St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-25

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who will have to work ten hours day
in order to draw salary which is paid
him at the rate of 2 cents for each person
enumerated; Is cents for each farm
where statistics are taken: 90 cents for
each establishment of productive indus
try. In the more densely-populated
farming towns of the state the rate is
cents for each person, 20 cents for each
farm, and so cents for establishments of
productive industry. In the northern
portion of the state, where the country
is not we'll settled, the per capita rates
give way to per diem of 81. In all
cases the enumerator gets 2 cents for
e ach birth and death, and 5 cents for
filling the schedule for deaf, blind, in
sane and the like, who require special
schedule. The rates are adjusted so
that the enumeratorS can make about
81 per day. They are not allowed any
travelling expenses and must go afoot
unless they furnish their own convey
ance.
MUST GIVE UP.
1t is not optional with the people
whether they disclose the desired infor-
nation. The census law provides that
every person more than twenty years of
age, belonging to any family, is required
to render true account to the best of
his knowledge of every person belong
ing to the family in the various particu-
lars required by law, and whoever shall
Willfully fail Oh refuse shall be guilty of
miSdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in a sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars. This ap-
plies to every kind of inquiry.
The information given will in all cases
be confidential. The supervisors and
enumerators are subject to heavy fine
for giving out any information gained,
either as to the number of people in a
community or the property any person
owns. The tax authorities cannot profit
by any information gained by the
census. The totals of population can
not be given out until permission
is granted by the superintendent.
There are four gene raj schedules
population, agriculture, manufactures,
with special schedules for special in
dustries and mortality, Then there are
number of supplemental schedules re-
lating to soldiers, sailors, insane, blind,
paupers and the like.
The schedule adopted for the enumer-
alton of the population is what is
known as the family schedule;
that is, separate schedule for
each family, without regard to the
number of persons in the family. Three
forms CT this schedule are provided for
the use of enumerators, according as
the families to be enumerated are made
I'D of large or small number of per-
sons.
The word family, for the purposes of
the census, includes persons living alone,
as we'll as families in the ordinary sense
of that term, and also all larger aggrega-
tons of people having only the tie of
common roof and table. A hotel, with
all its inmates. constitutes but one fam
lily within the meaning of this term. A
hospital, prison, an asylum is
EQUALLY A FAMILY
for the purposes of the census. On the
other hand, the solitary inmate of a
cabin, loft. or room finished off
above a store, and indeed all individuals
living out of families, constitute a fam
lily in the meaning of the census act.
The census year" is from May 81. 1889,
to June l, 1890. The census is taken
''as of the LIST day of June, $780,"
Upon these schedules is to be entered
the name of every man, woman or child
who, on the LIST of June, 1890, shall have
his or her usual place of abode within
the family. No child born between the
first day OF June, 1890. and the enumer-
ator's visit (say June s, June Is, etc..
as the case may beg is to be entered
upon the schedule. On the other hand,
every person who was resident of the
district upon the first day of June. 1890,
but between that date and the day of
the enumerator's visit shall have died.
should be entered upon the schedule
precisely as if living. The object of the
schedule is to obtain list of the inhabit-
ants on the first day of June, 1890; and
all changes after that date, whether in
the nature of gain or loss, are to be dis
regarded in the enumeration. A per-
sons home is where he sleeps.
''TAKE THE STAND. PLEASE"
The questions include the following:
Name: whether soldier OF sailor; re-
lationship to head of family; whether
white or not; sex; age: whether single
or not; whether married during the CEN
sus year; mother of how many children,
and how many of these are living;
place of birth; place of birth of father
and mother; number of years in the
United States; whether naturalized; Oc-
cupation; months unemployed during
year; school attendance during year;
able to write; to read: to speak Eng
hsh: whether suffering from acute or
chronic disease, and what; whether de-
fective in mind or otherwise: whether a
prisoner, pauper or homeless child;
lastly. the statistics OF ownership of
home or farm and in regard to mort
cages.
The questions in regard to farms are
quite comprehensive. They include the
number and kind of all live stock, the
number of acres in crops of different
kinds. the number of bushels of grain
or vegetables raised during the census
wear. the number of hens eggs laid. the
amount of help hired, the pounds of
butter and cheese made and many 9TH
ers of similar nature.
By farms, in addition to ordinary
farms. are meant nurseries, orchards and
market gardens owned by separate
parties, which are cultivated for pecun-
iary profit, and employ as much as the
labor of one able-bodled workman
during the year. Mere cabbage and
potato patches, family vegetable gar
dens and ornamental lawns not consti-
tuting a portion of farm for general
agricultural purposes, will be excluded.
No farm will be reported of less than
three acres, unless $500 worth of prod
uce has been actually sold from it
during the year. The latter proviso
will allow the Inclusion of many market
gardens in the neighborhood of large
cities, where. though the area is small,
a high state of cultivation is maintained
and considerable values produced.
A farm is what is owned or leased by
one man and cultivated under his care
A distant wood lot or sheep pasture. or
wheat or potato field. even il in another
subdivision or district, is TO be treated
as part of the farm; but wherever there