St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-14


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This placard adorned the windows OF
cigar stores, dry goods stores, groceries,
baker shops. restaurants, saloons and
many Offices. Census blanks can be
found everywhere and the question:
"Have you been enumerated?'' is asked
by everybody of everybody. Never
before in the history of Minneapolis
has such an excitement been raised
over a local issue as has been brought
about by the statement made by Super
visor Ed. j. Davenport that '.Minne-
apOliS was liable to get left In the
count"
Yesterday the people arose in their
might and while Mr.. Davenport and his
men were allowed to supervise things
in a general Way the work of the enum-
orators was practically taken out OF
their hands by fully 1000 men and
women who canvasSed stores, business
blocks, hotels, boarding houses and pri-
vate dwellings in search of the names
of people who had been missed by the
regularly appointed enumerators. The
supply of blanks on hand in the
census Office had run out, but sew
eral fast steam presses in local
printing Office were put to work
and in very few minutes there were
thousands of duplicate blanks IN the
hands of loyal citizens who had maze
up their minds that Minneapolis should
not be left" if they could help 1T.
NEVER BEEN CALLED UPON.
The business mems union took hold
of the matter with will, and careful
and thorough canvass of all the stores
and factories belonging to the members
was ordered to be made. In some places
it was found that from 80 to 10 per cent
of the employees had never been called
upon by the enumerators and had never
seen the blank they were supposed to
fill out. Branch census Offices were
opened in all the large stores and
clerks were detailed to ask custom
ers it they had been enumerated
and to conduct them to the desk at
which another clerk filled out the
blanks. The Plymouth Clothing com
pany detailed four of its clerks for
street work, and they were stationed on
the four corners of Third and Nicollet
avenues and gave out blanks to the pc
the store, where. at a desk just inside
the door, two more clerks were kept
busy recording the information the
census demands. At DOnaldSOn's glass
block, clerks were engaged in the same
work. Ex-Ald. Jacob Stoft made cam
vass of his factory, and found that sew
enty-siX of his employees had not
been counted. Maj. Heffelfinger dis
covered that out of the $50
hands employed in his shoe fac
tory, only lis had been enumerated.
All of the newspaper reporters carried
blanks with them yesterday, and they
secured the names OF many of the en-
ployes in the public buildings and pri-
| vate offices on their respective runs"
At the city hall Assistant City Clerk
| Clark opened branch census office,
and did a land office business i'll secur-
ing names. City Comptroller Calder
| wood was one of those whom the emu
merators had overlooked, but now he
has supply of blanks. Neither had
| Aid. ID. ID. Farusworth been visited,
| and Dory was mad when he secured a
| supply of blanks. and started for his
home in the Thirteenth ward. The po-
| licemen whose beats are in the center
of the city were furnished with
blanks yesterday: and one patrolman
turned in fifty names that had been
missed by Mr.. Davenport's men. A
canvass of the postoffice by Deputy
Postmaster Hughes showed that twen-
ty-siX of the employees had never been
called upon. In the Glass block 70 out
of 3O7 had not been enumerated. Mana
ger Conklin, of the Grand opera house,
found over twenty in the Syndicate
block who had been missed. Many of
the patriotic citizens hired men at their
| own expense to make thorough can
vass of the districts in which they have
reason to believe the enumeratOrs had
not done their work thoroughly. AS a
result of the volunteer work of the day,
| it was said last night that between
10000 and 1000 names had been turned
| in which the enumeratOrS had missed.
MIR. DAVENPORT TALKS.
Supervisor Davenport was in some
what easier frame of mind last night,
although he could not conceal the fact
| that he was considerably worried over
| the possible result of his work. To a
| GLOBE reporter he said: 1.-The state
ment credited to me that if Minneapo-
| lis got left it would be due to the citl-
zens alone is absolutely false, and I
want you to say that l never made any
such statement to any one. If Mime
apolis gets left-that is, if the count
does not come up to the expectation of
was after the count is completed, and l
will have facts and figures that cannot
be disputed. No one will ever know
whether Minneapolis has 100000 or
100000 population until the figures
come from Washington, for | am forbid
den by law to make any tab
ulated statement. AS fast as
the enumerator's returns are made
up they will be shipped to Washington,
| and all figures will have to come
from headquarters. That mistakes have
been made, / admit. The supervisor
| has made mistakes; the enumerators
have made mistakes, and-Others have
made mistakes. Who they were and
what they are l will tell after the count
is completed. Hc
THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND NOW.
Yesterday the work of the enumerat-
ors was considerably easier than before
| the people understood the Importance
| of having every one counted. Many
persons mistook the enumeratOrs for
assessors, and they were afraid that a
personal tax was going to be assessed
against every man. woman and
child in their house. The keeper
| of one boarding house was under
| this impression, and while she bad
twenty-seven boarders and dodgers
under her roof, she only returned the
| names of five. Yesterday she gave the
rest of the names to one of the members
of the Business Mems union. The can
vass for the city directory is just about
being completed, and many others
thought that the enumerator was col
lecting names for that publication, and
failed to make any returns for minor
children. Now that they understand
the matter they will no eoubt make the
necessary corrections. Lastnight there
was big pile of blanks in police head
quarter, and this morning every police
man in Minneapolis will carry supply
with him. He has been instructed to
carefully visit each business house on
his beat and enroll those who have moi
vet been enumerated. A determined
effort will be made by the volunteer
corps of enumerators and the Business
Mems union to secure the name of every
resident of Minneapolis before midnight
when the work of enumerating for 1896
must cease in Minneapolis.
THE COUNCIL TAKES IT UP.
In the council last night the most in