National Affairs: Cities

The Census Bureau last week gave its estimate of the 14 largest cities in the U. S. as of July 1, 1926:

New York City 5,924,000

Chicago 3,048,000

Philadelphia 2,008,000

Detroit 1,290,000

Cleveland 960,000

St. Louis 830,000

Baltimore 808,000

Boston 787,000

Pittsburgh 637,000

San Francisco 567,000

Buffalo 544,000

Washington 528,000

Milwaukee 517,000

Los Angeles belongs in the group, but the Census Bureau declines to guess at her growth. She had 576,000 in 1920.

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