The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-01
CENSUS OFFICERS
BACK FROM TOUR

arr, Culel SldIlbIlClan LOT manufactures
in the census bureau, have returned
from the principal manufacturing cities
which they visited to confer with the
leading trade organizations and asso-
Citations of manufacturers, in regard to
the form of the schedule to be used in
the census of manufactures for the
calendar year 1909, as required by the
act of Congress providing for the thir.
teenth decennial United States census.
Among the associations visited by
one or both of these officers of the bu.
reau were the Philadelphia Board of
Trade; the American Iron and Steel
| Associations; the Board of Trade and
Transportation, of New York City; the
National Association of Manufacturers;
the National Paint, Oil and Varnish
Associations; the Chamber of Commerce
of the State of New York; the Paper
and Pulp Association; the Silk Asso.
citation of America; the Copper Pro.
ducers' Association; the Association of
Wool Manufacturers etc.
The representatives of these associa.
tiOns, and the other individual manu-.
facturers consulted in general expressed
their belief that the schedule as sug.
| gested, called for the information it is
! desirable to obtain for their industries
and embraced all the questions to which
the manufacturers would willingly fur
nish answers. A number of them, more.
| over, made certain suggestions which it
is believed will be of value in drafting
the final form of schedule to be adopted
The law providing for the thirteenth
| census directs that certain statistics in
regard to capital employees, wages,
cost of materials, miscellaneous ex-
penses, and value of products, shall be
| collected from all manufacturing estab.
! lishments that were in operation dur.
| ing any portion of the year 1909. The
director of the census desires to make
| these inquiries as simple as the re.
quirements of the law will permit,
therefore, the consultations with repre-.
| sentative concerns and the creation of
the advisory board of special agents.
The schedule in its last stage will
represent the experience of the bureau,
and the benefit of the advice and sug-
gestions of the principal trade organi-
cations and manufacturers associations
and, finally, such recommendations as
may have been made by state officials
in charge of the compilation of kindred
statistics.
The director further has in mind sub.
hitting for final consideration and ad.
vice the schedule as drafted in the
bureau to special committee of experts
to be drawn from among the principal
officers of the leading trade associations
and large private concerns devoted to
special lines of industry. The form and
contents of the several special schedules
will be considered and advised upon
by them and they will assist in the
formulation Of the detailed conclusions
to be drawn later from analyses of the
compiled data. Invitations to act in
this capacity already have been extend.
ed to number of distinguished bust
ness men and they have promptly ac.
cepted; the director IS plan of obtain,
ing authoritative suggestions during the
preparation of the schedules, appealing
most strongly to their practical con
ception of census along common sense
and logical lines
1t is important that the manufactur.
ers cooperate with the census bureau to
make the census a success, and il is the
intention of the director to confer free
ly with the associations and representa-.
tive men engaged in the different in
dustries. The schedules will as n rule
be collected by special agents, begin.
ming January l next, but every manu-
facturer will have the privilege of send.
ing his report directly to the census
bureau by mail if he prefers to do so.
Chief Statistician Steuart states that
the census of manufactures and that of
mines and quarries, which covers the
calendar year ending next December
81, will both be taken by the same
special agents and on schedules that
have been made uniform in many of
the essential features, which, in add
ton to details peculiar to special in
/ dustries will permit of the preparation
of totals that show the magnitude and
relative Importance of each.
The census of manufactures is to be
confined to what is generally known as
1.-THE factory SYSTEM and excludes the
: socalled neighborhood, household, and
hand Industries, which were included at
the federal census of 1900. The line of
demarcation between the factory in
dustries to be taken, and the hand
trades, ct cetera, that are to be omit
ted, is not, said Mr.. Steuart, always
clearly defined, but fair idea may be
obtained of the relative importance of
, the two classes by the following brief
I ! AZ lnt CtHhub VI lJUD IDtGt
, was a total of 5l2, 254 establishments
with products valued at $4,000 400, l43,
1. and of these the hand trades, of char.
acter which were omitted at the census
of 1908, represented 304 500 establish.
ments with products valued at 81 ,593,-
, 279,02l, or 59.5 per cent. of the total
number of establishments and 1913 per
, cent. of the total value of products.
The census of 1910, therefore, TO be
complete, must include the reports from
every factory, mine and quarry that
was in operation during any portion of
the calendar year 1909.
The inquiries are similar to those used
at prior censuses. They require de.
, scription Of the business or kind Of
products, the amount of capital, the
number of employees, the amount paid
in wages and salaries, the amount of
miscellaneous expenses, the cost of ma.
terials, and the value of the products
at the factory or mine.