New-York tribune., 1920-06-08

nave 1ollOWed the election districts.
That's what l wanted.
Ryan Went to Chinatown
"Just think of what it means to sup
ply Chink interpreters and Eye-talian
interpreters for those districts. I had
fellow named Ryan down in China
town, and you should hear some of his
experiences.
81 get mad every time I think Of
these real estate men. Go where you
will, from the Battery to Harlem, and
where will you find vacant foot of
property? Ten years ago the sites of
most of our best and biggest Office
buildings were occupied by tenements
and novels, all crawling with people.
"Well, about these enumerators.
Here and there was a dumbbell or n
crook, but aside from that they were a
pretty fine body Of people Some of
EN- had an easy time and cleaned up
their districts in no time at all. / had
one woman who made about $500 in
twelve or fifteen days. gave her two
districts because she was so efficient.
Two Eyetalians attacked her down on
the East Side, and l had 'em arrested.
I've forgotten her name.
ANY way, lot of the enumerators
were about what you'd expect Some Of
'em would copy the names off the mail
boxes in apartment houses and then sit
around some gin mill at night, giving
these names histories and large fami-
lies at four cents for each one in the
family.
On the Job Every Day
"I was on the job every day. day in
and day out. My friends all told me
was a fool; that I ought to have an
assistant to run things and take it
easy myself, but Pm too conscien-
tious. And then there was this no
good from Washington.
"One of the enumerators missed the
Hotel Majestic entirely. l caught that
myself. l was going over the work
and saw that the hotel had been over
looked. The workers had a hard time
in the hotels, though.
"This fellow up at the Hotel Theresa
in 125th Street. He had crouch about
prohibition and swore he wouldn't give
representative of the government
anything but dirty look. I went
around and told him I'd have him ar
rested if he didn't come through with
his permanent guests names, and he
gave US about five or six. There
should have been sixty or eighty from
that place.
There was one enumerator who got
the gas house over on the East River.
There wasn't human soul living in
the district assigned to him.
my appointment as supervisor was
as Of August 3 of last year was told
my headquarters would be at an ad-
dress in Centre Street, and whoen I
went there l found it was q mud lot.
During the war it had been used as a
barracks for the military police, but
when | got there the barracks had been
hauled away. l finally went out and
rented Offices on my own hook.
Wonders What Kicks Are About
"I believe this town was fine-combed d
l don't know what anybody is kicking
about. We worked fair and square
La Guardia would have had his inspec-
tors like everybody else il he hadn't
resigned from Congress and become
President of the Board Of Aldermen
1t was a hard job and it was impos-
sible to finish it in the thirty day
period and that's the reason l asked
for an extension.
"You can lay all the kicks to the
real estate men and, may be, that fel-
low from Washington told you about
Frank j. Monaghan, Acting Health
Ooliiil loSiollci, ulIeCteu MS CleTKS yes
terday to make full report on the new
census for New York as compared with
the vital statistics. According to DR.
William H. Guilfoy, in charge Of these
figures, during the last five years there
have been 1868 more births than
deaths in Manhattan. In the entire
city there have been 284,O00 more births
than deaths.
Mayor Hylan said yesterday he was
going to have the police check the Fed
eral census. The work will begin in dis
tricts where the most errors are sus-
pected, and if the suspicious of real
estate men are confirmed the entire
city will be checked by the police.