The copper era., 1910-01-27
A Gail For Census Enunerators.

"a C6il TOT CeIlSuS E0uMefdtOTS.
A call for more applicants for
places as census enumerators has
been issued by supervisor of census
F. H. Towle of Globe. He urges all
persons in his district desiring to
serve to obtain their application
forms at once and to file them with
him before January %, when he must
stop considering new applications in
in order to prepare for the "test" of
the previous applicants on February
5. After this he will examine and
rate the papers until about February
%, when he will forward his list of
designations as enumerators, with
their "test" papers, to Census
Director Durand, who will carefully
go over and rerate the papers of the
successful candidates before giving
his consent to the issue
commissions to them by the super
visor. BY the middle or latter part
of March all the enumerators will
have been commissioned and in re-
ceipt of detailed instructions concern
ing their work.
To quiet any qualms relative to the
"test" of the qualifications of APP
plicants, to be made February 5, the
supervisor has obtained some infor-
nation from the Census Director con-
corning the "test'' of Twelfth Census
enumerators. 1t has been officially
stated that the 1910 "test" will be
very similar to the one in the proceed
ing census and will consist in requir-
ing applicants to fill sample schedules
from printed narratives concerning
census facts. AS the rural enumer-
ators are to carry both the population
and agricultural schedule, they will
be "tested" with samples of both, but
the city enumerators, who carry the
population schedule alone, will only
be required to prove their ability by
filling sample of that schedule.
The "test" population schedule
narrative in 1900 was, in part, as
follows:
"The enumeration of the torty-ffth
enumeration district of the ninth
supervisor district of the State of
Pennsylvania, in the village of Port
Royal, Londonderry Township, Schuy-
kill County, begins his enumeration
June l, 1900, at No. POI Burton street.
"This house is occupied by single
family, consisting of Patrick O'Leary
his wife, Margaret, land 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 ne was married to an Irish
girl who had come over from his ma
tive village a year before. AS soon
as possible he became naturalized.
He can read and write and speak
English, and owns 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 sigma
ture.
flames 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.
"Iu the next house, 203 Burton
street, the enumerator found an Eng
lish woman by the name of Mrs. Jane
Parker, widow, occupying rented
house with her single daughter, Vir-
ginia, and her married daughter,
Nellie E., and the husband of the
latter, Albert Johnson.
"Mrs. Parker came to this country
"a years ago. has good educa ton, is
d dressmaker by trade, and has con-
slant employment. She was So years
old last April, and is of Scottish birth
on her mothers side. She has had
four children, three of whom are liv
ing and one of whom has died.
"Virginia is of English parentage,
has been through the local schools
and has been saleswoman for eight
months of the past year; she was born
in Philadelphia in March, 1877.
"Nellie E. was % years old last Jan
uary, and has but recently married.
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 mparatively simple, &C
cording to the supervisor, to draw out
of the above statement the required
details for the population schedule
and to enter them under the proper
column divisions relating to location,
name, relationship, personal descrip