The daily gazette., 1877-10-17

Operatives to Poptlation-San Fran
cisco to 11.25; Wilmington, to 5.2;
Chicago, to 9.6; Louisville, 81 to 81;
Baltimore, to 81; Boston, to 5.5; st.
Louis, to 7.6; New York, l to 7.3;
Cincinnati, to 5.S; Philadelphia, to
5.04. .I- l'i,' .oG InWHD
Manufacturing Capital per Capita
San Francisco, SAL; Wilmington, S235;
Chicago, $132; Louisville, $l10; Balti-
more, $97; Boston, $1SS; st. Louis, $194;
New York, $12S; Cincinnati, $197,
Philadelphia 1852. ll'lFu .us94'aaoa
Products of Manufactures per Capita
San Francisco, $250;Wilmington, S355
Chicago, 5000; Louisville, $202; Balti-
more. $2l9; Boston, $444; st. Louis, ,S5l7
New York, $3.50; Cincinnati, 1854; Phil.
adelphia, s464. s} q
These tables, which have been very
carefully prepared, disclose the poverty
of Baltimore as a manufacturing city
with painful distinctness. Baltimore is
shown to be far below the industrial av-
erage in the proportion Of her working
men to the entire population. There ia
one operative to every 5.2persons In Will
mington, in every 5. 04 in Philadelphia,
l in every 5.5 in Boston, l in every Sc
in Cincinnati, in every SO in Newark,
New Jersey; l in every 7.6 in st. Louis,
while Baltimore is only in every 81,
This deficiency of mandatory hands
| is more than accounted for by still
greater deficiency of capital per capita
| Invested in industrial pursuits. In this
| respect Baltimore ranks the lowest oi
any of the large cities-lower even than
Louisville, Kentucky. In Philadelphia
the capital in manufactures is $252 pei
capita, in Wilmington $235, in st. Louis
$194, in Cincinnati $197, in Boston $le9
while in Baltimore there is only $97 cap
| ital per capita so invested--less than hall
as much as Cincinnati has, just half as
| much as st. Louis has, only little over
half as much as Boston has, and not a
great deal more than third as much as
there is in Wilmington and Philadelphia.
We are surpassed even in manufactures
which we ought to monopolize by the
most inferior towns and cities. In the
| item of agricultural implements Chicago
makes seven times as many, st. Louis
five times and Louisville three times as
many as We do. In the item OF fertill-
zers we are surpassed by Wilmington,
not to speak at all of other and larger
places, In the making OF carriages, &c,
Cincinnati manufactures more than four
times as much as we do, New Haven six
times, and Wilmington and Chicago
three times as much. In flour and meal,
Newark, Wilmington and Louisville are
our equals, while Chicago makes three
times and St. Louis fourteen times as
much as we do. In iron manufactures
leaving out the great centres OF this IN
dustry. we find ourselves inferior to Chi
cago, and not much above Louisville
Newark, New Haven and Wilmington.
In machinery we are not equal even TO
small cities like Newark, New Haven,
New London, Louisville, wilmington
| &c. In sash manufacturing our products
are beggarly s145,OO0, against $z,oo1,-
600 for 81. Louis, $S00,00O for Newark,
5000 600 for New Haven, $25O,ooo iot
Wilmington, &c. In short, the exhlol,
fion is in the highest degree palniul anu
lmortifying, and must cause serious ap- p
nrehension in the minds OF all persons
who know that it takes tade to make
trade. raoonmends
| In conclusion the report recommends
the adoption of measures for the encouF.
apement and fostering OF manutaceurips y
by tbe city, the most important Oh "hiol
IL tho abatement of taxation.