The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16
CENSUS WORKERS
. \ AVE GOOD DAY
Little Trouble Experienced in
Counting Population OF
Richmond.
TWO ENuMERAToRs QUIT
Bunch Of Foreigners Found. and
Work Hats Until Inter
prefer Is Found.
TWO ENUMERAT0Rs QUIT

Much pleased with the hearty CO.
operation given him by the people of
/ Richmond, and with the general will
ingness to cheerfully answer the in
terrogatories. Census Supervisor =
Ridgeway Moore regards his first
i days work as eminently successful
i Although the telephone at headquar-
tiers in the Mutual Building was kept
1 going constantly with questions from
enumerators involving points as to the
| construction of instructions, there was
not single complaint that any per-
son had refused to answer questions
Some weak points in tho organiza-
ton, as was expected, developed at
the last moment. Two enunerators
gave up their positions before they
1 started One of these was In Wash
i ington Ward, but before the day ended
Mr.. Moore had substitute busy there
The illness of an enumerator IN
i King William county was reportcd
1 and one of the office clerks was Inn
4 mediately dispatched to West Point
r. mt n, man In his place. Except a
report or two from Williamsburg. no
i other word was received from sections
Of the district outside of this city.
No Vacancies.
Probably twenty in all of the men
engaged did not serve for one reason
or another. most of them having Sc
cured permanent employment. whlch
thew preferred to this temporary Jop
But their places had all been fiiied
when the time came to so 10 WORK
, Yesterday morning.
This morning the first days reports
viii begin to come in by mail THESE
Z are expected to contain only the num-
her of persons seen during the day,
> but other information as to the prog
/. ress of the work may be added. The
l mon were doubtless for the most part
dead tired when their days labor was
: ended, for they did not show UP at
the census office late yesterday after
noon. They are not required to re-
port there.
Ten inspectors worked in Manchester
. from o'clock until noon. When the
: whistles blew they walked TO the next
70 houses and worked in Washington
. Ward. This name VIII mean no more t'5,,
to the clerks in Washington than vii
Madison Ward. and Manchester VII
be unknown there.
stumped the Worker.
colony of foreigners from the
south Of Europe We're discovered by
, one enumerator. They had but re
] Gently arrived and could speak no
= one word OF English Not only coul6
] they not answer the questions. bu
they had not the rcmotest conception
what the census-taker wanted Will
them He quit In disgust and reported
st to the office. The supervisor is au-
thorized in such cases to employ ar
interpreter. who will be retained anc
will accompany the enumerator to
day.
Two inspectors wexe on duty all da,
- in the wards north Of the river Thes'
men called up the office every hal
~ hour and there learned of the name
. and locations of the enumerators VIII
were having any sort of trouble wit!
: instructions. Engagements We're mad
2 for the inspectors and enumerators, 81
q that the difficulty might be straight
70 ened out Supervisor Moore did in
y spection duty himself all the Afternoon
~ in Washington Ward
Long names proved the chief OBJ
% stacle to one of the men in the field
y He called up the office and said h
encountered innumerable individual
20 with names which would cause
=, Spanish grandee to turn green wit
"a envy. Not enough space was left o.
!, the blanks, he complained, to hold tn
u entire cognomen.
What's In Name:
=" Mary Murphy, a native of France
=, was listed Tho enumerator couldn'
" reconcile the situation, but he put
ue down.
n In the Railroad Y. NJ. G. A. a nun
eh Der of men room Some of these hay
a their homes elsewhere. merely usin
No this as a stopping place while /
y Richmond Others regard it as thei
- home, Getting the proper limo on sue
~, situations as this was one of the Job
an of the inspectors.
In some cases the question of
home has to be settled by hard an
fast rule Whether they like it or no
all the inmates Of the state Peniten
nj tiary will be counted as residents q
Richmond. This Is in accordance wit
ho Instructions.
C. Clerk T. B. Kemper, of the peniter
CO tiary office force. has qualified as a
e, enumerator and will count the cor
ne vcts. None Of them can say that h
he was out of work on April Is, 1910, an
to there will be no difficulty In Stain
tn in what business or industry these un
m fortunates are engaged.
Minute Information.
~ One of the difficulties found wit
rs the enumerators is In listing children
er 1t may seem unnecessary to the work
10 err to record the fact that a five-year
r. old child is unmarried. but it Is essen
!. tial nevertheless. Further, while
=, six weeks old infant Is not likely t
- haye any occupation which can b.
properly listed, the fact that it is on
:. of work must be faithfully transcrib
ed.
The Official number of this distric
seems to have been forgotten by man
cnumerators. 1t is No SO4. Th
States have been taken alphabetically
the First Congressional District O
Alabama being No. I. and Virginia
coming far down on the list.
Women are cheerfully putting dow
their ages, and the census taller neve
tries TO argue the case With them.
Some of them are not working al
together according to instructions
They are to begin on corner am
work entirely around the block. be
ginning then on the next square. ]
is possible some territory may DO los