Show ault 1 I detroit with a numerical increase and rate ol oi growth larger cagos and adi akeo second lid only to now yorks i during the I 1 last a st ten tell Y years aaa Is now fourth ka largest agest city ot of the country 1 displacing st luta louis andrut and out ra ranking boston cleveland baltimore and pittsburgh all of which wore were larger than the tha michigan city I 1 tea sit years ago oits lation botlon announced Is an aa ln in trea soot or 1134 per cent detroit la is the f 1001 or more whlor ha ilmore Amore than doubled its ita population in the sUen jea bears years cleveland also with a largan creage re age has outstripped ad booten and jappa aks tank as fifth lart mt t city ot of the united stat states ea the tha city has the tha fifth largest numer cal increase ot of auy any municipality city in ne he country during the tha av as tt f ears announcement ot of the lona dong ot of cleveland and detroit the df jenatte laite ranking ol of the count rya larges oft cities leshaa baa dished now new york and chicago remain first and second largest cities respectively philadelphian Phila delphias the tha ony ay iy one of the eighteen whose 1920 copulation has not been put it la Is not likely that the pennsylvania vallia cites rank as third largest in the country will be clanged detroit has jumped into fourth plue place and ad cleveland into fifth position arcing st louis into sixth boston into nto seventh ee baltimore into eighth I 1 ind I 1 nd pittsburgh ind ninth places pisces ilos los Ange angeles ies witha with a large rate of at growth advanced advanced from seventeenth ed lo 10 tenth and displaced buffalo as well aa attaining the honor of being the che largest city west wait of stlouis st louia Louls aan francisco remained rank and buffalo dropped from tenth to while milwaukee was waa forced into thirteenth place philadelphia third philadelphian Phila delphias population was announced by the census bureau ad aa showing th atthe count coulat rys third hird most populous city had maintained during the last ten years yeara the steady rate of growth it has had bince the forat federal census in 1790 the numerical increase tor for the ten years was theisac ond largest ot of any decade in ia the flys allys history surpassing that of the on en years yeara ending with 1910 by al philadelphian Phila delphias percentage of increase was which was slightly tower than the rate made by new york in the same period the national metropolis having shown per ent compared with the rate tor for the decade 1900 1910 philadel chias percentage of increase tor for the last ten years yeara was 2 per cent less which has hag rallied ran rank lied ed as aa third most populous city of the country since 1890 has shown a substantial growth in population during every decade since the first federal census was taken in 1790 the first census showed philadelphia ranking as second city of the country with less inhabitants than new york the largest city with a total population lalon ion of philadelphian Phila delphias population passed the mark with the 1850 1360 census the mark in 1860 the million mark in 1890 and in 1910 was rochester N Y the twenty fifth largest city ten years ago had an increase larger both numerically and relatively than ten years ago its total population being its numerical the largest in its history while its rel etive growth showed increase of 14 per cent over that of ten years ago the rate for the last decade being per cent roche Ro chesters aters increase ranks it above louisville and between jersey city and portland ore until the populations of kansas city mo and providence R I 1 have been announced noun ced the rank of rochester and other other cities of its size cannot be do doi i ter mined preliminary population figures issued by the census bureau include Inci include ude mount vernon ill III 1920 population increase since 1910 1808 or per cent chattanooga okla 1920 population population increase since 1910 36 or 76 per cent i king fisher okla 1920 population 2447 decrease since 1910 91 or 36 per cent denson benson blinn 1920 population lion 2111 increase since 1910 or 59 per cent Wash washougal wash 1820 1920 population increase since 1910 or per cent bluefield W va increase or per cent beverly mass increase 3 11 orlo per cent 0 |