Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-27
CITY FIRST
in 1t Least One Feature, According
to the Census Returns.
THE PEOPLES SEASIDE RESORT
Averages More Saloons Than Any Other
Place in the Country.
THE ODDITIES Of THE ENUMERATION
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| CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH1
| WASHINGTON, Nov 26.-The pop-camera
has played an important part in the taking
of the eleventh census. Thanks to it, the
volumes comprising results will be series
of most entertaining p1cture-books, filed
with pictures of everything that is suscepti-
BILE Of being pictured. An entirely new
| feature of the work never before attempted,
has consisted in preparing descriptive re-
ports on the savage peoples of the United
States and Alaska. These are exhaustive
ethnologic treatises. profusely adorned with
places illustrating the manners and customsl
of the races discussed. The quarto onj
mines and mining, which is the only one an
yet issued, contains many fash-light views
of scenes in the bowels of the earth.
The most picturesque feature of the census
picture books will be that portion which
relates to the natives of Alaska In tho
region drained BY the Kuskakwim river and
its tributaries numerous villages exist In .
purely aboriginal condition, and thousands
of people beheld in the official enumeratori
the first white man thew had ever seen.
That gentleman, while ascending the Kus-
kakwim river, subsisted chiefly on the eggs,
of wild fowl, which he purchased with
needles. ;
Needles Are Negotiable. !
Needles are a negotiable medium in that
country, and he carried a supply of them in
his wasteoat pocket. On one occasion,
while passing through a swamp, the natives
who paddled his boat robbed the nest of a
mallard duck of its eggs. For a joke, the
enumerator dropped three needles into the
nest as if in payment. Taking The matter
quite seriously, the natives spread through
all that distric. the report that there was q
man so anxious to trade that he paid ducks
for their eggs, and the news was carried for
hundreds OF miles, causing the census agent
good deal of trouble and annoyance.
These Eskimo of the Kuskakwim are e1-
trayagantly fond OF tobacco, in the use of
which they are obliged to exercise a re-
markable economy, owing to its rarity
with them. On this account the tobacco is
mixed with a large proportion of wood
ashes, and the quid for chewing is passed
from mouth to mouth in social way.
When not in use, the quid is usually placed.
behind the owners ear. Tobacco in so
pure a condition as this is considered too
good for the women, and they are only too
happy to receive the used-up guilds. These
they dry, powdering them and mixing them
with wood ashes so as to make snuff, to
the use of which they are greatly addicted.
!
Those put together by the Census Bureaui
seem to indicate that the people Of Chicago
are cleaner than those OF New York, inas-
much as the average person in the Windy
City uses 81 gallons of water daily, whereas
the consumption of the same fluid on Man.
haitian Island is only "a gallons per capita
Use Plenty of Water.
Philadelphia ought to be called the City
of Fountains. 1t has GIG of them, Balti-
more coming next with 137 and Boston third
with a. The water supply of Milwaukeeis
largely consumed in the shape of beer.
1t may be presumed that the people OF
drink more beer per capita than
those of any other town, inasmuch as the
beer gardens of the city have seating capa-
city for more than one-half of the popula-i
tion. The town which can boast Of having
the greatest number of saloons in proper
tion to its inhabitants is Atlantic City, N.
j. 1t possesses Is such resorts for every
1 200 people. Butte City, Mont, whioh
long held the reputation of being the wick
edest town In the United States, has only
13 saloons per 900. Chicago has mora dogs
than any other city in this country, Hcens-
ing II 900 of these animals annually ct q
each