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Show 1 LOS ANGELES AHEAD OF SAN FRANCISCO. jA-jf .. A dispatch from Washington makes this announcement: 1 I Los Angeles has outstripped San Francisco and become the H largest city west of St, Louis during the last ten years, the census bureau announcement of the populations of the two cities tonight M vhows. It also has outgrown Buffalo, tenth largest city in the coun- H ) I i try n -10, as AVe as UAVauee Washington, Newark, Cincinnati , -S and New Orleans. ijT Los Angeles now has a population of 575,480, an increase of jf 1156,410 inhabitants.. Los Angeles' rate of growth was 80.3 per cent 'S compared with Sau Francisco's rate of 21.9 per cent during the ten II years.' L . Announcement of the populations of San Francisco and Los An- I geles, the two largest cities of the western half of the country, left m tmly five of the twenty large'st cities of the United States to be heard , 1 from in the 1920 census. These five are Chicago, Philadelphia, j 3 Cleveland, Detroit and Kansas City, Mo. This news will intesify the rivalry between San Francisco and j I Los Angeles. The papers of San Francisco have been contending f that thir city would have 100,000 more population than the southern I California metropolis. According to the official figures, Los Angeles has 67,000 more j . people than San Francisco. Of that number, 5000 at least are inhab- I itants of Utah, including many hundred from Ogden, who were J ;- J enumerated by the vigilant census takers in the land of hot air. All the hotels of Los Angeles had census boosters during the canvass and they were most persistent recorders of illegal residence. r ' A. woman from Ogden told one of the census takers that her home ; ! was in Utah and she woufd be registered there, bul the man insisted '; in nlacing her on the rolls. 'JL'os' Angeles' population undoubtedly is padded by 67,000 or i . niore- j 1 San Francisco is still to "be: considered as theljohletropolis of the , coast. If its boundaries were extended as are the corporate limits Hj j of Los Angeles, San Francisco would embrace Oakland, Berkeley,-1 f Alameda and the entire bay region. ! Still, discounting Los Angeles' population by 60,000 or more, the j remainder shows a remarkable increase and points to the day not i far distant when Los Angeles will have a million inhabitants. Its j percentage of growth is phenomenal and unequaled by any city of its size. Men of fifty can remember when Los Angeles was almost a bar-' ; n spot. As late as 1884 Los Angeles had enjoyed a small boom and j i had fallen back and disappointed investors were regretting they had j j bought property in a community so unpromising. 1 1 . No one was ever able to discover anything more substantial than M Climate on which Los Angeles has been building and yet the boost- m ers make that article seem more desirable than anything else which jl I men crave and must have. Kj , |