Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-27
EIGHTY-FIVE MEN.
THIS NUMBER OF CENSUS-cANVAS-
sERS GO TO WORK HERE TO-DAY.
Their Object Is to Get Names the Enume-
rators Missed and Thus socures =
True Count.

To CORRECT OMISSIONS PREJUDIcIAL TO THE
INTERESTS or TIE CITY YoU ARE EARNESTLY
REQUESTED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING CUES
lions:
Has the census enumerator visited your
house
Answer yes or no.
Are you sure that he took down names
OF all the residents on your premises, in
cluding occupants of detached buildings! |!
Answer yes or no.
State total number of persons on your
lot.
If one or more persons have been
omitted give their names and color.
Sign your name here. -
Give name Of street and number OF
house here.
The above is copy of tho blank which
will to-day be brought TO every house IN
Marshall. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and
Clay Wards.
A policeman will bring you the paper and
write down your answer.
business MOVE.
This work is being done under the su-
pervision of the Committee on Information
and Statistics of the Chamber of Com
merce. who have employed Messrs. ]. II.
Chataigne and s. Il. Beach 10 supervise
and make n collection of data TO show 70
what extent omissions have occurred.
As fast as the flled-In blanks are gath
cred mp they will be turned over TO Mr..
Chataigne. who will tabulate them, sift out
the complaints and hand them over to Mr..
Ragland.
IN JACKSON WARD.
Mr.. Beach will conduct the canvass in
Jackson Ward.
TO do this he has secured the services of
twenty bright. smart cOlored youths, pu-
pills and graduates Of the colored Normal
School. They will fill up the blanks from
information received on the spot.
TO FACILITATE.
The flling-in of these blanks is simply
TO facilitate the work Of revising the CEN
sus.
The manner in which this is being done
ia very crude slow and far from satisfac.
tory, as may be gathered from the follow
ing glimpse of the nodus O11erdndl III tho
census Office here.
A person comes nand says that he, some
one of his family, or some one OF his ac-
quaintances has been overlooked. The
clerk picks up his map of Richmond and
finds out from which OF the fifty-one dis
tricts the alleged omission comes. After
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the enumeratOr for the district. The
clerk next sends for tho enumeratOr and
informs him Of the complaint. The emu
merator then looks over his returns sheet
by sheet to see If the person is not al
ready listed. If the name in question IL
not down he goes TO the PERSONS residence
and lists hun.
All of this consumes q great deal of time,
it being on an average, an interval OF two
a. H.. l..VF4 a n
until II can be reported upon, unless the
enumgator happens to be in the office at
the time.
The whole trouble arises from the fact
that the clerical force IN the office IS en-
tirely two small.
In addition to the one clerk authorized
by Mr.. Porter there are two men employed.
one of whom is paid by Mr.. Young per-
sonally and the other by Mr. Ragland.
The people at Washington should give
Mr.. Ragland the clerical help he needs, or
else be willing to see their system and sa-
gacity brought INTO disrepute.
ASSISTANCE.
The letter-carriers are rendering valua-
bic service in summOning the enumerators
to MIR. Ragland's Office as they are wanted.
Postmaster Russell is using every means
IN his power TO have the last man "
listed.
But the hardest worker Of all, and the
one who has accomplished most In this
particular, is Mr.. j. II. Witty, chairman
of the Chamber of Commerce Committee
on Information and Statistics.
Mr.. Witty, through Secretary Dunlop,
telegraphed Mayor EllysOn in regard to
having the work done by tho police. and 1t
is due 10 his efforts that sixty trusty police,
men. in whom the citizens of Richmond
have unbounded confidence, will take
steps to procure information to verify the
census.
DO YOUR PART.
It is clear case of the mountain coming
to MahOmet.
do the right thing apparently in opening
the Office here. although they wero late III
the day and gave it insufficient force after
doing so. Nevertheless they are trying to
correct errors and dojustice TO Richmond.
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