Evening star., 1932-02-14

Half century ago Washington was
grievously offended by what 1t regarded
as an understatemcnt
washington of its population by the
n,.: Census Bureau. The
1opuld lloA' Star Of February 9,
1882. says:
1T is to be hoped that the dismissals
from the Census Bureau, on account OF
the necessary reduction Of its clerical
force. will include. if they have not
already reached. the thick-headed fel-
low in that office who kills of or other
wise disposes of several thousand people
in Washington by persistently and
falsely giving out in its semi-omclal
reports the the populatio9nt 9 t ol tune rne EiIS
THE figures named are reached. We
presume. by excluding from the EMU
meration of the city everybody living
outside of what were in the old NUM-
cipal davs its corporate limits, but who
are as much a part of its population
! TODAY. in law and in fact. as those who
! actually lived under the shadow Of the
Capitol building. Counting in the peo-
i pie of what formerly constituted the
borough of Georgetown and those living
! in the suburbs outside OF the. olo
| boundary lines of the city, In the
| neighborhood OF Columbian and How
| ard Universities, and in other dlrec.
! tions. which are now to all lntents ana
! purposes a portion Of the present city
being under the same laws and gov
ernment and having precisely the
same interests and destiny-counting
! in these, We say, as they should De
counted. and the population OF Wash
ington stood in 1880 at 169,456, as Ihe
Star has heretofore shown.
rla
no more be excluded from the enumer-
alton of Washington than should the
old boroughs since incorporated into
philadelphia. Boston and other cities
be separated from those places in TAX
! ing count of their population. The
rules which are applied elsewhere man
! ifestly ought to be applied here, and
not an arbitrary regulation, which
falsely shows the population of the Ma
| tional Capital to be 22,l43 less than 1t
actually is. Whether the blame fol
this erroneous and injurious exhibit
belongs to the original arrangement OF
enumeration districts, to the returns
! of the enumerators themselves or to
that branch of the central office which
| complies or furnishes the tables, we
do not know. Nor does it make any
! difference who or what may be charge
u
! as published from time to time are
! alike untruthful and unjust, no matter
where or how the error originated. and
thev ought to be corrected and printed
properly before the final reports of the
census are officially given to the world :
|
On the evening of February 9, 1882
Washington was shocked by shooting
at the office Of the Ma
S0teld0 tional Republican, at the
cL,,+;,r southwest corner ol
/ onootlhe' Thirteenth and E streets
: As told in The Star of the next day
! A. M. Soteldo. jr. well known Jour-
nalist, and his younger brother, A. c
Soteldo. entered the editorial office
about 9 o'clock and engaged in an
, alteration with Clarence M. Barton
the news editor of the Republican The
dispute developed into scuff1e between
the elder Soteldo and Barton, where
! upon the formers brother drew a plSto
and fired, the ball striking Soteldo in
| the neck. After further struggles the
younger Soteldo was arrested. The
elder had received mortal wound
dying 48 hours later.
"The House Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia" says The Star o.
February IL, 1882
New Street Car. did a good thing
| rL: the other day II
TIancAlses' strang ling tn,
proposition to cut up some OF the
, most desirable and best paved resident
streets in the city for horse rail pur,
poses. This action demonstrates thai
the gentlemen constituting that body
have a just conception Of their owr
duties as well as a pretty accurate
knowledge of at least some Of the rights
and wants Of the people Of the DIS