mate, based on telephone listings and percentage projection, is a figure of 30,000.

Telephone listings also are a key to the distribution over the nation and in other parts of the world. Virtually every city and town of any size in the U. S. has Houstons listed in ‘phone directories. Generally, areas predominantly Protestant have greater percentages than those largely populated by other faiths. A sampling of telephone directories gives interesting figures:

TELEPHONES IN HOUSTONS

CITY	POPULATION	Telephone	Listings
Albuquerque, N. M	300000	17	8
Baltimore, Md	939024	71	12
Chicago, Ill	3600000	159	28
Memphis, Tenn	560000	132	9
Manhattan Borough (N.Y.)	1698281	101	20
New Orleans, La	656800	27	3
Houston, Texas	1100000	158	11
Columbus, Ohio	471316	48	68
Philadelphia, Pa	2002512	81	33
San Diego, Calif	648500	50	34
St. Louis, Mo	711000	96	19
Seattle, Wash	657000	39	27
Montreal, Canada	2205000	38	3
Toronto, Canada	672407	154	38
Glasgow, Scotland	1054.913	255	1
Edinburgh, Scotland	468378	52	1
Northern Ireland	1425462	163	24

At the time of this survey, there was one Houston listed each in Paris and Vienna. There were none in the telephone directories of such European cities as Lisbon, Geneva, Zurich, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Niece, Lyon and Cannes, and none in French-speaking Quebec, Canada.

It is evident from the foregoing figures that most all of the Houstons live in the English-speaking areas of the world and that, in the United States, they are well spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Horace Greely’s advice, "Go west, young man," seems to have been well heeded by the Houstons. They are more numerous today in the westward states than in the localities where they first settled. It is also apparent that the main stream of the family migration was from Scotland to Northern Ireland, to America and westward. Of course, many carried on in the older homelands. It is known that the Houston population of Northern Ireland in 1890 was 3,046, largely in the counties of Antrim, Londonderry, Armagh and Down.