St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-04

where the Individual had bcen pre-
v1ously enumerated; special forms to
indicate the fact when informant had
been obtained secondhand; forms to
indicate refusal to give the required in
formation, and special forms to be
used where remuneration was on the
basis of per diem.
Almost from the date of the passage
and approval of the law, April %, until
the time of appointment of enumer-
ators, June 1, applications for the po-
sition of enumerator began to pour in
From some of the city districts as
many as fifty applicants for a single
place were received, and it is fair to
say that, on an average, there were
ten applications for each place, or TO-
900 applications for the LOCO appoint
mentS which were made. The matter
Of appointments was under the special
charge of Secretary Berg and Capt.
Wildt, and the selections were made
without regard to politics or political
affiiation, on the basis of qualificat ton
, only. About June 1 the full force was
actively at work gathering names, and
almost Immediately reports from this
force and schedules filed with names
j began to arrive at the bureau. AS fast
as the schedules and reports were re-
, ceived they were marked
WITH A FILE STAMP,
| showing their date of arrival. After
! being inspected as to regularity OF
form they were filed away by counties
; and by district numbers, in the port
folios and schedules in which they
were qualified.
The correspondence up to this time
had been enormous in volume and re-
| quired the constant employment of sew
| eral stenographerS to answer letters
| alone. All correspondence, all reports
and all schedules were carefully and
properly filed away in their proper
places. By the middle of June some
few of the smaller districts were COM
pleted, and from that time until July
81 final returns We're being received
from all over the field The average
| size of the enumeration districts in the
country would be one or two town
! ships ranging from 1900 to 5000 people
In the larger cities the districts would
range from $500 to $500 people. With
| SO many enumerators it would be
! strange if all were equally competent
~.
| cases enumerators resigned or the
! bureau was compelled to remove them
| and appoint others. Such cases were
| very rare, and on the whole the force
| in the field was very efficient indeed
| The work Of checking up and count
ing names in various enumeration dis.
trlcts began in the latter part Of June
| as districts were finally completed, and
! is gong on at the present time Some
changes have been made in the en-
! ployes of the census bureau since the
office was first Instituted last spring.
The present force of the bureau is as
follows:
Albert Albert Berg, superintendent OF
G 9 Capt. P. ". Wildt, assistant
clerks; Miss Sadie Owre, Miss Mar,
Gilfillan, Miss May V. Mckay, stem
ographers; Miss Jennie BiXby, Miss
Julia Nichols, Miss Esther Cavallin
Nick c. O'Connor, clerks.
COMPENSATION SMALL.
The schedule of compensation for tn,
| enumeratorS has not been liberal anC
the bureau would gladly have increased
! the compensation in many cases haC
| it been possible to do so under the law
AS it is it is doubtful if the appropria
| ton will suffice for the compiling an(
publishing of the reports. In calculat
! ing the expense of the work the legis
lature did not. take sufficiently intl
consideration the increase in popuIa.
ton and the many inevitable in
cidental expenses that cannot be fore
seen and calculated upon in a work Of
such magnitude
In dealing with different cities O.
the state and different parts of tn,
state the bureau has applied to all tn,
same rules and granted to all the sam,
treatment. No special favors hav,
been shown to any locality or to an!
city, and it is believed that the result!