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WOMEN TO HELP COUNT US.
CENSUS or NEW YORK CITY 1ANO'
PACTURRS THIS WEEK.
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Then, on june First. Men OF wealth. Magazine
Writers, Medical Students and Piasn
Ceusus-rakers VIII Count Noses -Dtvi'
sion Of Patronage Here and In the south.
The actual work Of taking the Twelfth Cen
sus will begin here this week when 100 special
enumerators under charge OF F. X. Williams
will go TO gathering statistics OF manufactures
In the city OF New York. Mr.. Williams whose
office Ia at e5 Liberty street Is the chief speciai
agent in charge OF this work He was In charge
OF the gathering OF such statistics throughout
the entire country for the Tenth and Eleventh
censuses. and the men who Will aid MIN
have all had experience In the work.
In 1890 there were about twenty-five
thousand manufacturing establishments
in New York city and II 900 In the territory
which has since been added 10 the city. Mr.
Williams said yesterday that he thought that
there were AT least 900 manufacturing plants
In New York city now. from each OF when
statistics will be taken The agents will ASK ior
the amount OF capital invested In each plant
the number OF hands employed, the amount OF
wages. the kind. quality and quantity OF raw
materials used the nature Of the product. its
value, and the amount and kind Of power used
Manufacturers usually answer readily
The information which IL gathered " used
In the compilation OF general tables said Mr.
Williams Yesterday, "and there is no way In
which II can fall into the hands Of business
rivals As II appears In the census reports Y -
ANONYMOUS, OF course. and have not heard or
q single case In twenty years in which any In
formation has leaked out n Of tae RepaaTtmen, hI. @
sus day. June |, but all OF the statistics Will be
for that day -
nose counting In Manhattan and The Bronx.
has sent to Director Merriam the names OF the
persons whom he recommends for appointment
as enumerators; There are about 100 OF these
who will do nothing except find out how many
persons are living in Manhattan and The
Bronx at O'Clock In the morning or June |;
Supervisor Wilbur said yesterday that he had
recommended number of women TO act IA
think there will be any Difficulty in getting the
figures. At first he had decided to appoint no
1T has astonished me TO see the persons who
want TO be- appointed enumerators, said Mr.
Wilbur II have h%d great many aRpG"onsi nSss
the pay. but who apparently want to do the
work for the experience. Several men and
have made application. l have tried 10 ge, the
best enumerators that ! could Many OF those
have recommended are students in Columbia
medical HeHai.H students Hn G' think hat they viii make
particularly good enumerators. The Police
Department has promised TO aid the enumera-
tors in every way. In certain districts police
man will accompany the enumerator 70 con-
vince the people that his work is Legitimate;
In 1890 a number of enumerators were handled
pretty roughly. The police are going 10 see
that nothing Of that kind happens this year,
Mr. Wilbur is now organizing stan OF 100
linguists, who will act as interpreters. The
linguists will be kept at convenient place and
when an enumerator IL stuck he will telephone
for whatever kind of talent he wants Enumer-
ators will receive from two and half cents to
fve cents a name, the amount varying with
circumstances All the cows and other domes-
tic animals In the city will be counted.
Mr. Wilbur said yesterday that he did not
think IL would be advisable to make public a
list Of the enumerators because OF the efforts
which would be made TO have them act as ad-
v1rtising agents and solicitors while making
their enimerations In New York. under the
arrangements made in Washington when the
Census bill was passed. the recommendations
of Democratic congressman are cons dered in
the appointment OF about 10 per cent. OF the
enumerators In tho South the Democrats
suggest the names OF about 50 per cent.
Mr. Wilbur is receiving at the rate OF about
one thousand day replies to the card he dis
tributad asking for information Of the families
which will be out OF town on census day. He
distributed 2OO,0CO cards. and has tabulated
those which account for -, 900 persons far
He believes that through the cards ne will be
able to prevent the escape Of at least $1,000
residents OF the city who would otherwise not
be counted.