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Show BUREAU CHIEF IS OPTIMISTIC. Statistician Claims United States Never Was So Prosperous. O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, who declares that never In the history of the country was commercial, com-mercial, industrial and agricultural prosperity greater than it is at present, pres-ent, has lived in Washington twenty years, chiefly as a newspaper correspondent, corre-spondent, but latterly as a government official. Mr. Austin was formerly a Cincinnati journalist. For almost a score of years he has been a careful student of statistics, and he was appointed ap-pointed to his present post in 1898 in y ill recognition of the good work he had done as a statistician. He has greatly enlarged the department. |