The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24

81 each day thu total figures 70 Washing
ton. which has thus been keeping a check
Oh the work here
What makes tho job % being a census
enumerator no easy task outside 81 its
physical strain - the fact that the census
u taken a. Of one particular day. which
this year vas April IS. The census man
may not have got around 20 you yet.
bat when he does you must answer hl-
Questions ar though Il was April Is. II
took a lot Of drilling 20 get Supervisor
FalCks pupils - got u through their
heads that Il a man was married On April
10 he must nevertheless 90 down on
Uucie sans books a. being single. Babie-
born On April 10 Will have TO wait for tern
years.
II the census folks arr fearful a. getting
too many they arr Just a. fearful - over
looking some, and night here comes IN
another hard part q the work DOW
going on. Dalvlng into some ~ The
holes ia which humanity - huddlad IN
this bog town dO-sn't suffice. Tor there
ar- the homeless 20 bs considered. The
man who shifts his lodgings nightly IL
pretty sur To he counted IN the end. but
Il might 10 supposed that the man who
makes N. parks has home for a day or
two would easily escape the clutches 81
the o.nsus man. That u not the case.
however.
One day recently a CENSUS Of those in
the parks 81 the city was taken 20 show
how thoroughly the CENSUS job IL done
II "a person found in a park had a horne
no account wa- taken 81 him. but the
homeless were enumerated. Even with
all IN" precautions the census officials
are willing 81 admit that sOms 81 the
fiotsan and JetsRm 81 tho city goes I'M
counted. What tho proportion is they
don't attempt 20 estimate.
The number - the uncounted does not
include 10y any means the people who
I. -. l.
Even II your house has b.-en shut up
tight the probability - that you are
down on the CENSUS mans sh.-et though
perhaps his record ~ -oIn.W hat incomplete
Failing To find any ON. at home his in
strllctio ions were 60 pump your next door
neighbOr and learn from him all hs can
about you.
The CENSUS enunerators who have
been trying 20 count nu-s-s in the foreign
quarters have been having the toughest
time of all IN some Tt-pects. just what
the job has h-en 10 get a Chinanan TO
answer some 81 th. QUESTIONS may be-
easily guessed at. In picking the men
for the foreign quarters an attempt Was
made to get men able t. speak several
languages. but in addition a lot Of inter-
pretsrs ara bring employed. These have
bs'sn stationed at the public SCHOOL,.
which have bs-en used a. district head
quarters for the work. Whenever a
CENSUS man has got in trouble be has
been told 20 ssnd a call for one Of these
Interpreters.
There was some trouble in getting
interpreters for Chinatown. which wasn't
Rt all expected. The idea of the census
officials was that anybody speaking
Chinese would do. hat they found them
selves suddenly up against the tong war
II was necessary IL Uncle Sam was 10 R.t
anything like the proper idea of the axn
and social conditions 81 Chinatown's IN
habItants to get an interpreter who was
neutral.
AZ showing how all persons look alike
TO the census man IL might be noted that
the president 81 the Steel CORPORATION hs.s
to 20 down on Uncle Sans hooks a. aI,
employees. while tho man az the peanut
stand ranks as an employer. The Gov
eminent wants To find out just how many
persons belong To the class OF wage Garner
and makes no Distinctions. In thu. htti,.
book OF Instructions which each cens,is
man carries around with HIM is this IN
black and white:
Any p"rsOn who works for wnRssz or A
salary and - subject 10 the control and
direction Ot an employer IL an ernploy..
whether he 10 president Of large. cor
porattOn or "a day labOr.r, whether hs. ~.
paid Ia money or not and whether he hs