St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14
III. III. FULLER EXPLAINS THE
WORK DONE AT THE d.
RECTORY ROOMS.
LISTS GO TO STATE BUREAU.
EVERY EFFORT MADE TO BE
CORRECT, NOT TO PAD
THE RETURNS.
LAST APPEAL TO CITIZENS.
But q Short Time Left to Report
Omissions or Correct
Mistakes.

H. H. Fuller, secretary of the citi-
zens census committee, was very
much amused last night when shown
the so-called expose of the commit
tees methods which appeared in an
evening sheet emanating from the
Flour City.
'The matter is perfectly simple
and innocent" said he, "and it is
the height of absurdity to pretend
that it in any way cloaks dishonest
intentions. There is no secret that
the local committee has been, and
is still, employing from eight to a
dozen clerks in the very natural and
necessary work of aScertaining from
the proof sheets of the new city
directory the actual number Of bona
fide residents in st. Paul. The clerks
have been stationed down in the
German-American Bank building,
not because they were being hid
den, but merely because they were
Immediately under the offices of the
Polk Directory company, and there
fore conveniently accessible to the
proof sheets of the new directory
These proof sheets were of course
constantly in use by the directory
people.
'Now, the work Of the census
committee here has been arranged
in this way: A great many sched-
ules have been filled out by hum
dreds, or even thousands, of citizens
who were temporarily staying at
the lakes, or visiting in other cities,
or abroad. Added to these were
multitude of other schedules filled
out by, or at the request of, per-
sons who had been, or had reason
to think they had been, skipped by
the state enumeratorS. The con-
tents of all these schedules were
copied into the books of the citizens
bureau, and then the schedules were
sent to the state erumerators, who
had already been over the same dis
trictS, with the request that the
state enumerators would kindly COM
pare these new schedules with their
own work, and make any correc-
tions or any new Investigations that
might seem proper. The local bu-
reau has no control over the state
enumerators, and it can only offer.
these suggestions in spirit of
friendly cooperation. Whether such
suggestions are needed in any case
is, of course, never known to the
bureau.
Now. for the directory compar-.
ison. The new directory is made up
by skilled employees, and is sup
posed, rightfully, to contain a most
careful and accurate list of the actu-
al residents of this city The names.
were copied off the proof sheets
simply to get them in such shape.
that they could be readily compared
with the lists sent in by the local
! enumerators. But it was a comap-
rison of names, addresses, occupa-
tions, and practically nothing more,
for the information contained in the
directory is, of course, not sufficient
1y complete to enable one to use the
names in filing out regular census
schedules. This work of comparison
had been going on for several weeks.
and will be continued. Whenever a
name of bona fide resident is
found in the directory, ,and not found
in the local ceusus list, note of the
fact is made in the books of the
local bureau. The name, however, is
not added to the list made out by
the local enumerator. Nor, mind you,
Is the missing name sent to the state
enumerator of that district The only
use made of the additional names
SO secured from the directory is to
send them to the general bureau of
the state ceusus with the statement
that such name should apparently be
included in the count of actual res
idents. The bureau is requested, at
the same time, to make such investi-