The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-19
CENSUS ENuMERAToRs, TEST.

CENSUS ENUMERAToRS TEST.
To quiet any qualms relative to
the test of the qualifications of APP
plicants for appointment as census
enumerators. to be made February 5,
supervisors in various parts of the /
country have obtained some infor-
nation concerning the director OF the
census concerning the test to which
candidates were subjected at the last
general census ten years ago. 1t has
been offiially stated that the 1910
test" will be very similar to the one
in the preceding census and will con-
sist in requiring applicants TO fill
sample schedules from printed mar
ratives 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 required
to prove their ability by filling a
sample of that schedule The "test"
population schedule narrative in 1900
/ was, III part. dS IOliOWS.
The enumerator of the forty-ffth
enumeration district of the ninth sup
i ervisor's district of the state of
Pennsylvania, in the village of Port
/ Royal, Londonderry township, Schuyl-
! kill county, begins his enumeration
June /, 1900, at POI Burton street.
This house is occupied be d single
| family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary,
his wife, Margaret, and his son, James.
Patrick came 10 this country from
/ ireland (where he was born of Irish
| parents1 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 year before.
AS soon as possible he became natur-
allied He can read and write and
speak English and owns a good house.
4 free of incumbrance, which he has
bought from his earnings as tenn
ster, 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 chill
dren, 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 a 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
English woman by the name of Mrs.
Jane Parker, a widow, occupying a
rented house with her single daughter,
: Virginia, and her married daughter,
Nellie E., and the husband of the lat
. ter, Albert Johnson.
Mrs. Parker came to this country
thirty-four years ago, has a good ed
ucatfon, is a dressmaker by trade,
and has constant employment. She
was only fifty years old last April, and
is OF Scottish birth on her mother S
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 a saleswoman for eight
i months OF the past year; she was
] born in Philadelphia in March. 1877.
Nellie E. was overweight years
/ old last January. and has but recent
j ly married. She was born in Balti.
more, reads, writes and speaks Eng.
lish
: 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. z
It would seem to be very easy to
obtain from the above statements
the required details for the popula.
ton schedule and to enter them un-
der the proper column divisions re-
! lating to location, name, relationship.
| personal description, nativity. citi
: zenship, occupation, education. etc
5 About all such test can do is
: to evidence the legibility OF an ap
$ plicants handwriting and his ability
: 10 determine where to write in the
e sample schedule the facts clearly
+ stated in the narrative.
] The agricultural schedule narrative
f for 1909 was very similar. except that
s the facts stated relate to farms and
t farming operations.
e 1t is promised that the test Feb
h 5, the supervisor will send each an
s plicant list of instructions concern
s ing filling in the test schedules
a which viii still further simplify the
r subject and insure the passing O
the test by those who possess only