Copyright by Clinedinst. Washington.

E. Dana Durand, Director of the Census.

Population schedules in the cities and large towns were required to be

completed within two weeks and in the rural districts within thirty

days. The enormous labor of tabulating and classifying these answers was

then begun by the 3,500 clerks in the Census Office at Washington. Much

of this labor was performed by machines each capable of making 25,000

tabulations a day. Results of the first tabulation of the population in

the cities were made known about June 1 and the count of the principal

cities was completed by April 15. During September the population of the