Evening star., 1920-02-22
IM,3S Increase e
Here in Last
Ten Years.
Z CINCINNATI NOW
TRAILS CAPITAL
Ohio City, First to End
Count, Has
4O1, 158.

The population of the District oi
Columbia Is now 437.414 persons. the
census bureau announced lsst night
! IN making public preliminary results
of the fourteenth decenpial census
This total of permanent residents OF
the District shows an increase OF
1o6,345 persons in the decade from
1910 to 1920, or 32.1 per cent. and is
one of the LARGEST increases ever
{ made in the growth of the District
by decades.
The recent police census showed the
city to have q total population OF
l55.52S,
With the announcement of the pop
ulation of Washington that OF Gin
cinnati was made public. the Ohio
city showing total population OF
40I.15S, an increase of 1I.6 per cent
In announcing the census figures
for the two cities. William e. Hunt.
chief statistician for population. said
the figures given out last night are
subject to correction. and will be SUD
mitted to Congress next fail oniy
after the most Careful checking De-
tails of population, such A. number
OF foreign-bor residents. respective
number Of white and colored resi-
dents. and other essential figures
were not announced. They waii ne
made public later, as Will the result
or the population count by.census as
tF3cts.
Eaanesntion Wosk Here EnAs.
Announcement by the census bureau
OF the figures for Washington, marks
the ofacial end Of the work OF Robert
Il Nattingiy, census supervisor Tor
tie District Of Columbia. and more
than 500 enumerators engaged In the
work Of ennmeration. There are still
many enumerators> at work on the
working ON the census OF manurac-
lures later In the year. but the work
Of the population division under 0E
1Gattinely fs now completed
A. each name was Checked up and
1nrAed Ia. with AL eompiefe date y
nimply = number to be placed In m
indeA with many others This . done
With every name ennmeratea al over
the United StAteo and thus the in-l
6ividu4l IL last n card iuaex con-
5 tAIninE only hgare.. S.
1um6ia began ct . an January z
and WAS declared onietnily nnished
February IL at e.3o am.
The population Of Washinetcn in
1910. census bureAu hgures show: was
fI.5 per cent, were white, and s4:lSS.
or 2S.5 per cent. were colored The
lS1o population figures showed an IN
crease OF 1873 per cent over the popu.
latiop. Of 1900. which was z7es71S, ana
tkese1 latter figures showed an IN
crease of u per cent over 1850 agures:
which gave the capital popuiafion OF
Ths total number Of dwelling houses
in the District in 1910 was 5s,51a. ana
there were 1Ls3s separate iamiiIes
elusive Of outlying possessions. the
nopulation in 1s10 was s1,s72.2e6. Out
living possessions had residing In them
l,a294ss persons, making the total
population Of the United States and
possessions s3.4o2.is1
Csvsc nsAles Aia Csant.
interest in the census count here has
Engaged the attention Of all civic
bodies, trade bodies and many public
spirited residents of the city. The
Board of Trade. the Chamber OF COM
merce and the Merchants and Manu-
xactrrers' Association have ranged
themselves behind the movement to Sc
cure a complete census in the city and
are declared by census officials to have
done good work in acQuainting the
people of the city with the purposes Of
the decennial census
Cincinnati ranked as the thirteenth
city in the country in 1910. with a
population of 363,591. Washington
ranked sixteenth. with a population
of 33l.0S9. Census bureau estimates
of cincinnatfs population on July 1.
1917. were 4I4,e4S. and Washington
on that date, 369.2S2.
The city of Washington is cock
tensive with the District Of Columbia.
In counting the National Capitals
population only the actual residents
were enumerated, all transient per-
and members of Congress and their
families being omitted.
Larger Cities Cone First.
From now on, as soon as the statis-
tics gathered by the enumerators and
special agents are assembled and veri-
6ed. the data will be made public
the population of the larger cities OF
the country being given out first Then
will follow the population of the va
rious counties, whicirs number more
than 1900. together with their divi-
sions of townships. precincts and
corporated city, town or village.
After the counties have been com
pleted the population Of the various
states will be announced and then the
count of the entire United States.
In the thirteenth census, that OF
1910. Washington was the FIRST city
whose population was completed. II
was taken April Is and amde public
June "a. The center Of population
was announced July II. Rhode Is
land was the first state to be COM
pleted. having been made public July
p. The population Of the entire coun
try was not announced until Decem-
ber 10, 1910.
Beating 1910 Record.
Work on the fourteenth census /.
proceeding much more rapidly thar
that on the thirteenth census proceed.
ed in 1910. The first announcement
from the 1910 enumeration was mad,
sixty days after taking of the coun
began. while In the 1920 census Wash
ington and Cincinnati have takeI
only f1fty-two days.
AS the population of the various
cities, towns and villages are read.
TO be made public, Director Rogers o
the census bureau will certify to tn
mayor or other executive head of eacl
place the actual count, as announces
: in the preliminary figures. Shout,
any place consider its population in
accurately counted there will be op
portunity to place proof before tn
rsn<tyss bureau. and IL a claim ID sub