Olmsted (IV)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

VICTOR HUGO, an 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 , 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 Olmütz, which in 1640 was superseded by Brünn as the capital of Moravia, suffered severely in both the Thirty and the Seven Years' Wars.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. OLMÜTZ. CONFERENCE OF, a conference held at Olmütz, a city of Moravia, Austria, Feb. 28-29, 1850, between Russia and Austria respecting the affairs of Germany and especially in reference to the revolts in Hesse and Schleswig - Holstein against their rulers, the Elector of Hesse and the King of Denmark. By the med mediation of Russia, Schleswig - Holstein was given to Denmark, and the Elector Hesse was reinstated.