POPULATION OF CITIES HAVING 25,000 INHABITANTS OR MORE IN 1900. The following statistics, prepared under the direction of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population of the Census Bureau, gives the population of the 159 cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more in 1900, according to the official count of the returns of the Twelfth Census, taken as of June 1. 1900. The 159 cities combined have a population in 1900 of 19,694,625, as compared with a population for the same cities of 14,855,489 in 1890, and of 9,933,927 in 1880. The absolute increase in the population of these cities from 1890 to 1900 was 4,839,136, or 82,426 less than the absolute increase from 1880 to 1890, when it was 4,921,562. The percentage of increase in population of the 159 cities from 1890 to 1900 was 32.5, as against 49.5 from 1880 to 1890. In 1880 there were but twenty cities which contained more than 100,000 inhabitants, but in 1890 this number had increased to twenty-eight, and in 1900 to thirty-eight. In 1900 there are seventy-eight cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more as compared with fifty-eight in 1890 and thirty-five in 1880. The combined population in 1900 of the nineteen cities of the first class is 11,795,809, as against a population in 1890 of 8,879,105, representing an increase during the ten years of 2,916,704, or 32.8 per cent. The same cities showed an increase from 1880 to 1890 of 2,567,452, or 40.6 per cent. The nineteen cities of the first class comprise New-York, which, with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, properly stands by itself; two cities, Chicago and Philadelphia, each of which has a population in excess of 1,000,000; three cities, St. Louis, Boston and Baltimore, which have a population of 500,000 each; five cities, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, which have a population of between 300,000 and 400,000 each; and eight cities, New-Orleans, Detroit, Milwaukee, Washington, Newark, Jersey City, Louisville and Minneapolis, which have a population of between 200,000 and 300,000 each. The nineteen cities of the second class have a combined population in 1900 of 2,412,538, and show an increase of 33.3 per cent from 1890 to 1900, as against an increase of 79.2 per cent from 1880 to 1890. The forty cities of the third class have a combined population in 1900 of 2,709,338, as against a population in 1890 of 2,067,169, which is equivalent to an increase during the decade of 31 per cent, as compared with an increase of 51 per cent during the preceding ten years. The eightyone cities of the fourth class have a combined population in 1900 of 2,776,940, having gained since 1890 676,381 in number, or 32.2 per cent, as against an increase of 68.7 per cent from 1880 to 1890. New-York, N. Y.. 13,437,202 | 2,492,591 St. Louis, Mo..... Philadelphia, Penn 1,293, 697 1,046,964 23.5 Grand Rapids, M'h 37.8 Portland, Ore.. Boston, Mass.. 560,892 575,238 451,770 27.3 Dayton, Ohio... 87,565 60,278 45.2 85,333 Baltimore, Md.... 325,902 321,616 352,387 255,664 448,477 25.0 Richmond, Va.... 508,957 434,439 17.1 Nashville, Tenn.. 381,768 261,353 46.0 Seattle, Wash... 37.8 Hartford, Conn... 61,220 39.3 85,050 81,388 4.4 80,865 76,168 6.1 80,671 42,837 88.3 79,850 53,230 50.0 78,961 58,661 34.6 76,508 61,431 24.5 75,935 58,313 30.2 73,307 57,458 27.5 70,996 48,866 45.2 68,513 55,727 22.9 66,960 48,682 37.5 62,559 44,654 40.0 62,442 40,733 53.2 62,139 50,093 24.0 62,059 44,179 40.4 61,643 40,152 53.5 60,651 60,956 10.5 59,364 43,648 36.0 50,756 16.2 162,608 Denver, Col..... 133,896 21.4 Manchester, N. H. 56,987 44,126 29.1 133,859 106,713 25.4 Utica, N. Y 61.8 Peoria, Ill.. 50,145 36,425 37.6 47,931 32,033 49.6 56,383 44,007 28.1 56,100 41,024 36.7 55,807 54,955 1.5 54,244 43,189 25.5 53,531 44,843 19.3 53,321 37,673 41.5 52,969 33,115 59.9 52,733 40,634 29.7 52,130 37,764 38.0 51,721 37,718 37.1 51,418 38,316 34.1 50,167 39,385 27.3 46,624 34,871 33.7 45,859 28,646 60.0 45,712 35,637 28.2 EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS OF UNITED STATES, JANUARY 1, 1900. (From report of United States Bureau of Education for 1899.) States school lic vate teach- high high penditures. No. of pupils en Total public pub-] pri-| rolled in the public public school ex I schools. THE AMERICAN FLAG OR NATIONAL ENSIGN. The official National ensign contains 45 stars in a blue field, arranged in 6 rowsthe 1st, 3d and 5th rows having 8 stars each, and the others having 7 stars each. The garrison flag of the Army is made of bunting, 36 feet fly and 20 feet hoist; thirteen stripes, and in the upper quarter, next the staff, is the field or "union" of stars, equal to the number of States, on blue field, over one-third length__of the flag, extending to the lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top. The storm flag is 20 feet by 10 feet, and the recruiting flag 9 feet 9 inches by 4 feet 4 inches. The "American Jack" is the "union" of the flag, its name originating with the "union" of the English flag at the blending of St. Andrew's Saltier with St. George's Cross. The "narrow pennant" or "whip" has the union composed of thirteen white stars in horizontal line on a blue field, one-fourth the length of the pennant, the remaining three-fourths of a red and a white stripe, each of the same breadth at any part of the taper, with the red uppermost. The Revenue Marine Service flag, created by Act of Congress, March 2, 1799, was originally prescribed to "consist of sixteen perpendicular stripes, alternate red and white, the union of the ensign bearing the arms of the United States in dark blue on a white field." The sixteen stripes represented the number of States which had been admitted to the Union at that time, and no change has been made since. Prior to 1871 it bore an eagle in the union of the pennant, which was then substituted by thirteen blue stars in a white field, but the eagle and stars are still retained in the flag. June 14, the anniversary of the adoption of the "Stars and Stripes," is celebrated as Flag Day in many of the States, especially by the children of the public schools. 39.343 45,792 132,067,880 30,554,370 53,372,703 21,362 14,430 1.430 14,913 44,845 9,249,547 45,862,023 9,121,867 7,638,360 *The figures under the census of 1900 had not been compiled when The Tribune Almanac went to press. THE ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE. An Ecumenical Conference for the discussion of missions and missionary wark was held in New-York City, beginning on Saturday, April 21, and closing on May 1. The total number of organizations represented was 108, divided as follows: Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States, was honorary president of the conference, which was composed of about 2,000 delegates. Every subject pertaining to the welfare and spread of foreign missionary work was considered, the two leading questions decided being the need for the extension of schools, and the importance of medical knowledge among missionaries. One of the most significant lessons taught by the conference was the amity existing among all Protestant churches in mission work, and the great religious problems were discussed without a note of discord. Norway 1,328 1,152 2,333 3,771 Turkey-in-Asia 4,436 3,962 * United Kingdom... 645,103 48,237 77,419 100,135 Wales 2,844 12,635 West Indies 2,585 4,656 161 237 Cther countries. 2,035 1,530 1,029 1,735 Totals [311,715 448,572 *See United Kingdom. Including Hungary. 1See Russia. 2Including Corsica. |