The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-14
CENSUS TAKERS ARE INSTRUCTED
 FOR THEIR WORK
Meeting of Special Agents in This District at Home of
 Prof. Bailey.
Different Methods For Hotels, Boarding Houses, Schools
 and Similar Places.

A conference of all the special agents of the neighboring towns was held yesterday afternoon at the home
 of Prof. William B. Bailey in New.
 Haven, and the matter of taking the
 census was thoroughly discussed.
 There were special agents from the
 Elm City as well as Bridgeport, Wa
 terbury, Ansonia, Derby, Norwich,
 Meriden, Hartford. Naugatuck and
 New Britain. The special agents will
 be in charge of the men taking the
 census and will see that all of the
 work is properly done. Ine the con-
 ference there were about sixteen men.
 Preparations have beea@mades by the
 officials of the census bureau to have
 the coming enumeration the most com
 work in the United States. In the
 farming sections advance schedules
 have been forwarded by the govern
 ment so that the farmers may have
 their information available when the
 time comes.
 It is rot expected that many of the
 before the visit of the enuneratofs,
 but a. test will be made of the plan
 to see if more complete information cannot be secured covering all the pro-
 ducts of the farm. In several of the large cities the enunerators will be required to keep a street book record ing therein the number of any vacant house, unfinished house or building lot that is not listed on the, popula- tien sehsagle 4a h the street b9ok of are houses where the family was absent for the day, requiring a second visit Each house visited by the enumerator house given either on the schedules or street book.
 Each street is taken up until the en- tire territory in the enumerator,s dis trict has been covered. The work pro- ceeds by squares, the @enumerator pro- ceeding around a square before taking up any other street When 4ne district is complete the schedules should tell a complete story from the beginning to the end of the trip of the enumerator. In the case of boarding house it will l be necessary for the enumerators in l some instances to leave slips Whereon 1 the information relating to the board ] CTS may be entered, to be called for l later. This is because most boarding l
 especially where there is a 1 the exact names of all in the house | and cannot give the necessary infor- ! nation
 Hotels where there is a considerable | transient trade will be required to fur l nish special information in the form ! of small schedules filled out by each 1 guest. This will locate any travelling men or others having no other place | of abode than the hotel and place them | as residents of the city where they are 1 enumerated. In case the travelling | man or other guest has some other i place of abode as shown by his sched- | ule he will be properly recorded as resident there. in accordance with his | statement.
 As a special aid in extending infor- nation regarding the census, the prin- cipals of every school have been re- Quested to give a brief talk to the pupils, requesting them to inform their parents regarding it. Similar notices have been sent out in other large cit- ies in the State and announcements have been made in the churches of for in Italian, French, Polish and Chinese as well as in English have been posted in conspicuous places.
 The enumerators are expected to visit every building in their territory, 1 not excepting factories. schools. stores, churches or office buildings, the theory 1 being that some engineer, caretaker or Watchn1an might sleep in the building, it his usual place of abode. If a person lives in a boat. tent or a nut or stable. it is his home. so far as the purposes of the census are con- cerned.
 Certain institutions will be enumer- ated by special agents appointed by the census bureau. the United States arrnory being in this class. The cen sus of al all a army my posts is taken inde-
 Each schedule for population con aims 100 names and the enumerator is furnished portfolio to keep them in. l 1ot folded in any way because they | ire fed through rapidly moving tabu- ating machines after the clerks at the bureau have passed upon them and thy folding of the paper would inter- ere seriously with the tabulation. There are B questions the popula- ion schedule and 59 on the one for az .icu1ture. The population schedule the name of the person, rela- ,onal description, nativity, citizenship | ,ccupation, education. ownership of nome. whether a survivor of the Civil Var. and whether blind. or deaf and luTnb. The schedule for agriculture Iea1s with the amount and value of Ne farna prndncts.