The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-27
NEGROES ID HELP
 TAKE TIE CENSUS
Director Durand Gives Instruc-
 ton To Supervisors
CITY TREASURY IS EMPTY
Chattanooga Will Face the New Year Without Money and City Will Have to Economlze Until
 Better Times.

Chattanooga. December 2s.-(speeial)- Supervisor John H. Early, who has just returned from a conference of census su- pervisors, held in the Piedmont hotel in Atlanta, says that some negroes will be employed as enumerators in taking the census of 1910. The conference was at tended by some 30 or A0 supervisors, rep resenting the states of Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Georgia. It lasted two days. E. Dana Durand, director of the census, and William c. Hunt, statistician of population. were present, and gave an outline of the work as if is to be prosecuted In the crusade, and Is to commence April i5 next, and in- formed the supervisors fully as to their duties
 When the question of employing negroes in the work was brought up, MT Early says that Director Durand stated that the President had authorized their being ap- pointed as enumerators; in fact, had in- sisted upon it.
 This. however. said MT. Early. was not made as a general or broad state ment. There were a number of oualifca- tions and restrictions mentioned, and in justice to the President I think these should be made public. The President. we were told. has directed that negroes, when properly qualified ones can be found, must be appointed to do the enum- eration work in the thickly populated col ored settlements, but they will have DO authority to enumerate the white popula- ton even in those districts. This order was made for sufficient reasons which were detailed to the enumerators."
 No less than five suits have been brought in the circuit court against the owners of as many automobiles. growing out of an accident near Olympia park one Sunday evening last summer. when II. l.. DeBardeleben and his wife were thrown from their buggy, the horse hay ing been frightened by an automobile. Both Mfr and Mrs. DeEardeleben were se- riously injured and were confined in the hospital for some time. The multiplicity of lawsuits arose over some uncertainty as to who actually owned the automobile that was responsible for the runaway
 J. c. Davidson. aged 75, died very sud denly Friday. Deceased came to this city from Galveston So far as could be learned he had no relatives in this section His living came to him regularly from England, but nobody seems to know from what particular source.
 A full day was taken off on Christmas Day by the men connected with the army and navy recruiting station in the city. It is the custom Of Uncle sams men to enjoy the full benefits of every national holiday. The soldiers and sailors in the local offices spent the day celebrating &C., cording to each ones particular taste. Over 10000 circular letters were mailed on Friday from the navy station to pos sible candidates for the naval service in various sections of the district. Three re- cruits have been added to the list during the week. They are F J. Jackson, At lanta; W. D. Walker, Graniteville, H., John H. Oxley, Chattanooga
 Chattanooga's municipal treasury will go into the year 1910 owing the city banks s720o0. The panic" will strike the treas urer's office on Monday, and It will be anything but Merry Christmas' for that official. The treasury must cough up on that date t32, ,2s1.2 .24 to be sent to New York to meet interest payments due Jan uary l. It will be necessary, in order to meet that part of the pay roll that has not been advanced for Christmas money, to increase this expenditure to sB, GOO The city has already borrowed TOO and the s4,oo0 will increase the indebtedness to s72.o00. Heavy license collections in Jan uary will make 1t possible to pay back this indebtedness, but the treasury will not see "dry land" again before April l. Then, after about two months of com parative opulence. according to the most conservative calculations. will come the days of the floating debt and parsimony.
 Ed o. Bryant. through counsel has fled suit in the circuit court against the Mont lake CoeJ company. near Daisy. He al- leges that while employed by the defend- ant the roofing of part of the mine fell fin on him and that he was seriously in- jured. One leg was fractured and num- Der of ribs are said to have been broken. The plaintiff places his damages at $3Oo0, and among other allegations is one to the effect that no proper inspector was em- ployed in the mine as required by law.
 
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