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STATISTICAL TABLES REGARDING THE POPULATION AND PARK 

 AREAS OF CERTAIN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Comparative Populations of Four Large American Cities, 1830 to 1903, Inclusive. 



Year. 



New York. 



Chicago. 



Philadelphia. Boston. 



1830 



202,589 



312,710 



515,547 



805,658 



942,292 



1,206,299 



1,515,301 



3,437,202 



3,716,139 



t40 



14,470 



29,963 



109,260 



298,977 



503,185 



1,099,850 



1,698,575 



1,873,880 



161,410 61,392 



1840 



1850 



220,423 93,383 

 340,045 136,881 



1860 



1870 



1880 



569,529 177,840 

 674,022 250,526 

 847,170 362 839 



1890 



1900 



*1903 



1,046,964 

 1,293,697 

 1,367,716 



448,477 

 560,892 

 594,618 



*Pr. ct. increase 

 1840-1903. . . . 





1,088% 



41,754% 



521% 



537% 



(*) Census office basis of computing, i. e., " rests on assumption that the annual increase for each year 

 since the last census will be one-tenth of the decennial increase between the last two censuses." 



(t) Colbert's table (Andreas, Volume I, page 159) gives the estimated population in 1829 as 30, and in 

 1831 as 60. No estimate is made for 1830. The population for 1840 is also from Colbert's table. 



Note. — In the Federal Census of 1850 is a table (page lii, Table XXXIV) of the " Comparative Population 

 of thirty-two of the largest cities in the United States," Chicago is not in the list. On the same page is the com- 

 parative population of " fifty-six other cities and towns" for 1840 and 1850. Chicago is not even listed among 

 the " other cities," although it was incorporated in 1837 and in 1850 had a population (Federal Census page 

 CVIII) of 29,963. The first census taken in Chicago after its incorporation and in the same year (1837) showed 

 a population of 4,170. (Andreas, Vol. I, page 179.) 



Population figures, not otherwise specified, are taken from Federal Census reports. 



Comparative Table for Four American Cities of Park Areas and Their Increase; also Percentages 



of Change of Acreage and Population. 





Acre Area 



of Parks 



1880. 



Acre Area 



of Parks 



1890. 



Acre Area 



of Parks 



1903. 



Increase 

 Acre Area 

 18S0-1903. 



Percentum increase 



Percentum Change. 



CITY. 



Park Area 

 1SS0-1903. 



*Pop«]ation 

 1SS0-1903. 



*N T umber Inhabitants 



to Each Acre of 



Park 1SS0-1903. 



Philadelphia. . . . 



Chicago 



New York 



Boston 



2,819 



2,000 

 1,007.25 

 233 



3,025 

 2,006 

 5,101 

 1,130 



3,503 



3,174 



8,074 



12,878 



684 

 1,174 

 7,066.75 

 12,645 



24.26 



58.70 

 701.25 



5,427 



61.46 

 272.40 

 208.07 



63.88 



Increase 29.93 



134.66 



Decrease 61.57 



97.03 



Totals 



6,059.25 



11,262 



27,629 



21,569.75 



356 



158.68 



43.28 



* Basis. — Census office method computing 1903 population. 



