Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-03-05
OUR wAoE-woRKERs.
Total Number of People Engaged In Do
equations OF All Kinds.


equations OF All Kinds.
Much interesting data about the oc-
equations of the American people is
given in bulletin of the eleventh CEN
sus just furnished the press.
1t shows that the total number of peo-
pie engaged in occupations of all kinds
in 1890 was 22,735,661. This is an in
crease of more than 100000 working
people in a decade. This whole number
of working people consists of those 10
years old or over, and makes up over
SO per cent. OF the entire population and
almost AT per cent. of all persons 10
years old or over.
OF the whole number of working peo-
pie the females form 17.29 per cent.
Divided by classes, the working peo-
pie of the country are as follows: Ag-
riculture, fisheries, and mining, $685.
1886; professional, 944, 1888; domestic and
personal service, 4,3e0,577; trade and
transportation, 800, 1872; manufacturing
and mechanical industries, 5,091,293
The domestic and personal service in
cludes hotelkeepers, soldiers, sailors
and marines, laborers, BARRIERS, detec-
tives, etc. The first-named class has a
ten years gain of more than 100000,
or of almost 100000 for a score Of
years.
Considerably more than four-fifths OF
the illiterate male population of the
country and over one-fourth of the IL
lterate female population are working
More than so per cent. of the working
men are married, over 81 per cent. sin.
gle, over 3 per cent. widowed, and one.
quarter of per cent. divorced. OF all
foreign whites at work here IA per cent
OF the males and 10 per cent. of the
| females cannot speak English. There
is an element of sh per cent. OF the men
employed in domestic and personal
service who cannot speak English, and
almost per cent. in the manpfactur.
| ing and mechanical industries. Manu-.
featuring and mechanics embrace the
| largest number of females who cannot
speak English, over per cent, with
domestic service close second.
/ In Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut the males engaged in manu-
featuring and mechanical industries In
1890 constituted very nearly one-half OF
all men in gainful occupations. In q
states and territories, including all II
the south central and most of those il
the north central and south Atlantic
divisions, 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 great
er proportion were found In domestic
and personal service in large majority
OF the states and territories.
In manufactures and mechanics thu
carpenters and joiners, numbering Gil,
4s2, make up the greatest element, will
dressmakers and milliners following
with 100000. There are a little owe
100000 bookkeepers, clerks and sales
men, 690,65s merchants and dealers
5,2s1,557 farmers, planters and over
seers, and 3,0O4,061 agricultural labor
ers, $40, 500 miners, and only little owe
10000 fishermen and oystermen.
Professors and teachers, aggregatini
347,344, form the most numerous of tn
professional classes; physicians ant
surgeons, 104,s05, come next; then law
yers, $1,000; clergymen, 5000; govern
ment officials, 70,664; musicians, etc
62,155; engineers and surveyors, 1920
artists and art teachers, 22,496; jour
naiists, 21,s49, and actors, 9,72S.-Chi
caro- Tribune