The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27
HELP CENSUS MAN
EVERY WAYYOUCAk
Merchants Association Urges
Members TO Aid the Fed
eraI EnumeratOrs
Correct Count of the Population
Is of Vital Importance to
San Francisco

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Believing thaf the coming censu
viii show that San francisco has
population Of upward of half a mi
lion. the Merchants association wi
mail to all its members Monday a let
ter calling their attention to the i'm
portance Of rendering every possibl
assistance TO the census taker in orde
that not one Of the residents of tn
city be overlooked.
Together with the letter is a motto
containing the 2s questions which wi
be asked by the governments repre-
sentative when taking the census. Th
members Of the association are re
quested 10 post this notice in a promi
neDt position in their places of bust
ness in order that their employees ma
become fully acquainted with tn
same before the arrival of the censu
Laker.
LETTER TO MERCHANTS
The letter reads:
To the Members of the Mer-
chants Association of San Fran
clsco-Hour support and co-opera-
tion in the work Of obtaining
complete census of the city and
county OF San Francisco for the
coming census is earnestly re-
Quested.
1t should be the desire of every
member of the association to have
the coming census show, what we
believe TO be a fact that San Fran
cisco within four years after the
disaster of 1906 has a population
of over half million people.
Nothing will be so convincing to
investors and TO the world at large
OF San Francisco's stability and
the confidence of its own citizens
ia its future prosperity as the evil
oence that its population is as great
now as ii was in 1906.
There are probably 10000 to
10000 people whose permanent
place of abode is San Francisco who
period from April Is 10 April 2s.
be absent travelling for pleasure.
on business, attending school or on
other missions.
Of san Francisco shall be shown.
il is necessary for every man.
woman and child whose permanent
place Of abode is this city between
April l5 and April rs, to be reg
isUered in the census no matter
where they may be at that time
You can help to secure this result.
First. by listing all members of
your firm or employees or friends
whose home is in San Francisco
but who viii be absent from the
city from April 10 to April 2S, and
seeing that their names are given
TO the census enumerator.
Second, by seeing that every one
OF your employees understands the
Importance Of the census and what
the census enumerator wants when
lie calls al their homes.
Third. by seeing that each EN-
plOye shall constitute himself a
committee of one To see that his
own family and every one else he
census rolls and if they are not
called upon by the census enumer-
atOr before April 2S to report the
fact 10 the bureau OF the census.
room 597 Chronicle building. by
telephone (Sutter 55l) or by mail.
Fourth. by posting in various
localities in your place Of business
and accessible 10 all employees the
inclosed slips so that they can be
informed in advance what ques-
tions they will be asked to answer.
Fifth, request them to fill out in
advance the question blanks that
VIII be left at their homes or places
of business and have them ready
when the census enumerator calls.
Sixth. by advising employees that
their answers will be kept conf
OenUal DN the government only
total results of these reports be-
ing published
Let every person do his share to
place San Francisco well above the
half million mark. Yours very
truly,
THE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
OF SAN FRANCISCO. c. L. Nc
Intosh. Vice President. L. NJ.
King Secretary.
March 25, 1910.
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
The following is the list of ques
tions which the census enumerator wi
ask OF every resident of the entir