In this connection it may be well also to note the fact that in Ohio fourteen-minus times as many as their proportion (according to Table II) were sent to the penitentiary; in West Virginia fifteen times, and in North Dakota forty-three times their proportion. A comparison of the number of whites and Negroes arrested a year in some of the large cities is given in the following table: TABLE III White, Negro, Population in 1910 Arrests One One City ------------------ --------------------- Arrest Arrest White Negro Year White Negro in in Every Every --------------------------------------------------------------------------- { 1904 6,602 10,954 } Atlanta 102,861 51,978 { 1909 6,241 11,925 } 16.5 4.5 { 1915 6,369 10,954 } { 1905 21,713 12,323 } Baltimore 473,387 85,098 { 1909 20,445 11,361 } 23+ 7.5 { 1915 25,108 15,840 } Buffalo 421,809 1,906 { 1911 23,983 236 } { 1915 30,711 385 } 18- 8+ { 1907 53,349 4,653 } Chicago 2,139,057 46,226 { 1909 62,864 4,852 } 34+ 10- { 1915 105,119 9,508 } Charleston, { 1907 1,559 2,631 } S. C. 27,803 31,069 { 1911 1,734 2,886 } 16+ 11- { 1913 2,487 3,185 } { 1909 10,887 775 } Detroit 459,926 5,840 { 1910 13,726 976 } 33.5 6- { 1915 19,539 2,121 } { 1907 8,324 1,663 } Omaha 119,580 4,516 { 1910 9,597 2,083 } 12.5 2+ { 1915 13,091 2,211 } Philadelphia 1,463,371 85,637 1910 71,825 9,507 20+ 9+ { 1903 9,529 6,917 } New Orleans 249,403 89,672 { 1910 15,035 10,052 } 16.7 9- { 1913 19,486 11,163 } { 1904 20,149 5,375 } St Louis 645,478 44,541 { 1910 29,746 8,382 } 22- 5+ { 1913 29,166 8,099 } Providence, 218,623 5,703 { 1911 11,332 434 } 19.3+ 13+ R. I. { 1912 10,632 470 }