The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-09

me. | adore Strauss. He is the greatest
of them all, bur Salome is enough for
ne at present And that reminds me, |
am studying German Perhaps l shall
be singing German roles next season,
qui salt: 10. I haven't been asked to
sing at Isayreuth yet, but l may Dc
some day. and We ut to be ready.
During few Gays OF recreatiol in
Atlantic City recently 1 encountered
sign IN the hoard walk which red;
'KenilWorth.' ard something = OF
palm reading / decided to find out what
the fates had in store for me, and
walked in. The man lifted my hand
and told me that my name was known
in all the civilized cities Of the world.
He also told me that l should marry
title. If l do marry 1 hope it will be
little. / take marriage very seriously.
II can't think of binding myself with
some one 1 don't love. No; l shall not
marry until l am very sure of myself"
Oscar Hammerstein leaves for
Europe, April IS, on the steamer Maui
retania to search for new singers and
new. operas for next season. He has
secured the sole rights for Massenet's
new opera, Don QuiXote," now being
sung in the Opera house in Brussels;
also the sole rights of the opera Chi
quita,' as we'll as the new Richard
Strauss opera, which is of a light and
melodious character totally different
from the sombre and grewsome "Sa-
lone" and "Elektra" His travels will
extend to Cairo, Algiers, ST. Petersburg,
Moscow, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin and
all through Italy.
Next Friday carefully trained
army of 1913 men will sally forth in
Manhattan and the Bronx. The duty
of these soldiers will be to fire thirty
personal questions at the head of each
house in the worlds second greatest
city, and to secure a satisfactory re-
Spouse to each question. For on next
F'riday-the census officials are not
uperstitious-Uncle Sam will begin
the counting of noses all over his do
main.
For census purposes, the United
States has been divided into $50 dis
tricts, of which Manhattan and the
Bronx are the first Albert Falck is
in charge of the gigantic task of
getting a correct count Of the people
of the nations metropolis, and every
detail has already been arranged.
These two boroughs have been split
| up into 1913 districts. The law requires
that in cities having a population or
5000 or more the actual work of census
| taking be completed in two weeks. so
the varied size of these 1713 districts
was based entirely upon what an ac-
| tive enumerator might reasonably be
expected to cover within the prescribed
| two weeks. In the outlying, sparsely
settled parts of the Bronx an enumera-
| tors district includes many acres. In
the congested parts of Manhattan,
where families live many-ply deep
half block is estimated to represent
good two weeks work.
! The pay that the enumerators will
receive for their work is not large. Elk
cept in thinly populated districts, they
receive = 1-2 cents for each name OPP
posted which the thirty answers APP
pear. Mr. Flack believes that this
should net an enumerator from 81 to
S. a day.
There We're $4,000 applicants Tor
the jobs. Eight thousand five hum
dred took the test examinations on
Feb. 5. and from these Mr. Falck Sc
lected the 1913 who are to do the work
Many of these enumera tors are col
lege students who apparently look upon
the task of census gathering as an ex-
cellent means of gathering sociological
information at first hand.