The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-30
EXTEND TIME TO
COMPLETE CENSUS
Washington Authorities Realize
ImpossibiIity of Task With
in Period Allowed.
MISS MANY IN SALT LAKE
COMMERCIAL CLUB RECEIVES
MANY COMPLAINTS DAILY.

Owing to the obstacles encountered
by census enumerators, and the fact
that 1t has been found absolutely i'm
possible to have a complete count made,
within the prescribed limit, the local
census bureau has been advised by the
census authorities at Washington that
an extension OF five days in the city and
ten days IN the country districts has
been granted. Therefore, those persons
in Salt Lake who have been overlooked
may get their names on the list up to
and including next Friday night. In
| the districts in the state outside of Salt
Lake the enumeration will continue till
May IL.
Supervisor McAIiliin and those asso-
ciated with him in the work will appre-
ciate the favor if any persons who have
any doubt as to whether they have been
placed on the population schedules will
communicate with the local census Of
flee.
The supervisor is about the most wor-
ried man in this part of the country.
| When he is not busy answering ques-
tons as to why certain people have not
been called upon, he is engaged in I'M
tangling the many vexatious matters
that deal with the enumeration. AT
present he is at Heber City trying 10
induce the enumerator for that district
TO stick 20 his job and reconsider his
resignation. This particular enumera-
tor got tired of counting the population
and mailed his resignation to Mr. Nc
Millin. The supervisor refused to ac-
cept it on the ground that, once an
enumeration has been sworn in, he can
not resign unless incapacitated by i'll
ness. After Strengthening out the Heber
City tangle, Mr.. McMillin will journey
10 Green River, where a similar case
confronts him.
Count Not Effective.
Salt Lake has lost 1000 persons in the
census enumeration during two DAYS,
| according to reports received by the
Commercial club yesterday. It appears
that the enumerators in some instances
are extremely neglectful, and in some
cases whole courts and streets have
| been omitted from the registry lists.
The Commercial club is up in arms
The census committee of the club is
headed by Hugh a. McAIilnn, super
visor of census in Utah, and a deter
mined effort will be made to see that
salt Lake gets a proper enumeration
! II IL Is found necessary, the Commercial
| club VIII put for of workers in the
! field next Monday &C check up on the
work OF Uncle Sans enumerators.
Fifty complaints va e received by the
Commercial club Friday. In some in
stances entire streets and courts had
! not been visited by the enumerators
The names that had been omitted ran
/ over the thousand mark, and when Sec
rotary Joseph Game left his desk last
night at the conclusion of an extremely
busy day, stack of unread complaints
was on his desk.
The census committee Of the CONNER
cial club held a meeting yesterday
morning and discussed the situation,
1t was decided TO continue the effort Ia
obtain fair census for Salt Lake, and
the newspapers viii be again asked 10
assist in the campaign.
From the reports obtained by the
Commercial club it appears that the To-
cal enumerators have been lax in some
instances. Mr.. McMillin is more anx-
lous than any other person to obtain a
fair statement, and he has declared his
intention of assisting the Commercial
club in its effort to secure a correct
enumeration. All over the country
complaints have been made about the
census, and Salt Lake is no exception.