The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-03

while she and Annie, Christian and Wash
ington were within the limits, Maggie
was nineteen, Charles twenty-three and
Robert only three.
John Rolan, of No. 222, is credited with
John, Annie, Maggie, Thomas, William
and August, but she denies all of them,
excepting William and one of his sisters
Il forget which one
| could go on and give three times as
many instances of Mr.. Wormsley's-well,
inaccuracies-but it is becoming mon
otonous. If any one wants to see them /
can show him my notes if he will come to
the Office OF THE JERSEY CITY NEWS.
THEY ALL AGREE.
The rest of the enumeratOrs, when they
We're interviewed, were equally emphatic
with Mr.. Wormsley in asserting the cor
reetness of their returns. Their inter
views present other points of interest.
After long search / found Edward
Green, the enumerator in the First dis
trict, in apartments over his wife's milli-
merry store on Newark avenue, near Grove
street. He insisted that he had made
personal canvass for names, and that he
had not missed a single house in the First
district. When / remembered that he
had found about seventeen hundred more
children in the district than his predeces-
sor did last year | agreed with him.
Il could not give satisfaction in my
work, y he said, 'if l copied last years
books. | saw every one to be seen, and
sometimes it was hard work, too; for the
very people, the educated, who ought to
assist the census taker send to the door q
servant who refuses to say anything or to
admit him to the house.
This year there are 1858 children in the
First district and account for the great
increase over last year by the fact that
many buildings. including nearly every
one in Sussex place, where Ex-Governor
Albeit lives, have been turned into flats.
SIX HUNDRED CANALLERs.
81 got 500 or 800 names of the canal boat
children that until summer live at the
basin. These children go to school in the
winter, and in the summer go with their
parents. 1t was unusually late this year
when they went away, and many were
here in June, so | had plenty of oppor-
tunity to obtain their Names"
A SMALL INCREASE.
the Second district, was at his home, No.
270 Seventh street, when called. He de-
clared that he had made a careful per-
sonal canvass as he did the year before,
and had copied no names from last year.
COULDN'T COPY LAST YEARS BOOKS
Mr.. Thomas F. Kenny, who made the
canvass in the Third district, declared
that his work was honestly and conscien-
tiously performed.
81 made the canvass, from house to
house." said he, "and put down every one
between the ages of five and eighteen.
The increase over last year is
but 49, The returns last year
showed 1909 persons of school age. This
year the figures are 13,12S. That Is not
much of gain for such large district.
AS to copying from last years reports,
that could not be done by any of the
enumerators, as the sheets were in the
hands of the Rev. Mr.. Houghton, the
County School Superintendent"
HE'D SWEAR SEVEN TIMES.
Mr.. George Kelleger, who took the CEN
sus in the Fifth district, said
II did not copy single name from the
books, went from house to house and
got the names that way.
''There were $500 of them and it was no
easy matter. When 1 had completed the
enumeration 1 turned the whole thing
over to the County Superintendent and
made affidavit to their correctness"
EARNED THE JOB OUT.
Lewis J. Smith, who is said to have
made the enumeration in the Sixth dis
trict, was not within reach. He is said to
be policy book writer A friend who
knows him is authority for the statement
that he did not do the work himself, but
hired Abner J. Coykendall to do the work
for him.
Mr.. Coykendall could not be found this
morning.