The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-30
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The 1O6 factories, as shown, employ
Z,5s2 people. To the number should
be added the number of own
ers, managers, superintendent, book
Keepers, typewriters, etc, which would
average about four to each estab-
lishment, or 424 people, making a total
OF 2,S26 people deriving their living direct
~ from manufacturing. If the census
average of four people to one money
Garner be taken, then upwards of Il. 900
people are supported from the earnings
derived from factories in Savannah alone
This money is spent in Savannah, and
great many people other than wage
earners and owners could subsist if it
was not for the money brought into cir
culation in this way.
More that 200 landlords collect their
rent from these wage earners
1t IS impossible to tell how many
bakers, butchers, grocers, druggists. dry
goods and furniture houses, shoe stores.
coal and wood dealers are supported by
these children of toll. 1t cannot be com
puted how many street car fares are
paid by this class of people, and it cannot
even be appropriated how many doctors.
dentists, lawyers and preachers derive
part of their income from factory owners
and their employees. 1t would be inter-
esting to know how many thousands of
dollars are laid up for rainy day by
the industrial classes in Savannah's saw
ings banks, or how many are members OF
loan and building associations
If any thought be given to this subject.
it will be readily admitted that it would be
quite conservative estimate to state that
another 1000 or 1900 people are indirectly
supported by the money spent by the own
ers, as well as by the wage earners and
their families, so that considerable more
than one-third if not one-half, of Savan-
nah's population actually derives its liv-
ing either directly or indirectly from man
ufacturing industries.
The aggregate of wages and salaries
paid out by these 106 plants approximate
100000 a month, or 81, 800 600 year To this
should be added the revenue obtained
from $780, 600 invested in manufacturing
even at the low estimate of per cent.
The earnings would amount to $3.50 900 so
that fully S1,66O00O is disbursed every year
by manufacturing plants and is either
spent or invested in Savannah.
1t must be further borne in mind that Sa
vannah's manufacturing enterprises are
still in their infancy as the bulk of IT'S
enterprises have been started or have ex-
panded to their present proportions within
the last decade, and the city's growth in
population during this period is to a great
extent attributable to the DEVELOPMENT of
manufacturing enterprises. There is annie
room for many more and the field offered
by Savannah for new enterprises is une-
qualled and unsurpassed on the Atlantic
Seaboard.
If all of its advantages and resources
We're fully known and appreciated.
and if they were advertised to the world
Savannah's manufacturing would be trip-
led within another decade. The amount of
l,SO00O0 paid to some 2.400 hands shows
that Savannahs labor is well paid Fully
80 per cent. of this labor is American born.
superior in skill, education, intelligence.
morals and behavior. to the average for
eign labor forming the bulk OF labor in
northern and western manufacturing
towns.