. The Street railway journal . until 1840 when the rapid in-crease shown in the diagram commenced. In 1848 com-. OcT()hi;k, 1896. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. nieiiced a great accession to the German element in the pop-ulation which is so marked at the present time when aboutone-third of the entire population is German in birth or bydescent. This German element has been of the greatestvalue to St. Louis as the immigration consisted largely ofuniversity-bred men of progressive and highly intellectualcharacter, who have readily adapted themselves to Ameri-can institutions and who have l^een strong be
. The Street railway journal . until 1840 when the rapid in-crease shown in the diagram commenced. In 1848 com-. OcT()hi;k, 1896. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. nieiiced a great accession to the German element in the pop-ulation which is so marked at the present time when aboutone-third of the entire population is German in birth or bydescent. This German element has been of the greatestvalue to St. Louis as the immigration consisted largely ofuniversity-bred men of progressive and highly intellectualcharacter, who have readily adapted themselves to Ameri-can institutions and who have l^een strong believers ineducation. Among the peoi)le of vSt. Louis are also found greatnumbers of the descendents of early pioneers from New-York, Ohio and the New England states, although there isperhaps less of this element than is found in some otherstates and cities of the West. Altogether about twenty-five per cent of the entire population of St Louis is foreignborn—a proportion much larger than that found in mostother American cities. - It is noteworthy, however, that only about .six per centof the total populati
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