Biggest

Cities that find it difficult to wait ten years to find out how big they are, were soothed last week when the Newspaper Feature Bureau of Wheeling, W. Va., revealed population estimates for Jan. 1, 1927. The 20 largest cities in the U. S. are as estimated:

1. New York City 6,323,000

2. Chicago 3,152,000

3. Philadelphia 2,052,000

4. Detroit 1,431,000

5. Los Angeles 1,269,000

6. Cleveland+- 996,000

7. Boston 860,000

8. St. Louis 835,000

9. Baltimore 826,000

10. San Francisco 709,000

11. Pittsburgh 686,000

12. Buffalo 591,000

13. Washington 536.000

14. Milwaukee 526,000

15. Newark 473,000

16. Minneapolis 449,000

17. Kansas City 438,000

18. New Orleans 430,000

19. Cincinnati 429,000

20. Seattle 404,000

+-Boosters who had advertised Cleveland as the "Fifth City" were irked.