The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-06-07
POPULATION
ABOUT $1,000.
ManitOwOc Has Forged Ahead
Very Rapidly.
WHAT CENSUS MANS BOOKS WILL SHOW
Third, Fifth and Seventh Wards Show
Very Large Increase.
SOME OF THE ODDITIES OF CENSUS TAKING

Census takers are now hard at work.
They commenced their labors last Fri
day and will finish the enumeration
June 3d. So far the work has been
pushed with considerable vigor and some
approximate idea can be formed of the
increase of Manitowoc's population.
1t is estimated by those who should
know that the enumeration will be any
where between IA, 500 and 1880. This,
it is said, is fair estimate, based upon
conservative calculation.
In the First ward the rate oe increase
will not be SO large as in some others.
But nevertheless, it has had steady
growth, and will likely show that now
there are some $500 residents within
the boundary lines. The First ward is
so situated that it will not SO readily ex-
pand as the newer wards. Most of the
people have lived there for many years,
and it is largely built up.
GREAT GROWTH IN WARDS.
The wards that will show the greatest
percentage of increase according to the
figures of those in position to know,
will be the Fifth, Third and Seventh. In
these localities the census enumerators
books will show the number of residents
tebe three or four times as large as they
were ten years ago. People who have
come into Manitowoc from other places,
have generally taken up their abode ON
the south side of the city, and many of
the southsiders have moved to the north
side, thus will be noticed an increase in
the wards of the northside.
The enumerators have met with very
little difficulty in the progress of their
work. 1t is remarkable fact that near
ly all the persons who have been seen
are familiar with the English idiom.
Not quarter per cent. within the
city have admitted their unfamiliarity
with English speech. If this rate is
kept up it will show very surprising
linguistic aptitude ON the part of the
German, Norwegian and other people
who have crossed the ocean to make
their home in Manitowoc county.
NOT ALL A BED OF ROSES.
Ihe census man, however is not alto
gether living on bed of roses. There
is the comic and the distressful ends to
his work and he knows it when his days
labor is done. He carries an ominous
looking book much like the despised tax
gatherer's volume. Some of the un-
sophisticated give him anything but
cordial welcome when he calls at the
house. They believe he is bent on in
creasing taxes, and in such cases the icy,
rather than the glad hand, is extended.
1t takes him quite little while to recon
cile his mission to their favor. but when
ne does he gets just what he needs.
MAIDEN LADIES STAND AGHAsT.
Here and there he has run against a
fair maiden lady, who was born wear
or two before the Civil war, who with
piquant grace informs Mr. Merriams
man that she will be 26 years old on her
next birthday If he has the temerity
to look in quizzical way, sort of doubt
ing the accuracy of the lady's memory,
he comes in for a round of abuse such
as she can give when the knotty point
OF her age is disputed. But taking it all
IN all the census man might have a
worse job on his hands.