Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-12-18
.23,000 PEOPLE IN
 PINE BLUFF Dr.. Caldwell of Board of Trade, Makes Conserva-
 tive Estimate FACTS AND FIGURES City Directory Estimate is Excessive He. Says, and Official Census
 Correct.
FACTS AND FIGURES

Dr. J. L. Caldwell, secretary of tht
 Pine Bluff Board of Trade, in dis. cussing the recent announcement o the population of Pine Bluff as made ly the Census Department, said yes. terday that he believes the estimate made at Washington was fairly cor. rect, when it is remembered that il WAS limited to certain artificial lines Called the tcity limits, which arc nor the real limits of Pine Bluff ia the present year, 1910, but of Pine Bluff in the year 1900.
 During these past ten years" said Dr. Caldwell, the building of homes an2 the opening of streets has ex- tended far beyond the present limits An effort was made during the term of my administration as mayor to ex- tend the city limits so as to make tlsm embrace the real Pine Bluff. | | movement and the people of the cty endorsed it at tue polls. but upon ar appeal to the county judge the or der of expansion and annexation was not promu gated.
 The real population of Pine Bluff II believe is about 22.0O0 people. My reasons for this. conclusion are from uhe official report of the postmaster i or Pine Bluff. made on June 30, 1910, al,ept the time the census was talk en The eleven carriers deliver mail tO 13.792 people, whose names have ] been looked over by me. They do not include my own name, for i'm stane nor, that of any other who has a rented box or whose mail is de- livered at the business house of any firm which has a rented box. There gre 4OS such boxes. There are 220 Arkansas Travellers geltting their mall al their various local headquarters through the postoffice boxes. MT. Trrlock nor any other hotel proprie- tors nor any of their employees are included ia. this list. Furthermore this list has upon it the names of no peys sons under sixteen years of age. Now add to 13,792 names the renters of boxes. employees of business houses children sud the hundreds who re- ce;ve their mail at the general deliv- cry windows, you will read ly see that the population of Pine Blufs s far in excess of 15,102. Further, these eleven mail carriers do not de- liver mail to any parties who1 I've east of Nimmons and Bennett's stavc mill, on the eastern city limits, no. south of Twentieth avenue, nor wes: of the twenty-third side street yves! Of Main street.
 I The school census taken last sum mar gave the names of 5,200 children of school age, that is between tht agee of six and twenty-one. The us. ua! mode of estimating the popals
 of city is to multiply by four ths . number of children of school age, as rex ealed b? the necessarily inaccui ate census taken by the Pine Bluff
 school board.
 Still further, the city directory
 cc,npiled by Folks Southern Drec , tory Company, company of vast ey l, nerience .h estimating population ; rsblishes the actual names of 9,1S' persons. Yet my own wife's nam' } and that of my youngest daughter ar' : not published in that directory. I'm
 reason is, certain classes of women such as married women and depend ,, cnt oh hildre,n, are never enunserate. in . city directory which is publish l ed primarily for the benefit of tn h business men.
 l. This directory company has uni t furmly adopted the rule of multiply ' iLg the total number elf actual name t printed an their directories by thres ! Tn the case of Pine Bluff this meth
 od of calculation makes the tota population 27,555. This estimate,
 believe to be excessive because of tn
 fsc: that the directory company ha