Evening journal., 1898-06-22

erence to the requirements of the par
ticular and exacting service he will be
called upon to render"
A report accompanying the bin gives
a. vast amount OF interesting informa-
lion regarding previous censuses. From
this It appears that the censuses up 10
$3.50 were all taken under the opera
lion Of the law passed March 1, 1885,
providing for the first census. A new
act was passed May %, 1850, which re-
mained in force until March 3, 1879
when an act was passed for the talk
ing of the census of 1880. The census
of 1890 was taken under the act of
March 1, 1882 This last named act
was amended no fewer than seven
times, once so late as July g. 1892.
Forms of the schedules used in all the
several enumerations are given in full,
illustrating graphically how the scope
Of the inquiries has grown in the
years.
The publications and the cost of the
several censuses are also shown. A
single volume Of fifty-two pages pub
lished in 1892 contained the report of
the census of 1890, population 1929, pa.
and the cost of the work was $44.377. 1t
was a return merely Of the number of
persons in the United States. The le
port of 1900, population 5,SOS ,4S3. was
of like scope, covering seventy-eight
pages and was issued in 1901, the cost
being $66, 500. In 1910, population T.
239SS1, two volumes were issued. one
in a year unknown, the other in 1913.
They comprised 26O pages. One related
to population and one to agricultural
and manufacturing products. Cost.
$177 445. The same number of volumes.
containing 264 pages, were issued IN
1921 and 1928 relating to the census of
1920, when the population was $685.
S22. Cost, S2O5,526 One volume Of 100
pages contained the report Of the CEN
sus Of 1880, population 10, ,866, ,020. This
was so wretchedly printed that Con-
gress ordered a reprint Of the whole
edition, which ran the cost up to $685.
543.
The report Of the census Of 1910
population 1909, ,45S, was in four vol
umes, comprising 1,457 pages. They
included a compendium Of the enumer-
alton Of inhabitants, the census
proper, census Of pensioners and mis-
cellaneOus statistics. Cost, 1888. $40.
-Four volumes formed the limit of the
report up to the tenth census. In 1850.
population 2S,191S S76, they contained
1 1,S59 pages, and the cost was 81 1,S29.-
O27; in 1860, population 81 ,44S, ,321. they
contained 1916 pages, and the cost was
81, ,922 PIP; in 1870, population 3S $685.
81, they contained 9,26S pages, and
the cost was So, ,S36,511.
The tenth census-1SSO, population
50, ,155, ,7S3-was reported in twenty-five
volumes, comprising 1908 pages, pub
lished at intervals from 1888 to 1888.
They contained statistics Of popula-
ton; manufactures; agriculture; trans
pOrtation; cotton production; valua-
tion; taxation and indebtedness; news
papers, Alaska and shipbuilding; for
est trees and maps; petroleum, coke
and building stone; mortality and vi
tai statistics; precious metals, mining
laws and industries; water power; so
cial statistics of cities; wages, prices OF
necessaries; trade societies, strikes and
lockouts; defective, dependent and de-
linquept classes; power and machinery
employed in manufactures and ice in
dustry; compendium. Cost, $685., $50
To report the census of 1890, popula-
ton 62,622 ,25O, twenty-five volumes
comprising 26O94 pages, were neces-
sary All of them have not yet been
issued. They included population; VI
tai and social statistics; insane, feeble
minded, deaf, dumb and blind; crime
pauperism and benevolence; churches
manufactures; wealth, debt and taxa.
ton; insurance, agriculture, irrigation
and fisheries; transportation; minera
industries; Indians; Alaska; real es
tate mortgages; farms and homes; pro
prietorship and Indebtedness; com.
pendulum; abstract. cost, 'S11 SAC, ,662.-
New York Sun.