Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star


Fifty years ago the population Of the
District, as enumerated in the census
M n:.4;.1. that had just been
4A0 Olstrlcts taken, was announced
ponnlo+;ou as approximately no.
1"'loA' 900 In The Star Of
July 20, 1880:
THE census returns OF the District
Of Columbia have not yet been SUM-
GENTLY tahulated to bring out all the
interesting and useful facts intended to
be shown by these decennial accounts
OF national stock, nor to enable com@
PARSONS to be made between the results
OF this years enumeration with those
OF previous years. But so far as merely
concerned. that work has been done and
figures now. arrived at are believed to
be correct, or at least as nearly SO as
such statistics can be made.
The ofncial figures show the popu-
lation of washington, technically con-
sidere1-that Is, within the actual old
established limits Of the city proper and
what was formerly Georgetown-to be
however ali that part y tSe saSdeS
Of the city living beyond Boundary
street, but which belongs to it, to all
intentS and purposes, as much as If 1t
was located In the grounds which now
constitute the park around the Capitol.
Uniontown and the other settlements
lying on the other side of the Anacostia
are not included in this count. Neither
are LIE Droit Park nor the thickly set
tied localities along the extensions of
Four and-a-Half, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth streets, between
Boundary street and Fourteenth street
and Soldiers Home road. Mount Pleas
an Is likewise excluded, and also the
settlements on the hill including and
adjacent TO the grounds OF Columbian
College.
"These points are separated from the
old corporation limits Of WASHINGTON
by an Imaginary line, It Is true; but the
people living there are just as much q
part Of the population Of the city as
center; and In truth and Justice they
should be counted and considered SUCH
In any statements, official or otherwise,
which pretends to show the number of
It's Inhabitants. That these outgrowths
or overflow of the city include at least
half the population of the District ly-
ing outside the technical limits of
Washington we presume nobody would
doubt. The population of that territory
is shown by the official figures to be
1890. Take half of this number and
the city within the old limits and we
have total of 169, 456, or, say in round
figures, 10000 as the actual population
as it stands today"
AS matter of fact. IL the population
of the city Of Washington as then de-
fined was 161, Ill and the complete
enumeration Of the areas within the
District outside Of the city limits was
1880. ther, the true District population
was 187,601. There was no reason for
halving the suburban population to
count.
Il X
1.-THE wickedest man in New York"
says The Star of July 81, 1880, was
ar, r,.-. extenaively written up
Mud-Sl1nging several years ago, but
ramno;~u he was saint In COM
campaign parison with either
Hancock or Garfield, If the truth is told
of these two candidates in the political
papers. It seems that these gentlemen
have been, all their lives, engaged In
rivalry with each other in the doing of
wicked deeds. Nobody
knew what schemes, conspiraciesl and
villanieS they were engaged in until
they were nominated for office. Even
their respective parents were deceived
by an outward show OF good behavior
into the belief that they had raised
very good boys.
"But when it was proposed to have
either Hancock or Garfield for Presi-
dent, the party organs felt called upon
to perform the painful duty of exposing
the true characters CT the two gentle
rnent. and now it Is plain, from the
organ point of view, that they are de-
cidedly the worst men this country has
ever produced.
Hancock Is seriously charged by Re-
publican papers with having lent his |
name and influence to a fraudulent oil |
for the purpose Of swindling
bis friends. Democratic papers, not to
be outdone, retort that Garfield went
among church people in Chicago and
sold shares in oil lands In Ohio which |
had no existence. At the rate of prog |
ress they are now making the organs !,
viii fix all the black deeds of the past |
twenty-five years upon Garfield and !
long before the day of cleo |
ton. It has not yet been determined |
which of the two candidates abducted |
Charlie Ross, but the party papers will ]
probably next give their attention to
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