Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-29
Detroit and Denver Lead Re-
spective Classes With In
creases approximately Sixty
Per Cent.
IN NO INSTANCE is LOSS
OF POPULATION SHOWN
High Figures of Schenectady
and Oklahoma City Cause
Them to Be Excluded from
Table of Averages.

| tBy Morn'ns 1ournai eneciai Iaassa wirul
Washington, Aug. 2s. -- Careful.
| though unofficial. analysis OF the re-
| turns from the thirteenth census on
| cities thus far announced reveals that
the Increased rate of urban growth
| for the last decade over that of 1880
| to 1900 has been confined largely TO
places having population Of less
than $4,000.
While universally there has been q
healthy Increase, IN q large majority
OF cities exceeding so, ZOO the rate OF
the previous decade has not been
maintained. In no Instance SO far has
an actual less OF population been
shown, and present comparisons are
only on the rate OF growth.
The population of siNty-three cities
of more than 5000 has been offici~
ally announced. These are somewhat
more than one-fourth of the estimated
total number of such cities In the
country.
Four announcements cover cities OF
more than 100000 people. They are
81. Louis. with 6S7,02e, or m Increase
Of 1874 per cent as compared With an
increase of 273 per cent as shown by
the census OF ig00i Pittshurg with
533,905, or an increase OF 1872 per
cent az against an increase IN 1900 or
3I.3 per cent. Buffalo with 423, 7lb.
an increase of 20 per cent as COM
pared with 31S per cent IN 1909 and
Detroit with 465.7 766, an Increase or
6a per cent as compared with 3S.h
per cent ten years ago.
A decidedly better average ia shown
for the nine cities whose population
ranges between 100000 and 0,000.
These are Denver with 213,3S1; st.
Paul, 214,744. Providence 224,326;
Kansas city, 24S,3S1, Jersey City.
2G7779 Washington. s3l,O6s; New
ark, s47469: Cincinnati. 364,6fe and
Milwaukee with 37a,Sb7. For this
group the average growth amounted
TO 1878. as compared with an Increase
of go per cent In the lS9O-l9OO epoch.
But this high average Is due IN large
measure to the exceptional showing
made by Denver and Kansas city two
OF the smallest cities OF the class.
Denver scored growth Of almost 60
per cent, as compared with n nttlc
more than 25 per cent for the previous
ten years and Kansas city almost 52
per cent as against less than "a per
cent In the earlier decade.
The mean for the ten cities of be-
tween 100, 900 and 200,00 ls favorable
to the 1880 1900 period 90 the extent
of almost four per cent. the average
for 1S90-IgO0 being 35.7 per cent and
that for 19O0-1910. so per cent. But
Notwithstanding this general falling
Off, the rate of growth was more even
~ maintained In this than in any 9TH
er class. There were not 80 many eN-
tremes, the advantage also was with
/ 900 In the twenty-One places of from
SO 900 to 100000, the average gain
being 4l.6 per cent, as against 1913
In 1910. II should he explained, how
ever. that oklahoma city and Schen-
ectady, n y. have been excluded
from this calculation because of the
abnormal increase In both.
From the $4,000 to 10000 grade,
MuAkogee. Okla, and Flint, Mich, are
eliminated for the same reasons that
oklahoma city and Schenectady are
taken ont of the $4,000 TO 100,00
class. Because OF their high figures
they would run the average up to an
unwonted extent.
But even without them, the showing
Il altogether in favor Of the last CEN
aus. OF the cities of this class, there
lre nineteen. With Flint and okla
lOma city out, the mean growth -
almost As per cent, while the Increase
or the same places In lS90-1900 was
rs per cent.
OF the entire number only East Or
nge. Battle Creek Colorado Springs
md Davenport failed To make as
argc a percentage as In 1909 but as
,nly one Of these indicated a gain for
his decade OF less than 36 per cent
he falling away was only relative.