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Olmsted (VICTOR HUGO American)

VICTOR HUGO, American statistician; born at Marion, O., in 1853. After studying at George Washington University he was admitted to the bar in 1884. He served as chief of the division of results in the 10th Census, and from 1883 to 1889 was employed in the General Land Office. From 1889 to 1901 was statistical expert of the United States Department of Labor.

He investigated labor conditions in Hawaii in 1900. From 1902 he served in various capacities in the United States Department of Agriculture and in connection with the Census Bureau.

From 1906 to 1914 he was chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and from 1913 he was field agent of the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the Department of Agriculture.

OLMÜTZ, second city of Moravia, since October, 1918, in Czecho-Slovakia, on the March, 129 miles N. N. E. of Vienna. Notable are the 14th century cathedral (restored 1887); the church of St. Maurice (1472), whose organ has 48 stops and 2,342 pipes; the noble town hall hall hall, with a steeple 255 feet high; the archiepiscopal palace; and the lofty Trinity column on the Oberring. The former university (1851-1855) is reduced to a theological faculty, with over 200 students and a library of 75,000 volumes. The trade is more important than the manufactures. Olmütz, which in 1640 was superseded by Brünn as the capital of Moravia, suffered severely in both the Thirty and the Seven Years' Wars. In 1848 Ferdinand I. signed his abdication here. in that institution in 1866. He was or- OLMÜTZ. CONFERENCE OF, a condained priest in 1868, and served as rec-ference held at Olmütz, a city of Mortor and vicar of several important avia, Austria, Feb. 28-29, 1850, between churches of New York City and Utica, Russia and Austria respecting the afand was consecrated bishop coadjutor fairs of Germany and especially in referof Central N. Y. in 1902, and was ap- ence to the revolts in Hesse and Schlespointed bishop of Central N. Y. in 1904. wig-Holstein against their rulers, the Elector of Hesse and the King of Den-