The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-18
SO PER CENT WORK.
That Proportion of the People Glass
ed as Workers.

Washington, Jan. 18.-Much interest
ing data about the occupations of Amer
lean people is given in bulletin of the
eleventh census just furnished the
press. It shows that the total number
of people engaged in occupations of all
kinds in 1890 was %. 735, 661. This is an
increase of over {, 200, coo working people
in a decade. This whole number of
working people consits of those 10 years
old and over and makes up over SO per
cent of the entire population and almost
Al per cent of all persons 10 years old or
over.
OF the whole number of working peo-
pie, the females form 1922 per cent.
Divided by classes the working people
of the country are as fOllOWS:: AgrI-
culture, fisheries and mining 9,O3l, 1886;
professional 944, 1888; domestic and per-
sonaI service 4,360,577; trade and trans
portation 1876 122; mining and mechanI-
cal industries 5,091, 293
The domestic and personal service in
clude hotel keepers, soldiers, sailors and
marines, laborers, BARRIERS, detectives.
etc. The first named class is a ten
years gain of over million, or of al
most three million for a score of years.
Considera bly, more than four-ffths of
the illiterate male pOpula ton of the
country and over One-fOurth of the il
literate female population are working.
Over SO per cent of the working men
are married, over 81 per cent single, over
per cent widowed and one-quarter of
one per cent divorced. OF all foreign
whites at work here, IA per cent of the
males and 10 per cent of the females
can not speak English. There is an ell
ement of eight and One-half per cent OF
the men employed in domestic and per-
sOnaI service, who cannot speak Eng
Hsh and almost 5 per cent in the manu-
featuring and mechanical industries.
Manufa curing and mechanics embrace
the largest number of females who can
not SPEAK English, over 4 per cent-with
domestic service a close second.
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, the males engaged in man
ufacturing and mechanical industries in
1880 constituted very nearly One-half of
states and territories, including all in
the south, Central and most of those in
the north central and south Atlantic d.
visions, the males engaged in agricul-
ture, fisheries and mining constituted
more than half of all the working
males. OF the females at work by far
the greater proportion were found in
domestic and personal service in a large
majOrities of the states and territories.
In manufactures and mechanics the
carpenters and jOiners numbering 611,-
ASP make up the greatest element, with
dressma<ers and milliners following
with 400 $50. There are little over one
million bookkeepers, clerks, statesmen,
farmers, planters and overseers and g.
004, 061 agricultural 1abOrers, 349, 592 min
erS and only a little over 60, 900 fisher
men and oyster men.
Professors and teachers aggregating
347, 444 form the most numerous of the
professional classes.
Physicians and surgeons 104, sos, come
next. Then lawyers SO, $50; clergymen
IS. 203; government ofTicinals 20, 664; mu-
sicianS, etc, 62,155; engineers and sur
2. 496; journalists 2l,S49 and actors s.
728.