The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-01-14
THE COMING CENSUS.

A call for more applicants for places census
enumerators has been issued by Supervisor
of Census Lynn NJ. Hays, of Burlington. He
urges all persons in his district desiring to serve
to 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 previous
applicants on February s. After this he will
examine and rate the papers until about February
%, when he will forward his list of designations
enumerators, with their test" papers, to
Census Director 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 supervisor. By
the middle OF latter part of March all the enumer-
ators will have been commissioned and in re-
ceipt of detailed instructions concerning their
work.
To quiet any qualms relative to the ties" "
of the qualifications of applicants, TO be made
February 5, the supervisor has obtained some
information from the Census Director 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 printed narratives
concerning census facts. As the rural enumer-
ators are to carry both the population and agri-
cultural 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 a
sample of that schedule
The test" population schedule narrative
in 1900 was, in part, as follows:
THE enumerator of the forty-ffthyenumer-
alton district of the ninth supervisors district
of the State of Pennsylvania, in the village Of
Port Royal, Londonderry Township, Schuylkill
County begins his enumeration June l, 1900, at
No. POI Burton street.
This house is occupied by a single family,
lett of Dat r,alrn
and his son, James.
Patrick came to this country from Ireland
(where he born of Irish parents) in May of
1870, when he Just % years old. Three
years after his arrival he married to an Irish
girl who had come over from his native village
year before. As soon possible he became
He can read and write and speak
English, and owns good house, free of incum-
brance, 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
children. 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,
1878 He has a good common-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
found an English woman by the
name of Mrs. Jane Parker. widow, occupying
a rented house with her single daughter, Virginia,
and her married daughter, Nellie E., and the
husband of the latter, Albert Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came TO this country "a years
ago, has a good education, is dressmaker by
trade. and 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 sales |
woman for eight months of the past year; she |
was born in Philadelphia in March, 1877.
Nellie L. was 2S years old last January, and /
has but recently married She was born in |
Baltimore, reads writes. and speaks English. I