New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-12
State War Census to List All
From is to 81 Years of Age

,ions who have offered their services
Tho county committees will be charged
with providing adequate enrolment de-
rots and an enrolment staff. consisting
Of supervisor, five or six recording
clerks and an officer. and II necessary
an interpreter for aliens are to be III
Guided in the census.
Parchment forms will be provided for
each individual, and in different coiors
for males between nineteen and TWEEN
tv-hve wears. sixteen and eighteen
wears. twenty-six to sixty-four years
and for women from sixteen to Sixty
four years. Present and past occupa'
tions. physical characteristics, etc. are
IA be listed. Enrolment cards, non
transferable, will be given to each per,
son. TO be signed by him and carried
for future Identification.
II is planned to have the enrolment
pcriod Of fifteen days, with privileges,
extended to persons who may be ou'
Of town and cannot return In the al
lotted time. Rubber stamps Will DC
furnished for Eyes" and mo answers
hut an idea of the tremendousness OF
the task can be obtained from the iacl
that about $4,000, 900 pieces OF paper
will be handled by the Census Bureau
in the next few months.
When the field work is compieteo
the flled-in forms will be sent 10 al
beny for compilation and tabulation. ,
aft is stimulating and interesting
said Captain Henry, ITO know that inc
Census Bureau has been overwheiemo
with offers of volunteer help on tht
mart of any number of individual Is and
organized bodies. Altogether, it is, per,
hnps. the greatest work of the sor'
ever undertaken by any state IN th'
Union"
Alien Census Feature
Governor Whitman held an important
conference at the Executive Chamber
this afternoon with several war De
partment representatives, who came te
discuss the census taking and alien reg
istration. IL is understood that the
Federal authorities were not at first IN.
olined to approve Of all the features OF
the plan. but the Governor is deter
mined to carry it through TO a success
full conclusion. Immediately after the
conference the Governor announced the
creation of division of aliens in the
mobilization research bureau of the Ad'
iutant Generals Office, with Miss
Frances A. Kellor, former chief OF the
Bureau of Industries and Immigration
of New York, at it's head.
New York." said General Stotes'
bury. (which has the greatest a lier
population of any state in the union
and is the gateway of the nation, IN
tends to provide adequate machinery
for carrying out the orders of the Fed
eral authorities and in every way CO.
GENERATING with them. 1t intends tc
handle the alien problems in this state
with intelligence, fairness, foresight
and courage. New York is taking the
lead in asking its aliens to do as they
have been done by, and to see that they
do it,"
The object Of the alien bureau under
Miss Kellor's direction is to effect ar
organization which shall keep in touch
with all matters effecting aliens at any
time. 1t will keep in touch with indus
tries engaged in war supplies and Other
vital business, and ascertain how vul
nerable points are protected and aliens
distributed about the plants. Property
owners will be called upon to report
continuously and Immediately necessary
facts concerning alien tenants.
The Governor announced that repre-
sentatives Of the country defence com
mittees will meet with him next Mon
day afternoon at the Capitol TO go ovel
the whole state scheme of national de
fence and protection.