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become Miller; the Polish family name Kienzynski has become 

 Kirsh: the Polish Christian name Kalada is Clara: Wladisiaw 

 is Walter; Aniello, Nellie; and Michaelo. Mike, etc. These 

 changes take place in the mills, in the offices, in the shops, where- 

 ever the immigrants come in contact with Americans — even in 

 the public schools. Great inconvenience is often caused by such 

 changes. For example, a man whose name is Majerski had no 

 little difficulty in proving his right to an inheritance in his native 

 country because a clerk in the mills was too hurried to get his 

 name correct and the man himself too indifferent to insist that 

 Majerski and Morris are not the same! 



The population of Gary has grown so fast that United States 

 Census figures for the year 1910 cannot be taken as a basis of a 

 study of the same population in 1913, 1914. 1915. or 1916. In the 

 absence of accurate data for these years, however, some profit 

 can be obtained from a study of the census figures of 1910. Census 

 figures are also unsatisfactory in the matter of race and nation- 

 ality for they are based on country of birth and not on race and 

 nationality, the disparity in the figures for which has been dis- 

 cussed above. 



In the United States Census for 1910 for the population of 

 Gary, information is given as to the total number of population 

 and rate of growth: color and nativity; country of birth of the 

 foreign born and country of birth of the parents of the native 

 born of foreign parentage; sex; age groups 6 to 14. 6 to 20. 

 and males 21 years of age and over: illiteracy; school attendance 

 by ages ; a ad dwellings and families. In this introductory survey 

 of the general population of Gary, this outline is followed in 

 general. Figures obtainable from any other source and for any 

 other years have be?n made use of. Wherever possible, com- 

 parisons have been made with the population of the state of 

 Indiana and of the United States. 



It is difficult to get correct figures for the population of Gary 

 for any years except 1906, the year it was incorporated, in the 

 beginning of which the population was nothing, and the year 

 1910 when the United States census figures were taken, in which 

 year the population is 16,802. The population increased from 

 nothing to 16,802 in four years. A knowledge of the growth of 

 the industries and the development of the town since 1910 leads 

 to the conclusion that a study of the population in 1914. 1915, 

 1916 cannot be based on figures for 1910. 



