Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-06
POPULATION MORE
THAN 100000 IS
CENSUS ESTIMATE
EnumeratorS will Continue Work
Today Checking Overlooked
Districts
COUNT MANY THOUSANDS SHY
Fifty Thousand Calls at Chamber
of Commerce by Those
Who Were Missed
COUNT MANY THOUSANDS SHY
N ENsUs DAYS are over

The period of enumeration
~ closed officially at midnight
Thursday, but large force of emu
merators and inspectors will be kept
busy by Census Supervisor Farmer to-
day on call-backs and reports of fam
lilies overlooked, and every report re-
ceived by the census office or the
chamber of commerce will be looked up
| at once. 1t is not too late to get on
the census rolls. If you have not been
| interviewed by an anumerator, nor
data concerning yourself been given
to the census officials by another per-
son, call up the census office in the
Exchange building, corner of Third
and Hill streets, Main 1852 or F4732, or
call up the chamber of commerce and
they will either take the information
| over the telephone or send an emu
merator to call on you.
1.-The Importance of full count of
| the population cannot be eXaggerat-
| ed" said Postmaster Harrison yester-
ray. For the next ten years Los An
| geles will be known by the census fig
ures, and the assignment of postal
clerks and mail carriers, as well as
federal appropriations in other lines,
being complied.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
Congressional districts will be read
justed as a result of the great in
crease of population on the Pacific
coast, and it is a public duty which
every citizen of Los Angeles owes to
the state to see that every resident
of the city is placd on the census rolls"
1.-THE official count of the population
of Los Angeles will run many thou
sands below the actual number of resi-
dents of the city," said Frank Wig
gins, secretary of the chamber of COM
merce last night, land 1t will be the
fault of the persons who are too lazy
to notify the office of the census
bureau, or to telephone tc the chamber
of commerce, that they have been over
looked by the enumerators.
FIFTY THOUSAND CALLS
'Tn justice to the residents who have
put themselves to great trouble to get
their names on the rolls, 1t should be
said that we have received probably
90 600 calls at our office from persons
who have the best interests of Los
Angeles at heart, who were determined
that no name should be omitted from
the returns through any fault of theirs,
and thousands of names have been
added to the rolls. although a con-
siderable percentage of the persons
who telephoned in were found to have
been enumerated unwittingly by other
members of the family or by friends.
ut is the duty of every citizen of
Los Angeles to make certain that his
name is on the census rolls, and every
person who is not sure that he has
been enumerated should call up the
census Office or the chamber of COM
merce and give the necessary 1ntor-
nation or leave his address so that an
enumerator can be sent to interview
him.
POPULATION 100000
'rWhile 1t now seems probable that
Los Angeles will not be given a popula-
tion of much more than 100000 by the
official figures of the census report,
the chamber of commerce still main
tains its estimate of 100000 as the cor
rect number of persons who are to be
found in the city. Working under
the handicap of lack of time and hasty
organization of his forces, Supervisor
Farmer could not be expected to in
clude all the residents of the city by
several thousand persons, and there
is constant transient population or
| 90 00O to 25,000 persons who could not
be included in the enumeration as in
habitants of Los Angeles"
Supervisor Farmer and his aides We're
tired set of men last night No stone
has been left unturned which would
add to the figures of the census, and
no clew which would lead to the addt-
ton of even one more name has been
set aside. Their temper has also been
tried by the usual imbecile jokes of
the village cutups, who have tele-
phoned in fictitious addresses in out of
the Way corners of the city, and caus-
ed much hardship and loss of time
to the enumeratorS.
RESULT KNOWN JULY
While it is impossible for the local
census officers to give out any in
formation regarding the population
there is an "indefinable something in
the atmosphere of the census office
which leads to the impression that the
figures will not fall short of the 300,
900 mark.
d'No figures will be available for
probably two months after the returns
are forwarded to Washington" said
Mr.. Farmer last night. "At the time
of the last census, which was COM
menced on June 1, the figures on the
total population of the United States
were given out September 1, two
months after the work was begun. On
account of the increase of population
in the United States, it may take lon
ger. to compile the statistics this year,
and I do not look for the total figures
to be published earlier than July l.
The population of the first-class cities
will not be known for week or ten
days later. and it will probably be
January / before the population of the
small towns and counties is known"
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