THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

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DETROIT BUILDING and

LET DETR °ITEMS
• • BUILD DETROIT

Some
Bald
Facts

Frederic B. Stevens

Our West Side

They say facts are stubborn
things and never more so than when
applied to the merits of Stevens
Vitrified Brick, for beautiful homes.
They are without doubt the best
on the market and a showing by us
will convince you.
We have the bald facts as to brick
efficiency at our fingers' tips and are
prepared to make good.

1E56 Penobscot Bldg.
and Corner of Larned
and Third Sts.

Telephone
Main 2470

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Properties

are located within a few n
utes' ride of the new west
side car barns on Jefferson
Avenue.

Here is an excellent oppor-
tunity for a man employed
on the west side to own a
home of his own, near his
work and in a rapidly grow-
ing community. See us at
once for further information
regarding these properties.
DO IT NOW—TODAY.

R. H. Taylor

2228-36 Penobscot Bldg.

Phones Cadillac 1261-1262

Russel Wheel &
Foundry Co.

Structural and Ornamental

Iron and Steel

Work

'?OLYGLOT PRIPTERS

J. SCHEMANSKY. 111gr.

GENERAL PRINTERS'

In Foreign Language.,
' If desired.
104 Randolph. Main 4371.

J. C.

Automobile Painting & Trimming Co.
J. C. GAYNOR, Manager

PHONE GRAND 4677

701-707 Grand River Ave., Detroit, Mich.

The Roberts Brass Mfg. Co.

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THE GROWTH OF DETROIT
AND ITS JEWISH COM-
MUNITY.

A Million in 1920 Is More Than
Probable—Some of the Prob-
. lems of Expansion and
Their Solution.

According to an estimate based
upon the figures recently issued
by the Water Board, the present
population of Detroit is 725,000.
The Board's statistics, however,
do not include Hamtramck, Fair-
view, Highland Park, and the
other growing suburbs of our
city, which for all practical con-
siderations are virtually an in-
tegral part of it. If we add to
the above numbers 75,000, the
population of these suburbs, we
will obtain 800,000 as the prob-
able number of Detroit's inhabi-
tants at the present time. This
means that if the city continues
to grow in the future as it has in
the past, and all indications point
in that direction, Detroit will
more than pass the Magic million
mark by 1920.
Residents of this city have rea-
son to point to these facts with
pride. Detroit's record is a re-
markable one, for no city of size
in the United States, with the
possible exception of Chicago in
the decade 1870-1880, has shown
the same proportionate increase
in population in the short period
of ten years as Detroit. New
York added less than 60% to
its numbers in any decade since it
passed the half million mark, and
it took Philadelphia thirty years
to cover the distance between
500,000 and 1,000,000.
Even more astounding that the
growth of the city in general has
been the growth of the city's Jew-
ish community. In 1910, at the
time the last census was taken,
Detroit's Jewish population was
a little in excess of 30,000. To-
day, only six years later, a care-
ful estimate of its Jewish inhabi-
tants, based upon synagogue,
club, and fraternal membership
rolls, shows that their number is
approximately 80,000, an increase
of 166%. It is safe to assume
that in 1920, when Detroit will
be classed in the narrow circle of
the cities with a population of a
million or over, it will also be
found in the even narrower. circle
'of those having a Jewish popula-
tion of 100,000 or over.

The Problems of Expansion.
Every good is accompanied by
some evil. Simultaneously with
the wonderful expansion of De-
troit there arose problems—prob-
lems of sanitation, problems of
city administration, and the big-
gest of all problems, that of pro-
viding adequate facilities to prop-
erly care for the great influx of

