ELEVATION OF AMERICAN CITIES. Where two elevations in the same city are officially recorded at or near the surface of given they represent the lowest and highest the ground. Feet. 760-840 Feet. Mobile ..... Montgomery .8-15 .160-222 Hutchinson .1.523-1,530 12-38 Arizona-Flagstaff .8-104 Phoenix .3-119 ... Tucson Williams .6.752 Kentucky-Covington .513 Orange .187-193 Hot Springs. Arkansas-Fort Smith 423-448 Little Rock. California-Alameda Berkeley Lexington .598-607 Louisville .82-193 .12 Louisiana-New Orleans. 6-15 New Mexico .182-240 Fresno 18-24 Deming 4,325 Long Beach. .149-199 Las Vegas.. .6.391 Los Angeles.. .11-26 Santa Fe... .6.947-6,956 Oakland .8-24 Maryland-Annapolis .2-42 Pasadena .829 Baltimore 63-92 Sacramento ..30 Cumberland 609-776 San Bernardino..1.011-1.077 Hagerstown 520-563 San Diego. .6-46 Massachusetts-Boston..8-169 San Francisco. .128 San Jose.. .81-118 Cambridge 22 Stockton ..11 Colorado Everett .12 Colorado Springs.5.968-5.982 Fall River. 42 Cripple Creek.. .9.591 Fitchburg .438 Rochester 505-514 .5.183-5,279 Haverhill .35 10.190 Holyoke ..115 .4.657-4,690 Lawrence 65 Troy Connecticut-Bridgeport.9 Lowell .101-111 Utica 34-38 Lynn 26 Watertown 23-35 ..406-548 .398 150 Malden 34 West Point. 199 Medford 13 ..10 6-38 New Bedford. 17 North Carolina 39 Newton 33 34 Pittsfield .1.013 10 Delaware Wilmington...8-134 District of Columbia Somerville .13 Winston-Salem ......858-877 Springfield .83 North Dakota Taunton 54 .8 Waltham .51 Grand Forks. .39 Worcester 469-477 Minot ..15 Michigan-Ann Arbor.611-771 Bismarck .....1.618-1.672 Valley City.......1.221-1,311 .....836-841 ..1.557 Georgia-Atlanta .1.032-1,163 Battle Creek... .816-823 .143 Bay City.. .594 Canton .1.030-1,036 .311-334 Detroit .579-635 .711-712 Cincinnati .481-545 .2.695 Grand Rapids. .610-641 .647 Jackson 940-944 Dayton 739-745 Bloomington .781 Kalamazoo 753-784 Chicago 828-845 Muskegon Minnesota-Duluth 592-619 Lorain ...593 Newark 607-627 Portsmouth ...610 ..822 468-525 Elgin .715 Minneapolis .816-848 Springfield .980-987 St. Paul.. .683-935 Jacksonville .600-614 Mississippi-Jackson..283-298 Joliet 536-540 Macon .175-179 Youngstown .839-847 .16-202 Zanesville 694-704 Oak Park. .630 Vicksburg .43-197 Oklahoma-Muskogee .588-611 Peoria Oklahoma City. .1.197 Quincy .......28-175 Rockford ..163 Rock Island. .742-811 Pennsylvania Springfield .813-847 Indiana-Evansville ..318-383 St. Louis.. .413-487 Springfield ...1.260 Allentown Altoona .254-321 Hammond .589-597 Montana-Butte ..5.534-5.713 Easton Indianapolis .3.913-4.157 Erie Muncie .2.946 Harrisburg Livingston ......4.491 Hazleton Terre Haute. .485 Nebraska Johnstown Grand Island.. Lincoln .1.148 .960-1.042 McKeesport New Castle.. Council Bluffs. .962-984 Nevada-Carson City.....4.660 Norristown ...83 .529-591 New Hampshire Philadelphia .26-408 .803-805 Manchester .605-841 Nashua .... .206-264 New Jersey-Atlantic City 9-10 Scranton 726-762 .847-852 Bayonne ..50 Wilkesbarre .532-643 LARGEST LAKES IN THE UNITED STATES. Following is a list of lakes in the United States each of which is more than 100 square miles in area at high water: Lake Champlain, N. Y. and Vt... Sq. miles. 436 410 310 234 173 207 215 193 7,240 188 1.800 Upper Klamath lake. Ore. (inc. swamp 156 87 145 730 Tule lake, Cal... 144 DISTANCE OF VISIBILITY OF OBJECTS ON WATER. [From "List of Lights and Fog Signals" issued by the United States lighthouse board.] Height, Dist., Height, Dist., Height, From DISTANCES BETWEEN AMERICAN CITIES. By the shortest usually traveled railroad routes. [Compiled from the war department's official table of distances.] To Albany.... Mis. Atlanta.. Baltimore.. 876 Mls. MIs. Mis. Mls. Mls. 333 688 7361 919 2,805 805 188 802 97 934 418 474 398 3.076 334 M18. Mls. Mis. Mls. Mls. Mls. Mls. Mls. Mis. 492 593 887 1.184 Boston..... Buffalo.... 427 610 1,256 926 1.119 1.602 458 1,454 438 945 525 2.274 468 298 85 912 757 298 666 341 926 593 244 427 2.572 Cleveland.. Columbus, O. Denver... Detroit... Duluth.. El Paso.. Milwaukee. 1,391 479 1.300 2,452 1.540 2.361 825 183 734 983 1.097 892 1,342 458 1.251 3,149 2,265 3,058 871 304 780 1,157 527 1,066 548 682 474 728 1,513 1,281 1.537 1.371 1.490 1.257 1,245 2.414 2,179 1.703 1.915 1.287 1,866 1,586 1,550 1.195 2.139 1,521 183 2.631 135 244 442 1,073 437 777 138 321 2.588 193 116 399 935 471 734 1,107 1,347 1,810 884 357 1,092 655 692 422 1,447 1,269 162 1,157 462 308 1,838 1.455 283 466 2.457 381 1,085 1.193 3.098 1,057 2,152 2,320 1,119 111 268 888 664 603 755 967 1,981 2,562 2,774 898 618 543 2,425 2.350 389 778 663 724 494 612 396 929 897 997 875 335 335 1,285 1,210. 785 1,014 141 1.003 1.233 826 926 1,655 614 1,125 748 988 1,363 219 1,323 833 1.065 1,448 304 1,400 829 997 1,144 1,285 444 757 997 1.372 228 1,332 1.962 1,792 1,579 1.891 2,284 1.316 961 791 578 1,080 1,283 381 353 666 906 1.281 137 1.241 553 1,142 302 888 1.234 1,717 573 1,569 2,817 772 2,760 2,590 2,378 2.746 3,082 2,042 417 581 68 2.877 338 495 688 1.324 1,392 1.058 1.867 948 668 555 941 1,221 1.065 284 974 731 2,194 621 341 369 699 894 1.322 410 1.231 935 2.086 878 708 325 1.275 1.200 1,943 1,204 1,852 920 2.150 1,765 1,468 1.651 1,911 1.541 1.217 1.289 571 1.715 1,320 3,186 2.274 3.035 2.194 3.308 3,076 2.631 2,799 2.742 2,572 2,359 2.482 3.064 2,096 3,151 2.239 3,060 2,352 3.273 2.941 2.596] 2,764 957 2.707 2.537 2.154 2.931 3,029 1818 2,812 1,900 2.721 1,932 2,934 2.702 2,257 2,425 1.205 2,368 2.198 1.815 2.535 2.690 479 139 935 230 1,131 99 327 583 400 3.209 583 827 1,020 1,511 367 1,355 1,195 1.309 1.104 1,187 1,425 1,007 1,297 1,405 3.310 1,269 1,053 1,394 705 244 615 437 595 113 296 2.518 261 203 329 228 7901 137 894 458 40 437 438 3.064 3021 553 962 DISTANCES BETWEEN GREAT SEAPORTS. To Principal European Ports. Distances in nautical miles traversed by full powered steamships in traveling from Boston. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to London, Liverpool, Glasgow. Antwerp, Hamburg and Havre by northern and southern routes. [Computed by United States hydrographic office.] From Boston (Boston lightship) to 828 967 1,729 1.032 595 1.664 875 1.144... 1.210 Glasgow .3.282 3.445 Antwerp Hamburg Havre .3.184 3.303 In the fiscal year 1923 there were admitted to American citizenship 145.084 persons, 24.874 of whom were from Italy. 22.621 from Poland. 17.190 from Russia, 16.953 from Great Britain and possessions (except Canada). 12,064 from Germany and the remainder from smaller countries and their possessions. enrollment of over 502: Jackson, Miss., conducted classes in thirty-one homes; Kansas City, Kas.. had thirty, and similar favorable reports came from other sections of the country. NATURALIZATION BY DISTRICTS (1923). The following table includes only civilian certificates of naturalization issued in the fiscal year 1923. In addition there were 7,109 military certificates of naturalization issued to 7.109 aliens who served in the American military and naval forces during the world war and thus became entitled to citizenship under a special law. Under the "Cable act" of Sept. 22, 1922. which accords separate citizenship rights to women, 22.209 declarations of intention were filed by women in 1923 According to the annual report of Commissioner Crist of the bureau of naturalization, the law providing independent naturalization and citizenship for married women resulted in the extension of women's classes all over the country. Statistics compiled subsequent to the preparation of the report show that women in attendance upon public school classes for adult immigrants averaged 35 per cent of the approximately 250,000 reported to have been rolled in 1923. In New York city alone 131 classes were conducted for women with enrollment of 1.257: Hibbing. Minn., had six Americanization home teachers. each with an St. Louis en an District. |