The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-22

mineral statistics of the Geological Sur
vey, and will cover that and cognate divi-
sions of the census Billings has won
fame as an army surgeon, and though
somewhat inclined to dogInatise concern
ing matters with which he is not ac-
quainted, he will doubtless make a valua-
BILE compilation of vital statistics.
The law provides for 175 supervisors in
the different States, with salary of $500
each for the month or so during which
they will be busy. The 10000 enumer-
ators will have about $40 apiece, and they
VIII be engaged only during June. In
the east they will get two cents for each
name, and i'll sparcely populated regions
small per diem allowance besides. The
census will be begun on June /, and in
all cities OF more than 10000 it must be
finished within two weeks.
The clerks and messengers employed
here in the work of preparing instructions
Tor the supervisors and of compiling and
correlating the bewildering returns which
the enumerators are expected TO furnish,
VIII get salaries ranging from $500 to
81, 500 year; but they viii not be regard
ed as in the permanent service of the
Government, and at the completion Of the
work they will be peremptorily dis
missed
1t is the intention of the Superintend-
ent to make the Eleventh Census more
complete than any that has preceded it.
Some subjects not hitherto covered will
be exhaustively treated, and some inter-
ests will be presented much more COM
pactly than in $780, The preliminary
plans are as vet somewhat nebulous, and
can speak only of tentative purposes.
Investigation into vital statistics will
be more thorough than ever before.
Most of the physicians of the country
have been supplied with blanks on which
to keep current record, instead of de-
pending on memory ut the end of the
year. The division Mortality" will be
dropped, as being merely subdivision of
vital statistics. So with deafness, blind
ness, insanity, etc.
Church statistics will be gathered In
such form as to be promptly available,
enquiry touching the following salient
points: - organization, communicates,
church editices, seating capacity, value of
property. The attention of the superin-
tendent has been called to the fact that
the most important item, namely, average
attendance, has been omitted, and this
may yet be added.
Under occupations" q much fuller
treatment of the activities and Industries
OF the people is contemplated than has
hitherto been undertaken.
An entirely new enquiry, specially au-
thorized by Congress, will be the record
of Union veterans of the civil war and
the widows of soldiers.
The investigation of indebtedness Is
to be pushed farther than has hitherto
been attempted, particularly in the en-
quiry into recorded private indebted
ness" specially authorized by Congress.
This is expected to settle the "mortgagen
question: so much agitated.
1t Is intended to take account of the
draft animals of cities, and of all horses,
mules and cattle not kept ON farms. This
Is an addition.
An attempt will be made to secure
rigidly statistical census. Arguments,
deductions and references will be ex-
cluded, or, at least, will be mini
mized.
Matters hitherto treated eXhaustively
will not now receive the same attention.
Cotton, which occupied two volumes of
the Tenth Census, and the cereals and to-
bacco, which made up another, will prob
ably be included under one cover. Gen
eral information concerning forestry
will not be repeated. Mineral resources
will probably be put into one volume In
stead of three
So with water power. This is dealing
with fixed characteristics, and much of
the previous work will not be repeated.
But electricity, natural gas, etc., will re-
ceive increased attention.
The Superintendent purposes to have
for the first time a full census of the pub
lie schools.
Wages" which occupied volume in
the last census, will be RENTED to the
annual reports of General Carroll d.
Wight, Commissioner of Labor. But
there will be an important report on
machines and machinery.