Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-29
1900 MORE MISSED
IN CENSUS FOUND
Second Days Work of Police
Accounts for 5000 Rich
nonders Overlooked.
ENTIRE FAMILIES PASSED BY
Mayor Intinates If Figures Fall
Below 10000 IIc VIII
Demand Recount.
ENTIRE FAMILIES PASSED BY

Close of tho second days canvas. %
i:ichmoud hy iuomhors of th" Eiea-
mond Police lpcIar';ucur. for the pu.-
pose OF cuum"ru;jnr those who hai
hccn oyorlooh ed hr tho Fedora c"u-
si;s takers. carried ;hc tota, OF 'hosc
Who had hecn so missed close TO ;hc
5000 inark. .hpproNinately ..c0o ore
accounted for Saturday ;.Ad 1900 yes-
tcrday
Hca!i@ins tho importance OF com
pi"tinS ;hc chccking-u before tho
Gensus Eurcau "a, Washington caiIs for
l:ichinond's figures. Director of Pubic
Safety William VI Myers ana I'n!,t t..
i'ohcc Z. 4. sherry. following . con
rcrercc late SATURDAY u!-Nt. instructed
f.i"utcnanis Archie Iirit aud l'ran.. 4
s4uai of polr" .ruu3craturS. 10 con
tiluc tho work. without cessation. yes
i.rdaE, HIthnueit it w.ts sunday ana
nauy persons wrr. not u, hoIu,, When
,hc policemen called. needing IN, csIl
or tho great outdoors thousands being
a;trac'ed - thr boulryards and PARKS
hE IN" ba!nIE spring weather
Army of .'O>crIookcd.'
TN" Efforts II tho polio" were con
hu.c principally 10 the negro sections
OF Rirnmond Instances Of entire fam
lies. ranging ia number from live 10
eight. who had h"cn overlooked hy
countcrcd by The blucroats. and In
p-ncrs adults had been enumerated
md children passed hy
Armed with census blanks. Tho
thirty nine members Of tho Police Do
i'artm:nt who were detailed 10 hy
work OF taliytnr thosr OF Richmond 5
citizens who had been destined 20 be
como
IN th. 1870 Fedora! census is con
ccrncd. started out on their rouads
bright and carly yesterday morning
~
donics seventeen Sironi;. swung mic
-hc distric: west OF seventh stree; and
cas-, OF second street norm q: IIay
Street Twelve others in charge al
Lieutenant Holt confined their actiy
lies 30 ;hu, section ot old Jackson
Ward cas-: OF Seventh street and cN-
torcycir mon wcr. detailed 10 ~, ouJ-
skirts OF thc "blari belt"
The territory in the western end ot
the colorcd district FROM Second T.
lous sections OF ,hc district Inhabited
by Richmond Coior"d "itiZcns. MSS
no; reached by he 'oIicc ycst"rdhy
rhe colored business section. which
embraces First and Second streets
ncr,n OF clay Street also was nr'
included III ysstcrdayS canvass. "a
81 business .! many OF richmond
mos: representative colcr"d citiz, ms
Entire Families Missed.
lieutenant Campodonica' men r"-
,.ort.d numerous instances oI cntIg,
families living "r. ot;-oi- -th"-way sin,
.or,'' of Shockcc valley. aud IN shan
tics and hut. aionG The banks q
Shorhoc Creek. having been over
booked or possibly avoided on account
OF their inscccssibiliiy, by tn" Fed
tral cHumcra tnrs.
3. !atc hour las; night L.icuten-
ants Holt and Camrodonica stated tiia'
reports that had hcI.u mad" TO ;hcm
6v the non under their command "er'
incomplete, somc of the officers h"i
having turned in fun reports. inciu
sion or these tardy nSur"S i expected
70 swell the grand total
Fourteen OF tho seventeen men ur-
der Licntcnan! -C:.mpodonica turned II
ovcr 700 names. whil. four OF inc
tNc!vc men under Li"utcnant Holt re-
nc:..>d in cHcsss of zoe. FraSmcnta"s
reports turned in by others carried
the total for tho day close 10 l.90o.
Tho police VIII direct their cncrs ic.
20 Church Iiiii today.
Mayor Ainsiic has declared ihat il
INC shows 9"'s iewsr % than '"' !c.ooo sou,a ny " Il
richmond. 'hr c:ty viii demand q re-
couat.
city batween tho dccnmniai c.nsus"s.'
Mayor AinSiic said yesterday. the
rc;hod 0: the unitcd Staies Census
Hurcau IS to t;lkc the ipta, incr.as,
shown between the TWO preceding cen.
suses. and add on"-tcnth OF the amount
each year untj the time OF taking IA.
NEXT census
Eject Of Annexation.
In tho case az Richmond. this methnC
= had 10 be modified some what. owing
20 the fact ttai annexation added {;
considerable population late in 1918
hut the same general principle wa.
followed.
G.. ,wo :actors-the excess OF bir.us
over dcntls and the rNccss Of immisra
ton over emigration. The abov,
.no,:,od OF calculation IS arbitrary. .ut
assumes that these TWO factors rcmuii
constant,
excess OF immigration over cmiSratio,
was the same from 1910 20 1920. as Il
was from 1900 TO 1910. Richmond shoult
show $500 more than estimated by
srea. lowering Of the death rate dur.
,rE tho past ten years. From 1900 t.
1902 the average annual death rate il
Richmond vas 22.2 per ,,ooo, inhahi
;at:s. II this rate had prevaiied from
1910 TO 1919: there would have been
In Richmond. S2,l9c deaths Owiue G
death rate: there. were actually oni,
nave nave occurred II tho former death rat,
had prsynllcs w
hsaed on the method above sivon. !,
estimated ot IG+.a7a. if to thls agur,
$40 add 5000 lives Aayod hy ronson o
iall0a in 1920 should he t7o.3so.l Thi,
ngurr is r. conservative eai!n,nte o.
E1ehmdnTn present popuint!o and. Il
:iesuc. iers thar this. thor" should r "cs.
iRI-rbe inHlstAnrn mron recount
i'n6srawskt Visits Par~.
1.s.. .s@ski. farmor Premier "f Poland ,
has orstrad et Sforges, on The I.h.t,
~ Gane%s, lie recently vas al Rome
where h4 hsd l"ag Interview VIE,