Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
FACTS ABOUT BERLIN.
social Changes Indicated by a Gem
sus of Occupations.

Social Changes tnulCdtSu "
sus of Occupations.
Some Stats tics have just been
relating to the census OF
,counations taken in Berlin in the
middle of last year. A peculiar
feature presented in the general re-
suit is that the number OF persons
actually engaged in professions
trades or productive industry has IN,
creased by more than the total
addition to the population since 1867.
sA-sIune IA, 1895, the population OF
JOG, 945-rn- l-6l5, 517, as against l.
063 were employedsfahe former 100
fession of one kind ornSe or pro
against 474, 953 in 1882. The totaaf
number Of persons dependent on
those in active work was 7S9, 1O6 in
1895, as compared with 58I, 1872 in
1882 Independently of these there
were respectively 65, 285 of no fixed
occupation in 1895, and AZ, 1877 in
1852. The number of persons in
domestic service in the German cap
itaI had very slightly increased in
the IA years, having risen from S.
DOB to no more than 81, 063. The
changes which have been brought
about during this interval in the
numbers employed and the numbers
dependent are shown best by the
percentages of the population SO
classified at the two periods. Thus,
in 1895, of every 100 inhabitants of
the capital, 1888 we-s engaged in
trades or professjcss, as against
41.05 in 1882. N,domestic service
class was represented at the two
periods BY 3.73 and sol per cent
respectively, and the class without
occupations by A04 and 3.G5. An
other curious fact which is brought
out by the results is that the num-
Der Of persons engaged in commerce
and traffic has increased more rapid
ly than those whose calling concerns
productive sindustry and manufac-
lures generally In 1895 there were
404, 48l employed in productive in
dustry, as compared with 253, 292 in
1882, while in commerce aud traffic
the numbers Of the two periods we're
l80,9!6 and 40, 544 respectively. In
other words, in 1882 there were 80. rs
per cent. pursuing productive in
dustries, whereas in 1895 thero were
only 81. So per cent. On the other
hand, the relative numbers engaged
in commerce and traffic rose from
q. SO per cent. in 1882 TO 20. 81 iii
1895.
1t is only in textile industries and
certain branches of art industry
that the figures show slight de-
crease. In metallic manufactures,
on the contrary, there has been a
very large increase--namely, from
20, 875 in 1882 to As, 724 in 1895. In
the man ufacture of machinery, the
numbers employed rose from 81, ZIG
to 1885; in the building trades,
from 80, 228 to 57,277; in printing
and allied trades, from 9,723 to IA,
6e3; in traffic and the distribution
of goods, from %, 825 to 30, 295. In
chemical industries the persons oc- !
cupied were nearly doubled in num-
Der, having increased from 2,343 to
1910, while in the insurance depart
ment there was rise from 1,4l0 to
2,706. Persons engaged in res
taurants and in places OF like ma
ture more than doubled in the IA
years, the numbers being 1906 and
1920, respectively, The lowest
class of laborers show an increase
from 22,2l4 to 81, 512 Persons be-
longing to the army or to th9 civil
service, together with those who are
independent, rose from 80, III to
72, 848, while those who were in re-
ceipt OF income from house property
or shares show an augmentation
from AZ, 1877 to 1885 1t may be
added that the number of persons
engaged in productive industry in
the rapidly rising suburb of Char
lottenburg increased from 50,046 in
1882 to l24, 047 in 1895, while those
employed in traffic and commerce in
the same center rose from 1000 to
&c. ia. Il london Times.