St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-01

your suggestion, the grounds on which
l have proceeded will be stated.
Senator Davis-We wish to know the
facts.
Secretary Noble-Mr. Porter, please
state the ground on which your recon-
mendaton rested, and any additional
facts which have come to your knowl-
edge since.
Supt. Porter-Will it be necessary to
read the letter sent to you Saturday
last?
The Secretary-Yes. Make a full
statement of the case.
Supt. Porter proceeded to read the
letter of July 26, in which he recon-
mended that recount be ordered in st.
Paul.
Says Fraud Is Widespread.
Supt Porter-I might say right here
that since writing the above letter that
relatively speaking, that is to say, that
in comparison with the number OF dis
tricts we have examined the frauds In
ST. Paul are almost as widespread. II
not quite so, as in Minneapolis.
Secretary Noble-Now bring forward
the specific grounds on which that let
facts that you have found in support OF
found that would not support it.
Supt. Porter said: ''The memoranda
submitted are drawn from an eXamina-
tion of 80 out of 126 districts. The great
bulk of padding has been done by taking
names at places of business which were
also taken at residences. Houses and
families have been invented. l judge
that fully 10000 names have been ad
ded in one way and another. In the
editors room of the GLOBE nine are
enumerated as journalists and also as
servants. In the same building is
family of eight with no head. being sew
en- cOmposltors and a proof reader.
In the Union block are 10 families of
133 people, only II of whom are females.
On East Fourth street woodward has
81 lodgers. A bookbindery adjacent
has families. Of 6S persons on East
Fifth street type foundry has 55 peO-
pie in 9 families. On Cedar street Is
persons are in a livery stable: in Bank
of Minnesota, IA families, 46 people;
chamber of commerce, 8 families or Al
persons. The Mercurial Fire Alarm
building has families or Sc people. On
Fourth street 46 persons are in a dry
goods stores. AZ in factory, IL persons
in an agency, 81 in an agricultural ware
house. One enumerator found "a per-
sons in Finch, Van Slyke & Co.'s; an
other enumeratOr found 121 in the same
establishment. On Rosabel street 100
are
In Small House;
95 are in the offices of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul railroad company.
On East Fifth street 1O2 are in factory,
and on Sixth street 25 in livery stable.
In district 1875 twenty-siX houses cannot
be found on the insurance maps.
are 81 persoi.s, none of whom
sleep there. At 242 Fairfield avenue
are six families of 80 persons. At 100
State street in two stories are ten
families or 81 people. At so and 81
South Robert are fourteen families or
45 people. At 100 South Robert ore six
families or % people. This is not a
crowded district, and looks fraudulent
In Enumeration District III are num-
Der of houses which by the insurance
atlas are not in existence at all. On the
corner of Eigth and Cedar streets 104
people are reported in one house. The
map shows vacant lots on two of the
corners, and small two-story houses
in the other two. On Wabasha street.
on bakery, are reported two families
and 20 people. In furniture store are
two families and 20 people. In wine
and liquor store are two families and 20
people, and in the Market hall are three
families and 80 people. On Jackson
street there is reported one family of 7s
people in house which. according to
the map, had it's foundations laid the 1st
of May. Also on Jackson street fam
lily of 10 is reported in a warehouse; {;
81 persons are reported in the fire
department headquarters. On Waba-
sha, out of 27 families reported Is are
said to contain ten persons each. On
St. Peter street, out of twenty families,
six are reported as containing ten per-
sons each. On Cedar street there are
three families of ten each given, two of
which are located on vacant lots. At
| the Market restaurant nine families are
reported. eight of which have ten per-
sons each, total of ninety-three. On
East Seventh street, out of twenty eight
families, two are said to contain twenty
each, and seventeen are said to contain
ten each. 1t seems to me that such
combinations of figures could not pos
sibly occur. The Wabasha and East
Seventh street cases are shown below in
detail:
Some Peculiar Statistics.
Third supervisors district Mime
nesota, st. Paul Enumeration District
I'll, Wabasha street is as follows:
Fam Per