Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-01-15
MORE APPLICANTS
BADLY NEEDED
Census Supervisor ChiIds, of Harpers
Ferry, is Worried About Secur-
ina Census Enumerators.

ptf5OHS III THIS ulSLFlCl ueSllHS u
serve 10 obtain their application forms
at once and to file them with him
before January %, when he must stop
considering 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 designa-
tons as enumerators, with their test"
papers. to Census Director Durand,
who will carefully go over and re-
rate the papers of the successful can
didates before giving his consent to
the issue of commissions to them by
the supervisor. BY the middle or lat
ter part of March all the enumerators
will have been commissioned and in
receipt of detailed instructions con-
corning their work.
TIC quiet any qualm relative to the
test OF the qualifications of appli-
cants, to be made February 5, the
nation from the Census Director
concerning the test" of Twelve Cen
sus enumerators. 1t has been off,
cially stated that the 1910 test" will
be very similar to the one in the pre-
ceding census and will consist in re-
curing applicants to fill sample SEIZED
Jules from printed narratives concern
ing census facts. AS the rural emu.
merators are to carry both the popu-
lation and agricultural schedule, they
will be tested" with samples of both.
but the city enumerators who carry
the population schedule alone, will
only be repaired to prove their abil-
ity by filing a sample of that
schedule.
The test" population schedule mar
ratiye in 1910 was, in part, as follows:
THE enumerators of the forty-fifth
enumeration district of the ninth SUI
pervisors district of the State of
Pennsylvania, in the village of Port
Royal, Londonderry Township,
Schuylkill County, begins his enuner-
alton June l, 1900, at No POI Burton
street
This house is occupied by single
family, consisting of Patrick OLeary,
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
just % years old. Three years after
his arrival he was married to an. Irish
girl who had come over from his ma
tive village a year before AS soon
as possible he became naturalized. He
can read and write and speak English
and owns a good house, free from
incumbrance, which he has bought
from his earnings as teamster in
which occupation he has had steady
work during the past year.
Margaret, his wife, is also of Irish
parentage, and was born in January,
and is nearly four years younger than
her husband. She has had two child
rem only one of whom is living. She
can read and speak English, but has
to make her mark for her signature.
James was born in Harrisburg.
February, 1875. He has a good COM
mon school education. works at any
sort of day labor, and secured nine
months steady work during the past
year. He is not married.
"In the next house. 203 Burton
street. the enumerator found an Eng
lish woman by the name of Mrs. Jane
Parker, a widow, occupying a rented
house with her single daughter, Vir-
ginia, and her married daughter, Nell
| lie F., and the husband of the latter.
Albert Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came to this country
3D. years ago, has a good education,
| is a dressmaker by trade, and has
constant employment. She was so
/ years old last April, and is of Scot.
! fish 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 for eight
months of the past year; she was
born in Philadelphia in March 1877
Nellie was 2S years old last Jan
nary. and was but recently married
She was born in Baltimore, reads
writes and speaks English.
albert Johnson, the husband oil
Nellie, was born in New York City
OF Welsh parents, November, sos
He is in the grocery business and
keeps his owa books and accounts"
1t seems comparatively simple, ac
cording to the supervisor, to draw out
of the above statement the required
details for the population schedule
and to enter them under the proper
column divisions relating to location
name, relationship personal descrip
ton, nativity, citizenship. occupa ion
education, etc
About all such a test can do i:
to evidence the legibility of an appli
cant's handwriting and his ability Il
determine where to write in the sam
pie schedule the facts clearly STATED