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Show PKOGRKSS OF C ENsl S WORK. Population Hchedules to Be Sent Out This Week. Washington, Mav 7 Iu four weeks the actual work of taking the census I will be begun. The preparations are I now well under way and the busiest place just now in connection with the I census work is. the warehouses in this i citv where the population schedu!es are ! stored. There are some 'JO.OiMl.OuO of 1 these schedules, and a force of men is hard at work packing them into boxes lo be sent to the census supervisors to I ,e distnl.uted amomr the cnumeiatois. I Thev are packed in hoses which weigh, I when full, -i"l pound,. There are to ne i 4--.0.) boxes in all, and by the end of the I present week it is expected that they j will all be shipped. Tne boxes are sent ' by mail. They are, perhaps, the bti.k- iest pieces of mail matter that have yet beeu received in a postal car. |