Show RATING OF CITIES investigation shows their good and bad qualities portland ore college professor publishes the result of exhaustive inquiry he has recently made into the subject comparisons are odious but did you know that seattle wash Is the best large city in the united states and birmingham ala the worst asks a writer in the new york independent S such uca h 1 Is 9 1 indeed n the case for no less R an n authority ut h or 1 than an the professor of sociology at reed heed college portland ore has just directed a statistical inquiry into the 80 86 largest cities of the united states and finds this to be the case he divides the subjects by which the cities are to be judged into 18 categories gories and finds that all the western cities are in the first quarter the southern cities in the last quarter and the east betwixt and between As to separate categories seattle pays the highest wages per hour charleston S 0 the lowest the cost of living Is lowest in minneapolis nea polls highest in birmingham the death rate Is lowest in seattle highest in charleston tile the proportion of population married Is highest in cleveland lowest in san francisco louisville leads the list in church membership portland ore foots it minneapolis has tile the lowest percentage of child labor atlanta the highest providence liar hag the largest park area per inhabitant atlanta the smallest baltimore Is the best paved city salt lake hake city the worst the destruction by fire Is less in baltimore and more in birmingham than elsewhere new york city oas the most valuable I 1 public properties per inhabitant birmingham the least more people draw books out of the public library in cincinnati and fewer in birmingham than elsewhere As might be expected boston has the best school attendance charleston has the worst 1 I kansas city lias has tile the most school i property per child attendance jack conville the least new york pays the public school teachers the most jacksonville the least in the lowest number of pupils per teacher los angeles leads atlanta brings up the rear seattle Is the roost most literate city charleston the most illiterate jacksonville lias has the fewest foreign born people unable to speak english milwaukee the most here they all are in their proper order seattle salt lake anke city denver los angeles washington portland ore minneapolis cincinnati san francisco st paul cleveland boston buffalo st louis kansas city milwaukee newark new york pittsburgh chicago indianapolis louisville detroit springfield new haven pill philadelphia lade phia baltimore memphis providence dence new orleans scranton jacksonville atlanta charleston birmingham |