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Show TOWER MAN A SAGE THE NEW CENSUS nu motor Into j :v. All iht l.o.ffori iit wphtnst any punched ui the art of ihr j;:.'or. The an urge nun, Ur tf e.trd-- i i:.thJ !. olf.te with the hanJ at the wa M'. With the new ma puutht-th::e gill halt with I ut o..e wetk'fc attain'd a jtvd of 2,516 cards pr day, Yhn operators bo come familiar with the r.ew machine doubt )e Mi this outjut wiii to latEtly exceeded. The next census will a!o tee the inttoduction of a new ululating ma chine that maths almotl as long a step forward as clots the new catd punching machine. In the new tabu - TO GOVERNMENT PREPARING COUNT THE PEOPLE AGAIN. Its no tany Job which I'neU Sam finds on his hands ury ten jcnrs, In 1900 the taking of tin ruts us. when the Lil count of the of the country was made there was no organized census office force to take lip the work authoriz'd by congress as there Is now. and the census taks ing was complicated by the of the goiernmenl for the work. The pumannl census bureau was cstablfohed by congress after the count was made In io0 and the cen- fns taking of 1910 will find an efficient force with modern equipment ready to cope with the gigantic work involved in gathering the census stap-o- r tinpre-parednes- g one-fourt- h, one-half- An Awful Duty. said the great magnate, you cannot realize what a responsibility money is. I am oppressed by it. I sometimes tremble when I consider the greatness of the task of distributing $100,000,000 properly. You that have never had such a duty to perform can have no conception of the responsibility. It is the most awful thing that can come to any man. Then he splemnly signed the will in which he provided that all except $19,-00- 0 should be left to his family. Chicago Record-Herald- . Ah, Abnegation. You can have all the happiness in the world, said the gentle prilosopher, by being thoroughly unselfish. Yes, answered the somewhat sordid being; but I am not so selfish as to want all the happiness in the world Washington Star. His Luck. Gee, I'd not like to have a name like Tiziziski, would you? Yes. Id like it. Hes in luck. He never has to hear people crack old Detroit Free puns on his name. Press. Nature Fakers. Ethel Do you think the face makes the woman? Carolyn Sometimes, when the wo- man makes the face. Judge. Thomas Fagan, Whose Twenty-TwYears Railroading Have Been Spent in Studying Out Problems, Is Now a Professor. o It is often that a man steps from a railroad signal tower to the lecture platform of a big tollege. and iiC-- t for news ami. unbeknown to the pubThe signalman went to Washington and, in an hours talk, gae the originator of policies something to think about. .The Boston & Maine railroad, his employer, recognized the importance of his work, and put no obstacles in his way when he set out investigating railroad conditions and titreading more and more confidently the mazes of a subject In which the public is just beginning to be interested. Then, when the New York & New England lic, he sent for Fagan. because such a circumstance is so rare the fact that James O. Fagan, railroad surgeons arranged for their for 22 years the signal tower man at convention in the. Academy of MediCambridge, has suddt nly won recog- cine in New York city, this month, nition as a keen thinker on railroad they took notice of Fagan and got him j roldems and been invited to lecture to promise to come and talk to them before the new Harvard school of on the causes of accidents. He is to business administration, is attracting widespread attention. The way in which Mr. Fagan, after a life devoted the dull routine duties as a signal towr man. ha won success rtads like a romance, lie is a thinker and a is this railroad man Fagan, stiahnt, and during those 22 years of faithful service in his little tower in Cambridge he has working out the prob.i ms of railroad managcuunt and control which are causing railroad men from president down to crossing tender to sit up and take notice. Fagan, the signal man, first came into notice by a series of articles which were published in the Atlantic Monthly on the theme. "The History of Taking Chances. IYesident Eliot, of Harvard, read the articles, and liked them, and so arranged an interview with this signalman who saw straight and talked straight, and to persuade him to lecture In the new school of business. Fagan was almost dismayed at his own temerity, but he was full of his subject, eager to spread his doctrine, and he consented and now the announcement of the new Harvard school of business administration contains the name of Mr. Fagan, authbr of The Confessions of a Railroad Signalman, and lecturer on railroad problems. President Roosevelt also has a nose tf tistics. Congress at its coming session will he asked to appropiiatc a sum necessary to cover the expense of the work, something like lH.000.ooo. Of this seemingly large total. $1.5h0,000 is needed for the maintenance of the permanent census bureau and the remainder, or $12,500,000, will he set aside for the Thirteenth national census. Although it Is estimated that the population of the Cnlt?d States has increased something like 20 per cent, since the last previous census, and the census work will, of course, expand proportionately, it is predicted that the census of 1910 will cost very little more than the census of 1900. This economical miracle will be made possible through the introduction of unequaled time and labor-savinmachines in the compilation of the census. By the aid of these mechanical inventions a force of clerks no larger than that employed ten years ago will be able to turn out , or perhaps even more work than was accomplished a decade since. . . The new machine bears no resemblance to the old apparatus. It is built on the plan of a typewriter, with 240 keys. The . operator, instead of one hole at a time, can depunching as press many keys as are necessary, and after all the. facts have thus been recorded by the keys, a button is pressed which brings an electric MAN - ! New Machines and New Methods Will Make the Gigantic Talk Easier Than Upon Former Occasions. CALLED FROM SWITCH LEVER TO COLLEGE. RAILROAD b-e- Director S. N. D. North, Head of sus Bureau. Cen- n lator, a. in the old. the work is performed by a pin box with a needle set on a fine spiral tping for each possible hole in a card. When the pin box is brought down over each card In turn the needles, which meet the unpunched surface are repressed, while those which pass through holes make an elect tic contact below and cause one or more counters or dials to register. In the old machines the counters had to be read and the results recorded by hand a proceeding productive of many errors and then all the dials had to be reset by hand, a WHY SHE PLEASES HIM. operation. In the new machine, which has just been perfected, You wonder what he pees In her. there is an automatic recording and Her charme are really very few. on of the the Her system plan printing beautys not beyond compare, And all her dresses look askew. familiar stock ticker, and the pressure of a push button resets all the dials She is not an attractive Bight, Of figure she has none, and yet A great increase in automatically. She waits on him both day and night capacity will result. And never has been known to fret. time-consumi- Fagan's Signal-Towe- r That Stands Out Big on the Railroad Map. be one of a company of 50 distinall from guished experts parts of the to discuss the quescountry, gathered tion which so concerns the railroad surgeons. The title of his paper is The Neglect of Employes to Observe Signals and Obey Rules. and it is to sum the ideas set forth in his previous articles. Fagan has been going ahead for half a century. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and sent by his humble parents to a school at Manchester, England. There he won 8 scholarship through the practice ol the dominant principles of his life that of going to the rock bottom ol any problem presented to him. HE WAS PRETTY SMALL. The smallest man I ever saw, declared a commercial traveler In a local hotel the other day, was a man whom I saved from drowning at Atlantic City one day last summer. It happened that this fellow, while tipsy accidental ly fell off the end of the pier in deep water. Not being able to swim he be He loves her, lhat is very plain. gan to emit lusty yells for help as h Would Do as Well. Although she lacks all social charms. floundered about. 1 chanced to be Her hair is like ft tangled skein I am sorry to have to tell you, arms. are her and thin And strolling in the vicinity at the time, so said the eminent surgeon, "that we You wonder whatscrawny he in her sees, to the spot I plunged in shall have to perform an operation. She brought to him no store of pelf. rushing clothes and all, to the rescue. "That's all right, answeied the pa And yet, while hubby takes his ease, herself. waists all her buttons She Being an unusually strong and eftient. Go ahead. ficient swimmer, I soon had my man Rut the condition of your heart is It is not necessary that where willing hands drew us both up such that we do not dare to use any A woman should be fair of fac e, to safety. While I stood .there, my $40 Or not too lean or not too fat, anaesthetic. Or e'en possess a world of grate, the suit dripping water, icy O, well; tell me what the till is Our interest in a beauty-brigh- t to hia one out saved blurt began going to be, doctor. That will be sufWe find will very often lag, next thanks. The moment, however, Especially if late at night ficiently stupefying. Chicago Trib he began to fumble in his vest pocket She waits our coming just to nag. une. Say, said he, eying me suspiciousAnd so, although she be not fair. as the curious crowd closed round Under Her Thumb. ly, Leading a fashionable life, did What are your fathers politics, litus, you take that nickel I had They make a very happy pair, in this pocket? For shes a most devoted wife. tle boy? asked the curious neighbor. Judge. going out, tls true that ehe Well, replied the boy, pa used When Has never made her husband wait. to be a Republican, but since ma joined She never calls him In to see Just Like a Man. a woman's rights club she's got pa so If she has put her hat on straight. Queer thing about the laughter ol the average man, remarked the worn that he doesn't dare say hes anything She never asks him where hes been, an who observes things. Detroit but a suffragette himself. She never asks him why he stayed; him she But when hears Whats queer about him? asked Free Press. coming in, The suppers on the table laid. the sweet girl graduate. And when he settles down to read, Extremely Unfashionable. Nearly every time he laughs it it That little woman he adores, WTho are those people in that priat something he has said himself, re Has never yet been known to need His help in finishing the chores. vate box? plied the feminine observer. Chicago Detroit Free Press. . "I dont know; mere nobodies, 1 Daily News. whole their are devoting guess. They attention to the play. Chicago TribDown the Old Road. Sordid. une. "I am sure, said the sympathetic Silas Took Mandy out driving last friend, that posterity will attach great night and tried to kiss her. Hopeful. to what you have written. And value she wouldnt stand Cyrus Barber Your hair seems to be comanswered the cynical author, Yes, for it? ing out. but old Silas Yes, but the blamed boss posterity doesnt indorse promisElderly Customer Good! Iye been wouldnt. He ran away. Chicago sory notes for anybody. Washington under the impression all the time that Daily News. Star. it was going back. Chicago Tribune. 1 |