Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-10
HAS OMAHA i5S,SS2 PEOPLE?
South Omaha Has 9S,SO2, Making a
Total of 1s3,2S4.
FIGURES FROM NEW DIRECTORY
Directory Contains 71,1O3 Names,
which IL Multiplied by Two and
One-Quarter for women
and Children.

The population of Omaha, according to
the latest city directory just out, is 159'ss2'
as against the official enumeration of
i24 O96
Between the two the average omshan IS
more willing to accept the directory fig
ures, since they are more carefully and
systematically compiled than those sub
mitted BY the official enumerators, who
are unframed in this line of work and
who find it too easy to skip isolated sta
tstics
The manager of the Omaha City Direc-
tory company explains his enumeration as
follows:
After careful count Of the names of in
dividuals in this dir ectory, excluding firms,
Is Found To- be- n las The " setusI popuIsL
ton, including women and children whose
names do not appear in the directory, used
TO he ~ times the number of names repre-
sented. Lately, however owing to the vast
increase in the number of women employed
in the factories, stores and offices, and the
young men attracted to Omaha during the
| last few years are unmarried, or have not
yet been Joined by their families, the null
tple is reduced to 2h arrived at from an
analysis of a sufficient number of names
upon which to base an estimate The pop
ulation of Omaha is therefore 1892.
These figures exceed the number an
nounced by the United states census, and
properly So The directory canvass is made
under a duplicate system. which reduces
| to minimum the chance Of omissions
to It and who follow It as a permanent oc-
| cupation. and the canvass is not confined
! to the city limits, but embraces all Of the
adjacent territory, which Is one community
| in every sense except political boundaries
and taxation. Omaha also has great
number of people residing in the most re-
mote and peculiar locations, many Of which
might easily be overlooked in a single
enumeration. Then the fact should not be
| was taken the population of Omaha has
| been increased by an influx of new tnhabi-
| tants, conservatively estimated at 5000,
| tional inducements offered by Omaha man
/ ufacturers or the unsurpassed advantages
| possessed by Omaha as a city of homes,
| The South Omaha directory contains
| l4S01 names. which indicates a population
Of &; So2; making a combined population OF
business purposes Is one city.
The Omaha directory contains 1,6S1 pages.
OF these l2SS pages are devoted to the al a..
| miscellaneous portion, 10 to the CLASSIFIED
business directory and 202 to South Omaha.
| The features which have given such enl-
inent satisfaction in the past are given
as full and complete as heretofore and
several new ones added, and II is believed
that the 1911 edition of the Omaha direc-
tory will receive much praise from its
patrons and the thousands of others in
this section who will have occasion to re
fer to it's pages. Although a complete list
| Of residents with their occupations and
.! addresses, is an absolute necessity in q
city Of this size and magnitude, the Omaha
directory is nevertheless more than a mere
list of names and addresses. 1t is com
plete and accurate guide to the city, its
people and their government and institu-
complete record of all the persons ant
places of the day and becomes a perma'
nent history Of the city and the people.