Evening star., 1915-12-26
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT MANASSAS.

District of Columbia, which is not in
Prince William, but in Fairfax county.
The white population Of Prince Will
liam county is 5000, showing a growth
of about 1000 in each decennial CEN
sus period, while the colored popula- =
tfon is .2.s25. showing a slight decrease
for each ten-year period, the lure and
possibly higher wages of the city
drawing from the county larger
ratio of colored than white inha bitants.
The percentage of the colored popula-
tion-26-is comparatively low. for a
county bordering on the lower Poto-
mac. In the VirginiaPotomac coun-
ties the percentage is: King George,
46; Westmoreland, so, and Northumber-
land, 40; while in the Maryland-P Poto-
mac counties the percentage is: Prince
Georges, 80: Charles, 50, and st. Marys,
43. The ratio of colored to white popu-
lation in all the Potomac counties has
been declining for twenty years, and
this trend is still in progress. -
The native white population of native
parentage is $40; the native whites
of foreign or mixed parentage number
307, and the foreign-born whites. main
ly English, Canadian, Irish. Scotch and
German. number only 153. being a
decrease for the preceding ten-year
period. The percentage which the
native whites of native parentage bear
to the total population is 70, being an
increase from So per cent in the ten
year period. In Westmoreland, due to
a greater colored percentage. the ma
tive percentage Is only 40; in North
cumberland. SO: King George, 54; Fair
fax, 10; Prince Georges, SO; st. Marys.
55, and Charles, As. All the Potomac
counties show a small but steady in
crease in the percentage of native
whites of native parentage due to the
decline in the percentage of the colored
population, the natural increase in
white population and the extremely
small current of immigration.
There Is a very even balance between
males and females in Prince William.
the white males numbering Ais and
the white females 4,485: the colored
males 1.457 and the colored females
1868. The males of voting age in the
county number 3,139. and Of these 65S
are colored. The total number of male
nliterates of voting age in the county
is SAT, or II per cent. being decrease
in ten years from % per cent. All the
Potomac counties show about this rate
of decline in illiteracy.~ There are
more native white than colored ilfit-
crates in the county, the figures for
the whites being 2Ss. or IL per cent of
the white voting population, and for
the blacks 257. or 80 per cent of the
colored voting population.
The whole number of persons in the
county six to twenty years of age, in
elusive. is 3,944. and the number at
tending school 1859, OF so per cent.
The number of inhabitants six to four
teen years of age, inclusive. is 2.493,
and the number attending school,
1880. or 73 per cent The percentage
for the native whites of native paren-
tage is 1853 and for the colored school
age population 65.S. In 1911 there were
sixty white schools and sixteen col
ored schools in the county and the sum
paid out for school purposes was
s26.s94. =.
The number of families in the county
is $500 and the number of dwellings,
of families to dwellings found in all
the strictly agricultural counties In