The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-11
ARMY Of CENSUS
ENUMERAT0RS
Will Begin Task Of Recording
Names and Occupations Of
People Friday

Washington, April 11.-With the
break of day on next Friday, a host
Of 10000 interrogators. men and WON.
en-, white and colored, will be turned
loose In pursuit OF the people Of thu
United States. On that day Uncle
Sam win begin the numbering of hia
children In preparation for the tl,ir;
teenth census. He estimates that he
has family Of about; 81. 9.000. 900 men
women and children. and he already
has employed and will then put to
work body Of enumerators consi0.
erably greater than the standing
army.
The law provides that the enumera-
tion shall begin on the 18th, but it is
not so peremptory about the com.
mencing time as about the closing
time, and already intimations have
been received that in some instances
the work may be postponed until Sat
urday. This is due to the fact that
the 18th falls on Friday, and among
the 10000 name takers there are some
who are superstitious as to this day
Of the week.
The enumeration will cover all of
the forty-five states and two terri
tories of the union proper and also
Hawaii and Porto Rico. Alaska, the
Philippine islands and Guam will not
be included, as especial arrangements
are made for numbering the people
Of. those dependencies.
Under the statutes governing the
work, the entire enumeration must be
completed within a month, and in the
cities the work is limited to fifteen
days. 1t is expected that some of the
returns from the cities will be re-
ceived 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 thousand 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 speculative, and the figures
will not be given out.
Director e. Dana Durands is count
Ing upon a roll of not fewer than 90,-
100000 names. This estimate is bas-
eu upOA C1ACulosAVAo VI uAo OAPVAtoS
and makes allowance for an increase
according to the tendencies shown in
the last three previous censuses. Be-
tween 1870 and 1880 the increase in
the population was thirty per cent;
between 1880 and 1890, twenty-five
per cent; between 1890 and 1900.
twenty-one per cent. II the decrease
should continue a the same ratio
there would be falling of this year
Of the rate of gain to seventeen per-
cent The immigration figures for
the past decade have been greater,
however, than for any Of the previous
ten-year periods. Making allowance
for this augmentatio from outside 1t
ia calculated that the increase for the
past ten years will be about eighteen
ner cent. and as, in round numbers.
the figure for 1900 was 76,000,000. 1t
is now calculated that there prove to
have been an addition Of about H.
100000 souls.
Much interest is felt as to the
showing regarding the purely native
increase. The enumerations between
1870 and 1900 show a startling ten
dency towards race suicide" and 1t
is Mr.. Durand's fond hope that the
reports of his 10000 subordinates may
be able to check this apparent de-
cline. Man of figures that he is. he
does not. however. permit his optim-
ism to shade his facts. and until the