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Show NATIVE NEW YORKERS SCARCE. Ahout One Out of Every Ten In tho City Population. , Now that thirty "emergency" census takers finished tho tall end of their work a few days Jngo wo may soon havollght on anlnterestlng question thnt this enumeration will throw somr light upon. Out of Gotham's 4,000,000 souls how many, aro actual New Yorkerspersons York-erspersons born In this cltyV Taking Tak-ing the last federal census as a criterion criter-ion there Is about one "natlvo born New Yorker out of every ten In population. popu-lation. Still, even this small balm to Knickerbocker families 390,000 pe-sons pe-sons has to bo greatly reduced, for -In It Is Included every person of whom no actual knowledge could bo obtained of whom the hnBto of tho census tempted to tlnow under this genera' heading. Amateur statisticians hn decided that there ore about 120,00n citizens of New York who havo been born of uarcnts natives of this coun try. Tlieso delvers In the census results re-sults nre of tho opinion that If the qualification were thnt both their par cnts were natives of this country not more than 5,000 persons could qunllfj ns New Yorkers of tho second Amerl can generation. Children of parents who were torn abroad numbered 1 375,000 In the last federal census. There were then more than 100,000 Americans hero who were born In other oth-er slates, New York sta'.o lending with n contribution of l2o,Q00 and New Jer soy following with Ijfi.OOO; 3C.O00 wore born In Pennsylvania, 25,000 In Mass achusotts, while 22,000 a comparatively compara-tively largo number wero born In Vlrglnln. Thereforo tho descendants of the Knickerbockers aro wofully outnumbered out-numbered In population If not In money nud real estate. |