The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-22
ALEXANDRIA SHOWS
POPULATION INCREASE
Gain Of Sol IN Ten Years Is Recorded.
Females Exceed Males
By 2Sf.
NEGROES ARE DECREASING

NEGROES ARE DECREASING
Alexandria. Va, April 21.--A de-
tailed statement of the population of
this city. from the census report OF
1910, Just announced. shows that dur
ing the past ten years the population
of this city has increased sol. and
that the white population has increas-
ed, while thu negro population has de-
creased within that period. The fe-
male population is ahead of the male
population by PSI. as the total males
given is 1894, against 1906 females.
The total population of the city lis
1898, against 14,52S, showing the sol
increase in the ten years. The de-
crease in the negro population for the
last ten years is 345, and in twenty
years is 925. The negro population in
1910 is given at 1883, against Ass
in 1900. Females also predominant in
the negro population over males. there
being APIS negro females and 1910
males.
The total number who have reached
the voting age in the city is 4.650,
while at the present time there are
not more than 1900 registered voters
in the city.
OF the number voting. 81 per cent
are white. 81 per cent negro, IL per
cent foreign. or this number 277 are
illiterate.
The figures for the school census
are as follows: Total number of per-
sons ranging in age from six to twen-
ty years, 4.109; six to nine years. LOO;
number attending school,. III; number
ten to fourteen years, 1904; number
fifteen to seventeen years, S02; number
attending school, 361; number eighteen
to twenty years, 90S; number attend
ing school, 126.
Children ranging in age from six 70
fourteen years, it is shown. there are
2404 Of this age of which number 1,SO9,
or Is per cent, are attending school or
the white children of this age, II per
cent attend school. and the negro chill
dren, SO per cent
Persons over ten years old in the city
are IL, 443: number illiterate, SIS; white IL
literate, 10; foreigners illiterate, Is; ne.
gro illiterate, 62S
The city has 1898 dwellings. and
families number 35U.
The total population of Alexandria
County is given as 1921. against $3.50 for
the year 1910. The white population is
1856. and the negro population, 2.645; for
eign-born population. So: male popu!a-
ton, 5.6S5; female population, 4,546; males
OF voting age, 3,4S5. The total number
of illiterate, ten years or older, 5o4: total
number six to twenty years, inclusive,
29l6; total number attending school, 1,Sl3;
number of dwellings, 2,o4S, and number
of families, 2l41.
In the Circuit Court for Alexandria
County today, Judge ]. B. T. Thornton
presiding, a motion for license to the
Arlington Brewing Company, whose plant
is located at Rosslyn, that county, was
presented to the court, together with
protest against granting the same, flee
by d. B. Wheeler in behalf of himself
and other residents of the county. After
hearing counsel for both sides the court
fixed upon Friday next for the hearing.
The following twenty-five veniremen
from Richmond have been summond, from
which to secure a jury for the trial OF
Lewis Hooff. former secretary and gen.
eral manager of the defunct Mercantile
Railway Building and Loan Association,
whose trial will begin Wednesday morn
ing in the corporation court: A. c. Berk-
lev, B. Lee Hancock, G. M. Corling,
John H. Kemple, Page Dunanvant, A. +.
Seldom, IT., w. J. LYMAN, p. A. S.
Brine, John A. Traylor, Charles Keppler,
c. c. Leidy. John w. starke, w. s.
Preston, j. B. Angle, c. A. Mason, j.
Harvey Sharpe. N. w. Boze, Edward
Eek. d. EpptSp lhoiiios 4N' tAcheiSi'
John c. Goode, Ike Hellstern, W. III.
Muller, James M. Taylor, and Robert
II. Ball.
The following is a list of grand jurors
summoned to meet in the corporation
court at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
when three criminal cases will be con-
sidered: r. NJ Graham. Arthur Her
bert, c. B. Marshall, B. Baer. c. w.
M ID del, ny
Albert Smoot, and ]. B. Fitzgerald.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Gaines. daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Gaines, and
Power M. Fritter, both of this city, were
married Saturday evening last at the
parsonage of the NJ. e. Church South, by
Rev. ]. w. Duffey, pastor.
With a mass at st. Mary's Catholic
Church today, the mission services
which have been in progress at that
church for men during the past week
were brought to a close.
The April term of the Circuit Court
for Alexandria County convened today.
The docket was called and cases set for
trial.
Services in observance of the Feast of the
Passover were held at the synagogue to-
night and were conducted by B. We'll
Many attended.
Mrs. Rachel r. Whaley. sixty-seven
years old, died yesterday at her home,
$50 South Lee Street She was a native
of Philadelphia. Her funeral will take
place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Rev. J. Murray Taylor, of Middleburg,
Va, last night opened a series of meet
ings at the Second Baptist Church. The
meetings will be continued throughout
the week.
Local automobilists have complained
to the county authorities that tacks are |
frequently thrown on the road leading
to this city in the vicinity of Del Ray. |