The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-17
APPROXIMATELY 167,184 SOULS
 IN BRIDGEPORT This Figure Is Based Upon Names Found In New
 City Directory. 2l, ,491 NEW NAMES
 IN 1917 REFERENCE 100, ,998 Persons Registered In Directory Have Mov-
 ed Since 1916.

Based on the canvas for the new city directory issued today by Price & Lee Co.,, the city of Bridgeport has a population of 167,1S4 persons, this being compiled upon the accepted government rate of two and one-quar- ter persons to directory name.
 From a synopsis published in the fore part of the new book several in- teresting facts are revealed. Most prominent of these is 8 total change of 44,883 names since the issue of 1916, which again applied to the gov eFnment percentage shows that 100,- 99S persons have changed addresses, moved from the city or were added to the list during the course of one year or approximately 72 per cent. of the population has changed its abode.
 The new directory contains 21, ,491 new names or an estimated popula- ton of 48,354 new to this city, which is an index to Bridgeport's rapid growth. There were recorded in the book S,760 changes of address in the street directory which is contained as an appendix to the handy reference. 4 In addition to Bridgeport's growth. Stratfield. Fairfield and Southport SdCAI oAAOW 4OSpSSSANS 6%1hS ttAA 1Ai3 SAA1 past year with large number of changes.
 Epitomized without reference to the government estimate of 2A per- sons to the names published, this city and adjoining towns are shown as follows:
 Names in directory of 1916, 64,930; names erased in preparing 1917 direc- tory 122O6; names added in 1917, 21, 491; names in directory, 74,215; changes of address, 8,760; total changes, 44,SS8; increase. 9,2S5.
 Stratford.
 Names in 1916 directory, 3,652; names erased in preparing directory of 1917, 461; names added in new directory, 1,420; names in 1917 direc- tory. 4,611; changes of address, Al; total changes, 2,4S5; increase, 959. Fairfield and Southport. Names in ] 1916 directory, 3,435; names erased, 61s; names ended, l. 051; names in 1917 directory 3,Ss7; changes of address, 231;- total changes 2,014; increase, 432. Comparing the statistics of the pres ent issue against those of previous years for the city of Bridgeport and | towns named it is seen that the per centage of increase in each is radically more than in previous years, each 1 maintaining it's supremacy over the l other in approximately the same ratio. | A new city map has been issued with l this directory including the names o1 nearly 200 new srteets. The supposed trolley line that for several years past was shown running through Lafayette | street from State to Saside park has been removed because of the fact that | it does not exist.
 The new map plainly shows Beech wood park, the new street growth in l the north and northeast ends of city and many other interesting features o1 the improvean ent made here during the past six months
 The first line appearing in the di- l rectory is that of a corporation the A-A Electric company, having super seded the name of Henry Aabye, who formerly took precedence. Aabye has removed from the city and his place as an individual has been taken by Ell Aaron and family who have come te Bridgeport during the past year to head the list of residents.
 | The last name appearing is that o1 the Zymet family, 36 Poplar street four names in all, finishing with Mar. garet, clerk in the American Graph lapone Co.
 In the current issue of The Official
 Bulletin, the official organ of the gov. ernment the estimates for the popula. tion of the various federal reserve
 banking districts places that of Con-
 necticut excepting Fairfield county as 975, ,434, giving to Fairfield county as a whole population of 2S9,939. With a state population estimated by the Federal Reserve Bank as
 1,265,373, and an estimate by the War
 Department for purposes of registra-
 tion of 1.719,0oO, there is a discrep.
 ancy of 453, ,627 for the state between
 the series of departmental figures.