The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-06
OCCUPATIONS OF AMERICANS.
Interesting Data Furnished by the
Eleventh Census RuIlciin.

Much interesting data about the oc-
cupations of the American people is
given in a delayed bulletin of the elev-
enth census. 1t shows that the total
number of people engaged in occupa-
tions of all kinds in 1890 was 22,735, ,661.
This is an increase of over 100000
working people in decade. This
whole number of working people con-
sists of those ten years old or over and
makes up over SO per cent. of the en-
tire population and almost AZ per cent.
of all persons 10 years old and 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: Agricul-
ture, fisheries and mining, 9,0l3,336 pro-
fessional 944, 1888; domestic and person.
al service, 4,36O577; trade and trans
portation, 3,326,122; manufacturing and
mechanical industries, 5,091 ,293 The
domestic and personal service includes
hotelkeepers, soldiers. sailors and ma
rines. laborers, BARRIERS, detectives, etc.
The first named class is a ten years
gain of over a million. or of almost
10000 600 for a score of years
Considerably more than four-fifths of
country and over one-fourth of the il
literate female population are working.
over 50 per cent. of the worlingmen
are married, over 81 per cent. single,
over per cent. widowed and one
fourth of one per cent. divorced OF
all foreign whites at work here IA per
cent. of the males and 13 per cent. of
the females cannot speak English.
ic ~, al Of nor nan nf
the men employed in domestic and per-
sonal service. who cannot speak Eng
lish,and almost per cent. in the manu-
featuring and mechanical industries.
Manufacturing and mechanics embrace
the largest number of females who
cannot speak English-over per cent.
with domestic service a close second.
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut the males engaged in man
ufacturng and mechanical industries
in 1890 constituted very nearly one-half
of all men in gainful occupations. In
twenty-four states and territories, in
Guiding all in the North Central and
South Atlantic divisions. the males en-
gagged in agriculture, fisheries and min
| ing constituted more than one-half of
| all the working males.
| greater proportion We're found in do
mestc and personal service in a large
| majority of the states and territories.
In manufacturing and mechanics the
| carpenters and joiners, numbering Gil,
| 4S2, make up the greatest element, with
| dressmakers and milliners following
| with 499,690. There are q little over
one million boOkkeepers, clerks and
| statesmen: $40 65S merchants and deal
| ers; 5,2S1 ,667 farmers, planters and over
seers, and 1904, ,06l agricultural laborers:
| ,592 miners, and only a little oven
$4,000 fishermen and oystermen.
| Professors and teachers, aggregatine
347 ,34f, form the most numerous of the
professional classes. Physicians anC
| surgeons. 10i, ,S05, come next: then law.
| yers, 50 $50; clergymen, $500; govern
| ment officials, 1864; musicians, etc.
81, 1856; engineers and surveyors, 43, ,239
artists and art teachers, %, 496; journal
lists, 21,S49, and actors, 9,72S.