Show TALES TOLD BY CENSUS TAKER Enumerators Relate Their Ex Experiences Experiences Experiences While Securing School Statistics r DIFFICULTIES ARE MANY GREATEST TROUBLE IS IN FOR FOREIGN EIGN SECTIONS The field work of the local l cal school schol census enumerators has been concluded and the census takers were engaged enga ed yesterday in checking over their re returns returns returns turns and arid making such few corrections as may be necessary before their final fina reports are turned over to the board o of education The reports given by the enumerators enumerators enumerators tors cover a wider range of information than has been the case in other years The name age and sex of every child between the ages of 6 and 18 years is required and also ls the names of their parents or guardians Whether the children can read or write must be noted as well as the length of f time they have attended public pubU or private schools The color of children childr n must be given and notation must be made niad if any are found fou d who are are deaf or or blind To secure th s Information p many questions must be asked and when the inquisitor is confronted by ignorant men or 01 women worn en or by those not speak speaking speaking speaking ing the language of the country the difficulties that must be surmounted are sometimes great While a number of the enumerators rs were vere going Over their th ir reports rep yesterday preparatory to turning tur I them over to the board they compared notes of their experiences during the course course of their work None of Your Business I r had an experience with a big ig swarthy foreigner a few days ago that was unusual said a woman In the party part I have nearly always been beeh treated with great courtesy by those thoe e with whom I came into contact in lii my official capacity c They have recognized recognized recognized as a rule that my questions were perfectly p proper and that the answers should be given readily This man came ame to the door dt r In an nfl answer answer to my knock I 1 stated my bust busi business bustness ness and began to ask questions Its none of ot your our hang business he said only he say hang han Then he slammed the door so hard that it nearly knocked the plaster off the wall wallI I r saw that it would do no good to try to ta get the information i from this boor so r I approached a little boy who was walking on a fence I complimented complimented complimented him him on his gymnastic ability and when he smiled I 1 knew that I Iliad had him Then I 1 began to ask questions and a d the blank biank was filled in a short Sh time Girl Is Insolent That reminds me of a ii tiff tift I had with a girl whO vh thought that she slie was as asvery very brilliant said a man who had finished checking his list I went ent to t the th home of a railroad man and this girl met me at atthe the door I 1 stated my business bus Well Vell you cant get the names of these children she said insolently as sho she chewed her gum furiously The mother of these here kids is goin to move in a day er two and they will be bein bein beIn in another distri k Besides what Is it your business to go into other ther affairs I asked a small boy wIle who had fol followed lowed her to the thedoor door to give me m his name and he lid dId so se answering an w th lh the questions intelligently and with some som courtesy When the boy roy had finished the girl gin leered at me and said Maybe oud like to get my name down own on that pa paper paper paper per too but you wont Yes I 1 said I 1 would like to get gt g gour your our name as it might be c useful to the i of the state industrial school at Ogden which Is better as the tho reform school s hool She subsided sub ide I got gother gother her name and learned that she was of school age In Greek Lodging House It Is not often that I get fright frightened ened ene said a plucky little woman but there are sometimes that I l get nervous nervous in these Greek and Italian lodging houses housoS I went into one a few f w days ago that gave me the th creeps The building is an old one and dark darkas as midnight in the foul smelling hans halls Children seemed to be everywhere every here Little swarthy children with eyes filled with fear or suspicion seemed to spring up u almost from un under under under der my m r edt fedt fe t and scurry away to peep ai at me from behind a door or from the shelter of a corner There were no adults in sight and I went the full length of the dark hall halland halland halland and then knocked at a door from the theother theother theother other side of which I 1 could hear men and women talking When the door was opened a man appeared and scowled at me I began to ask him questions He turned to a woman n In the room and began to jab ber her The woman looked l at me suspicious suspiciously ly b y and then at the blank I had in my myland hand land She cried out and the way that rail hall filled with dark faces was a surprise Men and women poured out from every door I was sur surrounded rounded r I 1 looked for a way of escape I was hemmed in on all sides and be began began began gan to think I 1 was going to be made madea a prisoner and held for ransom or something like that Children clung to theIr heir mothers skirts and the jabber j jabbering Ing ng and gesticulating that was begun filled Hied the air alt I was frightened I 1 thought for a minute I 1 was going to tobe tobe tobe be killed Finally one of the number was found who spoke a little United States and to this one I explained my mission Then the jabbering and anti t tirig irig ing ng was wa resumed All of them tried to speak at once All AIl of them tried to spell their names n mes at once Such a jum jumble jumI I ble hIE of and and exploded ded alphabets I had never nev r before heard beard l ard But I got all of them at last and I 1 left eft them laughing when I said good goodbye goodbye bye bt Ears Pierced ced j i jI iI I saw aw a funny thing t wh q jl iI was out the last day said I Iwas was in the Italian section A woman woman with big bright t tey eyes ey s swarthy cheeks full red lips Ups and hair jair as black as a ravens wing came cameo cameto cameto to o the door with a cherub of a baby In her arms When the woman smiled she showed a aset set of teeth as white as pearls She Shei SheI i was vas a certainly handsome h The baby crowed row and nd laughed and reached a lit Ut little UtIle tle te brown brow hand for tor the red ribbon at atthe att atthe t the mothers s throat t tI I spoke to the baby and won the mothers heart Then I r noticed that the ears of the little one were pierced and In them Ulem was a pair pall of diamond and sapphire screw earrings I 1 was surprised How old Is the baby I 1 asked the mother j jDa Da babby habby he be 8 mont ol or she answered How Is it that the little one wears earrings It hurt to have the ears pierced The Thc mother told me that the ears of the baby had h d been pierced when the t e child was only 2 months cId eld It is the belief of these hese people that the piercing of the ears is an aid to eyesight I 1 got the best of a woman evident evidently ly Swedish the other day said the little woman In lit the corner who had hadnot hadnot not hot spoken before OIl I had gone to a ahouse ahouse ahouse house in a court and had asked for In Information Information information formation and had received It This woman was was there th r and I 1 began to ask her the regular gular r forms She promptly told me that 1 I could get nothing from her and then she slie left and went to her own home homEr I 1 asked ask d where she lived and left her h r house until the last When I got to her house she was ii iia in ina ina a little better humor and I 1 again stated my business bm ness I U Dere bane only vun boy hare she said an ve ye don vant heem l eem to go to skule He bane orphan an he bane 14 year old an ve ye v haf hal him hare for two year an n ve ye vant him to vork york sos Os Js he can pay for hees keep ke p J explained that If It was necessary for the boy to work an arrangement might be made with the board of education to permit It and the wo woman woman woman man was mollified She had so far re recovered covered her good nature that she asked asket mc me In to have ve a cup of nf coffee toffee Fear Juvenile Court The enumerators ray fay that the parents ir In the poorer districts object to giving their own names namOs nam s or the th names of the guardians of the children as s required under the new rulings of the board This in many cases Is caused catis d by fear of coming in contact with the juvenile court In the event that children do donot donot donot not attend school th the parent or guard guardIan guardian guardIan Ian may be haled before the juvenile court to make explanations This the parents pare ts wish to avoid avol I and thus they object to giving their names In Irr many instances the enumerators have been refused permission to enter places where children of school age are employed In other cases the re reverse reverse reverse verse Js is the rule and employers lend tend lende every e assistance in their power to the enumerators even eyen going so far as to send sen l I foremen n with the enumerators through the plants while the children are listed while at their work The Th e enumerators say that th t In a ma majority majority majority of cases where children are not In school schol sch ol the parents are poor and their small earnings are necessary to aid ald in the support of the families One of the enumerators ran across a peculiar case a few days ago which will be Investigated by her as soon as asit asit asIt it is possible pos ible for or her to take up p the therk rk Two ragged and unkempt little Italian girls approached her at her own g gate te and glibly told a tale of want and suffering They begged for money or food Their faces showed that they the were well veil fed and the children did not seem to tobIn be In absolute crying need of food Why do you beg the woman asked them th in eMy My father is dead and my mother is sick at home said one of the children pulling a long face fac your your father come home late latel last l l night and i nt he home now asked the woman severely Yes maam inaam said the younger of the children without an instants hesi heal hesitation hesitation tation I went to the corner store a few minutes later said s id the woman and Oland the storekeeper st told me that the chil children children children dren had begged from froIn him day after day It was his bis impression In that the children were sent ent out ou by their parents paren s to tp beg supplies The case will wili be looked into by the proper authorities as soon as I can n secure secure enough facts In the case to warrant warr wa nt turning It over to them for ZOr action n nGo Go to School With Baby It is rs s the duty of the enumerators to tos secure s cure the name of every person in the city between the ages of 6 G and 18 years whether r they t tare are married or single One O e of the enumerators encountered a ayoung young yoting woman wom n who ho had In her care a achild achild child chUd nearly a year old Are you past 18 years of age asked the census taker No but I 1 am married said the young woman That does not matter said theother the theother theother other I must take your name and age and secure this other information called for tor on these th se blanks How can I T go to school asked the young mother with the baby to be betaken betaken taken talen care of It was explained that under the law lawa a married woman n who was not yet 18 IS years of age could not be compelled to togo togo togo go to school and the questions were promptly answered The enumerators are of the opinion that by taking the census at this time of year when so 50 many families are ab absent abs absent sent s from m the city fully 1090 children of school age who will attend the public schools at the opening of the fall term are overlooked |