The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-01-30

of the investigation of Maine's summer
hotels during the season of '92:
Number of houses reporting ca
pacity for guests. 100
Aggregate capacity. 1861
Average capacity, 70
Number houses reporting bust
ness compared with 1893 III
Number reporting increase over
1892. sc
Number reporting decrease from
1892 6S
Number reporting about the
same, 49, 81
Number reporting employees $50
| Aggregate number of employees, 27S9
Average number of employees
per house, Is
Number reporting wages paid
employees 4, 146
Aggregate number of employees
SO reported, Is 2,43s
Average sum paid to each, $61,41
Number reporting amount paid
for farm products, II
Aggregate amount SO paid, $116,S3O
Average paid per house, $1,517
Number reporting amount paid
by guests from out of the State TIA
Aggregate amount so paid, $971, 952
Average per house, $685.
Average per guest, $1553
Number of guests reported from
out of the State in the ia
houses, 62,5s9
Capacity Of TIA houses making
reports of amount paid guests,
is 12,495
Capacity of entire number in
our first list, which is $50
houses, is 81, 995
Number of guests in ia houses
reporting, is 62,5S9
| On the same basis. the number
| of guests in $50 houses in our f.
first list, would be 175,ss1
| Average amount of money ex-
pended lat houses reporting.
is 1888
| Amount expended by total num-
| be of guests from out of the
| state during the season of 1892,
is $2,741, 431
! A large proportion of the guests at
| hotels are registered at different houses.
and of course the number of individuals
| is much less than that above stated. If
| to the number of visitors from outside
the state registered at hotels and board
ing houses we add the number of those
occupying cottages, boarding at private
houses, camping out in the woods and at
the lakes and on the sea shore, the total
number of different persons coming to
the state during the season may be safely
estimated at 100000
A large amount of money is paid to
hotels in Portland, Bangor, Rockland and
other places which cannot be regarded as
Summer resorts" but as points of dis
| tribution for visitors stopping Temporal
rily at these places on their way to the
summer resorts. The total amount of
money expended at hotels and boarding
houses in the state will reach nearly
| $780, 900 annually.
When all the elements of expenditures
| are taken into account, including trans
| portation to and from the State, convey
| ances to different points within the State,
hotel and boarding house accommoda-
ticns, money paid to guides. and espec-
tally for the erection, maintenance and
support of cottages, the ''pecuniary
results to the State from its summer
resort business cannot be estimated at
less than $10.0O0,O00 per annum.
a table is given in the report showing
mills, factories, work shops, etc., which
have been completed, enlarged or are in
process Demonstration and erection. The
total cost of these is $S41, 49, employing
1926 hands. The report of r. F.Chalk,
factory inspector, is affixed to that of
the commissioner. The inspector found
a decrease of children under Is years of
age enjoyed in cotton factories from
446 in 1899 to 1876 in 1898. In the wooden
mills, however, there has been an increase
of so in such children, there now being
total of rs. There is a tendency to
obey the law and substitute mature
employees for children.
From April /, 1884, January l, 1894,
207 persons were either killed or injured
by machinery of different kinds. He
would have saws, shafts and other
machinery protected by suitable guards.
The better enforcement of the law re-
quiring fire escapes iss-stouched upon and
progress is heing made to have doors
of public buildings and factories swing
outward. Corporations are generally COM
plying with the fortnightly payment
law.