Present Population of the United States.

(JANUARY 1, 1907.)

ACCORDING TO ESTIMATES MADE FOR THE WORLD ALMANAC BY THE GOVERNORS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES.

THE Governors were requested to make estimates of the present population of their respective States and Territories for the THE WORLD ALMANAC for 1907. Where the executives failed to respond in time the estimates were made by other State officials, as indicated in the table.

(a) Based upon School Census. (b) By the Secretary of the Board of District Commissioners. (c) By the State Census of 1905. (d) By Labor Bureau of Statistics. For the Indian Territory, for which a separate census has been made, 450,000 may be added.

The above summary shows that of the 21,329,819 males of voting age in 1900. 19,002,279, or 89.1 per cent. were literate, and 2,327,540, or 10.9 per cent., were illiterate. By illiterate" is meant all persons who can neither read nor write, or who can read but not write. There is a very large percentage of illiterates among each of the several classes of colored males of voting age, and a considerable proportion also among foreign white males of voting age. Of the two classes of native white males of voting age much the larger proportion of illiterates is found among those of native parentage, 5.8 per cent.of this class of voters being illiterate as compared with 2 per cent. for native white males of voting age who are of foreign parentage.

Occupations in the United States.

NUMBER OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN PRINCIPAL SPECIFIED OCCUPATIONS.

Ratio of Urban to Total Population: 1900-31.1 per cent. ; 1890-29.1 per cent. ; 1860-16. 1 per cent.; 1850-12.5 per cent.; 1820-4.9 per cent.; 1790-3.4 per cent.

CENTRE OF POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

18 miles west of Baltimore, Md.

40 miles northwest by west of Washington, D. C...........

POSITION OF CENTRE OF POPULATION.

DATE.

N.Latitude W. Longitud

Approximate Location by Important Towns.

O 1790 39 16.5 1800 39 16. 1 1810 39 11.5 1820 39 5.7 1830 38 57.9 1840 39 2.0 1850 38 59.0 1860 39 0.4 1870 39 12.0 1880 39 4.1 1890 39 11.9 1900 39 9.5

76 56.5

77 37.2

78 33.0

16 miles north of Woodstock, Va..

80 18.0

81 19.0
82 48.8
83 35.7
84 39.7
85 32.9

48 miles east by north of Cincinnati, Ohio.

79 16.9

19 miles W.S. W. of Moorefield, in the present State of W. Va
16 miles south of Clarksburg, in the present State of W.Va.
23 miles S. E. of Parkersburg, in the present State of W. Va.
20 miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio.

8 miles west by south of Cincinnati, Ohio.
20 miles east of Columbus, Ind.....

85 48.9 6 miles southeast of Columbus, Ind.

Total.......

This table was prepared by the Census Office. The centre of the negro population in 1890 was near Rome, Ga., and was travelling Gulfward.

The centre of area of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii and other recent accessions, is in Northern Kansas, in approximate latitude 39° 55', and approximate longitude 980 50. The centre of population is therefore about three-fourths of a degree south and more than thirteen degrees east of the centre of area.

RANK OF STATES ACCORDING TO POPULATION.

National Municipal and Civic Organizations.

NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.

President-Charles J. Bonaparte, Baltimore, Md. First Vice-President-Charles Richardson, Philadelphia. Second Vice-President-Thomas N. Strong, Portland, Ore. Third Vice-President-H. Dickson Bruno, New Orleans, La. Fourth Vice-President-Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. Fifth Vice-President-Albert Bushnell Hart, Cambridge, Mass. Secretary-Clinton Rogers Woodruff, 121 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Treasurer-George Burnham, Jr., Philadelphia. Executive Committee-Chairman, Horace E. Deming, New York; Harry A. Garfield, Princeton; Oliver McClintock, Pittsburgh, Pa.; William G. Low, Brooklyn; George B. Hatch, New York; W. T. Denison, New York; Dudley Tibbets, Troy; John A. Butler, Milwaukee; George W. Guthrie, Pittsburgh; W. P. Bancroft, Wilmington, Del.; Harry B. French, Philadelphia; Robert W. De Forest, New York; George Haven Putnam, New York; J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg: Elliot Hunt Pendleton, Cincinnati; L. E. Holden, Cleveland; J. L. Hudson, Detroit; Henry L. McCune, Kansas City; W. S. Parkerson, New Orleans, La.; Frank J. Symmes. San Francisco: Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Boston; Harvey S. Chase, Boston; Clarence L. Harper, Philadelphia; Vance C. McCormick, Harrisburg; H. D. W. English, Pittsburgh; W. H. Buckler, Baltimore; H. B. F. Macfarland, Washington; Frederic C. Howe, Cleveland; Lessing Rosenthal, Chicago; David P. Jones, Minneapolis; Frank N. Hartwell, Louisville; E. C. Kontz, Atlanta; James H. Causey, Denver, and the officers. The League is composed of associations formed in cities of the United States, and having as an object the improvement of municipal government. It has no connection with State or national parties or issues, and confines itself strictly to municipal affairs. Any association belonging to the League may withdraw at any time.

LEAGUE OF AMERICAN MUNICIPALITIES.

President-Edward F. Dunne, Chicago, First Vice-President-G. M. Hine, Poughkeepsie. Second Vice-President J. E. McCaferty, Wilmington, Del. Third Vice-President--L. A. Lapointe, Montreal, Can. Fourth Vice-President--Silas Cook, East St. Louis, Ill. Secretary- Treasurer-John MacVicar, Des Moines. Trustees-M. A. Brouse, Kokomo, Ind.; Louis Betz, St. Paul; D. E. Hineman, Detroit; C. O. Lobeck, Omaha; E. F. Brush, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Wm. J. Hosey, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Hugo Grosses, Chicago.

The objects of the League of American Municipalities are as follows-The general improvement and facilitation of every branch of municipal administration by the following means: First-The perpetuation of the organization as an agency for the co-operation of American cities in the practical study of all questions pertaining to municipal administration. Second-The holding of annual conventions for the discussion of contemporaneous municipal affairs. Third-The establishment and maintenance of a central bureau of information for the collection, compilation, and dissemination of statistics, reports, and all kinds of information relative to municipal government. The membership of the League includes nearly all of the important cities in this country and Canada.

NATIONAL COOD ROADS ASSOCIATION.

President-W. H. Moore, St. Louis, Mo. Secretary-Arthur E. Jackson, Damariscotta, Me., with vice-presidents representing each State and Territory. This Association was organized by delegates from thirty-eight States in national convention at Chicago, November 21, 1900, and an extensive campaign for good roads all over the Union is in progress.

AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
Secretary-

-North

President-J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. American Building, Philadelphia. Vice-Presidents-Clinton Rogers Woodruff, New York; L. E. Holden, Cleveland; James D. Phelan, San Francisco. Department Vice-Presidents-Woman's Outdoor Art League, Mrs. E. F. Moneton: Public Recreation, Joseph Lee, Boston; Arts and Crafts, Mrs. M. F. Johnston, Richmond, Ind.; City Making, Frederick L. Ford, Hartford; Libraries,

; Outdoor Art, Warren H. Manning, Boston; Factory Betterment, Miss Gertrude Beeks, New York; Children's Gardens, Miss Mary M. Butler; Parks and Public Reservations, Alfred C. Clas, Milwaukee; Public Nuisances, Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass.; Railroad Improvements, Mrs. A. E. McCrea, Chicago; Rural Improvements, D. Ward King, Mo.; School Extension, O.J. Kern, Rockford, Ill.; Settlements, Graham Remeyn Tayler, Chicago; Press, Harvey M. Watts, Philadelphia. Treasurer-William B. Howland, New York.

The American Civic Association was formed by merger of the American League for Civic Improvement and the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, June 10, 1904. The scope of the activities of the Association is a campaign of organization and propaganda, including the provision of lecturers, lantern slides, literature, and expert services. The range of interests served by the departments of the Association, which include leading authorities, is indicated by the following list: Arts and crafts, civic church, libraries and museums, municipal art, municipal reform, parks (outdoor art), preservation of nature (including forestry), public nuisances (smoke, advertising, etc.), public recreation (gymnasiums, playgrounds, baths, etc.), rural improvement (roads, schools, churches, homes), sanitation, school extension (free lectures, vacation schools, parents' associations, etc.), social settlements, village improvement. Correspondence should be addressed to 703-707 North American Building, Philadelphia.

SOCIETY OF BUILDING COMMISSIONERS AND INSPECTORS. President-G. U. Heimburger, Commissioner of Buildings, St. Louis. Secretary-F. W. Fitzpatrick, 4200 Fourteenth Street Road, Washington, D. C. The International Society of State and Municipal Building Commissioners and Inspectors is organized by the building inspectors of the cities of the United States and Canada to promote "the improvement of building methods; the revision and perfecting of building ordinances and securing their more thorough enforcement; the lessening of our appalling fire losses; mutual assistance, the interchange of ideas, and the binding in closer union of the building bureaus of the several cities with the view of ultimate uniformity of building laws."

INTERNATIONAL REFORM BUREAU.

International Reform Bureau, 206 Pennsylvania Avenue, S. E., Washington, D. C. PresidentRev. J. G. Butler, D. D. Superintendent and Treasurer-Dr. Wilbur F.Crafts. Devoted to the repression of intemperance, impurity, Sabbath-breaking, gambling, and kindred evils, by lectures, letters, legislation and literature. The Bureau has drawn twelve laws that have passed Congress,

*As reported by the U. 8. Census Office. Unincorporated towns and townships were not considered. For population of some of the cities included in this list in 1905, gan page All.