Eureka Reporter | 1905-12-01 | Page 5 | Native New Yorkers Scarce

NATIVE NEW YORKERS SCARCE about one out of every ten in the city population now that thirty emergency census takers finished the tall end of their work a few days ago we may soon have light on an interesting question that this enumeration will throw some tight upon out of gotham a 4 souls how many are actual new york ers persons born in this city tak ing the last federal census as a criter ion there Is about one native born new yorker out of every ten in still even this small balm to knickerbocker families per sons has to be greatly reduced for in it Is included every person of whom no actual knowledge could be obtained of whom the haste of the census tempted to throw under this general heading amateur statisticians have decided that there are about citizens of new york who have been born of parents natives of this coun try these delvers in the census re suits are of the opinion that the qualification were that both their par ants were natives of this country not more than 5 persons could as new yorkers of the second ameri can generation children of parents who were born abroad numbered 1 in the last federal census there were then more than americans here who were born in oth er states new york state leading with a contribution of and new jer sey following with 56 36 were born in pennsylvania in mass achu while 22 a campara large number were born in virginia therefore the descendants of the knickerbockers are out numbered in population if not in money and real estate