greater per- centage of increase. The aggregate population given to them by the 1910 count is 20,303, ,047.
 The rates of increase vary widely in this group of fifty, ranging from AL Der cent in the case of Birmingham Ala Boston, Paterson, N. J., Phila- delphia and St. Louis have all advanc- ed at about the same speed, the rate of increase in each case amounting to a percentage of nineteen and a fraction. The growth in some cases has been due to the annexation of suburban territory. but only with New York and Pittsburg has the Gen. sus bureau made allowance for it in the tables.
 From this group one city has faleen back into the list made up of those with a population of. from 25,000 to 100000 It is St. Joseph, Mo, which was 102 S79 in 1900, and is now only v, ,40S This second group has IFS cit ies, 107 of which were in the same groun ten years ago, while 70 have
 own above the 25,O00 limit since then. Taken in the aggregate these cent. from 1900 to 1910 as compared with 34.3 per cent, in the previous de- cade, and show larger proportionate gain than the larger cities.
 Of the 22S cities having at least 2o,- 900 inhabitants. 164 are in the north ern States, 43 are In the southern States and 21 in the Western States: About one-third show ah Increase of more than 50 per cent since 1900. or the northern cities about one-fifth show such an increase; of the south ern cities about twO-fifthS and or the western cities about three-fourths;
 None of those in the west show any decrease.
 The nineteen cities that have more than a quarter of a million in popu- lation are, in the order of their rank. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis. Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore. Pittsburg. Detroit, Buffalo, San Fran cisco. Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Newark. New. Orleans, Washington, Los An geles, Minneapolis and Jersey City. They range in population from 4.766,- sS3 to 267,779.