Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-01-10
SEEK CENSUS
APPLICANTS
Supervisor Fem of This
District Wants More Per-
sons for the Positions.
The TESTS SUBMITTED

been issued by supervisor of census
William X. Fem. He urges all per-
sons in his district desiring to serve
to obtain their application forms at
once and to file them with him be-
fore January 25, when he must stop
considering new applications in or
der to prepare for the test Of the
previous applicants on February 8.
After this he will examine and rate
the papers until about February ~,
when he will forward his list of
designations as enumerators, with
their test papers, to Census Direc-
tor Durand, who will carefully go
over and rerate the papers of the
successful candidates before giving
his consent to the issue of commits
sions to them by the supervisor. BY
the middle or latter part of March
all the enumerators will have been
commissioned and in receipt of de-
tailed instructions concerning their
work.
To quiet any qualms relative to
i the test" of the qualifications OF
| applicants, to be made February b,
the supervisor has obtained some in
formation from the census director
concerning the test" of Twelfth
Census enumerators. 1t has been
officially stated that the 1910 test
will be very similar to the one in
the preceding census and will con-
sist in requiring applicants to NIL
sample schedules from printed mar
| ratives concerning census facts. AS
! the rural enumerators are to carry
both the population and agricultural
schedule, they will be tested with
samples of both, but the city emu
merators, who carry the population
schedule alone, will only be required
| to prove their ability by filling
sample of that schedule.
| The test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was, in part, as
| follows:
The enumerator of the forty
fifth enumeration district of the
ninth supervisors district of the
State of Pennsylvania, in the village
of Port Royal Londonderry Town
ship, Schuylkill county, begins his
/ enumeration June /, 1900, at No.
| 201 Burton street.
| This house is occupied by a SIN
gle family, consisting of Patrick
OLeary, his wife, NJ fgaret, and his
son, James.
Patrick came to this country
| from Ireland Cwhere he was born of
Irish parents) in May of 1870,
when he was Just twenty-five years
old Three years after his arrival
he was married to an Irish girl who
| had come over from his native viii
! lage a year before. As soon as pos
slble he became naturali2ed. He
can read and write and speak Eng
lish, and owns a good house, free of
incumbrance, which he has bought
from his earnings as a teamster, in
which occupation he has had steady
work during the past year.
Margaret, his wife, is also OF
| Irish parentage, and was born in
| January, and is nearly four years
younger than her husband. She has
had two children, only one of whom
is living. She Can read and speak
! English, but has to make her mark
for her signature.
James was born in Harrisburg,
February, 1875. He has good
common school education, works at
any sort of day labor, and secured
nine months steady work during
the past year. He Is not married.
"In the next house. 203 Burton
street, the enumeratOr found an
English woman by the name of
Mrs. Jane Parker, widow, occupy
| ing rented house with her single
daughter, Virginia, and her married
daughter, Nellie E., and the husband
/ Of the latter, Albert Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came TO this coun-
try thirty-four years ago, has
good education, is a dressmaker by
trade, and has constant employ
ment. She was fifty years old last
| April. and is of Scottish birth on
her mothers side. She has had
| four children, three OF whom are
living and one of whom has died.
Virginia is of English parentage,
has been through the local schools
and has been saleswoman for
eight months OF the past year; she
was born in Philadelphia in March,
1877,
"Nellie E. was twenty-eight years
old last January, and has but re-
Gently married. She was born in
Baltimore, reads, writes, and speaks
English.
"Albert Johnson, the husband of
! Nellie, was born in New York city,
] Ol w ClSl poi ClltSJ 4NONNiliDCis ioNbs
He is in the grocery business and
keeps his own books and accounts"
1t seems comparatively simple,
according to the supervisor, to draw
out Of the above statement the re-
quired details for the population
schedule and to enter them under
the proper column divisions relating
to location, name, relationship, per-
sonal description, nativity, citizen
ship, occupation, education, etc.
About all such a test can do is
to evidence the legibility of an ap-
plicant's handwriting and his ability
to determine where to write in the
sample schedule the facts clearly
stated in the narrative.
The agricultural schedule narra-
tive for 1909 was very similar, ex-
cept that the facts stated relate to
farms and farming operations.
Before the test" February the
supervisor will send each applicant
list OF instructions concerning fill
ing in the21test' schedules, which
will still further simplify the sub
ject and insure the passing Of the
test by those who possess only an
ordinary common-school education