Population Statistics of Cities and Towns in Jelly Roll’s travels, 1905 to spring 1923

City or town Birmingham Dothan Greenville Jacksonville Mobile Montgomery Selma Hot Springs Jerome Unspecified towns ¤ Los Angeles Oakland Oxnard Pasadena San Diego San Francisco Colorado Springs Denver Pueblo Jacksonville Pensacola Tampa Atlanta Savannah Blue Island Cairo Chicago Indianapolis Richmond Louisville Baton Rouge Crowley New Orleans Shreveport Baltimore Benton Harbor Detroit Bay St. Louis Biloxi Clarksdale Greenville Greenwood Gulfport Hattiesburg Jackson Meridian Moss Point Natchez Pascagoula Vicksburg Yazoo Kansas City St. Louis Las Vegas Unspecified towns ¤ New York City Winston-Salem Cincinnati Dayton Alton Muskogee Oklahoma City Tulsa Portland Philadelphia Memphis Nashville Brownsville Cuero Dallas El Paso Denison Galveston Greenville Houston Orange San Antonio Texarkana Victoria Seattle Tacoma Washington, D.C. Unspecified towns Vancouver, British Columbia Tijuana London ‡ Paris	State Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Arkansas Arizona Arizona California California California California California California Colorado Colorado Colorado Florida Florida Florida Georgia Georgia Illinois Illinois Illinois Indiana Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana Maryland Michigan Michigan Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Missouri Missouri Nevada New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Ohio Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Tennessee Tennessee Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Texas Washington Washington Washington, D.C. Alaska Canada Mexico England France	1900 38,415 3,275 3,162 1,176 38,415 30,346 8,713 9,973 — — 102,479 66,960 — 9,117 17,700 342,782 21,085 133,859 28,157 28,429 17,747 15,839 89,872 54,244 6,114 12,566 1,698,575 169,164 18,226 204,731 11,269 4,214 287,104 16,013 508,957 6,562 285,704 2,872 5,467 1,773 7,642 3,026 1,060 4,175 7,816 14,050 — 12,210 708 14,834 4,944 163,752 575,238 — — 3,437,202 13,650 325,902 85,333 — 14,418 10,037 7,298 90,426 1,293,697 102,320 80,865 6,305 3,422 42,638 15,906 11,807 37,789 6,860 44,633 3,835 53,321 5,256 4,010 80,671 37,714 — — — — — —	1920 178,806 10,034 3,471 2,395 60,777 43,464 15,589 11,695 — — 576,673 216,261 4,417 45,354 74,683 506,673 30,105 256,491 43,050 98,558 31,035 51,608 200,616 83,252 11,424 15,203 2,701,705 314,194 26,765 234,891 21,782 6,108 387,219 43,874 735,826 12,233 993,678 3,033 10,937 7,552 11,560 7,793 8,157 13,270 22,817 23,399 3,340 12,608 6,082 18,072 5,244 324,410 772,897 2,304 — 5,620,048 48,395 401,247 152,559 — 91,295 30,277 72,075 258,288 1,823,779 162,351 118,342 11,791 3,671 158,976 77,560 17,065 44,255 12,384 138,276 9,212 161,379 11,480 5,967 315,312 96,965 — — — — — —
¤  This information comes from an unpublished article, hand-written by Morton, which was found in Roy Carew’s files. It came in response to an article about George Washington Smith and Texas by Marshall Stearns, published in Down Beat, April 1938. Morton did not mention the towns in those states mentioned above. [OMJ 53] ‡  Alistair Cooke, the noted BBC broadcaster, met Morton in Washington, D.C. in 1938. Cooke recalled the occasion: He was a gangling, wide-mouthed, flat-faced man with big wrists. He was playing a sour piano in a really smelly café — the sort of place where they never serve a meal, just a neon sign with two bulbs missing and a cab-driver leaning up against a glass of beer.  It was like meeting the President in a shoe-shine parlour. “London?” he said. And he fell around my neck. “Why sure, I was through that section in nineteen and thirteen [1913].” [AC 138] Note: Towns in the USA that do not have population statistics shown above, are towns with a population of less than 5,000 in 1960, the base year for the census statistics used. Statistics for Washington, D.C. were not available for the relevant years. © 2002 Peter Hanley

Population Statistics of Cities and Towns in Jelly Roll’s travels, April 1923 to 1941

City or town Los Angeles Yreka Montpelier Carbondale Chicago Galena Herrin Fort Wayne Gary Greensburg Richmond South Bend Davenport Dubuque Waterloo Louisville Paris Baltimore Hagerstown Springfield Unspecified towns + Benton Harbor Lansing Kansas City St. Louis Asbury Park Atlantic City Camden Hightstown Princeton Albany Amenia Buffalo Johnson City Long Island Madison New York City Bucyrus Cincinnati Cleveland Dayton Marion Springfield Youngstown Canyonville John Day Berwick Braddock Harrisburg Homestead Indiana Philadelphia Pittsburgh Point Marion Pottsville Scranton Shamokin Uniontown Washington Wilkes-Barre York Narragansett Unspecified towns ¤ Keyser Wheeling Milwaukee Rock Springs Washington, D.C. Crystal Beach, Ontario	State California California Idaho Illinois Illinois Illinois Illinois Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Iowa Iowa Iowa Kentucky Kentucky Maryland Maryland Massachusetts Massachusetts Michigan Michigan Missouri Missouri New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey New York New York New York New York New York New York New York Ohio Ohio Ohio Ohio Ohio Ohio Ohio Oregon Oregon Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Washington, D.C. Canada	1920 576,673 — — 6,267 2,701,705 4,742 10,986 86,549 55,378 5,345 26,765 70,983 56,627 39,141 36,230 234,891 6,310 733,826 28,064 129,614 — 12,233 57,327 324,410 772,897 12,400 50,707 116,309 — 5,917 113,344 — 506,775 — — — 5,620,048 10,425 401,247 796,841 152,559 27,891 60,840 132,358 — — 12,181 20,879 75,917 20,452 7,043 1,823,779 588,343 c. 1,000 17,431 137,783 21,204 15,692 21,480 73,833 47,512 — — 6,003 56,208 457,147 6,456 — —	1940 1,504,277 — — 8,550 3,396,808 4,126 9,352 118,410 111,719 6,065 35,147 101,268 66,039 43,892 51,743 319,077 6,697 859,100 32,491 149,554 — 16,668 78,753 399,178 816,048 14,617 64,094 117,536 — 7,719 130,577 — 575,901 — — — 7,454,995 9,727 455,610 878,336 210,718 30,817 70,662 167,720 — — 13,181 18,326 83,983 19,041 10,050 1,931,334 671,659 c. 1,000 20,194 140,404 18,810 21,819 26,166 86,236 56,712 — — 6,177 61,099 587,472 9,827 — —
+  Mabel Bertrand Morton mentions extensive travels in Massachusetts and other New England States in Lomax’s Mister Jelly Roll. [MJR 216] ¤  Chicago and New York: success and prosperity, Spring 1923—1931. [MSS 10] Note: Towns in the USA that do not have population statistics shown above, are towns with a population of less than 5,000 in 1960, the base year for the census statistics used. Statistics for Washington, D.C. were not available for the relevant years. © 2002 Peter Hanley