The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21

SAeso tA4ukS mIO consideration and made
my plans accordingly AVE-
about the hrst Of May received q
communicate from wallace q. Nye,
secretary Of the public affatrs committee,
stating that business men Of this city
were interested in securing complete
count ana offered to assist this bureau
financially. After comforting with you and
lion. p. Hanson. we found that the
appropriation made by the legislature was
insufficient to cover the needs Of taking
q complete census In so populous city
as minneapolis, and you gave me the au-
thority to use such help as the public af-
fairs committee Of the Minneapolis Com
mercial CLUB gave, which was very bene-
fetal to this bureau. 4.
The public affairs committee of the
Commercial club appointed the following
members to act as a census committee:
9. s. Cairns, ]. c. F. Ely, G. w. Johnson,
TIL. Girling, B. F. Nelson, Fred r. Sails
bury, w. A. Eggleston and Congressman
Fletcher. These men represented different
interests, such as Realty board, Chamber
OF Commerce, Lumbermen, Retail Mer-
chants associations, and the census bureau
should thank this committee for assist
ance rendered. :. BY this aid we
added 1881 names to the census Of Min
neapolis
The newspapers of this city rendered us
valuable aid In arousing public sentiment
to the point where the public realized
how important complete count would be
to Minneapolis and the state.
Following is an itemized statement of
the funds furnished by the public af-
fairs committee Of the Commercial club
and their expenditure, including the
number Of specials, the clerical force,
cost OF printing postage and incidentals:
Chief clerk, two and one-half months. $3.50. 90
Fourteen clerks, aggregate 1913 days. av- 90, Ak
stase Per aay, Sam 81, 10
gate 586 days, average per day,
Furniture, supplies. printing and post. '0''
Iotal. $50. 81, 469 80
Mr.. Rain also acknowledged in high.
est terms the services of his chief clerk
E. B. Sanders of Wayzata, whose work
he pronounced exceedingly efficient.
Nye Commends Rain.
| In behalf of the Commercial club
| Wallace G. Nye has sent letter to Mr.
| Wright in which he said in part:
I seize the opportunity to express tt
you, on behalf Of the Minneapolis Com
mercial club, our commentator for the
careful, patnstaking work Of A. A. D
Rain, supervisor for this county. Ir
planning his work, in directing his force
Of enumerators, and in carrying out the
many details incident to the taking of 9
census in SO populous a district, he dem.
onstrated exceptional capacity. The
schedules. we believe, show fairly com.
plete count Of our population, for which
gratifying result he Is in very large meas.
ure responsible. F..
I desire also to express to you and tt
Hon. P. E. Hanson, secretary Of state
our appreciation Of your joint courtesy II
accepting the cooperation of our citizens
to the end that a complete count might
| be secured. We sought permission tt
supplement the work Of your bureau be.
cause we felt that the appropriation made
by the legislature would not enable 20,
to employ the machinery necessary II
order to accurately take the census of E
/ large city. - - mestto saa !
To arouse the sense Of civic pride in ou1
people was the first and most importan
thing we sought to accomplish We sue
| ceeded in this to a marked degree b!
] means of circulars distributed thru tn
schools, by articles in the papers, and b!
| personal work among employees Of ou
Industrial plants. Our people became
deeply interested and were thus prompted
| to assist the enumerators In every pos
sible way: - @E
In addition to the work Of publicity w
supplied your supervisor with force o
clerks and special 5enumerators, who's
work contributed greatly to the satisfac
4 tory result obtained. This special force
however, as you know, were under tn
sole direction Of your supervisor and wer'
not interfered with ohselictated TORN an!
manner by our committee.
/ We cannot doubt that the result Of tn
census In this county is as gratifying t.
you and other officials Of the bureau al
it is to our people, and we are especial!
| pleased that the work here was com
pleted without delay or inconvenience t.
| your department. @.t~