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Indiana University Studies 



4. NATIONALITY BY NUMBER AND PER CENT OF THE TOTAL 

 POPULATION IN GARY IN 1908 18 



Number 



Per Cent 



Slovenians 

 Hungarians . . . 



Croatians 



Bohemians . . . 



Servians 



Montenegrins . 



Turks.... 



Macedonians.. 

 Armenians 



Greeks 



Russians 



Poles 



Germans 



Belgians 



French 



Norwegians . . . 



Swedes 



Danes 



Finns 



Italians 



Japanese 



Negroes 



Welsh 



Jews 



Irish 



Scotch 



English 



Canadians .... 

 Americans .... 



300 



2.9 



325 



3.2 



950 



9.3 



125 



1.2 



1,000 



9.8 



375 



3.7 



40 



0.4 



100 



1.0 



25 



0.2 



40 



0.4 



150 



1.5 



1,100 



10.7 



150 



1.5 



15 



0.1 



6 



0.1 



75 



0.7 



125 



1.2 



15 



0.1 



20 



0.2 



350 



3.4 



10 



0.1 



250 



2.4 



50 



0.5 



150 



1.5 



4,500 



43.9 



Total 



10,246 



Table 5 shows the proportion of sexes by number and per 

 cent in Gary, in Indiana, and in the United States in 1910 by 

 color. There is a much greater proportion of males in the popu- 

 lation of Gary than in either the state of Indiana or the United 

 States, because of the very large proportion of immigrants among 

 whom the proportion of males is always very high. 19 In the 

 negro population the proportion of males is greater than of females 

 but does not show such wide difference as in the white population. 

 Aside from the number of immigrants as an explanation of the 

 greater proportion of males in the Gary population is the fact 

 of the newness of the city. For among the native born Americans 



""Satellite Cities", Graham Romeyn Taylor, Survey 29: 

 Gary Land Company. 



"U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, p. 248; Vol. II, pp. 549-568. 



196. Table made by 



