The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-11
NEW APPLICANTS
FOR CENSUS JOBS
Supervisor Moore Must Have
More Names From Which
to Pick Enumerators.
LISTS CLOSE JAN UARY rs
Director Durand Will Authorize
Commissions When Test
Papers Are Examined.

Supervisor OF Census G. Ridgeway
Moore has Issued q call for more ap-
p~licants for places as enumerators In
this district, and urges all persons
desiring to serve to ecure blanks,
which must be filed before January 25,
when he will stop considering new APP
pllcations in order to prepare for the
on February 8. The papers will
be examined before February 25, when
designations as cnuincrators will he
forwarded to Census Director Purand.
who will go over the tests before
the supervisor is allowed to issue COM
missions.
BY the latter part Of March, all the
enumcrators will have been commits
stoned. and Will be in receipt Of de-
tailed instructions concerning their
work. Mr.. Moore has received infor-
nation from Mr.. Durand concerning
the test of Twelfth Census enumera-
tors. It has been officially stated that
the 1910 TEST will be very similar
to that OF the preceding census, and
will consist in requiring applicants to
fill in schedules from printed MARIA
ttyes concerning census facts.
Schedule of Census Facts.
AS the rural en%umerators are to car
ry both the population Ind agricul-
tural schedules. they will be tested
with samples Of both, but the city
e~numerators. who carry the population
schedules alone. will only be required
to prove their ability by filing a sam
pie OF that schedule.
The -test" population schedule mar.
ratiye in 1900 was, In part, as follows:
The enumerator of the forty-ifth
enumeration district of the ninth SUI
pervisor's district OF the state Of PEN
%nsylyania, in the village of Port Royal.
Londonderry Township. schuylkill
county, begins his enumeration June !.
1900. at No. col Burton Street.
This house is occupied by a single
family, consisting of Patrick O'Ieary.
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 twenty-five years old. Three
years after his arrival he was married
to an Irish girl who had come over
from his native village a year before.
<hS SOOH as pVssipiV ~ pVGdi1G llalAldi
lied. He can read and write and speak
English. and owns a good house. free
OF incumbrance. which he has bought
from his earnings as a teamster, In
which occupation he has had steady
work during the past year.
Questions to DC Asked.
Margaret. his wife, is also of Irish
~parentage. WIS born IN January
and is nearly four years younger thar
her husband. She has had two chill,
dren, only one Of whom is living. She
can read n speak English. but has t.
make her mark for her signature.
James was born inn Harrisburg
February, 1875. He has a good com.
mon school education. works at any
sort of day labor, and secured nine
months heady work during the pas,
year. He Is not married.
in the next house. goa Burton Street
the enumerator found an English wo.
man by the name of Mrs. Jane Parker
a widow, occupying a rented housewife
her single daughter. Virginia. and he1
married daughter, Nellie f., and tn,
husband Of the latter, Albert Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came to this country
thtrty-four years ago. has a good edu,
cation, is a d~ressnaker by trade. ans
has constant employment. She was
fifty years old last April. and Is o
Scottish birth on her mothers sid
She has had four children. three O
whom are living and one of whom ha!
died.
Virginia is of English parentage
has been through the local schools an,
la been a salcswoman for eigh
months OF the past year: she was borl
In Philadelphia in March, 1877.
l. stNa11jp IL JroS q - -.
old last January, and has but recent,
married. She was born In Baltimore
reads. writes. and speaks English.
ALBERT Johnston, the husband o
Nellie. was born In New York City. @
Welsh parents. November, 1855. lie 4
in the grocery business, and keeps h!
own books and accounts"
"'Testo Will BE Simple.
1T seems comparatively simple, &C
cordinG to the Supervisor, to draw GU
OF the above statement the require
details for the population schedule an
to enter them under the proper col
iname. relationship, personal descrIn
tion, nativity. citizenship, occupation
education. etc.
About all such a test san do Is t
evidence the legibility of an appli
cant's handwriting and his ability i
determine where to write in tho sam
pie schedule the facts clearly stated
the narrative,
The agricultural schedule n~arrativ
for 1909 was Very similar. except tina
the facts stated relate to farms an
farming operations.
Before the test" February 5, TIL
supervisor will send each applicant
Hist of Instructions concerning filltn
in the test" schedules, which vii
still further simplify the subject an
insure the passing OF the test by thos
who possess only an ordinary oom
mon school education and practica
common sense.