Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-04-29
Hampon, Phoebus and Old Point
VIRGINIA WILL GET TEN
CENSUS SUPERVISORS
Also About Fifteen Hundred Enumer.
ators-Hieher OFFICERS viii Be
Presidential Appointees.

WASHINGTON. D. c., kt,ril 2S.-
Virginia Is to have ten supervisors OF
the census, and approximately 1900
enumera,ors. North Carolina will
, have the same number of supervisors
and about the same number OF emu.
merators. The census ONCE knows
precisely the number of supervisors,
but estimates the number Of enumer-
ators.
The supervisors will be appointed
by the President. Appointments will
lie made as soon as the census bill
is passed. which will be recomme nded
by the supervisors, and the appoint
ments will be made by the director
of the census.
The compensation of the supervisor
will be $500 for the two or three
months work required of him: in ad-
dition they receive 81 per 1000 of
POI qilation enumerated. In some cases
the compensation will run up pretty
high. In the borough of Manhattan.
for instance, there will be bat one
supervisor. In the State of Massa-
chusetts there will be hut a single
supervisor, due to the fact that the
lay ctSAtS q SS"cuc MIN way
between Federal censuses. and keeps
census bureau open all the time.
The supervisor will be an attache Of
the State census bureau. the ma
chinery of which will be largely en-
ployed in taking the Federal census.
Must Be Qualified.
There will be total Of s228 super
yisors in the country.
1t is estimated that the total num-
Der of enumerators will reach $4,000.
No examination will be required Of
the enumerators. but they will be
compelled to fill ont a schedule of
questions designed to bring out the
fact of their qualifications for the
work. As stated, recommendations
will be made by the supervisors and
appointments will be made by the d.
rector.
Enumerators will be compensated at
the rate of from 2 to cents per name.
In towns of less than 5000 the rate
will be rather above that figure, the
highest being paid in sEarsely settled
sections of the country. 1t is planned
to have one enumerator for every
voting district. On census supervisor
III US opPOahtCu III SoSh SohSiSc
sional district.
Enumerators will be given from the
18th Of Alrl, 1910. to the 18th Of May.
1910, in which to complete the work
of numbering the inhabitants Of their
districts The supervisors will be in
Office much longer All reports will
be made to them by the enumerators,
and these will then be forwarded tot
Will Receive instructions.
1t is the intention of the census bu-
reau to bring to Washington the su-
pervisors from Virginia, Maryland and
other nearby States, and instruct them
in the methods to be followed in do
ing their work These will then lie
sent into various sections of the coun-
try to instruct other supervisors.
DESPITE the enormous proportions
of the task involved, and despite the
fact that the complete results of the
census will not be known for two or
three years, the actual numbering OF
the people will consume but one short
month. The real work Of digesting.
and tabulating the figures which will
be turned in by the enumerators
the supervisors. will be done
by the large, trained force in the cen
sus bureau in this city.