Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-07-02
PLANNING CENSUS OF 1910
Work Will Require Force Of
10000
Most Gigantic Enumeration Ever
Known Anywhere-About s14,OOO,.
O Estimated A. Cost In-
portant Changes in the
Methods VIII BE fade.

1t Will require an army of seventy
thousand people TO take the thirteenth
census in 1910. The task of making the
enumeration OF the ninety million people
in the United States. Alaska, Hawaii and
Porto Rico and in Guam, Samoa and the
Panama Canal Zone will be one Of enor-
nous proportions. says the Washington
correspondent of the Boston Transcript.
1t will be the most gigantic work Of emu
meration that has ever been in
this or any other country, and it Is in
tended to reach the acme Of correctness
and t~horoughness, Not merely a count
and compilation concerning the popula-
ton alone, it will include a census Of
agriculture. manufactures. mines and
quarries.
Director S. n. d. North of the Census
Bureau is already getting ready for the
thirteenth census. he has been planning
on ii for a year or more. r was hoped by
M, North that the Crumpacker bill to
provide for the thirteenth and subsequent
dccenial ccnsuses would be passed the
last session of Congress. But it failed of
enactment along with numerous other
measures of Importance by reason of the
rush at the close of the session and the
anxiety of the Congress leaders to hurry
the session to an end.
The Crumpacker bill, however, will
doubtless he passed carly the next ses-
sion. 1t Is the first bill of high privilege
on the Louise calendar, and it Is expected
it Will be taken up the first or second day
of the session and disposed of by the
House. 1t has not yet been acted on by
the Senate committee on census, that
committee having held back until the
House had opportunity TO pass the mca-
sure. No delay in the Senate. either in
committee or or the floor, is anticipated.
1t will cost about $4,000, 900 to take the
thirteenth census, but Is not carried In
the Crumpacker bill, as it is on the House
calendar. 1t was in the bin at first. but
the speaker and Chairman Tawney of the
Hous committee on appropriations
thought 1t unwise to make so large an
authorization a year before 1t would be
used and there was also a feeling that
the appropriation should he put in one OF
the regular Appropriation bills, AS the legis-
lative, executive and judicial bill. The
coming session of Congress will no doub
appropriate literally for census purposes
A census of tho Philippines will not BIZ
included in the coming decennial census
for the reason that one was taken in 100:
and 1t Is doubtful whether the Phillip
pines government would care to bear the
cost of another enumeration so soon.
Important changes in the taking anC
compilation of the census and in tho
method OF publication Of the returns will
be made. For one thing. the returns vii
be greatly condensed, The twelfth censu.
required ten volumes. 1t is the expecta
ton of Director North hat the thirteentf
census will be published In six volumes OF
seven at the outside. The mortality salts
tics OF the last census will he dropped
They were found unsatisfactory as col
lected at the last ~dcccnnial census. Thu
reduced number of volumes will con
siderably lower the cost of the thirteenth
census.
A change that is believed to be in thu
interest of accuracy and completeness vii
require the enumeration of population 4
be made as OF April IL instead Of June
as has been the case heretofore, The rea
son for this is interesting, The population
of the United States Is exhibiting NOR
and more a tendency to go to the seashor
and the mountains and the lakes to avoi
the hot weather. and it is going niue
earlier than formerly. The result Is tina
enumerators who are set to work June
are certain to find many houses deserte
and their occupants gone away for tn
summer. 1t is thought April l will be
much more satisfactory date for this req
son. At that time of year. the exodus t
the resorts will not be begun.