Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-12
ANOTHER CHANGE IN
 LOCAL CENSUS ENUMERATORS
Owing to Sickness J. N. Phillips Can not Do Work and James Conway Has Been Named.

Joseph N. Phillips of s1s West Main sus enumerator for the East Great Plain district and that part of the town, has been taken seriously ill, and therefore will not be able to carry out the duties of the position.
 To fill this vacancy. County Super visor c. J. Downes has secured per mission from State Director Bailey of New Haven to appoint James Conway without doubt the youngest enumera- tor in the city, being 19 years old but he is well qualified for the place in many ways
 test blanks, and the local men did mer- itorious work. The premilinary work was of value in enabling various mis- takes to be rectif1ed and improvements to be pointed out The statement that in 1,40O papers throughout the state there was not one absolutely perfect, shows the difficulty of the work es pecially when interrogating people who are not familiar with the English tongue.
 Under the statutes governing the work, the entire enumeration must be completed within month, and in the cities the work is limited to Is days from Friday of this week. It is ex- pected that some of the returns from the cities will be received as early as the first week in June, but the exact population of the entire country will not be determined before some time in September. The census officials will, however, know within a few thou sand of the number long before the close of the summer months They will be able to reach a substantially accurate conclusion by their pay rolls, but this will be more or less specula- tive, and the figures will not be given out.
 There will be some innovations in eXnlctHd to improve the reports. For instance. the country farmer is to be afforded an opportunity to consider in advance the statements he shall make as to the conditions prevailing with reference to his holdings, and the same advantage is to be given heads of families in cit ies as to the enumeration of their households. In both cases sheets are to be passed around before the official calls of the enumerators, in the hopes that both ruralist and urbarite will be more complete in their returns than otherwise they might be. There also is to be unusual care in the supervis- ion of the work of the enumerators- In the cities supervisors will camp on the heels of the men with the pencils dur ing the first sday of their work, and in the country districts the sheets will be especially scrutinized.
 The inquiry will comprise three principal branches: Population, agri- culture and mining and manufactur- ing. The questions will sover the acreage the value and the product of farms, including an especial enumera- tion of animals. as it will the capital invested, the value of products, and the number of employees of mining and manufacturing plants
 The enumerators will want to know a good deal about you for the popu- lation volumes They not only will insist upon knowing your sex, but will expect you to reveal your age, and <.-1- &11I hat f17nx- 1za white, black, mulatto, Chinese, Jap anese or Indian; whether you are mar ried or single, and if married how often; whether you are American or foreign born, and if the latter, that you give not only your nationality. but your race and mother tongue. Then, if you are woman, you are to tell how many children have been born to you; and in any event, you are to tell all about your education, your parent age and your employment. All this information is to be for the general average and for the ear only. of one of the enumerators. He is sworn not to reveafany of the awful truths.
 The mere getting of the information will cost the government the pretty sum of s5,500,000- Of this amount, s4,5o0,o0o will be paid to enumerators and the remaining million to super visors. With a few exceptions the enumerators will be paid on the basis of the work done. In the country the remuneration will be from 20 to 30 cents for each farm reported, while the pay for names will range from to 4 cents. The districts will aver age 1900 names, 1000 in the country and 1,600 in the cities. In the south ern states there will be two enumera- tors in each district. one white and the other black. All told, there will be about 1,500' negro enumerators, but some of them will be employed in the northern states Tn. the south the ne- wi visited of their own race as will also the whites by their own people. There all so will be about 800 women eumera- tors. In point of numbers New York will lead the list with $500 enumera- tors, while Nevada will close the pro- cession with s6.
 The results of the labors of this army of people will be published in 12 or 15 large volumes, which will come out from time to time for two or three years after the completion-of the work