Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-03-03
THE AMERICAN CITIES
NineteenHavePas the ESQ, 900
Mark in Population
the population Of % Municipalities
Doubled In the Observation-Disclosures city
Had Biggest Growth.

S'ShSSh STOWtn.
Inc maj recapitulatlon of the recent
census figures for the larger cities of the
uhiteu states show that there are nine
zen win more than 100000 inhabitants.
and of these three rank among the to,,
largest cities in the world. These. in the
oruer OF their magnitude. are London.
ne" lork, Paris, Toxic Chicago Ber-
nm vienna, st. Petersburg Philadel-
phla ana MOSCOW. Four American cities
nave reached the 100000 mark since 1900
newark, Los Angeles Minneapolis ana
Jersey City. anu
Inc order of the five largest cities of
the united States has remained the same
TOT twenty years. They are New york
0hlcago' PhlladelphiaI St Louis and
BOSTON baltimore and Cleveland. which
n %ere siNth and seventh in 1900. have
Anoa5e pace IN the interval. Los
Ahseles' jumping from thirty fourth ia
seventeenth, has increased in actual non.
uittioH IN ten years from 1902 479 to 319 1gs
Los Angeles is one of % cities. whinh
nave doubled their population since The
last census, 10 of which are in the West
III tne south and in the North. For
rate OF increase, two Oklahoma citias
lead the country: Oklahoma civ itsoIf
half this speed. 'S'S INA"
Inc other cities which have more than
doubled in the last decade are: Pasadena
al berkeley Cal; Flint Mich; Sc.
u a,, wash; Spokane. Wash; Fort
w Morth' TeXas; Huntington. West va
ri Paso, Texas; Tampa. Fla. Schenec,
lauy' N. y. Portland. Ore: Oakland.
Cal; san Diego. Cal: Tacoma Wash
Dalas Texas; Wichita. Kans.: water.
100, iowa. California leads the country
with hve In this group, Washington and
has only one. A''
The United States has 22s cities with
populations of at least 25.OOO. and of thesa
just oo nave population of 100 900 or
more. Fourteen have risen above the
iooVOo mark since 1900 They are Alhanv
N. T. atlanta, Ga; Birmingham ALI. !:
bridgeport Conn. Cambridge Mass
Dayton, Ohio Grand Rapids Me- !.
Lowell, Mass; Nashville. Tenn. OAK
Ianu' Cal; Portland, Oregon: Richmond
va seattle, Wash, and Spokane. Wash
VI these %, "a made a greater absolute in
crease or population during the decade
1917 TO 1910 than during the preceding de-
Caue' ana "a made also a greater per-
centage OF Increase. The aggregate non
20, SOS, O47 i'iV 'o1"' Is
Inc rates of increase vary widely in
TINS group Of so, ranging from Albany
with My 6.5 per cent. to 2454 per cent
IN the case of Birmingham. Ala, Boston
paterson, N. j., Philadelphia, and St
$3.50 A'"'S al ADVANCED at about the
same speed, the rate of increase in eacn
case amounting to a percentage of 10 and
tractlon. The growth in some cases has
peen due to the annexation of subur-
pan territory but only with New York
ana Pittsburg has the census bureau
made allowance for it in the tables
from this group one city has fallen
back into the list made up of those with
a population of from 5000 to 100. 900 1t
Is 81. Joseph, Mo, which was l02S79 in
lSoo ana Is now only -. 403 This second
group has II cities, 107 of which were in
tne same group ten years ago while n
nave grown above the 100 limit since
then Taken in the aggregat tie these cities
snow an increase of 39.1 per cent from
1900 to 1910, as compared with 343 per cent
~ the previous decade, and show larger
proportionate gain than the larger cities
or the 22S cities having at least % 900
inhabitants, 16f are in the Northern
states. are in the Southern states. and
Il In the Western states. About one-third
SHOW an increase of more than so per cent
since 1900. OF the Northern cities one
fifth show such an increase; of the South
ern cities about two-fifths and of the
Western cities about three fourths.
None of those in the West show any
decrease
The 10 cities that have more than
quarter of million in population are. in
the order of their rank, New York, Chi
cago. Philadelphia, St Louis Boston
Cleveland, Baltimore Pittsburg. Detroit,
Buralo. San Francisco Milwaukee, Gin
cinnat Newark, New Orleans. Washing
ton. Los Angeles. Minneapolis and Jersey
CITY. They range in population from A..
766SS3 to 267,779,