The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-17


nually $31 ,9266S1 worth of product.
North Carolina has risen rapidly in
the line of manufacturing states. Al
| present her factories employ 1924 hands
and turn out SAC, 1875, $50 worth of product
Rhode Island, although the least of the
states, is strong in manufacture, en-
pioying 1876 hands and producing $142,-
| 500,625 worth of various lines of goods.
In 1890 there were 221 ,0S7 hands en-
ployed in the wooden mills, an increase
from 166,557 in 1880; the wages had risen
from s47,000,000 in 1880 to 81, O00, 900 in
1890.
Cotton manufactures are found in
nearly every state except the extreme
| Northwest, though the principal seat OF
| this manufacture has always been in
| New England.
If the present ratio in increase Of man
ufacture is kept up for twenty-five years
the United States will be as important
manufacturing as it now is an agricul-
tural country
Among the manufacturing states New
York stands first, having S5O.O4S persons
engaged in her factories, the uotput OF
winch reaches the enormous aggregate
of S1,711 ,577,671.
Texas is not as prominent among the
manufacturing states as it is shortly des-
tined to become. Even now it employs
59,4f5 hands in it's factories and makes a
product valued at $40, 433, ISL.
piStrl sheJ ,tcvd( hp6.K mri n -;
In 1867 the manufacture of Bessemer
steel began. 1t has increased with Won
derful rapidity. Last year the product
amounted to 100000 tons, the larger
| part of all the steel produced by every
steel making country
| In 1880 there were 472 manufactures of
SILK in this country, with an invested
capital OF sol 900. employing over So
UoO hands, to whom were paid wages of
$l97OOOOO, the product of the factories
being roughly valued at $S7 600, 900.
AT the last census there were 2,5O3
wooden mills in this country. Ten years
| earlier there were 1859, while on the 9TH
er hand the capital invested had increas-
ed from 1883, 000,0 900 in 1880 to 1926, 900, 200
in 1890. thus showing a large concentra-
| ton Of business
Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Pitts
| burg, Newark, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Rochester, Providence, Jersey City, Lou
isville, Washington, Omaha, New Or
leans Indianapolis, Kansas City, st.
Paul. Denver and Allegheny each manu-
Iacture between $75,000,000 and $780, O00,-
900 worth of goods.
| Inc southern states have now nearly
one-fourth of the cotton factories of the
country, and the great increase of this
| industry in that section during the last
Few years gave rise to the belief that at
no distant day the seat of the cotton fac
tories will be as close as possible to the
| cotton fields.
From 1850 to 1890 the capital invested
| in manufactures had increased twelve
times, while the number of hands en-
| ployed increased only fivefold, showing
| the fact that machinery had been made
| much more efficient, and that machines
were doing the work of men to much
| greater extent in 1890 than in 1850.
IN 1881 there were manufactured in
TINS country A, 316,SO4 gallons of whisky;
of alcohol, 12,260S21 gallons; of rum, l.
S4,312 gallons; of wines, 24,306, 9O5 gall
Ions; Of fruit brandy, 1,223,775 gallons; of
| peer, 3O,O21,O gallons, being nearly half
a barrel of the amber fluid for every
man, woman and child in the United
| States.
| A wonderful change is taking place in
the manufacture of nails Cut nails,
though still largely made, are not so pop
| ular as the wire nails, and the man
ufacture of the latter has increased with
| such rapidity as to cause a proba bility
| That In the near future the cut nails will
be entirely superseded by those made of
| wire.
The number Of manufacturing estab-
| l1shments has by no means kept pace
| with the growth of manufacturing cap
| ltal, the statement showing that large
concentration has taken place in this di-
| rectlon. The manufacturing capital of
| each establishment has grawn from $4-
900 in 1850 to about $4,000 in the year
| $780,
In 1890 the capital invested in the
| United States in various manufactures
exceeded $4,000. 100000, while the wages
| paid the employees of manufactures had
risen from $27S 900, 900 to 81, 900, 00O OOO the
material employed had increased from
$500, 900 to nearly $751; 900 900 and the
value of the product from trif1e over
| 81 .OOO, 0O0,0 900 to nearly $9,40O 600. 900.
r1x of
| ployes of manufacturing establishments
has been steadily and almost regularly
| increasing since 1850. In 1850 the average
| pay of manufacturing hands was $247 a
| year; in 1860, it had risen to $3.50; in 1870,
it had fallen to $243, owing to the finan-
cial depression in 1880, it rose to $346; in
| 1890, it was $429 this includes all classes
| of labor engaged in manufacturing oper-
| ations, the great number of girls, boys
| and unskilled labOrers serving material
ly to reduce the general average.
THAT WAS A QUEER QUERY.
He was a little old-fashioned in his
views, but he could draw a check of the
most delicious magnitude. He happened
| to call one day when she had undergone
a most explosive scene with her bill
paying parent, and she determined to do
it at that time or die.
| ooh. Mr. Munnie-Baggs" she exclaim-
| ed. How glad l am to see you; you are
| just in time to give me your opinion.
! Tell me, do you consider it unwomanly
| to study the financial policy of the coun-
try"
mot at all, Miss Elfrida; on the con-
trary, I think it highly sensible; "a
| man with some-er-money would like
| his wife TO-"
I'm so glad. you think so. I would
perish rather than do anything unwom-
anly. Isis that-can it be a mouse
| those boys are playing with on the side
| walk?"
"Be calm. Miss Elfrida; the windows
are closed and I am here to protect YOU
| How different you are from the Shrek
| that is, the advanced woman of today"
| "Oh, quite so. Why, do you know I
only ride bicycle to please dear papa,
who considers it beneficial to health.
And ride chiefly after dark you know,
| assure you. / seldom ever light my lamp.
| 1t seems so conspicuous"
| You are truly a"
| THANK you. And when 1 wear a. four
| finland tie I am always careful to tie
| it as badly as possible lest it look too
| masculine. l am determined to make a.
firm stand against the iconoclastic spirit
| of the age"
"Ah, if only there were more women
in the world like you, Miss Elfrida."
| Il wish that dear papa held your views.
Mr.. Munnie-Baggs. Why. only this
morning he was throwing out hints as to
my actually earning my own living 7
| just told him, however, that would lust
| die before did anything so unfeminate.
| You are quite right. 1 only wish some
OF the advanced women might know vo,