The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-06-22
CENSUS BUREAU
WILL SOON GIVE
EXACT FIGURES
EVERY CITY IN THE COUNTRY
WILL KNOW IT'S POPULATION
SHORTLY. }t
Director Durand States That the Ma
chine Count Will BE Official, But
Slight Changes May Be Made in
Some Places.

Washington. June Give will
begin the tabluation of the cards Of
enumerators this week, and few
days thereafter will commence the
announcement of the population in
the various cities of the country The
figures for Brooklyn probably will
not be ready for a month We will
give separate statistics for each of
the boroughs of Greater New York"
This statement was made today by
Director Of the Census Durand. The
music of the punching machines has
been resounding fer the past three
weeks through the great Iarn-like
structure occupied by the census
clerks. Fifteen hundred employees are
at work on the job. The grind of
the manchines will continue steadily
until the first of October, by waich
time the population of the nation and
all the citiess will have been ascer-
tanned.
Returns From Cleveland.
Director Durand says that the re-
suits will be announced as rapidly as
the totals are known, without any re-
gard 10 the size of the cities. The
public seems to be expecting that the
results in the biggest cities will be
given out first. Communities in
which the supervisors are most ert1c-
| lent will get the earliest information
about their population. Complete re-
| turns frc m Cleveland o., were in
ahead of those from any other city,
| and tAe director says that the popula-
ton there will be among the first an
nounceTnents. - - ~
Modern invention has greatly SIM
plified the work Of tabluating the re-
turns. Practically everything Is done
by machinery. The supervisors re-
turns go first to the director, who,
after a cursory examination of them,
refers them to set of clerks. whose
business it is to look them over to see
that they are in regular form.
personal examination of each re-
turn is made to see that all the ques-
tions have been asked. This exami-
nation is necessary for the reason
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out Congress passed an act directing
the gathering of information Witr ref
erence to the mother tongue. 1t was
not possible to include this informa-
ii On the resular printed schedule,
so it is coming in on separate
ats. Many eupmerators, 1t seslns
l...sd to understand what was re-
CURED. and tae personal examination
has resulted in calling many correc-
tions
After returns have been personally
examined. they are turned over to the
clerks, who operate the punching ma
chimes Through the operation II
these machines each individual enum
Grated is represented by a hole punch
ed in a long sheet OF paper After
everybody IN certain geographical
division has been accounted for by
this hola-punching process the sheets
are turned over to the clerks WAC
pa~age the tabuIating machines.
These adding machines count the
number Cf holes in a sheet and turn
out totals at g rapid gait.
While there seems small possiail-
| ity that the Instruments can &C wroag
Director Durand is having a person.
al count made also. The pay of the
| enumerators may be based on this
personal count The figures an
nounced first will also represent this
pers nal count The director states
that the machine cotIHEswiIl be the
official one, and he. mligat possibly
make slight changes here and taere
in the personal count.
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