The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-18
THE MANUFACTURING CENSUS.

Special Agents About to Begin Work
The Questions to be Asked.
From the Nep York Commercial Bulletin
WASHINGTON, July 15.-The superin-
tendent of the census is rapidly making
out the list of special agents who are to
take the statistics of manufactures in the
cities and manufacturing towns, aud some
of them will soon be at work. In the
smaller places, where there is little manu-
featuring done, the work of taking the
manufacturing statistics has been left to
the enumerators, but in 1,040 manufac-
turing places one or more special agents
have been designated to take
the statistics of all manufactures
which are not covered by expert
inquiries. In these latter cases. a single in
dustry, like wooden manufactures, iron and
steel, locomotive building, or glass works
has been placed In charge of a single indi-
vidual, usually the secretary of some manu-
featuring association or some one formally
engaged in the business. These experts have
the assistance of special agents where they
| are needed, and under their direction blanks
are sent to the leading manufacturers, as IN
| the case of industries which are left wholly
| 70 the special agents, and to Mr.. Wi liams,
| the competent chief of the manufacturing
| division in the census office.
Different forms of blanks have been pre-
pared for the leading manufacturing indus
tries of the country, and general form for
| the manufactures for which there are no
special schedules The same questions re-
garding the capital invested, the rentals,
| taxes and insurance, the number OF opera
tives and their pay are embodied in all the
schedules 1t is when the agent comes to
the questions of material used, goods man
| ufacUured and the power used in the manu-
| facture that the schedules differ. The
questions regarding the elements enter ing
| into the products and the goods ..mauufac
! tured have been carefully prepared in eaca
| case by persons familiar with the Industry.
| In the case of agricultural lmpleme ITS,
manufacturers are asked TO specify the
| quantities and cost of the lum Der iron,
| steel and different kinds of fuel which they
use, aud to state the number and value Of
over fifty different implements which they
may make. In the case of paper
| mills the quantities and values of
rags, waste paper, MANILA stock, straw,
wood pulp, soda-wood fiber, and sulphite
| wood fiber must be stated, ami the
quantities OF some forty different kinds of
paper which may be sold. In the case of
tanned leather, the manufacturer must
state the cords Of hemlock and oak bark,
the barrels of hemlock bark extract, the
hides tanned for different kinds of leather
and the goat and sheep skins tanned He
must also state the different articles used in
| currying Under the head of chemicals
and allied products, the manufacturer is
asked to specify carefully the materials
used, and some forty general CLASSES
Of chemicals are mentioned under
the heads Of goods manufactured,
with the additional request that any
other goods be given IN detail. The
| white ware and pottery schedule names
nearly thirty materials which enter into
the manufacture, the manufac urer being
asked TO specify the quantities and values
Of each used. The classification OF the en-
ployes ia this industry is elaborate enough
b cover l6S different classes, forty-two
| being the names Of different kinds OF labor,