The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-22

ton with these figures that the war
 intuition plant-gain in popu-
 lation by Bridgeport and New Haven
 far exceeded that in Hartford In
 other words, $ or 20 per cent. of
 Hartford's growth represents a gain
 through the insurance and business
 activities, while another 10 per cent.
 represented business growth in no
 way connected with war time pros
 perlty. It is safe to say that census
 taken at this time would sho wthat
 Hartford's population is safely ahead
 of that of Bridgeport and very close
 to that of New Haven
 Now for look into the future. The
 chances are that Hartford will in the
 period from 1920 to Io3o, score a gain equivalent to the increase of practic- ally 40 per cent. made from 1910 to
 1920. In other words the city is likely
 to add nearly 5oooo to it's population
 in the next 10 years, bringing it con
 siderably ahead of New Haven and
 Bridgeport and probably ahead of Worcester, which is not likely to ex- perienCe a more substantial growth in
 the next 10 years than Providence with her five per cent. increase, did in
 the last, for Worcester, with it's cart ridge making and wire industries,
 profted heavily by the war time boom.
 Hence, it is not unreasonable to
 suppose that when the government announces its 1880 census the approx innate figures will be:
 | Providence . . 24o,ooo | Hartford ......... Io4,ooo These figures are arrived at by al lowing both Hartford and Providence a of tered from 1910 to 1920. And then in | the 10 years after 1880 the lineup of | the second and third cities in New England as shown by the Io4o census, will probably be:
 l Hartford ~.---. - 2z4OOO Providence 2O3, ,OOO | In arriving at the above estimate the experience of the last 10 years has again been taken as a guide Con-
 tinuing on the same basis, the popula- | ton of Hartford in 1850, % years
 away, would be 384,ooo And some day, of course, Boston may not be the largest city in New England al
 though that is looking into the dis
 tant future. Incidentally the predic-
 ton of a 384,ooo population within
 30 years can be based on precedent lfor in 1890 Hartford's population was OIIS BS,ZSO, OOlll l)dI III NllII 1<0C,OZo lin 1920, an equally surprising ratio of increase. In I8oo, the population was 2o,I52, while in 1850 Hartford had only o,78o inhabitants, according 10 census figures. A century ago the population was O,0Oo.
 Naturally, the above figures will not prove convincing 10 residents of New Haven, Bridgeport, Worcester and Providence. However it must be remembered that 10 years ago resi- dents of Cleveland and several other Imid-Wcstcrn cities would have sCof- fed at the prediction that Detroit would increase her population 527,oI4 in a 10 year period and thereby jump her total population to oo3,678.
 The South Meadows reclamation program, which will make nearly
 ,ooo acres of centrally located prop crty available, the fact that Hartford has within it's borders institutions
 with almost unlimited financial re- sources, which will unquestionably play their part when the period for real expansion comes, will all assist in the work of making the Hartford ot the future a greater, more pow crtul city than the most optimistic business men can now conceive. And the above summary does not take into account that several of the small Ineighbors of Hartford may some day be part of the capital city of Connec- tiC11t