Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
RAISING THEIR PAY,
Supervisor Oliver JOgs Superin-
tendent Porter on Several I'M
portant Matters and
STARTS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
For the Increase Of Remuneration and
Speedy Payment of the Census
EnumeratorS.
STARTS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
OUR IRON MANUFACTURERS OBJECT
To Being 50 Constantly Deluged With Questions Abuu
Their Business.

q Census Supervisor Oliver has returned
from Washington, where he has been in
consultation with Superintendent Porter,
and he is the bearer of good tidings for the
enumerators. Mr. Oliver realized that
many of the enumerators undertook the work
to make little extra money for a summer
vacation, and also that the work was largely
underpaid. Largely on this account Mr..
Oliver journeyed to Washington and made
q strong plea on behalf of the men who
have toiled through the heat of the summer
obtaining answers to impertinent questions
from reluctant citizens
In the first place, Superintendent Porter
assured Mr.. Oliver that the enumerators
should be paid at the earliest opportunity,
in fact, the enumerators of Washington
City had already received vouchers for :helr
pay, and the necessary amounts of money
are to be transferred from the Treasury.
where il lies to the credit of the Census Bu-
reau, to repositories in the different census
districts. Mr.. Porter ated that the slips
returned by the census supervisors showing
the number of names obtained bv each
enamerator were accepted as correct, with
out waiting to compare them with the
enumerators' returns. and force of clerks
is kept busy making out the vouchers for
the pay.
MORE PAY FOR ENUMERAToRs.
Then Mr.. Oliver raised another point
He knew from his experience that many,
if not all of the enumerators, would be wo-
fully underpaid if recompensed according
to the original schedule. Mr.. Porter had
also recognized that fact, and said that he
had in course of preparation bill to be
presented to Congress giving the Census
Bureau the authority to pay the enumera-
tors at the rate of So per day for their work,
where their average fell below that. Mr..
Oliver is preparing a circular to all the
census supervisors in the country asking
them to bring to bear all the influence they
have to insure the passage OF the bill.
The census of Allegheny county is
rapidly nearing completion. A peculia CO.
incidence in the growth of two widely sepa-
rated wards in the city of Pittsburg is
shown by the returns from the Eighteenth
and Twenty-third wards. The census of
1880 gave the Eighteenth population of
2,6S3 and the Twenty-third 2,702, differ
CuC6 III 1dNOI Ol luS ldIltI Ol IL. 4ue re-
turns from these wards this year show that
each have over 1000 inhabitants, the
Eighteenth having taken the lead by ma
jority of s.
IN THE SECOND CLASS.
Mr.. Oliver expect4 that the official return
of Allegheny City's population will be
made inside of month. This will be the
IN
come from the Census Bureau at Washing
ton. He expects also that the population
of the big cities in the country will be made
known in that time. As Allegheny City
has turned the 100,000 point she will be-
come a second-class city, and will be in the
same class as Pittsburg.
Mr.. Oliver, who is, as most people know,
a member of the Allegheny County bar,
sticks to the professional code and refuses to
answer legal questions without being as
sured of his fee, and, therefore, would not
state if Allegheny City could accept the
provisions of the charter for second-class |
cities upon the figures given out by the Gen. |
sus Bureau, or if it would be necessary to |
wait until the formal report was made. Mr.. |
Oliver does not think it possible to organize |
the entire county into one city, but he |
thinks Allegheny City and Pittsburg should |
be annexed, and would not care whether the |
name of the new metropolis was Allegheny
or Pittsburg. He says the annexation should
have taken place in 1867.
SOME PEOPLE MISSED.
A communication was received from a
gentleman residing on South Mellon street,
East End, stating that every person living
on that street claim that the census enumer-
ator has not called at their houses. An in
Yestigation among the people on that street
showed that no house on that street had been
visited by the enumerator. Among the
families missed were those of J. S. Pollock, |
J. P. Packer, Lewis Hartman, George A.
Merritt j. S. Dugan, james Lamont. In
all % persons were met with that had not
been counted. These were at different parts
of the street, and 1t is evident, from what
the people say, that none of the houses on
that street have been visited.
Oliver Wickline, well-to-do contractor,
of No. 19 Wickline avenue, Allegheny, has
refused to answer the census enumerator's
questions, and a warrant has been issued for
his arrest. He thought the Government
wanted to know too much about his affairs
The population of McKeesport is nearly
q, 900. Coraopolis, with a population OF
over 200, shows only one death in a year,
and no manned or disabled persons.