The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-14
To COUNT THEM IN
GREA7ERRICHM0NO
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Mr.. Durand Advises Mr..
Moore That Manchester
viii Be Counted
ENUMERATORS START
FROM HOME AT 8 A. M,
Special Men Have Been Assigned
to Count Noses in State Pris-
on and Other Institu-
tons in City.


All doubt as tn whether Rich
mond and Manchester should be
counted NJ ono TN the census for
1910 was laid M rest Thursday
afternoon. when Supervisor
Moore, Of the Rtchmond census
district, received the following
wire message from Director Du-
rand At W astlingtOn: .'If actual
consolidation Of Richmond and
Manchester is efEcctive noon April
Is 1 will consider Manchester part
OF Richmond and hgurcs should
be 50 returned, ana II made
ward of Richmond Il should be 50
designated ON schedule"
The trap Ia set ready to be
sprung at s o'clock Friday morn
ing. when enumerators will start
forth to ascertain the popula-
ton of Richmond and other
places in my district, and / trust
MY census takers Will encounter
as few obstacles as possible In
their work. AT any rate. / feel
sure the people OF my district are
going TO help the enumerators all
they can"
Supervisor Moore, of shc Rich
statement Thursday while attending
te a few matters of minor detail in
his office in the Mutual building.
Each enamerator viii start from
his home" said Mr.. Moore. and hs
w:ll be expected to get down to WORK
without delay"
And that reminds me-" added this
supervisor, +that hadn't thought wht
my enumeratoT villa be. HI have Il
lock up his name and be ready fol
him.
Take the "Pcnn Census.
Any special enumerators?" h,
said, echoing u question from the re
porter "Oh. yes. We will have few
OF those. For instance, Mr.. T. II
Kesuper has been assigned to md OH
the population af 4ha Virginia peni
ttentiary. We ara expecting about I.
SOC names from thAt source, an,
they will all be accredited to Rich
mcnd. There win be special enumera
| tors for hospitals. asyiums and SINH
| lar institutions, but only permanen
residents Will be listed from thes
| Places
AT this juncture, Mr.. John B. Kidd
| ensi,nerator for the Oregon Hin dis
trict. came in and said that he wa
moro than pleased that only SIEVE
/ families of foreign extraction live
| In his district. and they were a
Germans, with a fairly good knowl
edge OF English.
| Two ian Talk Yiddish.
And what reminds me-" remarke
Supervisor Moore, putting away on
/ Turkish cigarette, that / have ha
to pay some attention to that phas
Of the work. l took special pains t
| get two enumerators familiar wit
1 the Yiddish tongue and others hav
been selected with view OF handlin
the foreign situation as IL present
I itself. / don't believe, though, we ar
/ going to have much trouble in tn
respect, for VIE can call In the service
of a special Interpreter. Ii necessit
demands. We have persons of variou
i nationaIities In Richmond but in a
most every family there will be Z
least one or two persons. IL not NOR
able to answer questions from tn
enumerators."
Il How do you think spinsters wi
show up in Richmond ?" the supel
visor was asked. as he lighted anotht
cigarette.
..F1ne--no. / don't mean that" b
, said, correcting himself. x belle,
the statistics will show very few ol
!, maids In Richmond and don't thin
there win be many old bachelor
either"
This question was put to Mr.. Moo
in view OF the fact that the ne
legislature. II 1t Is confronted with
de!icit like the one II faced at II
beginning OF the last session, mig
.. see Mt to tar all unmarried ladies pa
: q certain age as we'll A. bachelor
: Some States are already derivir
: revenue from bachelors and a
thinking of taxing old matdA
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