The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-20
THE COUNT ABOUT ENDED
sAvANNAH's CENSUS TO BE FIN.
ISHED THIS WEEK.

Supervisor Beckett Anxious 90 Secure
the Names OF ANY Who Have Been
Missed by the Enumerators - The
Authorities Endeavoring to Get a
vannah's Exact Population.
The census Of Savannah will be finished
in few days. The people are anxious to
known just what the population of the
city is. Supervisor Beckett said last night
that the enumeration so far has been very
satisfactory. People are applying every
day at the census office for blanks to fill in.
Mr.. Beckett is anxious that the enumera-
ton shall be complete and that nobody
shall be left out. If any one has been missed
by the enumerators Mr.. Beckett will re-
ceive the name at his office, No. 1876 Con-
gress street, at any time. The fact that he
is receiving few complaints and few appli-
cations for blanks he considers a pretty
good evidence that the enumeration has
been well done.
The imp ortance of securing a complete
census Of the city's population has been
fully impressed upon the people. II it falls
below what most people believe 1t ought to
be the supervisor does not want the blame
thrown upon the census authorities. Every
effort is being made to get full enumera-
ton.
THE OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE.
A good many people who reside In the
city are spending the summer at Tybes and
other nearby resorts. Supervisor Beckett
telegraphed Supt Porter yesterday for
authority to enumerate as residents of the
city the members Of families who are at
Tybee and Isle of Hope for the summer, but
who belong in the city. He will probably
| receive instructions on that point to-day A
similar question was submitted to the SUPER
intendent from Charleston, and in that in
stance he ruled that persons temporarily
absent, as in the mountains, etc., should be
| enumerated, providing the head of the
family or some competent person gives the
enumeration the information.
Savannah wants to show what her exact
population is. The census authorities are
anxious to secure the enumeration of every
person in the city, and if any have been
missed the authorities will be glad to have
the fact reported.
THE CENSUS IN THE COUNTRY.
Mr.. Beckett is beginning to receive re-
ports from the country enumerators, but
they are coming in slowly, and it will be
some time yet before the count has been
finished and all the returns have been re-
ceived. The reports are being compiled as
fast as they are received. Supt. Porter has
authorized Supervisor Beckett to appoint
two clerks to assist him in the compilation.
It will be some time yet before the consoli-
dated result can be announced
The enumerators complain of the intense
heat. which has made their work ANYTHING
but pleasant task the last ten days. They
complain, too, that they find it almost I'M
possible to get all the data required for the
oil 6trla ~ fada al -
war and the widows of such soldiers.
Paternity and age are matters
they find it almost impossible to
obtain among the colored people, and it has
given them a great deal of trouble One
enumerator said yesterday that if he had
known what a job he was undertaking at
the outset he would not have accepted the
appointment.
CENSUS TAKING IN GERMANY.
Mr.. Joseph Goette, who is familiar with
foreign census work. says that this country
is behind Germany in the collection of
statistical information. Germany collects
| its census statistics in much simpler and
more thorough manner. Every birth and
| death is recorded within a few hours after
occurrence, and the eye of the census taker
| is never off a native of Germany
| Agricultural and industrial information is
obtained as readily, as the products of the
| field and the factory must be reported to
| government officials regularly.
| Mr.. Goette says that every house in Ger
many is registered and insured by the gov
eminent, and such thing as arson is I'M
known. A portion of the tax is for insur-
ance, and if a mans house burns down it
must be rebuilt, and thus the dwellings
| never become less.
| This paternal sort of government does
| not suit Americans, and as a result the CEN
sus is taken only once in ten years, and 1t is
necessarily imperfect, for the time is too
short to collect such general data as must
be crowded in the limited period allotted for
for the enumeration of the people and the
collection of agricultural, mechanical and
commercial statistics which 60 to make up
the census report.