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Updated: May 1, 2025
An oath, I repeat, not merely to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies, armed or armless, but furthermore "not to share with any one any of the information you gather as an enumerator, or show a census card, or keep a copy of same."
There are some men who have no individuality, just as there are some men who have no face. These are to be described by generals, not by particulars. They are thin, vapid, inconclusive. They are important solely on account of their numbers. For them the census enumerator labours; they form majorities; they crowd voting booths; they make the money; they do the ordinary work of the world.
But he was none the less a striking personage to these simple fisherfolk of the great Yukon Delta, who, all their lives, had stared out on Bering Sea and in that time seen but two white men, the census enumerator and a lost Jesuit priest. They were a poor people, with neither gold in the ground nor valuable furs in hand, so the whites had passed them afar.
"I tell you there's some stirring stuff in that, and just the bald reports of the enumerators' trips leave the stories of explorers in the shade." The boy took up the report as he was bidden, and read it with avidity. Presently, upon a boyish exclamation, the other spoke: "What's that one you've struck?" "It's the enumerator from the district of Chandler," answered Hamilton.
"How long have you lived on the Canal Zone?" "Oh, not too long, mah love." "Since when have you lived in this house?" "Oh, we don' come to dis house too long, sah." "Can you read and write?" "No, ah don' stay in Jamaica. Ah come to Panama when ah small." "Do you do any work besides your own housework?" If ah does any work? No, not any." Enumerator looks hard from her to washtub.
Indeed, the lad became so enthusiastic about it that every evening, when he reached home, he worked out the route of the enumerator whose schedules he had edited during that day's work. He had secured the big geological reconnaissance map of Alaska for the purpose. Consequently, it was with a sense of regret that he faced the day when the last of the Alaskan schedules had been edited.
To the enumerator, who must set down concise and exact answers to each of his questions, fifty or sixty daily scenes and replies something like these were delightful; Explosive laughter from the buxom, jet-black woman addressed. "He name 'Rasmus Iggleston." "What's his metal-check number?" "Lard, mahster, ah don' know he check number." "Haven't you a commissary-book with it in?"
Yet when an official government census enumerator falls asleep on the edge of a tenement washtub with a question dead on his lips, or solemnly sets down a crow-black Jamaican as "white," it is Uncle Sam who is suffering and time for correction. But it is one thing for a Canal Zone employee to resolve to move, and quite another to carry out that resolution.
Preferring his request, the lad speedily found himself in the presence of the Commissioner. He stated his wants briefly. "Mr. Commissioner," he said, "I'm an assistant agent of the Census Bureau in Washington, and I'm just going to my station as an enumerator for the population. I have two days in New York and I'd like to learn how things are done on the Island here. May I have a pass?"
We are without company on the dark road; and we have advanced so far upon it that we cannot hear the voices of our friends. It is in this sense of loneliness, this consciousness of identity and nothing more, that the terror of dying consists. And yet, compared to that road, the most populous thoroughfare of London or Pekin is a desert. What enumerator will take for us the census of dead?
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