The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-03


States, the census bureau will pub
lish a report on the various occupa-
lions by which men and women in
this country earn their daily bread.
Though it will be many months be-
fore this report will be given to the
public, a conservative estimate plac-
es the number of classifications of in
dustry at between seven and eight
thousand. In compiling the list rock
bottom" is being sought in every
case. While a carpenter is a carpen-
ed in any one of the numerous
branches of carpentry, and accord
ing to his branch he is to be CLASH
fed.
The census Of 1900 showed but a
little over three hundred divisions OF
labor, having been compiled without
the delicate distinction now being
made. Under this new system of
tabulation many of the heads of clas-
sification will include but a few indi-
viduals, and some but a single per-
son. It will bring to light not a few
queer ways of earning ones liveli-
hood now existing. And many of
them will be found so unusual as to
stand in a class by themselves.
It seems a safe prediction, for ex-
ample, to state that there will be
found but one man in the entire
country making a living from bottling
the smoke of burning hickory wood.
This man. who lives in Kansas City,
contends that his bottled smoke, let
loose in an air-tight compartment IN
which meat has been placed, will pro-
duce the same effect upon the meat
as though cured by hickory smoke
in the usual manner.
The compilation Of such a volume
is an enormous and tedious task. The
work is being done under the direc-
ton of William G. Hunt, chief Stats
tician of the division of population.
He has held that position for many
years, having been in charge of sim
liar work during the tabulation of
four census returns The more COM
monplace occupations, including one
half Of the total, have already been
punched" by the clerks on the card
indexes for general facts concerning
population.
But the unusual occupations to be
listed require special classification,
and are now being prepared by a
trained corps of ninety clerks. Spec
ial machinery and tabulating blanks
are necessary. with authorizations
and space for the entry of an unus-
ual number of facts concerning the
individual and his occupation. AS
with most of the other work in the
census bureau, the record is made by
electric and hand punching ma
chimes. - 7N1
Not every one is aware that there
are such persons as judgers, takers,
blowers, sluggers, busters, heaters
heaters out, cripple chaser and pan
cake makers. Yet they are one and
all engaged in legitimate occupation
connected with the very necessary
industry of manufacturing shoes.
Nor would the initiated expect
to find profit in raising bull
frogs for their legs or skunks for
their oil. Two New Jersey women,
however, are making a good liveli-
hood by so doing, and a certain Cal
ifornia woman obtains over 800 an
ounce wholesale for the seeds of pc
tunias.
In some of the reports of the cen
sus enumerators in the field are
found tabulations so unusual that
they require no end of labor in prop
erly classifying them at the bureau,
One man frankly asserted that he
was booze fighter" and another,
who works in a saloon, styled him
self "a destroyer of men Eat
men" is applied to certain individu
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dogs, the faint shouts OF excited men.
Meadows shook the insistent hand
from his arm, tossed the rife to its
pegs, and ran to the back door
Come ont" he cried "Out this
way, and I'll put you straddle of a
couple of bosses thatll take you to
Jaynesburg inside of an hour"
you'll save him." painted the girl,
''You-a Meadows-that ought to be
fighting"
Meadows whirled about in the
doorway, his face twitching, his nails
digging deep into the palms.
"Cbild," he said hoarsely, Il am
hghting-fghting something stronger
than all the Hawkinses. Come on,
iThOrna nuick hafora waakanl"