From: The Oakland Daily Evening Tribune, 26 June 1890, Page 1, Columns 6-7.

THE LAST DAY.

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Census Taking About Over in Oakland.
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MANY MORE OF THE MISSING ONES.
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Enumerator Cox Telegraphs for Ten Assistants.
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He Also Writes Supervisor Anderson Blaming Him for the Great Mistake in His District.

This is the last day on which census enumeration can proceed in Oakland unless Supervisor Anderson grant [sic] another continuance. In most of the districts the work is complete. How well it has been done the future will show. But in such districts as that in which F. S. Monroe is finishing up the work of Sen. S. Marston, who was taken ill in the midst of his work, a further extension is absolutely necessary, if anything like complete returns are to be obtained.

In the country districts the work can proceed until July 1st. But in the case of the Piedmont and Claremont district, which was entirely overlooked, this time will be entirely inadequate for even so much as skimming the territory. In relation to the great mistake made in that district, Enumerator Cox has sent the following letter to Supervisor Anderson:

William A. Anderson, Esq., Sacramento, Cal. Dear Sir: I received your telegram in due time, and to say that I was surprised at its content would but ill express my feelings.
I wrote you about ten days ago, asking you for my boundary lines, which I had never received, you instructed me to avail myself of all reliable information and that my district was composed of Bay View and Temescal. I have done as you instructed and have nearly completed my district. I will have finished by July 1st. My appointment read Bay View and Temescal and no others; you are certainly ignorant of the character of this new district you want me to cover; hills and mountains that would take a man a day to walk to the top of one of them and back again.
The Government does not provide me with a horse, and since last Saturday morning I have been hiring a horse at my own expence, [?] per day. Is it within the bounds of justice and [?] that a man would be sent to the top of one of those mountains and receive as his day's work probably $1, when it would cost $2.50 to convey him there and back. There has been most certainly a grand mistake made somewhere for which I am not responsible. I can complete the district allotted to me originally, but no other; I am lame and sore now by my exertions and endeavors to complete my work by July 1st, and will not be able to undertake the additional district. I have worked persistently and honestly to live up to my agreement, and can do no more; will send you my work by July 1st.
I will say, in closing, that we should thoroughly understand each other, enumerators must be appointed for Bay View district, and my name can be counted as missing amongst them.
Yours very respectfully, W. H. Cox, Enumerator District 21.

Mr. Cox followed this up with the following telegram, making an appeal for the necessary assistance to complete the census in the district before July 1st.

TEMESCAL, June 21, 1890
W. A. Anderson, [?] J Street, Sacramento-Will take ten men mounted to complete the new district allotted to me. Appoint men and omit me. Have all I can do to July 1s5.
W. H. Cox.

Unless the aid requested is granted at once, it is certain that nothing like a census of this populous territory can be taken before the time limit expires.

In the First Ward, W. B. Ludlow reports that a woman has been about taking the census in the neglected district. This is another of the direct results of THE TRIBUNE's agitation.

Charles E. Davis, enumerator of district [?], bounded by Brush, Adeline, Fifth and Tenth streets, says he will be glad to have anyone in his district who has not been enumerated call on him at [?] West avenue, or leave their names at Bart Morgan's drug store, Market street station. He thanks the people of the district for courtesies extended.

Charles B. Furness, enumerator of the Thirteenth district, bounded by Brush, Broadway, Fifth street and the water front, asks any one in his district who has been missed to call on his at his rooms in the Newland House, corner of Seventh and Washington streets. He, too, gives thanks to those who treated him kindly.

Complaints continue to pour in from the people who have been overlooked in the count, or at least who think they have. The following shows one man who found the door shut in his face:

To the Editor of The Tribune-Sir, Mr. Merritt, census enumerator in the Fifth ward, left blanks at Dr. Woolsey's Hospital on Twelfth street, with a request that they be filled. He called on the next day and took away the lsit, which had been imperfectly filled by the druggist and a patient. These facts have been published. Today, June 26th, I called upon Mr. Merritt and informed him that my name and those of six others resident there, ahd not been counted. His wife said that he had finished the enumeration [?] days ago, and had sent the returns for [?].
William Feary.

George William McKeand, of 81[?] Thirteenth street, the searcher of records, says he has been missed. His family are sojourning in the country.

Among the others who feel that they have been slighted are:

F. K. Cook, real estate, on Eleventh street, near Thirteenth avenue.

C. H. Walker, 1607 Fourteenth avenue.

Aleck McManus, 1821 Goss street, West Oakland.

August Graus, 1821 Goss street, five in family.

At the corner of Seventh and Pine streets, are seven men, who think they have been overlooked.

N. B. Hoyt, 1[?] Peralta street, six in family.

F. J. Rogers, 1[?]64 Twelfth Avenue, five in the house.

G. D. Gray, 758 Tenth street, seven in family.

G. H. Gray, 7[?]4 Tenth street, north side, between Brush and West streets.

Andrew Hampel, [?]120 Sixteenth avenue.

Alfred Williams, Twelfth street and Thirteenth avenue.

Lorenz Proksch and wife and Miss Clara M. Proksch, 1247 Center street.

Thomas Garrity, 621 Twelfth street.

M. Nordyke, of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, says that no enumerator has been in that great establishment, and that the family of but one employee has been visited.

Seven persons at 212 East Seventh street and 913 Fifth avenue.

S. J. Worth, 1910 Wood street, three in family-Inquire downstairs.

W. Marion, of 1253 Twelfth street, was missed because his family was at Boulder Creek. If blanks are left at his house, he will fill them out.

M. O. Baker, Vernon Park tract [Column 7] Temescal says several families in his locality have been overlooked.

R. W. Mastick, St. Charles street, between Railroad avenue and Santa Clara avenue, Alameda, five in family.

Andrew W[?]son, 1[?]7 Fourteenth avenue.

S. R. [?]eno, and A. Rhodes, near Hermitage House, Fruit Vale.

Henry Englebreth, corner Eleventh street and Thirteenth avenue.

P. Hilyard, Thirteenth avenue and Eleventh street.

William Hartman, of the Brooklyn Tivoli, corner of Sixteenth avenue and East Twelfth street, says an enumerator came into the place, asked how many were there, and said he would call again. He has not since returned. Mr. Teal, the owner of the place, and Mr. Hartman's wife have thus been missed.
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