The New York herald., 1922-04-10
9s4,s66 RUSSIANS
In OUR POPULATION
More in New York Than in
Warsaw-8O2,893 Italians
Eclipse Even Naples.
IRISH NOW RANK THIRD
Germans Drop Back to Fourth
Place-Novel Study Of
Changes in Drift.

New York has more Russians than
Warsaw, more Italians than Naples and
more foreigners OF all kinds than the
population Of Chicago. Detroit and Bos-
ton combined. In 1860 not half Of the
people of this city will be Of English
speaking blood.
The New York city 1920 census COM
mittee yesterday issued the irst OF
series OF weekly statements designed 10
'.accuaint New yorkers with their own
city" Next June the committee VIII
publish a detailed report Of about 1000
pages giving statistical information, the
like OF which 1t is said never before mas
been attempted in New York
This report Will be made under the
supervision of DR.. Walter Laidlaw. exc
cutive secretary Of the committee. and
will show number OF families. dwellings.
owned dwelling, sex and age classifica-
ton, school attendance, illiteracy, statis-
tics of native, foreign born and Foreign
parentage, whites, negroes and natural
ization figures.
Two Surprising Changes.
DR.. Laidlaw says in part:
THE Russian and Italian elements OF
New York population are now potn
larger than the German and irish eie-
ments at the period of their maximum.
"In 1900 the German element led all
Others with 7S9,66S people. in 1910 1t
was 74S,0S0, in 1920 it fell to 59S.19s.
In 1900 the Russian element was 1885,
c66, In 1910 it had grown to 7b4,05s and
In 1920 mounted to 994,356.
'aThe Russian element in 1920 was
therefore over 100000 larger than the
German element ever has been In the
c:ty's history. Nevertheless, the Rus
sian element was exceeded in increase
from 1910 to 1920 by the Italian. which
grew 257,715 in those ten years, while
the Russian elements growth was 250,-
COL. Both grew. however, beyond the
native whites Of native parents. whose
increase from 1910 to 1920 was but
243,516.
"The italian element OF 1920. number
Ing S02,SsS, exceeds the German element
of 1900 by 1925, and the maximum
Irish element of the same census period
by 1882.
'srhe Austro- Hungarian element. In
cludiilg all immigrants from the former
area OF Austria Hungary, plus their ma
tive born children, increased by 1929
persons from 1910 to 1920. while the
Irish element, in the same ten years.
decreased 6s,005 persons.
'The Austro- Hungarian element In
1920 numbered 603,167, 10000 more than
the German element Of that date and
but slightly below the Irish figures.
Odd Variation I'm Growth.
Northwestern Europeans, that is the
combination of the British, Scandi-
ravian, Dutch. German, French and
Swiss elements. fell off from 1910 to
1920 to the extent OF 205.3S5 persons
while the increase from the rest OF Eu-
rope In the same decade was 73o.342.
Bulgaria and Turkey were the only
areas of Eastern Europe that failed to
increase their representation in New
Yorks population. but there were losses
not only in the Irish element from 1910
Scotch. Welsh. German and Swiss stock.
''The French element increased
1888, the largest increase from north
western Europe, but that gain was eN
ceeded not only by Russia, Italy and
Austra-Hungary, but even by Rumanian
and Greek foreign white stock. The
Greeks increased 200 per cent, the
Spanish $50 per cent. while the French
Increase was but 40 per cent.
THE whole English foreign white
stock numbered in 1920 but 169.393."
Comparative figures taken from the
1910 and 1920 censuses accompany the
statement The northwestern European
element shows loss OF 2o5,3s5 in ten
years, but the southeastern element has
increased 730,342. Russia. Italy and Aus
tria- Hungary being the biggest con-
tributers
New York's foreign population In
1920 in order of size follows: Russia.
9s4,356: Italy, S02.893; ireland, 637.744:
Austria Hungary. 603.167; England and
Wales. 1859: Sweden. s1.1SS: Ru-
mania, 66.s24. Scotland. 51,s31; France,
1921; Norway. 42,ss1, and Greece.
c7,043. Twenty-four other countries
are represented in the city's 5.620.O4s
inhabitants.