The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-27
THE CENSUS is COMING.
It WillsBegin in About Five
Weeks From Now.
HOW THE WORK WILL BE DONE.
John Bumstead Will Have Charge
Of the Enumeration for
This Neighborhood.
HOW THE WORK WILL BE DONE.

The ancient and honorable female OF
uncertain years whom any attempt at
familiarity with her age throws into a
spasm of wrath and indignation may be-
gin to prepare herself for a trying ordeal.
It wi, not be long before the pert young
man with huge folio under his arm and
9 DixoD graphite S. NJ behind his ear
VIII give the door bell business like
jerk. and, upon her appearance, invade
the sanctity Of her maidenhood with
irreverent questions concerning the day
OF her birth and other equally imperti-
nent enquiries.
All this is meant to preface the state
ment that Mr.. John Bumstead, the SUI
pervisor of the Eleventh Census for the
Second DISTRICT of New Jersey, which in
eludes Jersey City, has about completed
his arrangements for the work, and ON
June his enumerators Will start out to
gather the information necessary to prove
that we are the greatest people on the
face of the earth.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, the Chief the
Census Bureau officially announces that
this Will be the most complete census
which has ever been taken. Every one of
Mr.. Portefs predecessors has made the
same observation but the plans which
the present chief OF the bureau has
mapped out give evidence that there is
much foundation for the boast
HOW THE ENUMERATION is MADE.
Each state is divided into districts over
each of which a supervision is appointed
with q chief supervisor for the State.
New Jersey Is divided into three of these
districts; the first including Harrison,
Orange, Passaic, Paterson and Phillips
burg; second including Elizabeth, Jersey
City, Hoboken, Lam bertville, New
brunswick, Railway, Plainfeid and
Trenton. The third which takes in
Bordentown, Bridgeton, Burlington,
Camden, Salem and VineIand. Auth OF
3. Pearce. of Paterson, is the Supervisor
for the State, and Mr. John Bilmstead
for this district. Mr.. Bumstead has
divided his districts into sub districts,
each containing 800 inhabitants.
For each of these districts there will be
appointed an enumerator, whose business
y will be TO visit each house in his sub
district and ascertain all that is to be
known concerning each inmate. Jersey
City will contain some seventy eight of
these sub-distr1cts, and in Hoboken there
will be twenty three, while the whole
county VIII contain about 100
1t Is estimated that it VIII require 40
GOO OF these enumerators and It's super
visors to take the census. OF course these
enumeraters do not do the work required
OF them solely for the pleasure it gives
them to assist II proving the greatness of
.
muneration do they brave the wrath and
scorn OF the ancient female, us by the an
nexed official schedule Of fees will more
fully appear:
For each name recorded, 2 cents; for
each birth and death reported, 2 cents;
Tor each farm, Is cents. Tor each indus
trial establishment, 20 cents, for each sur
wing veteran Of the late war. 5 cents
AS almost in every thing else it will be
seen by this schedule that the veteran is on
top again. Ont in the moral districts
where the Inhabitants and veterans are
not SO plentiful the enumerator will get
three cents for each name and thirty cents
for each industrial institution.
The Bureau does not seem to be worried
much by popular superstition or else it all
belongs to the Thirteen Club, for the
statistics to be gathered have been CLASH
fed under these thirteen heads:-Vol. l.,
Population, Vol. H., Vital Statistics and
Physical Conditions; Vol. I'LL, Education,
Religion, Pauperism and Crime; Vol ",
Trades and Professions; Vol. ", Survivors
of the War; Vol, VI, Wealth, Taxation
and Public Indebtedness; Vol. VII, In
debtedness Of Business Corporations and
Individuals, Including Mortgages; Vol
Viii, Agricultural Statistics. Vol. TX,
Manufacturers; Vol. X, Mines and Min
ing Vol. XII, Fish and Fisheries; Vol.
XIII, Railroads, Navigations, Telcgraghs
and Telephones; Vol XIII, Insurance.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE WORK.
One of the special features of the
eleventh census viii be the statistics of
manufacturing interests and farm mort
cages. Schedules have been prepared
covering the various industries ana will
be complete exposition of the business
from beginning to end
These schedules are now awaiting the
sanction of Mr.. Porter. A general sched-
ule for the lnclassifled industries will be
submitted to manufacturers. in which
they will be requested to tell how much
capital they employ, whether active or
borrowed, the value of the plant, build
ings, machinery, stock and fixtures, the
number of hands employed, rates OF
wages, amount OF wages, cost and kind of
materials used. the value and quantity of
the product, the amount and character of
power used, the relative number OF males
and females employed and the amount of
their earnings-the number earning SIS a
week and over, the number earning 81 q
week aud over, etc. In this respect the
figures will be good deal more accurate
and valuable than they have been before.
In the past collection of statistics the
amount of wages paid in the different in
dustrles was averaged, and this gave but
a slight idea of the actual wages paid
For instance, in some OF the Paterson silk
mills there are employees who earn from
$40 to $50 a week, while others in the same
department earned but $40 or Sf2 In
making an average correct estimate
could not be arrived at. On the new
basis the figures will be clearer and more
satisfactory. This principle is employed
in European statistics and accounts for
the discrepancies that have heretofore
existed in the statistics Of the two
countries.
FARM AND INDIVIDUAL INDEBTEDNESS.
What will doubtless prove the most
interesting feature of the forthcoming
census will be the volume relating TO
farm and individual indebtedness. The
amount Of farm mortgages, when and for
what purposes contracted and when due
will be given in detail. The amount of
interest exacted and the number of farms
that have been lost to their owners
through foreclosures will be given This
feature will doubtless lead to some solu-
tion Of the farm mortgage difficulty. In
the West and Southwest mortgages to
the amount of millions of dollars are held
over farmers whose farm products from
year toyear scarcely do more than pay the
interests on the mortgages
Mr. Porter is very emphatic In his
declaration that the eleventh census will
be run strictly on business principles and
not as an adjunct to the Republican
machine. As an earnest Of this declara-
ton he announces that he has appointed,
wherever he could succeed in doing so,
the same agents who were connected
with the census department in 1880. In
\ making up OF statistics he has inn
SSnfed upon the old methods, and the
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