Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-14
Committee Appointed to
Raise $1,000 Before 6
O'Clock Tonight.
GOVERNMENT MAN
READY TO START
Business Men Confident
Enumeration Will Show
at Least $4,000.
or not Tulsa is to be

wv or not Tulsa is to be
w the first and only city in the
entire United States to have special
census taken by the federal govern
ment depends upon the reception met
with by a committee OF five Tulsa
men, who will today endeavor to col
lect the thousand dollars it Is neces-
sary to have before the government
will take single step toward the
counting of noses in this city. This
committee which was appointed by
G. N. Wright, president Of the Com
mercial club at the noon-day meet
ing of the directors yesterday Is
headed by O. II. Leonard. The other
members are Eugene Lorton, g. T.
Stebbins, William Stryker and q. Il.
Mccullough.
This committee will start to work
soliciting funds today and unless they
are successful in this work before TO-
night the opportunity for taking tine
census will be gone.
Eugene Hartley, special supervisor
of census work. Is now IN Tulsa, nav
ing been sent here by President VIII
son on request Of the Tulsa CONNER =
cial club to take the special census
He has with him a contract WhlCu
must be signed before he begins the
worl, This contract calls for the de-
posit In a local bank of $1,000 TO be
checked out. by him to pay all eN-
penses of the census. The CONNER
clal club has not the money In the
treasury to do this with and 1t VIII
DC necessary to put up the money To-
day.
Will start at Once.
As soon as the money is raised the
contract will bo signed and Mr' hart
ley will open offices N the CommerciaI
club rooms and proceed at once TO the
work of organizing his torce OF
enumerators. ...
lie probably will use about twenty
enumerators, one to each election pre-
ciuct The Commercial club Will sug-
gest enumerators to Mr.. iartley anu
from those suggested ne Will make ms
selections. These cnumerators VIII
probably be paid at the rate Of cents
for each name procured. They Will
he paid a nominal sum by the gov
ernment. enough TO make them govern
.ment employees and will be sworn. TO
secrecy as to what they find.
II the money Is raised today MT.
Hartley probably will be able 10 start
the actual counting early next week
1t probably will take about week
or ten days 10 take the count. Ihen
the results will be tabulated ana sent
to Washington, whore they VIII De
later made public. ~
From the advertising alone as the
result of this census, Tulsa VIII re-
ceive many times more value than the
actual cost of the counting. The re
suit will be sent to list of ll,OOO
firms and individuals and 70 every
newspaper i'm the country. From the
fact alone that Tulsa IS the only CITY
i'm the history Of the United states TO
get an authorization from the presl-
dent for a special census means Ihuch
i'm the way Of advertisement.
NJ Least $4,000.
None doubt but that the result will
show at least double the population as
shown by the federal census of 1910.
when Tulsa had only lS,3OO people.
The benefits TO be derived. from THIS
census will be evident To many people.
In the selling Of bonds, In securing
Industries, I'm freight rates and dozens
OF other ways, Tulsa will be benefited
to a great extent If the federal census
even shows as much as 10000 people.
and nearly every one Is Of the belief
that the count will show at least
thirty five thousand persons living
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