COUNTIES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR 1 As Tryon; changed April 2, 1784. As Charlotte; changed April 2, 1784. • Parts of Montgomery, Herkimer and Oneida, provisionally annexed. CENSUSES OF 1900, 1905 AND 1910. The population of the State of New York in 1910, as shown by the enumeration taken by the federal authorities, was 9,113,279, an increase in the decade since 1900 of 1,844,385, or 25.4 per cent. In the preceding decade the increase was 1,271,041, or 21.2 per cent. The gain in New York City in the last ten years was 1,139,681, and the gain outside of the city was 515,704. The percentage of gain in the city was 38.7. The percentage gain for the state of compares favorably with records in former decennial census periods. This gain was greater in the last ten years than in any other ten-year period since 1850, when the percentage of increase was 27.5. Of the sixty-one counties in New York gains were made by all except fifteen. The following showed losses as compared with the census of ten years ago: Allegany, 89; Chenango, 993; Delaware, 838; Greene, 1,264; Hamilton, 601; Lewis, 2,578; Madison, 1,256; Otsego, 1,723; St. Lawrence, 78; Schoharie, 2,999; Schuyler, 1,807; Seneca, 1,142; Tioga, 2,327; Tompkins, 183, and Yates, 1,676. In ten of the New York counties the gains over the census of ten years ago were less than one thousand. These counties are Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Clinton, Columbia, Livingston, Oswego, Putnam, Saratoga and Steuben. Of the 9,113,279 persons in the state, 4,766,883 are in New York City and 4,346,396 outside the city, making the city 420,487 the greater in population. In 1900 New York City contained 394,490 inhabitants less than the state, outside the city, the population of the city being 3,437,202, compared with 3,831,692 in the remainder of the state. State Census of 1905. -The population of the State on June 1, 1905, as shown by the enumeration taken on that date under the direction of the state authorities, was 8,066,672, compared with a population shown by the federal census of 1900 of 7,268,894 and one shown by the federal census of 1890 of 6,003,174, including Indians and other persons on Indian reservations. The increase in population between 1900 and 1905 was 797.778, or 11 per cent, against an increase from 1890 to 1900 of 1,265,720, or 21.1 per cent. The population of the State in 1910, 1905 and 1900, respectively, was distributed by counties as follows: The plan of distributing the population of public institutions, followed in the state numeration, is not observed in the United States Census, and the gains and losses due to this cause should be borne in mind in making comparisons between the state census figures for counties and those of the two federal censuses. NEW YORK'S GROWTH BY DECADES. 19.113,279 8,066,67217,268,894 CONGRESS DISTRICTS OF NEW YORK STATE. The Reapportionment Act of 1901 divided the state into Congress districts in accordance with the terms of the Federal Apportionment law of the same year, which increased New York's representation in the lower branch of Congress from thirty-four members to thirty-seven. It provided as follows: SENATE AND ASSEMBLY APPORTIONMENTS. Senate. The apportionment act of 1906, approved May 14. having been pronounced vold by the Court of Appeals, the Legislature of 1907 passed in special session an act, approved July 25, rearranging the Senate districts as follows: I. Suffolk and Nassau counties-Citizen population, 137,175. II. Queens-179,746. III to X. Kings-Average, 150,024. 149.390. XXIII. Richmond and Rockland-107,681. XXIV. Westchester-202,650. XXV. Orange and Sullivan-135, 236. nam-132,215. XXVII. Ulster and Greene-113,619. Rensselaer-118,732. 103. Schoharie-136,383. XXXII. Lewis, Fulton. Hamilton and Herkimer-122.441. XXXIII. Clinton, Essex and Warren- XXXV. Jefferson and Oswego-143,527. XXXVII. Otsego, Madison and Chenango-122,969. XXXVIII. Onondaga-169,732. 116,681. XLI. Tompkins, Chemung, Schuyler-125,451. Tioga and XLII. Wayne, Ontario and Yates116,803. XLIII. Steuben and Livingston-115,581. XLIV. Genesee, Wyoming and Allegany-107,281. XLV and XLVI. Monroe Average, 113,804. XLVII. Niagara and Orleans-107,328. XLVIII to L. Erie-Average, 146, 192. LI. Chautauqua and Cattaraugus-155,322. No change was made in the apportionment of Assemblymen, which remains as follows: Assembly. Counties Having 1 Member.-Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung. Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton and Hamilton, Genesee, Greene, Herkimer, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Montgomery, Nassau, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates. Two Members. Chautauqua, Dutchess, Jefferson, Niagara, Orange, Rensselaer, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Suffolk and Ulster. Three Members.-Albany, Oneida and Onondaga. Four Members.--Queens and Westchester. Five Members. -Monroe. NEW YORK STATE COMMITTEES. Kepublican. Chairman, Ezra P. Prentice; secretary, Lafayette B. Gleason, New York; treasurer, Clarence Whitman, New York. Headquarters, No. 43 West 39th st., New York. Executive Committee. - Ezra P. Prentice, chairman; Lafayette B. Gleason, secretary; George W. Dunn, Lloyd C. Griscom, Fred Greiner, William L. Ward, F. J. H. Kracke, J. Sloat Fassett, Cornelius B. Collins, James W. Wadsworth, jr., Francis Hendricks, Edwin A. Merritt, jr., and Jacob Brenner. The committee is composed of members representing the 37 Congress districts of the State, with one additional member, representing the colored voters. 8-George Cromwell, New Brighton, S. I. 27-M. Jesse Brayton, Utica. The 28-McGregor A. Phillips, Lowville. Democratic. Chairman, Winfield A. Huppuch, Sandy Hill; secretary, John A. Mason, New York; treasurer, Arthur A. McLean, Newburg. |