Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-18
Various Agencies Help With
Housing of Additional
Employees.
EVERY STATE IN UNION
HAS REPRESENTATIVES
Long Lines of Clerks and Tabula.
tors Attack Mountains of
Work Every Morning.

The scene of the 1880 census has
definitely shifted to Washington. with
more than 5000 persons, many of them
newcomers, having parts in the produc-
ton staged by Uncle Sam once each
decade.
Supervisors in the field are closing I'D
shop, but each day sees added activity
at the Census Bureau. Various agencies
In the city have been called on to assist
the bureau in housing more than 1000
clerks, VINO have come to the National
| Capital since January to work in the
$40OOO,OOO project which is the census,
Inc bureau estimated today that by
| the eno OF the month more than 5. 600
persons will be working at headquarters.
as compared with but 3,400 at the
parallel period of the 1920 census. The
force has grown from 1851 on January
| l 10 4,S17 on June Is, and the number
Is expected to grow to approximately
$500 by August /.
| Many of these employees are seeing
the National Capital for the first time
and In housing them satisfactorily the
| Census Bureau has had the co-opera-
ton of the Y w. c. A. Protestant
| Church organizations and the Catholic
| Welfare Council
Long lines of clerks and tabulators
wait at opening hour each morning to
De set TO work on the mountains of
! schedules which have come in from the
supervisors. Those taken on" yester-
day totaled 1873.
Every State Represented.
The newcomers are from every State
and are here by temporary appoint
ment under the civil service, which has
tried to follow the State quota plan In
their selection. The appointments are
expected to be in force for as long as
three years, although some phases of
the census work will be completed
much sooner. The bureau is endeavor-
ing to assign clerks who Travelled the
longest distances to Washington to
work which will be in progress the
longest period.
1t was said today that no dificulty
has been experienced in accommodate
ing the new clerks The transporta-
ton of the additional thousands to
and from their homes will add to the
transportation problem of the city
somewhat, but offsetting that fact is
the increased purchasing power In the
J city.
| The first job on the more than $4,000
schedules now at census headquarters
| Is a careful check for accuracy to verify
the vouchers for the supervisors
bonuses. Each supervisor gets paid a
fiat $1,000, plus 81 for each thousand
persons enumerated, plus 81 for each
100 farm schedules, plus 10 cents each
for the more involved Embellishments
featuring. drainage, distribution, con-
struction, etc.
Collects $500 Additional.
This method Of payment does not ap-
ply to the enumerators, of which there
were more than 400 in the District Of
Columbia, but only to the supervisors,
and j. Sterling Moran, who held that
position In the District, figures to COL
lect $500 in addition to the $1,000, on
the basis of a population of 4S5,716.
Mr. Moran will be out of luck on the
farm schedules, there being few farms
| in the District, but in the more involved
schedules he stands to augment the
salary for the position.
The voucher veriflcation is part of
the hand count" on which the first
1880 census bulletin, to be issued in
congressional reapportionment, will be
based. Two hundred persons are at
work on the hand count. Next comes
cooling" the process by which per
sonal information" is transformed into
abstract statistics" for tabulation pur-
poses The coding clerks must have a
high degree of mental accuracy and
the principal code numbers for some
$50 occupations.
The bureau now has 435 persons at
work coding general population facts,
345 coding occupations and SO tram
scribing and cooling the unemployment
schedules. The work of the tabulating
machines is still in the future.