St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-16
BOarders and RoomepS Have
Failed to Get Nm the
List.
Otherwise the Enumeration
is Declared to be Very
Satisfactory.
Crowds Yesterday Visited the
Office Of Supervisor
Smith.

The Office of the census supervisor in
the chamber of commerce presented a
lively aspect yesterday. The announce
ment in these columns yesterday morn
ing that Supervisor Smith would keep
his office open to the public all day, for
the purpose of receiving information
from such citizens as fancied that they
had been omitted in the enumeration,
had the effect to bring the people
TO his Office by the hundreds. Some
were obdurate in their protests that the
enumerators had overlooked them in
the canvass, but reference to the re-
turn sheets soon convinced them that
the work had been Systematically and
thoroughly done.
Mr.. Smith was seen by GLOBE re-
porter and asked when he would close
his report.
''Not until midnight Wednesday" he
replied. Minneapolis is to keep open
until then. and l feel it my duty to sat
isfy every St. Paul man that every soul
has been taken that should be taken. 1
wish you would tell the readers of the
GLOBE, by the way, that the only aid
that can be accorded me now is for the
citizens to file information with me of
unmarried men, boarders, roomerS,
and also of travelling statesmen
who make st. Paul their bona
fide homes; and they need not report
travelling men who have families here,
because l am positive all such have
been taken. / am satisfied that | have
had the most intelligent and consei-
entious corps of enumerators that could
hau haaI, rod in St panI for fnic
particular work. The fact is, larger
proportion of them are actual
residents of the districts they
have canvassed, were already well ac-
quainted and were perfectly familiar
with the territory. [ am satisfied they
have done their work well. Indeed. [
am willing to wager that not house in
the city has escaped their vigilance. A
mail carriers route isn't large, is it?
Well, the enumerator'S district has
been cut up into about one-half
the area covered by a mail car
rier, and surely with a two weeks
canvass every enumeration mnst person.
ally knaw every nook and crook of his
respective territory, and it would be
fragrant negligence for him to overlook
any one. AS said, l don't believe any
one has been omitted unless it be in
some certain isolated cases of single
men, travelling agents or roomers in
blocks where they are not known, and
the only thing i'll addition to the work
consummated that can be done is to
look for just such people.o
Now let me Illustrate how thoroughly
the work has been doue," resumed Mr..
Smith after thinking the subject over
for moment, "and how the people
have been frightened unnecessarily.
The result of the newspaper agitation
and the zeal manifested by the jobbers'
bnion has been to report to us some
2,0OO names of those who it had been
supposed had been omitted from the
enumeration. Yet our list showed
every one of those 1000. and not one
| additional name has been written in.
That is the best possible proof that our
| system has been effective, and that the
enumeratorS have been thorough in the
| canvass"
The supervisor will keep his Office
open days and evenings up to midnight
Wednesday for information of single
men. This information will be handed
to the enumerator who has canvassed
the particular territory where such per-
| sohs are reported to res ide or room, land
| in the event the names are not already
on the lists, visit will be forthwith
| paid to the room indicated. Then. if
| the party is found there, the name will
| be taken. The supervisor is forbidden
| by all ironclad and rock-ribbed proviS-
ion in the census law to accept names
| in any other way, and Mr.. Smith insists
| that none will be taken in any way eX-
cept as prescribed by the law.