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LARGEST CITIES OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO POPULATION
Rank
London 1
New York 2
Paris 3
Chicago 4
Berlin 5
Tokio 6
Vienna 7
Petrograd 8
Philadelphia 9
Moscow 10
Buenos Ayres 11
Constantinople 12
INCREASE IN POPULATION OF OUR GREAT CITIES—
NATIONAL CENSUS
City Population Rank
1910 1900 1890 1910 1900 1890
New York 4,766,883 3,437,202 1,515,301 1 1 1
Chicago 2,185,283 1,698,575 1,099,850 2 2 2
Philadelphia 1,549,008 1,293,697 1,046,964 3 3 3
St. Louis 687,029 575,238 451,770 4 4 5
Boston 670,585 560,892 448,477 5 5 6
Cleveland 560,663 381,768 261,353 6 7 10
Baltimore 558,485 508,957 434,439 7 6 7
Pittsburgh 533,905 321,616 238,617 8 11 13
Detroit 465,766 285,704 205,876 9 13 15
Buffalo 423,715 352,387 255,664 10 8 11
San Francisco 416,912 342,782 298,997 11 9 8
Milwaukee 373,857 285,315 204,468 12 14 16
Cincinnati 363,591 325,902 296,908 13 10 9
Newark 347,469 246,070 181,830 14 16 17
New Orleans 339,075 287,104 242,039 15 12 12
Washington 331,069 278,718 230,392 16 15 14

THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION OF OUR GREAT CITIES
City Leading Countries of Birth of
Foreign-Born Population—1910
First Second
Baltimore Germany Russia
Boston Ireland Canada
Buffalo Germany Canada
Chicago Germany Austria
Cincinnati Germany Hungary
Cleveland Austria Germany
Detroit Germany Canada
Jersey City Germany Ireland
Los Angeles Germany Canada
Milwaukee Germany Russia
Minneapolis Sweden Norway
New Orleans Italy Germany
New York Russia Italy
Newark Germany Russia
Philadelphia Russia Ireland
Pittsburgh Germany Russia
St. Louis Germany Russia
San Francisco Germany Ireland
Washington Ireland Germany
SHORTEST RAILWAY TRAVEL—DISTANCE FROM NEW YORK CITY
San Francisco 3182 miles
New Orleans 1344 miles
St. Louis 1059 miles
Chicago 908 miles
Detroit 690 miles
Cleveland 576 miles
Pittsburgh 441 miles
Buffalo 439 miles
Boston 235 miles
Washington, D.C. 226 miles
Baltimore 186 miles
Philadelphia 92 miles
SHORTEST RAILWAY TRAVEL—DISTANCE FROM CHICAGO
San Francisco 2274 miles
Boston 1021 miles
New Orleans 923 miles
New York 908 miles
Philadelphia 818 miles
Baltimore 797 miles
Washington, D.C. 787 miles
Buffalo 523 miles
Pittsburgh 468 miles
Cleveland 339 miles
St. Louis 286 miles
Detroit 272 miles
TO WHOM WE SELL THE MOST
The Amount for 1914
Great Britain $594,271,863
Germany $344,794,276
Canada $344,716,981
France $159,818,924
Netherlands $112,215,673
Italy $74,235,012
Cuba $68,884,428
Belgium $61,219,894
Japan $51,205,520
Argentina $45,179,089
Mexico $38,748,793

FROM WHOM WE BUY THE MOST
The Amount for 1914
Great Britain $293,661,304
Germany $189,919,136
Canada $160,689,709
France $141,446,252
Cuba $131,303,794
Japan $107,355,897
Brazil $101,303,794
Mexico $92,690,566
British India $73,630,880
Italy $56,407,671


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