Graham guardian., 1910-01-21
ENUMERATORS WANTED
Information Given by Census
Director Concerning Test
for Enumerators

been issued by supervisor of census,
Franklin F. Towle.
He urges all persons in his dis
trict desiring to serve to obtain
their application forms at once and
to file them with him before Janu-
airy 25, when he must stop consider
ing new applications in order to
prepare for the test" of the pre-
vious applicants on February 5.
After this he will examine and rate
the papers until about February %,
when he will forward his list of de-
signations as enumerators, with
their test" papers, to Census Di-
rector Durand, who will carefully
go over and rerate the papers of
the successful candidates before
giving his consent to the issue of
commissions to them by the super
visors. By the middle or latter
part of March all the enumerators
will have been commissioned and in
receipt of detailed instructions con-
corning their work.
To quiet any qualms relative to
the test" of the qualifications of
applicants, to be made February 5,
the supervisor has obtained some
information from the Census Di-
rector concerning the test" of
Twelfth Census enumerators. 1t
has been officially stated that the
1910 test" will be very similar to
the one in the preceding census and
will consist in requiring applicants
to fill sample schedules from print
ed narratives concerning census
facts. AS the rural enumerators
are to carry both the population
and agricultural schedule, they will
be tested" with samples of both,
but the city enumerators, who carry
the population schedule alone, will
only be required to prove their
ability by filling sample of that
schedule.
The test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was, in part, as
follows:
The enumerator of the forty
fifth enumeration district of the
ninth supervisors district of the
State of Pennsylvania, in the village
of Port Royal, Londonderry Town
ship, Schuylkill County, begins his
enumeration June |, 1900, at No.
POI Burton street.
This house is occupied by single
family, consisting of Patrick
O'Leary, his wife, Margaret, and
his son, James.
Patrick came to this country
from Ireland (where he was born of
Irish parents} in May of 1870, when
he was list % years old. Three
years a.fter his arrival he was mar
ried. to an Irish girl who had come
ever from his native village year
before. AS soon as possible he be-
came naturalized. He can re8.d
and write and speak English, and
towns a good house, free of i,lcum.
brance, which he has bought from
his earnings as a teamster, in which
occupation he has had steady work
during the past year.
Margaret, his wife, is also OF
Irish parentage, and was born ir
January, and is nearly four years
younger than her husband. She
has had two children, only one OF
whom is living. She can read and
speak English, but has to make hel
mark for her signature.
James was born in Harrisburg
February, 1875. He has a gooC
common school education, works al
any sort of day labor, and secured
nine months steady work during
the past year. He is not married.
In the next house, 203 Burtor
street, the enumerator found ar
English woman by the name Of
Mrs. Jane Parker, widow, occupy
ing a rented house with her single
daughter, Virginia, and her mar
ried daughter, Nellie E., and the
husband of the latter, Albert John
son.
Mrs. Parker came to this coun
try "a years ago, has a good educa
ton, is dressmaker by trade, anC
has constant employment. She was
so years old last April, and is Of
Scottish birth on her mothers side
She has had four children, three Of
whom are living and one of whom
has died.
Virginia is of English parentage
has been through the local schools
and has been a saleswoman fol
eight months of the past year; she
was born in Philadelphia in March
1877,
Nellie E. was 2S years old last
January, and has but recently mar,
ried. She was born in Baltimore
reads, writes, and speaks English.
Albert johnson, the husband OF
Nellie, was born in New York City
of Welsh parents, November, 1865.
He is in the grocery business and
keeps his own books and accounts.
1t seems comparatively simple, ac.
cording to the supervisor, to draw
out of the above statement the re.