The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-14
KENOSHA LEADS ALL IN GROWTH
Greater Ksnosha Now Crowding Close
on Sheboygan, Madison, La Crosse
and Green Bay-Is Ninth of the Lar
ger Cities of the State Covered.

Kenosha is still setting the pace for
all other Wisconsin cities and the re-
port of the United States Census Bureau
issued on Saturday shows that in the
past four years Kenosha had a greater
proportionate growth than any city in
Wisconsin and only one city-MilWau-
kee-had greater numerical growth.
The census bureau at Washington es-
Inmates the population of Kenosha for
1914 at 26,062, an increase of nearly
5000 people since. the taking of the
national census in 1910 This figure is
not based on an actual enumeration,
but on careful estimates prepared by
the bureau following Investigations in
the various cities. While Kenosha is
now rated as the ninth city in the state
Ill population she is closely croWding
four other cities and before the end Of
the ten year period she will undoubted-
ly pass Sheboygan, Green Bay and
Madison and force La Crosse, one time
rated as the second city of the state,
to look to her laurels. Under the re-
port of the census bureau Racine, with
an estimated population of 44,528, is
rated as the second city in the state
with Superior crowding her hard with
a population of 44,344.
The report of the census bureau
shows that Kenosha has total of 1,757
acres within it's corporate limits, this
being the smallest number of acres in
any of the twentyfour cities rated
among the largest in Wisconsin.
By the end of another month Keno
sha will have taken another big jump
in her population as the annexation of
the new territory to the city is count
ed to add from 1000 to $500 people to
the population of the city. It is ex-
pected that Kenosha will be very close
to the 10000 mark in 1915 and by the
end of 1920, when the census enumera-
tors make another report, it is pretty
certain that the city will have Joined
the $4,000 class
The report of the census bureau on
Wisconsin cities is decided interesting.
Most of the cities of the state are
showing a gradual healthy growth,
while one or two are showing a sud
den boom growth for year or two and
then stop for while Others are just
beginning to make percepfble gains in
population, according to estimates of
population just made public by the
bureau Of the census.
According to these statistics Wiscon-
sin has 510,804 square miles Of land on
which it's population can increase.
This the state has done, for according
to the census in 1900, the state had a
population of 100000, which had
grown in 1910 to 1886 and by the
1914 estimate Of the census bureau had
reached 2,446,716. The growth of the
state, according to the detailed figures
show uniform gain of about $4,000
a year.
In the list of twenty-four cities Ke-
nosha is the smallest in size while
Stevens Point has the least population.
The largest city in the state is Super
or, having 23,40O acres as against
15,407 for Milwaukee and 1,757 for
Kenosha.
In the following table the present
estimated populations of Ashland, Mari
nette and Stevens Point are the same
as the census figures for 1910, as there
has been a decrease in the population
OF these cities instead of an increase
and the bureau has not made an es-
innate of the present size Of the
cities. The figures Of the hnrean are.