The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-14
A GALL FOR MORE APPLICANTS.


places as census enumerators has
been issued by supervisor of census
j. Andrew Wilt, of Towanda, Pa. He
urges all persons in his district de-
string to serve, to obtain their appli-
cation forms at once and to file them
with him before January 25th, when
he must stop considering new appli-
cations in order to prepare for the
test" of the previous applicants on
February 5. After this he will ex-
anime and rate the papers until
about February 22. when he will
forward his list of designations as
enumerators, with their test pa
pers, to Census Director Durand,
who will carefully go over and rerate
the papers of the successful candi-
dates before giving his consent to the
issue of commissions to them by the
supervisor. BY the middle or latter
part of March all the enumerators
will have been commissioned, and in
receipt of detailed instructions con-
corning their work.
To quiet any qualms relative to the
test" of the qualifications of appli-
cants, to be made February ., the
supervisor has obtained some infor-
nation from the Census Director
concerning the test" of Twelfth Cen
sus enumerators II has been otti-
cially 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 enumerators are to carry both
the population and agricultural
schedule, they will be tested with
samples of both, but the city emu
merators, who carry the population
schedule alone, will only be requir-
ed to prove their ability by filling
sample of that schedule.
The test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was. in part, as
follows.
THE enumerator of the forty-fifth
enumeration district of the ninth su-
pervisor's district of the State of
Pennsylvania, in the village OF Port
Royal, Londonderry Township,
OCnuy lhlll NOuhNS' bSSlhS mo III"
meration June l, 1900, at No. 2Ol
Burton street.
This house is occupied by a single
family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary,
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 native village year before. AS
soon as possible he became natural
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.
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 sig
nature.
"James was born in Harrisburg,
February, 1875. He has 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.
I'm the next house, 203 Burton
street, the enumerator found an Eng
lish woman by the name of Mrs. Jane
Parker a widow, occupying rented
house with her single daughter, Vir-
ginia, and her married daughter,
Nellie E., and the husband of the
latter, Albert Johnson.
"a years ago, has a good education,
Mrs Parker came to this country
"a 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
tish 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,
mas Detu lHIOuBn JhS lOCdl oShOOlS
and has been a saleswoman for eight
months of the past year; she was
born in Philadelphia in March, 1877.
Nellie Z. was 2S years old last
January, and has but recently mar
ried She was born in Baltimore,
reads, writes, and speaks English
ALBERT Johnson, the husband of
Nellie, was born in New York City, of
Welsh parents, November, 1865. He
is in the grocery business and keeps
his own books and accounts"
1t seems comparatively simple, ac-
cording to the supervisor, to draw
out of the above statement the re-
quired details for the population
schedule and to enter them under
the proper column divisions relating
to location, name, relationship, per-
sonal description, nativity, citizen
ship, occupation, education, etc.
About all such test" can do is