Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1910, Page 7

SECOND SECTION. THE BEMI z ILY PIONEE CIHNESET S8CIETY, VOLUME 8. NUMBER 245. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY NING, DECEMBER 16, 1910. TEN CENTS PER WEEK ALL STAR ACTS At The Brinkman Tonight L oaaoots d 93,402,151 ON UNGLE Census Does Not Include THE OBERMAUS Present, Trix, a comedy Playlet in one act by W. C- Hoff. “LittleBrown Brothers" of Philippines, Which Would Make the Total 101,100,000. JACK MURREL German Comedian—that little German Band. musical speciality as a one man b.nd is a scream. L et By JAMES A. EDGERTQN. HE population of the United I States is 93,402,151, This in- clzdes Alaska, Porto Rico and Hawaii, but excludes the Phil- His THE HASSMANS Maxvelous Equllibrists. ilppiues, Guam, Samoa and the Pana- ma canal zone. Including the Philip- pines according to the census of 1903+ and an estimate of Guam, Samoa and the canal zone, the population for the Moving Pictures---lmp Tonight nation and its possessions Is 101,100, 000. The population of the United States proper, exclusive of Alaska and the island possesslons, is 92,035,874, We now know how big we are. Hav- ing asked everybody about his birth- place and his wife’s relations, we have undeveloped realty.” We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and quote you prices with easy terms of payment if desired on some of the. best residence and business property in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to ys will bring you full part'cu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad is now running its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji; investigate the oppor- tunities off>red for business on a small or large scale. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. 404 New York Life Building 8T. PAUL MR. RENTER Have you ever stopped to think that every few years you practically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it? Figure it up for yourself. The« dore Roosevelt says: i g0 safe, so sure, 0 certain to enrich its owners as cast up the totals into long and head- achy columms of figures that proclaim to the world our numerical greatness. It is quite a showing—over 90,000,- 000 people for the United States proper, and more than 100,000,000 if we in- clude the United States improper, con- sisting of the little brown brother of the Philippines. [ defy any human being to form even the remotest con- ception of what ninety millions mean, but whatever it is we have it. It is some comforf to kuow that never in human history has a nation grown so rapidly. -Since the republic was founded, a littlc more than a cen- tury ago, we have multiplied our popu- lation by thirty. On an average we bhave doubled our size every twenty- five years. It Senator Hoar was right in declaring that a column of figures could move an American to tears, the whole nation should fairly boo-hoo over the 1910 census. Cities’ Growth Increasing. The one big fact that stands out of the result is that most of the growth In the last decade has been in the citles. Some of the coun districts have actually gona-biekwhidi-=0ne-| agrioultural state, lowa, has shown a decrease. Some of the very small towns and villages Lave shown the same tendency. But the cities from 10,000 upward have almost all ad- vanced, some of them enormously. In “No Investment on earth i MINNESOTA Xmas many useful and acceptable articles to select from for Xmas gift giving, such as, Sealskin Caps Bradley & Phoenix Mufflers Silk Mufflers Fancy Neckwear in Xmas Boxes Wilson Bros. Dress Shirts Sweater Coats Suit cases and Traveling Bags etc. REMEMBER That during this sale we give from one-fourth to one-half off on our en- tire stock of Men’s and Boys’ Suits and Overcoats. - Nothing Reserved . 0. MADSON & CD. ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS - BIG SACRIFICE SALE Still Continues OUR shoppers will here find Silk Handkerchiefs Suspenders Fancy Vests NOW LIVE SAM'S AND e v Cities Show HeavyGrowth h C States ? Corresponding$ Decline. Many Remarkable In- ——eertes the list of the wm-léfs ten largest cities the United States Has three. ‘We have one city exceeding 4,000.000 n population, two exceeding 2,000,000, three exceeding 1,000,000, or four If the environs of Bosten wWere included in that city; eight exceeding 300,000, eighteen . exceeding "800,000, twenty- eight exceeding 200,000 and fifty ex- ceeding 100.000. These-fifty are dis- tributed through = tweiity-six states. New York, - Massachusetts and Ohio each has five; Pennsylvania, Califor- nfa’ and New Jersey. each contains three; Missourd, Michfgan, Minnesota, Connecticut and Fennessee can hoast two each, and ‘the’other fifteen range from Rhode Island’to Oregon. At the head of these forty-nine citles stands, of course, New York, §it the foot Al- bany. 3 Of cities between. 254 and 100,000 there are 175, with the list yet incom- plete. These are ,distributed through thirty-seven. states. |Massachusetts heads the list with twerity; Pennsylva- nia comes next with spventeen; New York follows with sixteen; New Jer- sey and Illinois have eleven each; Ohio has nine: Texas and Iowa.each have eight; Michizan and Wisconsin each boasts seven; California and Connecti- cut each claims five; Indiana, Virginia and Rhode Island each:contains four; Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri and Kan- sas follow with three each, while there | are twelve states with, two each and six with owe each. Of cities below 25,000 the number is legion. In this class the returns as yet are scattering. Smaller Citiés iGrow. On the whole, the smaller citles have grown more rapidly than the larger ones. The rate of increase in those above 100,000 has beén 31.8 per cent. while the showing 1s:39.4 per cent in | those befsyeen 25,000 0.000. - Bix- teen of these smaller citles have more than doubled their population in. the | decade. The largest growths have been that of Oklahoma City, which has the epormous percentage of 539.7 increase to its credit. Muskogee, in the same state, is but little behind. Othér cities in this group. that have trebled or doubled their growth are | Pasadena, Berkeley and San Diego, Cal; Flint, Mich.; Fort Worth, Bl Paso and Dallas, Te: Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla.; Huntington, W Va.; Schenectady, N. Y.; Tacoma. Wash.; Wichita, Kan., and Waterloo Ia. ] The largest growth in cities of over 100,000 is that of Birmingham, Ala., " which increased at the rate of 245.4 per cent. Los Angeles was a close second with 211.3 per cent. Seattle had 194 per cent. Other citles in this class that more than doubled thelr population were Portland, Ore.; Spo- kane, Wash., and Oakland, Cal. Notable gains were also made by Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Atlanta and Richmond. | One most gratifying feature of the returns is the growth of the south, especially of southern cities. Charlotte, N. C.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lynchburg, Va.; Macon, Ga.; Norfolk, Va.; Ports- mouth, Va.; Roanoke, Va.; Shreveport, La., and several other cities, in addi- tion to those already mentioned;, show something of the advance movement in the new south: San Francisco Undaunted. Another pleasing fact is that despite her disastrous earthquake and fire San Francisco has increased from 342,782 in 1900 to 416,912 in 1910. Oakland and Berkeley are.virtually parts of San Francisco, and both have grown prodigiously. If the two be added to the larger city the total population is increased to more than 600,000. More- over, the enormous increase of Los Angeles and- other California cities shows something of the growth that might have taken place in San Fran- cisco had it not been for her disaster. ‘raking the cities ot Los Angeles, Oak- land, Berkeley, Sacramento, San Die- go, San Jose and Pasadena, they show an aggregate increase from 260,252 in 1900 to 653,317 in 1910, or 151 per cent. If San Francisco had enjoyed a like growth she . would "have had in 1910 a total of 860,383 While jt is too much to claim that but for her calamity she might have reached this result, since a large city is not apt to show as great a percent- age of increase as a small one under stmilar conditions, it is entirely within bounds to say that the city beside the Golden Gate would have gone up to a half million or 600,000 but for her disaster.” .The' more force Is lent to this contention by -the fact that some of the increase in other California cities is due to the fugitives from Sah Francisco. ! Boston’s Suburbs Separate. - The Bostonians eclaim that the cen- sus flgures represent only a part of the population of their city, since Bos- ton actually includes Cambridge and a number of other cities that are retarn- ed separately. If there were a greater Boston, as -there 18 a greater New York, her ‘population- would' be 1,206~ -191" instead -<of the. 870.585-now re-- turned. In like manner the Twin Cities in Minnesota can contend that the two are essentially one in all but name and that a true rating can only be given them by consolidation. Thus if Min- ‘neapolis and St. Paul were combined we should have 516,152, ranking as the ninth city in the country. There are many other cities that would considerably augment their pop- ulatioh by a little expansion. The case of San I'rancisco, Oakland and Berke- ley has already been mentioned. Like- wise Omaha and South Omaha prac- tically constitute ope-city. If:the two were joined together they would have 150,097 instead of the 124,096 given to Omaha now. The cities in northern New Jersey would be most affected by consolidation, however. Thus Eliza- beth, the Oranges and several smaller villages contiguous to Newark would give the' metropolis of, New Jersey more than bhalf a millfon. Bayonne, Hoboken, West Hoboken and several other towns are really a continuation of Jersey City. If these were added the total population would run a close second to the greater Newark. State Lines Retard Tothls. All the expansions mentioned could be readily made, since the cities to be consolidated are in the same states. There are a number of cases, however, where state lines Intervene. .Notable among these are Kansas Clty, Mo, and Kansas City, Kan, Omaha, Neb., and ‘Council Bluffs, Ia., furnish an- other case in point, and so do St Louis, Mo.,, and East St. Louis, Il Then there are Cincinnati, O., and Covington, Ky.; also Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N. J. Chicago would also gain enormously by adding contiguous Indiana territory. i The most conspicuous case of the sort, however, is that of New York and the cluster of cities and villages In northern New Jersey. For twenty or thirty miles, or even more, men commute daily from New Jersey into New York. In business interests and In all other ways, except that of resi- dence, they are as much New Yorkers as those living on Manhattan Island. All north Jersey is practically becom- ing one solid city, made up for the most part of commuters. The tunnels under the Hudson river are rapidly adding to this class. It is a conservative claim that there are at least 1,000,000 of these Jerseyites who really belog to the great city, and some estimates have put the number. considerably higher. . Within the fifteen mile radius of New York are to be found ten New iCfilfi_IhuEd flltl’l‘[e 8] FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beltrami Ave. Phone 319-2 LIEGLER & IIEGLER CO. “THE LAND MEN" "INSURANCE FIRE = LIFE = ACCIDENT Real Estate in All lts Branches FARM LANDS BOUGHT AND SOLD Go to Them for Quick Action Office--Schroeder Building _FOR THE GENTLEMAN 'SHAVING OUTFITS FOR THE LADY Hudson's New York Pipes Bon Bons Smoker’s Supplies Palmer’s Perfumes Cigar and Tobacco Jars and Toilet Aricles Humidors 25¢ to $5.00 Cigars in Xmas pkgs. .. We can" think of no_better or more acceptable gift than Palmer's perfumes. In the ure to make suitable selections first ‘place there is no better to for Christmas gifts for men. be had anywhere. It will Of course he'll want cigars. satisfy the recipient as well 28 You could please him with the giver. Step in and look nothing better than one of our over this line. Christmas packages. The, New CGity Drug Store ( Where |Quality Prevails) 309 Beltrami Ave.] Phone 52 Santa Claus Headquarters| This store is now ready to demon- Brass Craft Pyrography strate to you its usefulness in providing you unmatchable goods for your Holi- day gifts. Many people have made it a practice Post Gard Albums Cards of doing their Christmas buying at this Stationery Novelties store for 5 years and they claim it is to their advantage to do so. The time of every holiday buyer will be well spent in’looking through our Seals, Tags Christmas Boxes bright, new selectipn of up-to-date gifts. Our Dinnerware Can not be equaled in quality, quan- ity and prices. 100 piece Haviland ... . 100 piece Austrian $21.30 and $25.00 100 piece Homer Laughlin $13.50 and $15 _Glfls for Parens Muslin, Lingn, Paper, Books Algers, Meades, ‘Holmes & Snutlwwnhs Gifts for Grandma and Grandp_a' ' Coods Delivered Gifi_s for Lady Friends Y, GED U0 oD o0 GNP A A 2 AED s Useful gifts in the fancy -china Bon Bon’s, Salads, Cakes, Sugar & Creams, Celery and Spoon Trays. - | Iron, Musical, | “Electrical and | Mechanical Toys Blocks and Games . 33400 ‘ Gifts for Children “Gifts for Gentlemen Frignds r TORICAL Women will'find it'a pleas: