El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-12
Y VOLUNTEERS
FOR CENSUS
NEEDED
City Wants a Man for Every
Block in the City to Help
Get the Figures.
WILL CHECK THE
GOVERNMENT MEN

Have you volunteered? If not, why
not?
To what? 10 the count US ALL cam
paign, of course. Acting mayor Robin
son will appoint the volunteer enuIner
ators for each of the districts. the q lam
Der of commerce will provide them with
the necessary blanks. while the city
engineers office will supply charts
showing the different blocks in the city.
All that will be necessary for the vol
unteer in the cause of greater FL Paso
TO do will be to get the name of each
resident-man, woman and child-in the
block in which the volunteer resides
and to turn it into the volunteer super
visors
This was decided at meeting of the
census committee and the council Fri
day afternoon in the mayors office.
Represe ntatives of the various civic
bodies attended the meeting for the dis
cussion of the problem of getting an ac--
curate and complete census of FL Paso.
Local Supervisors Named.
Upon recommendation of the chamber
OF commerce and number OF promi-
nent business men, the name of John B.
Fitzpatrick will be presented to the
census department at Washington
through judge John B. Littler as the
volunteer census supervisor for Ell
Paso. Mr.. Fitzpatrick will have per-
sopai charge Of the volunteer census
taking and will work without remuner-
alton during the month the census
check is being prepared. Supervisors
for each of the census districts of the
city will also be appointed to look after
the work of the volunteers, to see that
each block in the corporate limits is
covered and that each person residing
in tho city is counted.
Supervisor May Come Here.
1t may be possible for judge Littler,
the government supervisor for the El
Paso district, TO be present in Ell PasU
during the official census taking to !
personally supervise the work OF the
government enumerators. A letter has
been received by secretary Kline from
Judge Dittler in which he asks for the
OF the chamber of COM
merce and of the census committee in
having a correct census of FL Paso pre-.l
pared. Regarding the taking of TIE
Mexican districts, judge Littler offered |
a solution of the difficulty by offering !
to appoint a sufficient number of Span
ish speaking enumerators TO be named
by the census committee TO take the
census in these districts
Dallas Man Offers Aid
A letter has also been received from
]. P Morley. who is the supervisor of
census at Dallas, offering valuable ad-
vice to the local committee. One sug-
gestion was that the congregations of
the Mexican churches be told of the
purposes of the census through their
pastors. DR.. ]. A. Samaniego, who is
member of the committee, offered to do
this work in addition to taking the
? TO-.
societies.
To Miss Nobody.
Blanks are also to be printed and |
left with the proprietors CT all rooming |
houses and at residences where roomers |
are staying, with the request that the !
names Of all persons living in each |
house be placed on the blank for the |
use Of the government enumerators !
when they call to take the count of the /
house The committee will also have
accountants who Will work at night and !
assist in checking the work OF the
volunteer enumerators with those of
the government enumerators Dave Sui
Ivan and j. W. Leighton were suggest
I'd as two experts who could be Sc
cured for this work
Volunteers Wanted.
The newspapers were officially re-
luested to call for volunteers in each
block Of the city to take the enumer-
alton in the block in which they live.
The names of the volunteers are to be
sent TO mayor Robinson and he will ap-
point man in each block to take the
count in that block. The name and
he number of the residence in which
he volunteer lives is all that is neces-
'ary to become one Of the volunteers.
he city engineers department having
rranged to map off the city into blocks
nd notify the volunteer which block he
s TO cover and the boundary of the
'lock
To Take the Census. 4,
AS soon as a complete list of enumer- |
ftors is secured which will be sufficient ,
o cover the entire city, supervisors
or each district will be appointed who
VIII report to general supervisor Kill
patrick and the work of taking the VOL :
lnteer census will begin The plan
aught on from the first and each of the
men who attended the meeting Friday |
fternoon volunteered to take the CEN
us in his own block. This plan has
een found successful in other cities
nd tits expected to be complete sue {
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