Show cosmopolitan NEW YORK CITY aheady dy Ii iliria iria la im of native american amerlean a the cosmopolitan character of the population of new york city la is admitted by all and has baa frequently been commented upon considering the con betant great inflow ot immigration it Is ili impossible that the people could be otherwise than very mixed banding that li however oever the last census shows that there Is at same time a steady increase in creise in the percentage of 0 native Am amerlean Ameil eilean can population pop popi lation when the census of 1890 was taken the broj est of a greater new york wai yet under discussion ahe I 1 he total population of what lg Is now the giester new york ra was thou then in round figures 2460 2 efio the number of native nathe born inhabitants being 1620 and of foreign boi bom n inhabitants rhe fhe percentage of foi eign born inhabitants was 38 20 by the new census figures just published the population of new york city 3 and Is thus divided native born inhabitants and for eign born inhabitants 1270 the born population of new york city his bis increased in ten years and tile tiie native horn born population in the same period has inci ease eased nearly marly twice as much the percentage of foreign born inhabitants in 1900 was ag 95 or one and a quarter per cent less lesa than in 1900 ten tea bears cars ago there were vere 65 russians in new york now there are arc ia bog a gain of ten years ago there were italians in new york and now there are those of other nationalities increased luring during the decade as follows poles from 0 to 32 hungarians Hung Ilung arians from 13 to swed swedes s and norwegians Norwegia ns from 23 to 40 bohemians Bohem ians from 8 to 15 and chinese from 2800 to germans now form the largest foreign born element clement in the city the english scotch and french again did not increase their numbers during the decade while the proportion of irish wa was 8 actually less in 1900 than in 1890 during the decade new colonies were formed of canadians Roum anians and syrians |