Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-01-26
RECANVASSFOR
LARGER CENSUS
FICUREDECIDED
Citizens Committee, Headed
by S. c. Tucker, Will Coop
crate With Counters
WORK TO BE DONE SOON
Wednesday and Thursday Are
Set Aside for Campaign
WORK TO BE DONE SOON

Set ASIDE Tor campaign
With some of the census enum-
orators busy gathering up the
''Ioose ends," the census enumera-
ton in Brownsville will show a
population Of approximately 49,
600, or better, according to one OF
the enumerators today. At least
six Of the enumerators have COM
pieted their work. The actual fig
ures by wards show only 500,
but this enumerator stated that
when the work is completed the
former figure will be reached or
passed. The enumeration to date
shows the following figures, ap-
proximately: First Ward, 1000;
Second ward, 3450; Third ward,
1850; Fourth ward, $500.
A recanvass of the city of Browns
vile under the direction of commit
tee of citizens cooperating with the
regularly appointed census enumer-
ators, was decided upon at meeting
Of citizens at the Board of City De-
velopment this morning. S. c. Tuck
er, who was elected chairman of the
recanvass, said that the work will be
along the same lines as were adopted
in 1910, at which time the citizens
succeeded in adding more than 1000
names to those secured by the census
enumerators.
w. G.. Whitman was elected secre-
tary of the campaign, and will re-
ceive the names of all persons who
have not been counted in the first
canvass, or who may be missed in the
second canvass.
Suggestions offered by +. w. Sea-
bury for systematizing the campaign
were adopted. These included the
getting in touch with the heads of the
various school officials, both of the
public schools and the denominational
schools, to enlist the aid of the teach
ers in impressing upon the pupils In
the necessity of their families being
included in the census figures. A
publicity committee was also named
to get IN touch with the Spanish
newspapers and request that the pur-
poses of the census be outlined IN
their columns.
A general committee was appoint
ed to supervise the actual carrying
out of the canvass, and will appoint
their own block or district counters,
taking brief information on blanks
that will be supplied, and which will
call for names, residence, age, occu-
patton, birthplace Of person and
birthplace of parents. The result of
this count will be turned over to the
census enumerators to be checked
with their own lists, and all added
that may have been overlooked on the
original census canvass.
The general committee, with ;. Z.
Tucker as chairman, and w. G. Will
man as secretary will meet at the
Board Of City Development at 8
o'clock Tuesday afternoon at which
time the campaign to be carried out
on Wednesday and Thursday will be
outlined.
The districts have been divided up
for general "block" chairman as fol-
lows:
No. Is. C. Tucker, West Browns
vile south to the belt line railroad.
a No. 1-A-E. B. Camiade, First
Ward, east of Elizabeth street.
No. 1-B-W. B. Clint, First Ward,
west Of Elizabeth street
No. 2-A-R. c. Morris, Second
Ward, east of Elizabeth street.
No. 2-B-G. +. Dodd, Second
Ward, west of Elizabeth street.
No. Sherwood Bishop. Third
Ward, west of Monroe street.
No. 3-B-Joe Martinez, Third
Ward, east of Monroe street.
No. 4-A-F. E. Starck, Fourth
Ward. West Of Harrison street.
No. Abb. S. Rowe, Fourth
Ward. east of Harrison street.
f. A. Monsees. Victoria Addition.
Antonio Barreda, Tamates Bend
section.
w. A. King, district beyond the
Graveya ard resaca.
Mayor Cole, who announced that
the expenses of the recanvass will be
met by the city, said that it was re-
ported to him that several outlying
sections had been missed by some OF
the oanvaySers probably because II
was not known that they were within
the city limits. He mentioned that
among these were the Toma-es Bend
section and the section to the north
of the city cemetery.
The assistance of Antonio Tamayo
who is familiar with census work be-
cause Of having conducted the school
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