From: The Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, 23 June 1890, Page 1, Columns 6-7.
Note: Column 7 is faded and largely unreadable. [?] stands in for unreadable or unintelligible characters or words. [...] stands in for unreadable or unintelligible lines or paragraphs.
FOUR DAYS MORE
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Census Enumeration Not Ended.
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AN EXTENSION OF TIME GRANTED
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The Work Not to be Finished Until Thursday Evening Next.
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If Every One Who is Not Enumerated Gives Us Help a Proper Census Can be Made.
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The enumeration continues. Four more days are granted to complete the registration of the residents of Oakland for the official census. On Saturday last THE TRIBUNE [?] special attention of W. A. Anderson of Sacramento, Supervisor of the Census of the district in which Oakland is situated, to the communication from W. H. Ayers, one of the enumerators candidly stating that the proper enumeration of his district within the time alloted was a physical impossibility. Supervisor Anderson evidently gave careful consideration to the facts set forth in THE TRIBUNE, for this morning he sent the following telegram:
SACRAMENTO, June [?], 1890
To the Editor of the Tribune. Sir--The time has been extended [?] Thursday next, to complete the enumeration of Oakland.
W. A. Anderson, Supervisor of Census
Now let us make another [?] altogether. Let us see that every resident of this city who has not been enumerated is counted. The citizens have a duty to perform. Their interest in a correct census of the city in which they live is vital. The record of this census will constitute the official report of this city for ten years. The mortuary statistics will be based upon the population shown by this census. If [?] or [?] residents are omitted, the ratio of deaths to population wil be a fairly increased, and this city will [?] to be a hospital for the dying instead of a city where healthful people enjoy a quiet, orderly life, free from epidemic diseases, breathing invigorating air from the salty ocean and warmed by the sun that scarce is covered.
Help the enumerators. They are trying their best to fulfill their duties conscientiously. Their districts are over large; their remuneration is o'er small. Most of them are taking in the right spirit the efforts of THE TRIBUNE to make the census complete and correct. Answer the questions promptly and without making more queries than you answer. THE TRIBUNE is not criticising the work of any enumerator, not even of Mr. Davis, whose letter in THE TRIBUNE of Saturday, shows how wofully [sic] he misunderstands the purpose of this paper. Mr. Davis may write as many letters as he finds time to write, during leisure from moments excised from the time he might give to his work for the census, and THE TRIBUNE will print them. THE TRIBUNE finds no fault with Mr. Davis. Apparently, he has done his work well. This paper has but one object in devoting space and attention to the census. That object is to secure a complete enumeration of the people living in the city of Oakland.
The people can accomplish this object. Let any one who has not been enumerated send immediately his name and address to THE TRIBUNE. Every name sent before Thursday will be printed in this paper. The enumerators, acting under Supervisor Anderson's order, will call upon the person whose name was omitted. If not convenient to send your name to THE TRIBUNE, leave a note at any one of the following places:
C. P. HARDENBERG, Brooklyn Station Newsstand, East Oakland.
J. H. STORY, Branch Postoffice, corner Seventh and Pine streets, West Oakland.
BART MORGAN's Drug Store, Market Street Station.
H. D. ELIASON's News Stand, next door to Postoffice Fourteenth street, between Washington and Broadway.
Send word by mail, by messenger--any way that is most convenient. Do not be missed from the census.
Oakland clearly is the second city in California, and the census, if complete, will show that it is. In order that the census may be complete, every person not enumerated should see immediately that he is enumerated. If any one desires to see an enumerator, to be sure that he is recorded, let him call upon the one that is living nearest him. Following are the names and addresses:
GEORGE A. PARKER, 365 William street.
CHARLES F. COLE, 918 Union street.
DWIGHT A. HENDERSON, 1[?]67 Willow street.
J. W. DUTTON, 1312 San Pablo avenue.
W. I. ROBINSON, West Oakland.
B. S. MARSTON, 416 Twenty-sixth street.
WILLIAM C. WHITMAN, 532 Twenty-second street.
WALTER A. COOPER, 8[?]3 Thirteenth street.
ELIAS H. BROADWELL, 713 Nineteenth street.
W. F. DELAINEY
CHARLES E. DAVIS, 8[?]8 West street.
WILLIAM H. AYERS, 8[?] Washington street.
CHARLES B. FURNESS, Newland House.
STEPHEN H. MERRITT, 262 Thirteenth street.
ED LE FORT, 669 Sixth street.
BENJAMIN HAYNES, 1518 Seventh avenue.
W. H. H. HAMILTON, 1325 Sixteenth avenue.
DAVID F. MAY, Fourteenth avenue, between East Eighteenth and East Nineteenth streets.
The time for completing the census is extended for four days. If everybody helps much may be accomplished.
Help the enumerators and save your city from a false and mortifying position in the classification of cities.
The following names have been sent to this office by people who believe they have not been enumerated. If they have been, no one is harmed. If they not been enumerated, great harm would be done by omitting them.
Mrs. E. A. Perue, 1212 Seventh street writes: "There are four at this place who have not been enumerated."
James Woodall, 805 Peralta street, says that his family of four have not been enumerated.
Alexander Doig, Wm. Ford Doig, John Doig, Alexander Brown, Mrs. Doig, Mrs. Brown, and child all living at Valdez street, near Denison street, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth avenues, have seen no enumerator.
Charles H. Hinchman, aged 36 years, [Column 6], lives in Oakland but has gone away for a short time. He wants to be included in the census report, but as he sends no address save "Oakland" he probably cannot be counted. He is a native of Pennsylvania, both his parents are natives of New Jersey, by occupation he is a plumber.
Among those omitted are H. M. Collins, President of the City Council and Acting Mayor of the city, and several of his neighbors. Mr. Collins reports that he and his wife and family, Thomas Stevens, wife, and Mrs. Copp, Mr. Aiken, an engineer, and his family--in all twenty people in four families living on Short street, between Pine and Cedar streets, West Oakland, have not been included in the census.
Mr. Fulton, [?] Grove street. Six in family.
Mrs. Harriet Martha [?], [?] Thirteenth street.
F. S. [...] San Pablo Avenue
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Residents [...] Twelfth street, between [...] Washington, say that no census enumerator has called, neither upstairs nor down up to 12 PM today.
The section from [?] three blocks, in width and [?] ward from Twenty-second street [?] bounded east by Myrtle and west by Linden, has not been visited by an enumerator [...]
The following [?] has been received [?]
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[?] Charles E. Lewis, enumerator of Eleventh district, Alameda county, who has [?] enumerating the County Jail, [?]
Chas. B. Furniss,
Enumerator, Thirteenth District, Alameda County.
Henry May, [?] East Eleventh street, believes he has been missed by the enumerators.
J. B. Hughes, Pacific Theologians Seminary. Mr. Hughes says that four or five people are living at the seminary, and he has not heard that any enumerator has been there. Some of the time during each day the seminary is apt to be deserted by the residents.
