The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-08
PLANS FOR TWELFTH CENSUS.
SUPERVISOR BLUM WILL HAVE I35
ENUMER ATORs TO APPOINT.

First Congressional District INTO
Enumeration Districts Received.
Chatham County VIII Have IS of
the 1875 Districts. of which 40 win
BE in the City-Tbe Plan RemnrkR-
bly, Thorough and Complete and a
Credit to the Census Bureau-MIIi-
tia Districts and City Wards
Largely Used in Defining the
Enumeration Districts.
Capt. Harry Blum. Jr., Is finding that
there is considerable work attached TO the
position of census supervisor Of the FIRST
Congressional district. and as the sup1r-
visor does not receive a con sressman's
salary he is aeginning to realize that the
limited amount allowed by the government
for this work will be wen earned. He is
not making any kicks. however.
Capt. Blum has just received from tie
director of the census the plan of d.
vision of the First district into enumera-
ton districts. The plan is as thorough
complete and systematic piece or work
of its kind as could possibly be gotten up
and If II Is a sample Of the work which
the director of the twelfth census Is do
ing it is a very strong indication that the
census of 1900 will be the most Thorough
and complete that the country has yet
had.
The plan divides the First district into
1S5 enumeration districts. which means
that Supervisor Blum will have just that
many enumerators to appoint next spring.
The plan was made in the office of the
director of the census, based upon infor-
nation obtained from the district super
visor and state and county officials, in
Guiding maps of each county and city.
This one item of mapping out the several
hundred supervisors districts in the Unit
ed States into enumeration districts must
have in itself involved a vast amount of
work, and the thorough manner in which
It has been done, as evidenced by the plan
received by Supervisor Blum, is valuable
evidence of the system which prevails in
the directors office.
There are ten counties in the First Con-
gressional district, and each is taken up
alphabetically and divided into enumera-
ton districts. In most instances, outside
of Chatham county, the militia districts
are constituted enumeration districts,
though in number of instances
militia districts are divided into
two or more enumeration dis
tricts. The population of each district, as
shown by the last census, together with
that Of each city and town. is given.
Bryan county is divided into four dis
tricts, each militia district being an emu
meration district.
Burke county is divided into seventeen
enumeration districts, Waynesboro being
divided into two districts, and militia dis
tricts 60 and So being combined into one
district.
In Chatham county the,Fifh militia dis
trict is divided into three enumeration dis
tricts, the Sixth into two districts, the Sew
enth into two and the Eighth into three.
The population of these districts in 1890
was as follows Fifth district. 4344; Sixth.
3057; Seventh. 2SOl; Eighth 4,S76.
The population of Savannah in 1890 ac-
cording to the census of that year. was
1919 A great many people thought this
figure was too small by several thousand.
The general estimate of the population at
present is between $500 ana 70.O0O, and
should the next census fail below the
former figure in eny appreciate degree
there will be much disappointment. Su-
pervisor Blum is prepared however, to
give his personal guarantee that when the
census of 1900 is complete il will contain
the name of every man, woman and child
within the city limits. including those who
died after the census was begun The
careful and methodical manner in which
the preparations for the census are being
made and the fact that il is in good hands
are the best indications that the guarantee
will be fulfilled
The city is divided into forty-six enumer-
ative districts, running by number
nom 81 TO 76. The city wards
are largely used in making the
divisions, and the boundary OF each dis
rict by streets. river and other natural
and artificial boundaries is given. In maxi
Ing the division the director. or more prob
CE1
reau, began in Yemacraw. North Ogle-
thorpe ward Is divided into three districts.
Middle Oglethorpe into two, and South
Oglethorpe is a district to itself. Next
comes Railroad ward. Springfield planta-
ton, Sewell ward. Choctaw and OMEN
wards, Walton ward. Roberts and Garden
wards, Battery Park and Laurel Grove
Cemetery Whether the enumerator is
expected to obtain the population Laurel
Grove Is not stated
Other districts by numbers are as fol-
lows: AZ. Marshall ward 4s, Law. NIL
drim Owens Duncan, Stiles Dale. De-
mere. Bacon and Brownsville wards -.
Lester, Faligant, Flanrery EstiI, Lowell
and Solomons wards; 80, r pplrd. Thomas.
Dasher, Wadley and Griffin wards; 81.
Cummings, Barry. Garland, TeFnac and
Southvlle wards; 81 Cue and G lie
wards; 3d. Lloyd ward; a. Castor aad
Charlton wards; 50. Currietown aud Ber-
AiNA NoiNss 90 INlANkl ana Chatham
wards 81, Ebert aud Jackson wards: s.
Liberty and Heathcote wards; So Frank
lin and Decker wards; So Derby and Rev
nolds wards; 81, Percival and Ansln
wards; 62 Warren aud Columbia wards:
6S. Washington and Greene wards; ca
Trustees. Gardens ard Carpenters Row:
ca Magazine and Gil merville wards. &C
Crawford and Jones wards; 81, Brown 3nl
Crawford wards; 6S. Jasper, Iaeayett g
and Monterey wards; CO, Troup and Bar
tow wards; 70, Davis warl; Il, Calhoun
and Wesley wards; y Forsyth Place,
stephens. Forsyth and Cuthbert wards
%, White ward; "A, Lee ana War ng
wards 70, Atlantic ward; rs. Sohley. II "
wood. Kelly. Weed Padelford and Te.fair
wards.
Anyone who knows in which ward he
lives can tell the number Of the enum ra-
ton district in which he wiz be counted
those who are MOI 50 wei Informed can
easily ascertain their ward by look ng al
a city map. The names Of the city wa a.
commemorate the names Of many
OF Savannah Cd ana honored citizens.
bur there are SO many Of these wards