The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-06-21
HAWAII NUMBERS
$1,000 PEOPLE
0ne-Fifth of the Total and Japanese
Numbered More Than Two
Fifths.

| Washington, d. G., June 2l.-The com
! position and characteristics of the pop
ulation OF Hawaii, as reported at the
| thirteenth decennial census. are given in
a bulletin soon to be issued by Director
Durand of the bureau of the census,
department of commerce. 1t was pre-
pared under the supervision of VIM. G,
Hunt, chief statistician for population.
Statistics are presented of number of
inhabitants, increase and density of pop.
ulations proportions urban and rural,
race, nativity, parentage, sex, age, mar
ital condition, place of birth males of
voting and militia ages, citizenship, year
of immigration of the foreign-born,
school attendance, illiteracy, inability to
speak English, and number of dwellings
and families. A previous population bull
letin for Hawaii gave the number of in
habitants by counties and minor civil
divisions. That and the Forthcoming
bulletin cover all the principal topics of
the population census except occupations
and the ownership of homes.
Population of the Territory.
The population OF Hawaii at each Gen.
sus from 1882 to 1910, inclusive, was
as follows: 1882, l30,3l3; 1886, 1885,
$40; 1850, s4,l65; 1853, 1913; 1860,
90 500; 1866, 62,959; 1879, $685.; 1884,
s0.5Ts; 1890, $1,000; 1896, 100000 1900,
l54,0ol; and 1910, l9l 900,
Race and Nativity.
Racially the population of the terri
tory is extremely heterogeneous. In
1910, the pure Caucasian element mum.
bered 44.04s, constituting % per cent
or a little over one.fifth, of the total
OF this class, which is itself
of diverse racial elements.
22,S0l, or slightly more than one half,
were Portuguese, 1880 were Porto Ri
can, 1000 were Spanish, and 1867 were
of other Caucasian descent.
The japanese numbering 1865, con. |
stituted 4l.5 per cent, or more than two |
fifths of the population, while the Jap
anese, Chinese and Koreans combined I
numbered l05.sS or $50 per cent. OF /
the total population. Persons of pure /
native Hawaiian stock numbered 2604l I
and constituted 1876 per cent. of the pop
llation.
In the decade 1900. 1910, the number
If Caucasans in the population in
,reased 1920. or SIS per cent, the
percentage of increase for this race being
the same in this as in the
preceding decade. The increase of the
Japanese in the decade l900.l9l0 was lS,-
'64, or 30.4 per cent. In the same
,eriod, the Chinese decreased 4,o93, or
SO per cent.
The number of pure Hawaiians de-
ressed from 34,436 in 1890 to 26,04l in
9l0, the decrease in the decade 1900
$40 being somewhat less than in the
decade-3,75s, or 1876 per cent,
5 compared with 1887, or l3.5 per cent
Slightly more than one-half eos, ISL, or
IL per cent? of the population in 1910
vas native, and slightly less than one
alf (93,752, or $50 per cent foreign
orn. The native element embraces all
ersons born in Hawaii or in any state
r outlying possession of the United
tates. Persons born in Porto Rico or
4 the Philippine islands. whether of
orto Rcan, Filipino or other racial ORR I
in. are accordingly classified as native. |
or the japanese, the percentage native
as 25; for the Chinese. 1872; for the
ortuguese, 6l.7; and for the "other (
element, CO... {