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COUNTING NOSES WITH THE CENSUS MAN, LIGHT AND
GAZETTE REPORTERS SPEND DAY WITH ENUMERATORS
This is census day.
An army of enumerators with big
books under thetr arm’s are hustling
through the streets and byways of this
and every other town in the land count
ing our respective noses.
In San Antonio there are sixty-eight
men and women busily engaged in ply
ing the questions which Uncle Sam has
stipulated shall be asked of every head
of a family. Of this number 19 are wom
en. The assignments are mode as fol
lows:
First ward, according to districts
they are: (1) John Fawkes Attfieid;
Adam R. Pollock; (3) Ferdinand Brock- :
”>an; IlLThos. N. Carey; IJJ. Chas. F.
LeComte; (6) Louis Moussier.
Second ward: (7) Chas. E. Smith;
(8) Emilio Flores: (9) Geo. Knowlton;!
(10) Edward Gallagher; (11) Blas I'.,
Herrera; (12) H. II. Graham; (13) DJ
Dashiell Harrigan; (1+) J. Ottis Parish;!
(5) C. F. Pfeil; (16) Ernest G. Holroyd;'
(17) Frank W. Phillips; (18) Edgar
Henry; (19) Dudley D. Turner.
Fourth ward: (20) Frank C. Beebee;
(21) Sarah E. Miller; (22) Marcus II.
Bchoman; (23) Mrs. G. Cr Nutt; (24)
Mrs. Carolyn R. Baldwin; (25) Edward
L. Soule; (26) Miss Homer C. Harris;
(27) Geo. W. Booth; (28) H. Lucy Far
rington; (29) B. Kiolbassa, Sr.; (30)
Ethel B. Sikes; (31) Edwin R. Gould
ing; (32) Tarver Bee.
Fifth ward: (33) Frank C. Beebee;
(84) Mrs. Gracie C. Ramsey; (35) llugti
J. Daugherty; (36) Ella G. Thomas;
(37) J. G. Neues; (38) H. Adams.
Sixth ward: (39) Jacob Fox; (40)
-Eugene B. Stcinle; (41) Mrs. Mabe)
Hawk; (42) f'larice M. Bardwell; (43)
Mrs. Fannie E. Starnes; (44) Miss Ef
fie G. Fowler; (45) Frederick R. Free-!
man; (46) Charles Alexander Jones;
(47) H. A. Bunting; (48) Michael L.
O’Connell.
Seventh ward: (49) Gottlieb M.
Schaad; (50) Charles R. McFarlane;
(51) Ida G. Easton; (52) Frank 11.
Pape; (53) Susie L. Rhodes; (54) Wm.
J. Wooton; (55) Nettie Hucker; (56)
Wm. N. Cooke; (57) Robert Louis
Patrick Fitzsimmon; (58) Chas. W.
Landgraf.
Eighth ward: (59) Aaron Guggen
heim: (60) Christopher C. Palmer; (61)
Margaret Sheppard; (62) Rav E. Lump
kin.
Special enumerators: (63) Charles W.
Titus, Fort Sam Houston; (64) Luther
Thomas. 8. W. insane asylum; (65)
Mother M. Alexis. Academy of the In
carnate Word; (66) Brother Jos. F. Mit
re; (67) Miss Cora Henderson, 8. A.
Female College; (68) Miss Cuaudia
Ayres, Academy of Our Lady of the
Lake.
This enumerating business is hot
work. A reporter for the Light and
Gazette had a few hours with a census
man in his rounds today, and when he
had finished the marathon his collar
was wilted and bis mind revolved in
terrogation points like a spinning wheel.
Here is the reporter’s story:
But my friend, the enumerator, ate
a hasty lunch and started cheerfully!
upon his afternoon'«»work. The regula
tions say be must put in eight hours
per day.
M’e left the census office together
this morning. The enumerator had some
doubts about the propriety of my ae->
companying him. We’re ohi friends, but
it was only when I was sworn to secrecy
that he would walk with me. Any names
and addresses I give here are purely
The enumerator felt mighty proud of,
himself when, with a yellow portfolio'
filled with blank schedules under his
arm. he stepped out of Supervisor Wash
er's office and set out upon the first
forenoon’s work of the first day of the
thirteenth decennial census of the Unit
ed States and possessions.
Pinned to his vest, out of sight, was
the neat badge the government pro
vided for him, and which, the super
visor had told him, he may keep for a
souvenir when hie task is done. In In*
pocket was an impressive looking parch
meat, reading:
FRIDAY,
My Friend the Census Enumerators Took Down the Whole Family.
“The United States of America.
“To All Who Shall See These Presents
Greeting:
“Be it known, That by the author
ity ” etc., ete., and wound up with
a seal and a flourish and the words:
“And I do authorize and empower
him to execute and fulfill the duties of
an enumerator, in accordance with
law,’’ etc. Signed by the director of
the census himself, E. Dana Durand.
Also the enumerator had a fountain
pen filled with black ink, and a set of
daily report cards.
ne met with a difficulty at the very
first house we visited. My friend rang
the doorbell, but nothing happened, ex
cept that a little black dog ran around
from behind the house and barked.
“The only thing to do now is to
leave a blank schedule to be filled in
by the family and trust to fiuding thenh
ou a second visit,’’ said the enumerator.
By rights they ought to be Family No.
I in my report. Now I will have to leave
them for my supplemental schednle.”
“What's a supplemental schedule!”
I asked.
“It’s the regular one. except we!
mark it supplemental and use it for 1
enumerating people we don’t find on;
our first visit,” he said. Just then an
old man in overalls came around from!
the rear of the house.
“ Phey’ve gone out of town for over
Sunday,” he said.
I “ W ho are you?” asked the enumer
ator. “Where do you live!’”
“I live upstairs in the barn,” he
i said. “I hase my shop in there.”
“I guess you’ll have to be my first
family then.” said the enumerator.
When the inan in oxeralls protested that
he wasn't a family, but lived all alone
I my friends said that made no differ
' ence.
“Ono person can be a census fam
' ily.” he said. “This census is being
| taken by families.’”
So we put down that Michael Flynn
was the head of a family of one.
■ “When we came over from County
Cork there were five of us,” he said.
‘‘Soon the first two children died. Nora,
my wife, went eight years ago, too, and
1 now all I have is my boy Terence. He
lives in New York.
While the old man was prattling
away my friend was writing ou his
schedule, without bothering to ask ques
tions. He had it down: Flynn, Michael.
Head of family. Male. White ——
“How old are you!” he asked.
‘Let me see,” pondered Flynn. “I
was naturalized in ’70 and then I was
34 years old. That, makes ’'
But the enumerator already had him
down as 74, widowed, blank under num
ber of years married, three children
born and one living, born in Ireland,
father and mother both born in Ireland.|
immigrated in 1861, naturalized, speaks
English, mechanic at odd jobs, working!
on own account, able to tead and write,
rents home, veteran of the union army,
and possessed of his faculties of seeing
and hearing.
1 looked on in admiration. “You're
a regular reporter for digging facts out
of rambling talk,” I said.
“The supervisor instructed us to
I listen closely when people talk,” he
I said. “I thought I would be able to Co
lit.” And so wo enumerated Michael
Flynn, Family No. 1.
Flynn was a sample of the way It
went. A discouraging thing to me was
the number of folks away from home.|
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
Wives were unable to remember their)
husband’s ages, and that meant second!
visits for the enumerator. One boy was;
away at college, but we numbered him;
in. His mother was able to give all tliel
the information necesary. In our rounds;
we visited the homes of two traveling!
men, out on the road. We enumerated
them from data supplied by wives and
daughters.
“It is possible I am duplicating
enumerators in other cities with these
two men,” said my friend. “Wo take
in all hotels. But nearly every travel
ing man who has a home will Fell an
enumerator so and thus be left out of;
the enumeration in the city in which ne i
happens to be visiting. The home is the’
only basis for accuracy.”
We visited the home of a wash-)
woman on a side street. Her son was in
jail. She urged my friend to take fig-,
ures regarding him, but he shook bis
head. Then sho pleaded, for she fear
ed he was to be left out of the cen
sus.
“He will be numbered,” said the
enumerator. “But he’ll have to go in
as a prisoner in the schedule sheets of
the enumerator who visits the jail. But
don’t feel bad about it. Remember, we
destroy all names after the figures are
in.
We came to several people who could
not speak English. This meant that an
interpreter had to be found.
One Chinaman refused to answer
“I know he can speak English, so
it’s no use asking the supervisor for
an interpreter,” my friend said. “I
suppose he has got into the country in
spite of the exclusion law. and is afraid
to answer.”
Finally the enumerator showed his of !
ficial-looking commission and lastly thej
badge. No use. John shook his head.
But my friend was prepared. He drew
from his pocket a proclamation in Cluj
nese, issued by the Chinese consul gen-i
eral at San Francisco, ordering all the
Chinese in America to answer the ques-i
tions of the census enumerator, assurngl
the yellow- men that no information sol
secured can be used in deportation pro-J
ceedings. After reading the picture
writing the Chinaman showed he under
stood English, and answered the ques
tions.
-f he hadn't answered me.” said 1
my friend. “I would have had to re
port him to the supervisor. That might;
have brought John a heavy fine.”
By noon I was ready to quit.
“How many have you numbered!”
asked.
“Seventy-four,” he replied, after I
a glance at his sheets. “A total of I
fortv families. At. that rate I’ll finish!
district in a little over a week. I only,
have about 1200 names to get.”
A REMINDER.
At last the time has rolled around.
When angleworms peer from the ground
So get your fishin ’ tackle out
And catch once more that whopper
trout.
The one you told your fellow-men.
You’d landed time and time again;
But —when you took him off the hook
Had let him flop back in the brook.
~ P-osident Taft is out with a proclamation telling us all not to be afraid of the census man. He says that we needn’t fear our disclosures will load
us with any more taxes than we have now, or that we'll answer ourselves into the regular army or into jail, or that we’ll inadvertently commit ourselves
into another term in school or 30 days on the jury. However, if we are so impolite as to refuse to answer the census man s questions, we 11 be in contempt
of no court or commission—only in contempt of Taft-
Answer the Census Man—Don t Be in Contempt of Taft
MUCH DOING IN
SPORT CIRCLES
IN SEW YORK
Attention Is Divided Between
Baseball Games and Horse
Racing, Which Is Now 0n<
METROPOLIS IS SPORT MAD
With Highlanders Playing at
Home and Racing Season on
Sports Are Happy.
Associated Press.
New York. April 15. —Interest
among followers of sport in Greater
New York was divided about equally
today between American League park,
where the basebail teams of Boston and
New York locked horns agains after
their fourteen-inning tie game of yes
terday, and Aqueduct, L. 1., where the
eastern racing season was scheduled
for ils formal openiug with the initial
.lay of the Queens County Jockey club
meeting.
The weather forecast of fine summer
weather for the .lay gave promise that
the biggest crowd that ever packed it
self into American League park would
witness the baseball game. New York
is baseball mad. No jury is needed to
weigh the evidence; the verdict is writ
ten in the crowds which attend the
opening game, filling every nook and
cranny it the huge stands an hour be
fore the opening time and spreading
out upon the entire playing field.
At the offices of President -Lynch of
Ihe National league, it was declared to
day that never has a major league sea
son begun with so great a wave of ex
citement and interest as spread
throughout the great cities of the con
tinent yesterday. Estimates gathered
from various sources showed that even
at a minimum 200,000 persons saw the
eight games which started the sixteen
teams in the National and American
leagues on their march for the pennant.
Big Horseracing Season.
For devotees of the turf, the new
raring season opened under conditions
that hold the nerves of racing men at
a tension higher than any pitch reach
ed in even the most crucial stages here
tofore of the turf in America. With
legislative uncertainties surrounding
the future of the "port in many direc
tions, the one certainty to patrons was
that a bravo renewal would be made.
The best hopes of racing men are based
on the confident attitude of the organ
THIS BADGE PROVES
HE’S CENSUS MAN
This is the badge that the census
enumerator who visits your house will
wear —that every one of Uncle Sam's
70.000 enumerators will wear, in fact.
ized management of the turf, the
Jockey club, and the positive stard
taken by race managers and owners.
Last season the crisis was met with
some doubt and timidity and with a
tardy opening of the season. Some of
the same experiences are to be repeated
this year, but confidence has growl
steadily and the gathering of horse
men from all parts of the world for
the first meeting in New York, in the
face of the latest antagonism to the
sport, is fairly indicative of the hopes
of the turf interests for an ultimate
triumph for the sport of horse racing.
World Beaters Are Here.
Last season most of the best and
most famous horses of the New York
turf were sent abroad and several of
the wealthy owners did most of their
racing in England and France. This
year the best of the horses have been
returned and most of the owners who
contributed international interest to
English and French racing in 1909 will
witness their favorite sport on the
tracks of their native land in 1910.
With the choicest of the old horses back
in New York and ready to run at
early meetings, and with abundance of
material in the younger horses to swell
the fields, there was every prospect that
racing will be of a class equal to the
best traditions of the sport.
One of the features of the opening
day’s racing was, of course, the run
ning of the fifteenth Carter handicap,
the most valuable race of the day. The
event attracted the best class field that
the race has ever drawn. Seventeen
horses were named to start for the
$2500 prize, and ia the number were
included the star performers of the
Florida winter racing, with the gallaut
weight-carrier, Jack Atkin, as the star
of the field, under the crushing top
weight of 135 pounds. The weight was
the highest that ever has been imposed
APRIL 15, 1910.
SUBMIT PERCfS
ELECTION TO A
VOTE OF PEOPLE
Resolutions Providing for Pri
mary for That Purpose to Be
Introduced in Both Houses.
PERCY HITS ENEMIES
Aisoclitad Preis.
Jackson, Mise., April 15.—Resolutions
will be introduced in both houses of the
legislature of Mississippi providing for
a special primary, subjecting the valid
ity of Percy’s election to a vote of the
people.
Senator Perry, in a speech, declared
the state of Mississippi could not have
a greater disaster befall it than the
election of Vardaman. These words
were received with great applause.
Senator Percy today gave a terrific
arraignment of the persons ' whi
charged or insinuated his election ti
the senate was accomplished by fraud
or corruption. The senator decfared ho
would resign rather than hold a com
mission that, in the opinion of the mem
bers of the legislature, had been obtain
ed by fraud or corruption.
HELLO!
An American sayst “How do
you do!” In France, it’s “How
do you carry yourself!” “How
do you stand!” is Italian. “How
do you find yourself!” That’s
German. “How do you fare!”
is Dutch. “How can you!” is
Swedish. “How do you pers
pire!” says the Egyptian. “How
is your stomach! Have you eaten
your rice!” is the Chinese way
of greeting a friend. The Pole
asks, “How do you have your
self!” The Russian wants to
know, “How do you live on!”
The Persian’s hello sounds like.
“Mqy your shadow never grow
less. ”
on a Carter handicap horse, but the
veteran remained the public favorite
and generally was expected to repeat
Iiiw triumph of 1908. Other notable
horses in the list were Nealon, a Sub- I
urban winner of two years ago; Prince .
Ahmed, a frequent winner both in the \
oast and west; Prince Imperial, the
smartest of last fall’s 2-year olds, to
gether with Arondack. Berkeley, Be z
som, Glorio and Alfred Noble.