24 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 2

The Returns of the United States Census, though at present

incomplete, show that, if the oversee possessions are included, the coveted total of a hundred millions has been reached. In 1900 the population of the continental United States was about seventy-five millions, and statisticians anticipated that ten millions would be added by 1910. The greatest increase has

been mainly in the larger towns,—e.g., St. Louis, Pittsburg, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati, which hare grown half-a. million in ten years ; but there has been a. large increase in the newly settled districts. At present it is not ascertainable how much of it is due to immigration, and how much to births of native-born children.