Show Growth of Cities j i The rapid growth of some of our cities since the census of 1880 is shown by the I more recent enunneration ofinh bit nts which has been made For instance five years ago Chicago had a population I I of 503175 it is now over 700000 San I I Francisco had 233959 j the last count gives 315000 The tenth census gave Buffalo 155134 a recent census taken by the police shows that there are 202818 I inhabitants New York haS probably a I million and a half against twelve hundred hun-dred thousand five years ago > and Philadelphia Phila-delphia which had 847170 must number atleast 950000 at present but in tease te-ase of New York and Philadelphia these figures are merely estimated lirwill be seen that Chicago has grown about 40 per cent San Francisco about 3 percent per-cent and Buffalo about 3 per cent in five years |