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Show T INNOVATIONS RESORTED TO IN TAKING THE U. S. CENSUS Yachts, Aeroplanes, Row-boats, I Flivvers and Mule Teams All Serve Their Purpose. I Washington, Jan. 28 Everything from nuroplnnoH to hiiowhIioos 1b being used by the ngenta of Uncle . Sum in taking the 1020 census of tho I United States. About tho only mod-. mod-. orn method of transportation either I on, over, or below laud or water that j has not bcou employed In enumerating enumer-ating Undo Snin'H nelcett and neph-ow neph-ow scorns to bo tho Biibmurino. Aeroplanes have come in handy in enumerating thu dwellers on thu htlnndtt off the count of Florida, yachts and rowboaU havo been used In tho hnrlmrtt of the country, native na-tive canoes nro in ilumund, especlolly among the Hawaiian Inlands; flivvers fliv-vers nro being used everywhere; tho tried nnd trimly mule team hns carried car-ried the cuuhuh takers out on the desert regions; anil hiiowhIioos have heconio trusted aidoa of the census gnthorers in the northern states nnd Alaska. Enumerator Turn Kennier. Ill thu central part of New York state, near Oswego, a few days ago on enumerator making his roundfH on snowshoea arrived nt nn isolated farm dwelling, only to find thnt nn ablo-lwdied man was ueoded more than n consus gatherer, ns the man of thu family had boen sick in bod for several days and the farm animals an-imals wore suffering for tho lack of food and water. The census man, like any neighbor would, stoppod long enough to do the choros, dig out paths through tho deep snow nnd put things in ship-shape order before be-fore continuing his journoy. - |