The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
MASSACHUSETTS, INDUSTRIES.

MASSACHUSETTS, INDUSTRIES.
Some Interesting Statistics of Labor and
Manufactures in the Bay State.
From the Massachusetts State report
on labor, says the Chicago Tribune, we
find that there are 1895 private estab-
hshments and $40 corporations engaged
in manufacturing industries in Massa-
chusetts, and there are besides 1913
minor establishments classed as engaged
in occupations related to manufactures.
In the private establishments there are
1878 partners. These establishments
produce 1851, 325,814 worth of manu-
featured goods annually. They employ
$135, 892,712 capital, employ 166,588
persons, and pay $79,O15,O95 wages, or
an average of $474.37 to each person
employed. These establishments use
of materials $201, 122, 575, leaving gross
profit after paying for materials and
wages of $71 1881
In the $40 corporations there are
26,O58 stockholders; they produce $3.50,
01O,5l9 worth of manufactures; they en-
ploy 1O1 1877 persons, paying them $685.
SCOTIA wages-an average of $383.47
each person. They have 1871, $4,000
capital invested, use $93,841, 900 of ma
terial, and the gross profits are $4S, 1O9,-
345.
The whole number of persons en-
ployed in both classes of establishments
is 267, 1926, and the total wages paid
them is $117,875,2 1859, or an average to
each person per year of $43995. The
gross profits are $119,297 ,489. The
average capital invested by each pro-
prietor or stakeholder is $6,39072.
From the sum of gross profits are de-
frayed the expenses of interest, insur-
ance, rent, etc. The value of the lead
ing manufactured products of the State
may be thus given:
Boots shoes. $3.50, 375 000Carpets ....$ $4,000
Clothing. 29,34O 0lMachinery. 16,3OO0O0
Food prepions a 633 000P Paper. ...... Il, 900
Leather %, $50 000lWorsted 100000
Metallic goods. 81 1884 900 Miscellaneous. 90 $4,000
Wooden. 1885, bodybuilding ..,... 8,656000
Wooden ....... 7,20S 900
Liquors ....... S,967OO Total all in
Cotton goods. N, 9340 600 dustries. $532 1856 1873
Furniture. 80. 6,422 1000
The State contains 631,131 native
born females, and of these 19O,311 have
become mothers, while, of the 222,825
foreign-born females in the State, 49,
200 have become mothers. Of the $780,
1872 native-born females over 20 years
of age, 81 per cent. are mothers, and of
the 81,543 foreign-born females over
90 years, IS per cent. are mothers. The
report states the average number of
births to Massachusetts mothers, 3.55;
to Irish mothers, SOB; to Canadian
mothers, Ats; to other British moth
ers, 4.40; to German mothers, 4.23.
There are 1916 native and 115 foreign
born mothers who have never been
married; 37,106 native and 23,379 for
eign-born widows; 1,04O native and 1919
foreign-born women divorced. Whole
number of married women, 398,759, of
which 254, 531 are natives; whole num-
Der of married women who have not be-
come mothers is 1920 natives and
25,019 foreign, or a total of 1929.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the native
born married women and IL per cent.
of the foreign-born have never been
mothers.
The number of farm laborers in the
State in 1855 was 16,040, of which
II 900 were born in the United States,
including those born of foreign parents.
There were 1,718 of these laborers
c1assed as illiterate, of whom $40 were
| natives.
Of the skilled workmen in forty-seven
branches of industry in the State, male
and female, 136,5O3 are native born,
40,868 are Irish, 1925 English, 24,437
Canadian, 4,011 German, 4,O28 Scotch.
The total is 316,459, of whom 233, 252
are males and 83,207 females.
| The whole number of unskilled labor
ers in the State is 52,170, of whom
1906 are natives, 10000 are Irish and
1921 Canadians.
The products of manufactures, agri-
culture, fishing and mining in the State,
for the year 1875, reached value of
$643, ATS, 277. This value was produced
by the labor of $50, persons, of whom
70,945 were engaged in manufactures
The productive population of the State
was Alas per cent. and the unproduct-
i've 1882 per cent. The latter are
classed as housewives, retired from bus
mess, infrm, children and dependents.
The result Of these tables shows plainly
the presence and the influence of the
foreign-born element in the productive
industry of the State. When that part
of the population descended Immediately
from those of foreign nativity are added
to the foreign-born, the number and in
fuence of the foreign-born element in
the State can be understood. Happily,
however, the descendants of foreign
born parents become rapidly assimilated
and blended with the general population
of the country.
Mistaken.