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on the book.”

I said, “Do you know anything more about him?”

He said, “No.”

“Well,” I said, “I do, if you don't mind my saying so. He was Commissioner of Labor Statistics in the State of New York about the year 1886, I think it was.”

“Well, this doesn't say then,” said Cummings.

“Well,” I said, “that was the time. He's long since dead. He was the first Commissioner of Labor Statistics in the State of New York and there were very few statistics to ponder over. I'll say for his benefit and for his praise that he did make a count - rough to be sure, but still the first count - of the number of persons employed in industry in the State of New York, the number of persons employed in mercantile establishments, the number of women employed in factories, the number of women employed in mercantile establishments, the number of persons under fourteen years of age employed in any of these places. So far as I know, that's the only thing he ever did, and I know his work pretty well, because he is the first Commissioner of Labor Statistics and all that we know about labor in the State of New York begins with this essential ennumeration which