The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-23

not he geographically reported and pull
Eshed in the papers. 1t would make
rrcy reading. The sentiment fol oncn
sessions of the Senate grows.
The Evening Star Company cOntem-
plates the erection of a model news
paper office in this city, to cost about
100000, and has obtained the plans by
competition, the successful architects
being William j. March and w. !.
Peter. The building will be Of white
marble in the style of the French re-
naissance, seven stories high, with n
frontage Of fitfy-one feet on Pennslyva-
MIA avenue and a depth of 10 feet on
11th street. The counting room will be
finished i'll sienna marble, mahogany
and bronze. The editorial and compos-
ing rooms will occupy the upper part OF
the building. The entire structure is
to I've absolutely fre-prOof, will have an
independent steel frame from the base To
the top, is to he heated by steam and
lighted with electricity and gas. Where
possible electricity is to be employed as
the motive power and the building will
have it's own motors and dynamOs. Every
convenience known in the equipment Of
a modern newspaper office Will be made
use of. In every instance preference
will be given home products and local
labor. Each branch OF the work will
he let under Il separate contract and
the construction will be under the di
rect supervision Of the architects and
clerk of the work, who will look after
the interests Of the owners.
The programme on foot now is to
appoint II. u. North, Il wool manufac-
turer, to conduct the next census.
Robert T. Porter padded the last cen
sus and made it speak lies in the inter
est Of protection by order OF the Repub-
lican party. Fortunately, che Demo-
Gratis completed the ceIsus and were
able to take out part of the padded
false reports before publishing. Recently
Mr. Carroll d. Wright, the only ideal
man in America to take the census,
wrote Il letter to Senator Lodge show
ing that if the clerks had been selected
by approved competency instead of by
POrter's Republican favoritiSm a saving
OF two million dollars would have been
effected in taxing the last census.
He makes a comparison between the
work of the Census Bureau and the
Department Of Labor between April /,
1889, and June so, 1897. The latter
department was under civil service rules.
THE work OF the department. End
that of the census office is of the same
general grade" he says. "All the investi-
cations conducted by the Department
Of Labor are quite as difficult as the
most difficult investigations conducted
by the census office.
He submits table to show that the
Department of Labor between April j,
1889, and June 80, 1897, prepared ID
$4,000 ems of matter at total cost,
exclusive Of printing, engraving anu
binding, Of $4,369,7I7.26. The cost per
] 900 ems therefore was $17,22. The
Census Bureau is shown to have pre-
pared 2OS. T94. 0OU ems OF matter at a
total cost, unuer the same conditions OF
&lu.O16,677.6S. The cost per 1,0U0 ems,
therefore, is paced ut $47.97.
In order TO make more just COMPARE
son, however, Mr.. Wright excluded the
field force in other figures, and shows
the expense per 1000 ems in the De
partment of Labor was $11.O1 and in the
Census Bureau S27.1
he says il the work had been done in
the Census office under the same cOndi-
tions as his work was done in the De
partment of Labor the total expenditure
of the former, excluding expenditures
for the work of the field force and for
printing, engraving and binding, would
have been $2,29S, S21.94, instead Of So,
67O,847.15, a saving of $3,372,O-5.21.