New-York tribune., 1905-06-25
IAMMANY TAKING CENSUS.
TABS ON @. W. MORGAN.
Wigzoam Emissaries Cause Trouble
for Regular Men.

Tammany Hall has been engaged for the last
month In making an independent census of the
city of New-York, according to information
which came to The Tribune yesterday from re-
liable sources. In many districts its enumera-
tors. working from the district heaoquarters
have Just preceded the employees OF the STATE
Enumeration Bureau sent out by Thomas e.
Brown jr., the supervisor for New-York county
The work of taking the State census, especially
in Manhattan, has been somewhat hindered by
this fact. With the census of the Department
of Health well under way and the city dlrec-
tory men preparing for new issue, many New
Workers have wondered what all the questioning
was about and the enumerators who came last
frequently got rather curt receptions
At the 14th-st. headquarters OF the Iammahy
organization one seems to know anStEllls
about an independent census Whether the
whole city is being covered or whether tne Iaiii-
MANY count is restricted to certain douptrul dls
tricts cannot be ascertained- Just what the
chiefs of the Wigwam are driving at IS mar u
to say
On the State enumeration will depend the re-
districtine of the State Senate and Assembly,
dis+r;c+s That the work is in the hands of Re-
nub1ican officials would be sufficient reason Tor
Tan1manv to keep tabs on the enumeration
That the census was to be taken recel'eo
much publicity, and the press senerahy urseo
citizens to help along with the Work as Inuch as
possible by answering questions. ihis "out'
give independent enumerators coiisluelap'e
advantage if they made the rounds pelore the
men employed by the State. 1t was suseesteo
Yesterday that the private census, if one really
has been taken, was part OF IanInahs seileii'e
te get even with George W. Morgan staps
s,,perintendent of Elections for the metropoh-
tan district At the last election he made no
end of trouble for wigwam district leaders oy
wedding out hundreds of illegal voters anu pre-
venting repeating on the large scale winch hao
been practised in the past. At that time threats
were made that Tammany Woulo never pe
caught mapping again. Mr.. Morgan was out
of the city yesterday and his opinion Oh Inc
subject could not be obtained
In this great "city OF the lonely, where there
ora hundreds of thousands OF roomers who are
orI, ar their 'homes" during the hours IN
n.bicb tbev Sleep the taking of census is j
great problem, and no matter how energeuc anu
| efficient the State enumerators may De many
ara overlooked. Thomas E. Brown, 1r, VINO is
| s,,narvising the work. is making last attempt
| to get in as many Of these stragslers as possl-
| ble He said yesterday to a Tribune reporter
| Several of the newspapers have stated in @ tneir
| co1un1ns that correspondents were writing them
tba+ tbev have been omitted from the state
| enumeration now being taken in this county.
will be glad send blanks ana stalnpSo Ieudih ~
| cnveIopes to any who have been overlooked y
they will request the same on al postal 1ard
addressed to me at my Office. NO loo Nassau-St
a. hos been impossible to get everybody, and II
is important that the census be as complete az
possible
Mr.. Brown declared that the figures which
| have been published coming from his office
were without authority. He declared that ne
| had not an idea whether the census would sho"
the usual increase over the last government cen
| Sis or not He had no tabulated figures on
| which to base such an estimate. The figures
| will be given out at Albany when the enumera-
| ton is completed.