The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-04-15
WHAT WILL BE
THE POPULATION
OF BRUNSWICK?
CENSUS ENUMERAToRs START
OUT THIS MORNING TO DE.
eide THE QUESTION
Believed That Good Increase Will
Be Shown Among the White People,
While Decrease is Probable
Among the Negroes.
Points Regarding The CensLs

Points Regarding The CensLs
The census iegins this mornil g ami |
l-lat lie completed in two weeks il |
cities and in thirty days in all other |
areas.
The enumerators VIII wear badGa /
inscribed United States Census |
1910"
The law requires every adG!t Per
son to furnish the pre- scribed inIcrma- |
ton, but also provides Tat it shall to
treated confdentially, so that no ~
jury can come to any person from
answering the questions
The president has issued a rrocla
nation, calling on all citizens 20 co
operate with the Census and assuring
them that it has nothing to do With
taxation, army or jury service, COM
pulsory school attendance, regulation
of immigration, or enforcement Of
any law, and taat no one can te in
jured by answering the inquiries.
1t is of the utmost Importance that
the census of population and agrcui
ture in this state be complete ard cor
rect.
Therefore every person should
promptly, accurately, and completely
answer the Census questions asked by
the enumerators.
Armed with a list of questions as
long as the Newcastle street paying
controversy, the census enumerators
in brunswick, like those in averv sec
tion of the United States, will start out
bright and early this trning on theii
work of counting the number of people
in the United States.
The enumerators who will start out
on this ardous job in Brunswic!; are:
First ward, r. M. Bcown second
ward, Isaac Cohen, third ward ] L.
Beach, fourth ward, j. J. Spears The
colored enumerators who will take the
census among the colored people of
the city are w. H. Clark c. A. Shaw,
Jr., and Arthur Ford In the country
districts three enumerators, all white
will be engaged in the work They
are: Fancy Bluff district Robert
Scarlet; Sterling district, George
Sapp; st. Simon, Jas. Gould.
The enumerators in he city are al
lowed only two weeks in which tel
complete their work. The amount II
be paid is two and onc half cents for
each name, while in some of tho rural
districts a stipulated ,um has beel
fixed for the entire work.
Brunswick's Population.
There is much difference of opinion
being expressed as 10 what Bruins
wick's population will be under th2
new census. Like in all other cities
the claim is made that the CITY will
show handsome increase. The cen
sus of 1900 gave Brunswick p0pu!a-
ton of 9,0S1. That here has beer
an increase in the city's popIlaticn
there is no doubt 1t IS admitted Oh
all sides that the greatest increase
has been among the waite people. The
census of 1900 showed the citys pop
ulation almost evenly divided between
the Wnlto duu COIOl Gu PCOPlO' DNN -
is believed 1t there has been slight
decrease in the coloced population,
caused by prohibition. Many negroes
sought other states wncn the new law
went into effect in Georgia, esneclailv
was this true in seaSport cities, anu
while many new negroes have arrived
in the CITY, at tie same time It is ue
Iieyed that the census will not snow
anv increase in the coiDred popuiatlon'
AS to the whites. it is known thar
there has been a very large increase
but it is only guess work to evan en-
deavor to estimate the number Many
estimates of the citys pcpulatlon'
however, are being m tde. Inc most
popular estimate is that Brunswick
will have between 1l,O0 and lZ'oV. |
Some reople seem to bink that it Will
90 as high as $4,000, argling tha. doz-
ems of residences have been erected
during the past ten years and at pres
ent a good residence cannot be rent
ed There is somethinF in ms arsI
ment. but at the same time 1t mist pe
considered that ten years ago allli"aV !
every negro shack in Jne city was oC-
cupied. while many rows OF them can
he found vacant at present
The figures will not be known lo'
some time yet. While the enunerat-
ors are compelled to finish their work
in cities of over 1000 in two week,
the figures will have to be forWarden |
to the supervisor and oy him 70 the
census Office, and it WI be probso'Y
a month or more after the enumer&t-