New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-07

Brooklyn When Rice first published his state
ncnt of the results OF the consus-that is. oil
April 81. about an hour before the Legislature
adourned--he distributed among the newspaper
correspondents a number Of typewriter tables
which he gave ont for publication. They were
entitled Whole Number Of Inhabitants in Each
Comfy, Classified as Citizens and Aliens" Then
followed a list Of the counties in alphabetical
order and n statement OF their population In
that statement the population Of King County
given out 06S. TAG. But couple Of hours later.
and before these figures had been published, the
correspondents were informed that mistake had
been made in the footing for Kings County, and
that It's population was not ,74G. but 095,276.
a difference and an increase Of 26,530.
When the correspondents went to inquire how
this happened, various explanations were given.
no two of which agreed. To correspondent
il WAS said that il was all account Of the fail
urc Ia carry forward a figure in adding the ward
totals of the city Of Brooklyn To another it
was said that the trouble with the election dis
trct figures. third asccrtaincd that several
election districts had been left out in the
first computations. and a fourth heard that an en-
tire ward total had gone astrny.
II was undoubtedly the fact that originally
made out, the Kings County population was mi III
had made IL out to be- On the other hand as
revised and corrected, it was much larger. The
County Clerks figures were 9ss. or. When the
typewriter tlbulations handed out TO the
reporters, "A Brooklyn Senator speedily dis
covered that there were not as many people
assigned 10 Kings County as he had been con-
Gdcntly expecting He went TO the Secretary OF
States Office and had an interview with a re-
spon-iblc official there. Shortly thereafter the
revised figures given ont 1t is scarcely
possible 20 doubt that this was direct and de-
lbera,c fraud.
now cHURcns COMPUTATIONS WE'RE MADE.
The population Of Brooklyn had been originally
computed by clerk Of the name Of Church He
il said 10 have been school teacher in Of the
interior cities and to he "A man Of education and
efficiency rs fas, A. the Brooklyn cards came in
hy election districts from the outer room they
were assorted and grouped by wards and by col
ors in the inner room. That is. all the sets of
cards for a given ward-thosc Of one color showing
the whole number Of inhabitants. those Of another
color the citizens. and those Of the third color the
alicus-wcrc got together. This work was done
by Lawlor who verified il by n set Of tables
furnished by the Secretary Of State. showing the
number of election districts in each and every
ward. All the cards for given ward having been
collected and arranged. they were passed TO
Church. and he performed the additions.
lie took the blue cards for each ward and added
together the number Of citizens as shown by them
Then he took the yellow cards and ascertaincd the
number Of aliens Then he took the brown cards
and asccrtaincd the whole number Of Inhabitants
IL, in his additions. he found that the sum Of
the citizens plus that Of the aliens cquallcd that
Of the whole number Of inhabitants he assumed
his work 20 he correctly done and entered it,
results But If there was discrepancy between
the whole number Of Inhabitants and the sum
of the citizens and aliens combined II was plain
either that his additions were wrong that tho
work Of the computers and yercrs in the other
room had been inaccurate. When any such dill
Guilty occurred Church hunted after the until
he found IL, even If IL was necessary for him "
consult the original roll.
As t'ir computations for each ward were COM
pctcd and verified he entered the results upon
Il new set Of cards. On red card he recorded
the whole number of citizens in the ward, a
pink card the whole number OF aliens, and on a
green card the whole number of inhabitants
Then from these last sets of cards made out for
all the wards he computed the whole number Of
citizens the whole number Of aliens and the
total population OF the city Of Brooklyn. These
results wcrC entered on three white cards. each
being distinguished from the other by the color
Of the printers ink used in the printed matter
upon them. To these totals, recorded in black
ink on the white card, an addition made of
the total inmate population attributed 10 the city
Of Brooklyn, consisting Of 1856. And when this
had been added ana entered upon the white
cards in ri ink the sum was the entire popula-
ton Of the entire city.
No ERROR WAS POSSIBLE IN CHURCW'S COUNT
cannot gay positively what Churchs result was,
but there Is ndspuiabe evidence that il did not
vary more than 1000 from 035, 900 either way
This work was completed early in the week in
Which the report of Secretary Rice was submitted
10 the Legislature, either on Monday or Tuesday
| That report was made Thursday at noon, and,
as have shown, Church's figures were INCORPORATE
in it, with the effect of making the total population
| of KINGS County 06S,iA6. On that day the
| brooklyn Senator made his complaint and almost
| immediately thereafter $3.50 was added to the
KIn.s County total.
| The next day Mr. Waterbury was heard TO accuse
| Church Of having made n mistake, and OF having
put the population Of Brooklyn much lower than il
was. Waterbury said that the error had been dis
covered by making footing Of the election dis
trct returns for the whole city IA abulatcd in tyuc-
written form upsiails. The returns referred TO
| by Mr. Waterbury were the same Identical sets of
| cards which Church had used IN computing his
figures aud were the ones received from the outer
| room, where they had been made up, as described
| from the original enumerat0rs' rolls. Ordinarily
the totals of counties and cities were made i'm the
enumeration bureau before the election district
cards and tue town. county, ward and city total
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