The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-16
70 PUNISH CENSUS PADDGRS
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The ,-usIt- 81 .f.-tlc- ~ announced fur
Tacoma suu~ q population uf :, 49, Ir
tain as cumIar,,i Ntth U.iiI ~ iyO and
~ $50 lu lSvi The 0nrr.stss' from Is1 10
1910 Ns- therefore $40, or ~ Ter y-nt
a. rumpar-d Ntth an tu,reas. ~ Z ;us.
or =; I-r cent from Issi IT, tsU
Director Durandz letter avs that th.
original returns ~ IA" Tacoma -uum-ri-
tors we're -pad,lri' 10 th" extent 1t not
l"-s than ~ s'S names. or an addition ~ .
" Ter cent Ia the curr~ct numt'-r IT Tho
Inhabitants Ia thirty-fuur enumeration
districts IA which m" PADDING occurred.
the original returns shoWe.l u 80 names /
a. compared Nith a correCt population 81 .
~ ISO In some districts the naul.-- turns.d
,u we're several TIMES, greater than the
population
The attempted padding 1T the cen
-u- Director DIrand declares. was .
brought about mainly through the ~" 81
slips print.d by priVat.. individuals and
containing IA. census questions These,
we're distributed very generally on street
Iurn-rs and elssW here and ~sr,. filed out
by thousands of people. Who either had
already been enumerated or who were
not permanent residents 81 the city or
we're not entitled to enumeration Their.
IL - possible that in come cas-, the
names were wholly fictitious sand ~.
rector Durand These slips w.re turn-d
pv-r bv IA. private indiV iduals whn col.
rCt-d them, through a special agent 81
he census Bureau named COrwin. t.
hirty four - the enumsrators and they.
Ind.r the instructions Of Corwin added
he names Ia the enumeration by as yning
mem a. boarSi.rs' or dodgers To- various
HOUSES IN their districts In other words.
he -uum.raiors deliberately mad. the
als" statement that these T.erson- wer.
esid.nt az tho % that particular street 4
d
,nthing whatever with regard o." the
names 80 fraudul.ntly added
IN" letter 81 the Director d.-scr bees The.
Methods employed by th.. census Bureau
"a r.ch.-ck ing or r.cuuuting the population
4 these padded districts IN Tac"ma.
ayrng that the work was done with the.
.r.at-st care. that the full population =
night h.. asCartains-d
-S~ eNt"usiy" attempts at padding I
he census have been discovered ~ Seattle
md Aberdeen. wash SPortland. ore
MINI Boise. Idaho. Great
'alls Mon and Fort Smith. Arb 9nd
hat InvrSti cations are IN progress with
.f~r-nc. to a number Of othsr riti.-
'ull Information regarding the-, case,
Vill b" made public later In many
instances. D.. says. concerning th" other
tiles referred 90 this padding was
lone ia quite different way from ia.
n"thpd pursued m Tacoma and con- I
ist..i IT the repetition ~ visits by the
g. hotels boarding and ludg- Z
ng houses In this manner people who
anne ~ the city after the census day.
..rhaps merely for stay nf few DAYS.
we're added q" the enumeration aS RESI-
ieuts
Director Durand said tonight that
uspci"n- u Chief Statistician William ,
D. Hunt and chief Of Division William u
JARVIS 1t the population division ~ the
'-nsus Burrau with regard to the c-n-u-
4 Tacoma were aroused when IN a care
ul sNaminntinn of the schedules Il was
"und that there wer" an absurdly large
uml,''r u families reporting graf mum
~rs II -ropm~rS- and -lodg-r-- ,
Will am \. Mckenzie. q bureau hNp~rt.
\ h" had chaTg. 10 the "numeratiun Il
he fourth district ~ Alaska. mad. the
nvestigation At Tacoma that discio-.-d .
h" padded figures.
That criminal prosecutions will follow
he evidence of -padding- discovered IN
ariuus cities ~ vouched for by officials
4 the In"-tIs Once.
'orOih, Frooks WouId Pipe for HrArst.
Dsr8thy Erapks Madleiah Hiah School