The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-28
CENSUS OF TEE DISTRICT
Work of Counting the Population
Almost Completed.
Supervisor Dinsman Makes a Re-
quest Concerning Persons Who
Have Been Missed by the Enumcr-
ntors-The Effect of the Absence
of Summer PIcnsure-seckers.

The Supervisor of the local census enum-
GRAFTON, Harrison Dingman. wishes the
statement made that the count of the Dis
trict is nearing its finish, and that he will
| be pleased to receive from anyone who
has net been counted, Or who believes tina,
he has not, a notification to that effect, SO
that the returns may be completed. Only
a day or two now remain before the Dis
trict enumeration will be closed finally for
1900. After the clcee when the returns
| have been sent to the Census Bureau and
| given to the tabuiating machines 1t will
| be impossible for anyone to become a
(. part CT the recorded population for an
| other ten years. The Supervisor believes
| that the count has been thorough, he says,
but some mistakes may have been made;
| hence his request. He also wishes the
| suggestion made that any such notification
| of delinquency be made Immediately to
| ensure attention.
But two districts out of the ISL in the
District of Columbia now remain unfinished,
These are the sections in the extreme
northern corner of the District and in the
extreme southern corner, numbered re-
spectively 4 and 10. In both of these
the increase IN the population has been
very large since the last police census,
and the time allowed for the count has
therefore proven insufficient. The north
ern section, No. A. includes
Brightwood Petworth, anu the new
suburbs along Seventh Street extended
II is shown that the growth here has been
almost, If not quite, as rapid as anywhere
else in the District. In the southern end
of the District, from Anacostia south. are
included Hillsdale. Congress Heights, and
hpr he 10 hal
are shown to have grown in population
rapidly are Bloomingdale ard the North
Capitol District generally. between Flor
ida Avenue and Soldiers Home, and the
region west Of Thirteenth Street and north
of Florida Avenue. including Columbia
Heights, Mount Pleasant, Washington
Heights Connecticut Avenue Heights, and
other new subdivisions
Supervisor Dingman has made the inter-
esting discovery that the city will lose sew
erai thousand in its enumerated popula-
ton in the Northwest on account of the
summer absence from the city CT the smart
set. He believes that taking the census
in June instead of an earlier month will
almost II not quite nullify the real gain
that has taken place in parts Of this sec
ton in the time since the police census.
Many OF the houses are closed for the
summer and boarded up and 1t has been
impossible with the moet diligent search
TO get the data necessary to make the
count. In others. where the servants are
keeping residences open they are unable
to give the necessary facts and even una
bic TO give the addresses OF the absent
family. Sometimes it has been possible
of course TO trace the family to the sea-
shore or mountain resort, where they are
staying for the summer, and frequently in
this case 1t has been found that they have
been counted as of the census of these
places. Many families are in Europe and
will not figure in the present census in
any WAY.
The local enumeration will be completed
and the papers turned over to the Census
Bureau before the end OF the present week.