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ing it fewer than 100,000 in 1910. Dur- 

 ing the decade 14 other cities passed the 

 100,000 mark, making 50 such cities in 

 1910. 



The following table gives the popula- 

 tion and rate of increase of these cities : 



Cities of 100,000 or More. 



City. 



Population. 



rcr Lent < 

 increase 



New York, N. Y 



4,766,883 



39 



Chicago, 111 



. 2,185,283 



29 



Philadelphia, Pa 



St. Louis, Mo 



. 1,549,008 



20 



687.O29 



19 



Boston, Mass 



670,585 



20 



Cleveland, Ohio 



560,663 



47 



1"/ 



Baltimore, Md 



558,485 



10 



Pittsburg, Pa 



533,905 



%j \y \_J ~ jy *j 



18 



Detroit, Mich 



465,766 



63 



Buffalo, N. Y 



423,715 



20 



San Francisco, Cal 



4l6, QI2 



22 



Milwaukee, Wis 



373,857 



31 



Cincinnati, Ohio 



364,46 3 



12 



Newark, N. J 



347,469 



41 



New Orleans, La 



339,075 



18 



Washington, D. C 



331,069 



\J\J 1 ^y 



19 



jy 



Los Angeles, Cal 



Minneapolis, Minn 



319,198 



212 



301,408 



40 



Jersey City, N. J 



267,770 



30 



Kansas City, Mo 



248,38l 



52 



Seattle, Wash 



237,194 



194 



Indianapolis, Ind 



233,650 



38 



Providence, R. I 



224,326 



28 



Louisville, Ky 



223,928 



g 



jy 



Rochester, N. Y 



218,149 



34 



St. Paul, Minn 



214,744 



32 



Denver, Colo 



2I3,38l 



59 



Portland, Oreg 



207,214 



129 



Columbus, Ohio 



l8l,548 



45 



Toledo, Ohio 



168,497 



28 



Atlanta, Ga 



154,839 



72 



Oakland, Cal 



• 150,174 



124 



Worcester, Mass 



145,986 



23 



Syracuse, N. Y 



• 137,249 



27 



New Haven, Conn 



• I33.605 



24 



Birmingham, Ala 



• 132,685 



245 



Memphis, Tenn 



Scranton, Pa 



. 131,105 



28 



129,867 



27 



Richmond, Va 



127,628 



50 



Paterson, N. J 



125,600 



19 



Omaha, Neb 



124,096 



21 



Fall River, Mass 



Davton, Ohio 



. 119,295 



14 



• 1 16,577 



37 



Grand Rapids, Mich... 



112,571 



29 



Nashville, Tenn 



• 110,364 



37 



Lowell, Mass 



106,294 



12 



Cambridge, Mass 



. 104,839 



14 



Spokane, Wash 



104,402 



183 



Bridgeport, Conn 



102,054 



44 



Albany, N. Y 



. 100,253 



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OUR GREATEST CITIES 



New York, our greatest city, has had a 

 phenomenal growth for a great body of 



people. It has increased by nearly two- 

 fifths of its population in 1900. Its in- 

 crease was greater than in the decade 

 preceding, caused, no doubt, by the 

 greatly increased immigration in the last 

 decade, a large proportion of which has 

 remained in the city where it landed. In 

 the past ten years it has added nearly one 

 and one-third millions. 



Its additions alone very nearly equal 

 the combined total population of St. Louis 

 and Boston, respectively the fourth and 

 fifth cities of the country in numbers. 

 The increase of New York equals that of 

 Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, 

 Cleveland, and Detroit. Its population is 

 a million greater than the combined popu- 

 lation of Chicago and Philadelphia, the 

 next largest cities. It contains more than 

 half the population of New York State. 



New York is exceeded in number of 

 inhabitants by London only. As is well 

 known, London is not a city, as the word 

 is understood in this country. It is not a 

 community with well-defined limits, under 

 a single municipal government, but an 

 elastic group of boroughs, some of which 

 are united for one municipal function, 

 others for another ; thus, there is a group 

 of boroughs combined to provide them- 

 selves with a common water supply, 

 another group for police purposes, etc. 

 The largest of these groups, the County 

 of London, had in 1909 a population of 

 7,429,740, or half as many again as New 

 York. 



The third city in size, Paris, is less 

 than three-fifths the size of New , York, 

 and the fourth city, Tokyo, is less than 

 half as large. New York is larger than 

 Berlin and Vienna together. 



Our second city, Chicago, grew by, no 

 means as rapidly in the last decade as in 

 that preceding, nor did it grow as rapidly 

 as New York in the last decade. Still it 

 added nearly 400,000 inhabitants. Phila- 

 delphia, which in recent times has been 

 rather slow in growth, added only one- 

 fifth to its numbers. St. Louis and Bos- 

 ton grew at about the same rate. Cleve- 

 land showed a phenomenal growth, 

 slightly exceeding its rate for the decade 

 1 890- 1900, and raising it from seventh to 



