Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-22
Sioux City Not Satisfied With
the Work of Its Census
Enumeration
BUSINESS MEN TAKE a HAND
A Systematic Hunt for More Citizens
Has Been Started With the Result
That 800 Who Were Missed by the
Enumerators Have Been Reported
Hope to Reach 10000.

Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, May 22.-Has Sioux oi's
40 900 inhabitants, as claimed by Phe
sioux CITY Commercial club, or only
20 600 as reported by Enumeration G. c
Wales?
This is the question which is absorb
ing the attention of Sioux City busl-
ness men.
Recently the Commercial club SEM
ont circular letter requesting those
whose names had not been taken as
residents of Sioux City to send them te
the Commercial club. To their sur
prise the names have been pouring ~
at phenomenal rate, and today the
club presented the census taker WITH
500 to add to his lisf.
Mr.. Wales has had his deputies OUT
for some time, and as fast as he com
pleted a ward he sent the reports ~
Des Moines. 1t was said at his olllce
TODAY that Sioux City would be cred
ited with population of not more
than $4,000. This prompted the COM
mercial club to begin the investigation
MANY Names Were Missed
The clmb discovered that Mr.. Wales
had agreed to take the census OF olou"
City for $3.50. He paid deputies Sc
curing the names $500 per day Ihe
deputies brought in from 500 to l,oou
names each day. Mr.. Wales received
about Z cents per name, on a basis OF
40. 900 inhabitants The work was soon
completed. and 1t was discovered that
the deputies had encountered some
difficulties in getting names and had
missed many. The Commercial club
paid Mr.. Wales 500 more than he re-
ceived from the county to furnish the
club with a list of the names.
Cards and letters. telephones and
messengers began bringing in names
and as many as seventy-five and lOV
were found in wards which the census
taker had finished, according to the
Commercial club.
1t now believed that the full 10000
will be turned in before the lists close
June 1, Enumeration Wales has agreed
to make further efforts to secure names
and many of his deputies will assist
the Commercial Club in getting more
names.
Park Commission at Stake.
In the Chicago house. seventy -five
people were found. whose names had
not been listed, and a number of Office
buildings have sent in the names OF
twenty and thirty people who had new
err met the enumeration. In the county
Jail there are half hundred residents
most Of whom are citizens of Sioux
City, who have never been counted.
Sioux City is entitled to a popula-
ton of 10000 if there are that many
| here" declared a business man today
"The work has been done as quickly as
possible, as the job was let in a bunch
instead of so MUCH per name as is the
usual way of getting a census report
1t is said the census taker was to be
paid $2,750 for the job, because he re-
ceived $500 for making the assess
ment. On that basis the deputies have
skipped big punches of people, which
they would have found had they been
receiving or cents for each name"
Sioux City business men are excep-
tionally anxious to have 100000 names
appear on the census rolls, as this
would allow Sioux City to have a park
commission and issue bonds of the
parks for their improvement. This is
only one of the many advantages to be
gained by having "a city of 10000 and
every effort will he made to find every
man and woman in the city.