New Britain herald., 1914-04-17
NEW BRITAIN IN 1880,
 POPULATION 95,0oo
Estimltc M1dc By Southern New
 England Telephone Company.

| Representatives of the Southern ] New England Telephone company have just completed an extensive ex- pert study of the future telephone needs of the New Britain exchange. under the direction of J. W. Schread who came from New Haven to take charge of the work. It is inter-
 esting to note that the study ex-
 presses the expectation that in 1850 1 there, will be 95,000 people in the New Britain exchange of which 3O,- 072 will be in the city of New Britain and the balance of 4,92S in Berlin. Before the report could be com piled it was necessary to conduct an
 exhaustive study of the exchange
 which covered several weeks of inside and outside work. The object of this study is to obtain the most accurate information it is possible to gather
 regarding the probable population
 and telephone requirements Of the New Britain exchange in 1880, in .y
 der that the telephone company's en J gineering force in New Haven may
 have reliable data which to base
 their facility plans for this territory.
 Actual Count of City.
 
 tailed actual count of every resi-
 dence, place of business and family
 in the study territory. New Britain
 business men, experts in their
 branches of work. have also been
 consulted as to the probable extent and direction of the growth of the city. The work on this house count.
 as it is called. occupied the full time of three men for fc11r Population 8O.O72. | From the data the telephone com pany experts have arrived at a num- Der of conclusions that are of in terest to all residents of New Britain | 1t is, for instance, estimated that the population of the New Britain ex-
 change in 1880 will be s5,O00, of which 90,072 will be living in the city of New Britain. This last fig. ure represents an increase of LIDO 1 over the estimated population of the exchange at the present time, during the next sixteen years and an in- crease of 47,356 over the 1910 gov- ernment census. The growth in the Iast three years has been 5,256. For the city of New Britain 1t represents a sixteen year increase of 40,o50
 over the present population and growth of 47,156 over the 1910 cen sus figures
 1O.94O Families in Exchange. [ <. The house count further brings out
 the fact that there are at the pres-
 ent time 10.940 families in the ex-
 change. It t,is. estimated that this
 number will be increased to 1S,722 by
 1850. an increase of 77S2 families
 p fhc @l&S l the city of New Britain alone the
 total number of, families at the pres
 ent time is computed as 1o,o3s, the
 figures for the same territory being
 l7.6O2, an increase of 7564 families
 in sixteen years. The house count further brings out
 the facts that there are, in the city of
 New Britain, at the present time, H. o74 Families living in private resi-
 dences and 8,342 in what are listed as apartments. It is estimated for 1850 that the former number will have increased to 2,4S4 and the lat ter to l6,O57. There were twenty-one so-called private residences and 297 apartments that were unoccupied at
 the time that the count was made and
 the total number of f1fty-foot vacant
 lots in the city was 11,507
 Business Firms
 It is estimated that there are S81 business firms in the residential part or the city and GOA in the distinctly
 business section at the present time. total of 1,2S5 places of business. These figures include offices, stores. warehouses and the like. 1t is expect ed that by 1880 there will be 9sy business firms in the residential part of the city and 910 in the distinctly business sections, a total of 1S7o
 places of business or an increase of 594 places of business in the city dur
 ing the next sixteen years
 l, The value of the 1913 figures 1,as
 in the fact that they were not guessed
 at but were obtained by an actual
 count made by men who went over
 the entire city, men who are expert
 in this work, having done 1t in other cities also What Rent Is Costing, The house count also shows that of the total number of families in New Britain 422 are paying $35 or
 more per month for their homes and 363b SIP month or less. The ball.
 ance pay rents in between these points.
 1t was also found that there is at
 the present time an average of five people to each family in New Brit
 ain, and, it is estimated, this will be
 b.1 persons by 1880. No hint of race suicide there.
 Probable Increase in Telephones. The telephone engineers estimate
 that the number of telephones in the New Britain exchange--the present total being 4.O47-will be 11.311 by 1880. an increase of 7.264 or approx imately l77 per cent in the next six
 teen years. It is figured that the