Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-16
CENSUS Carnival
GREAT CROWDS THRONG STREETS
OF CITY SATURDAY night.
The Carnival Huge Success as an
Aid to the Census and a General
Good Time. Vast Number Visit
the Finch building at the Formal
Opening.

if all the people on the streets of
Aberdeen Saturday night were count
ed in the census we should have no
doubt of showing 10000 or more popu.
lation. From o'clock in the evn-
ing until long after midnight, Heron
street. from F. to X streets, was
thronged with merrymakers, all bent
on pleasure, and determined to make
the most of the census carnival.
Ten tables were scattered along the
street, at each OF which was spe-
cial census enumeratOr, with assist
ants who accosted the passers-by with
the question. Have You Been Count
ed?" Ten thousand tags, bearing the
inscriptiOn, Il Have; Have YOu?
had been distributed, and were worn
by everybody. About 1000 names
were secured, which is considered a
HgOOd number when the careful can
vas already made of the city is con-
kSidered.
The great crowd was all good ma.
ture, and stood the throwing of con-
ufetti and Talcum powder without
yremonstrance. Good nature was in
the air everywhere. Two brass
bands supplied the music, abetted by
kevery ear tOrturing device imagin-
liable, punctured at irregular intervals
lby the hOarse tOOtings of automobile
thOrns. Taken altogether, the carni-
tval was huge success, and the CON-
tmittee in charge is deserving of the
THANKS of the city for producing such
Iattractions in the limited time afford
led them.
The parade, headed by Jim Bowes,
lin a custom borrowed from the Sells
tFlOtO show, accompanied by lady"
followed by a brass band and about
fifty automobiles, many of them beau
ltifully decorated.
A. H. Griffin took first prize for
decorated car with his Winton Six,
lwhile S. X. Bowes got second prize.
iThe judges being Mrs. James A. Hood
MRS. J. M. Garman and Mrs. j. M.
lBowes.
The side show at G and Heron
streets, For Men Only" was true to
name, the exhibit being pair of mere
mans suspenders, so that the spell
lers, Phil S. Locke and Dan Pearsall,
could scarcely be accused of mutilat-
ling the truth in setting forth the
beauties of the show.
A big feature of the evening was
lthe formal opening OF the big, five
istory Finch building, which was hand
Esomely Illuminated from top to bot
tom and thrown open to the public.
Qt was particularly attractive to the
ladies, many of who had not been
Through the building before, and the
might was not considered complete
without trip through the house, u.s.
hally going to the top floor in the
elevator and coming down the hand
some staircases, and all were loud in
praise of the enterprise that erected
such a building in Aberdeen.
In addition to the success of the
affair as a carnival, much good was
accomplished by directing attention
Ito the necessity of being counted in
the census. The time for enumera-
lion was to have closed Saturday
hight, but was extended until next
"Wednesday night by Supervisor
Kelley, and the census committee of
the Chamber of Commerce has the
work so we'll in hand, that the count
At that time will be as complete as
Is possible to attain.
One cannot observe the taking of
The census without being impressed
with the sense that the system of the
Federal government is at fault. Left
To the federal enumeratOrs, the ex-
Derience of the committee justifies
the opinion that but few more than
half of the inhabitants of Aberdeen
would have been counted, and the
Same seems to be the experience in
all the rapidly growing cities on the
Pacific Coast.