The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-12
III lItADE
There Are Many Manufactures II
This Country.
0as.HAIf OF the supply IL ImDOFted,
the other Half Made AR
Home-Germany's Bi6
Output.

There are $50 manufactures of toys
IN the United States having total
capital of 81, 900. They turn out in
a year about $3,OO0.OOO worth of toys,
the material used in their construction
being worth about one-half that sum.
The importation of toys from other
countries amounts in year to about
100000, so that it may be said gen
orally that the entire output of foreign
and domestic toys for the American
market reaches the value of about $6,-
100000 year, though the selling price
At retail of such articles is, of course
considerably more.
By the federal census of 1890 there
were in the United States at that time
is, 500 900 persons between the ages of
Ave and seventeen. and taking the ages
of children between five and twelve the
number was about 12,Gto00N This
would give he average cNa fer the
children OF the triteG 80 so
a,utS el.'. year fuT IT, ..a is
la a,,i.,.v Hot impaIta. .jcG
and not uniform IN at s..,,.. he
cate mechanical toys, such as talking
| Tolls, automatic soldiers, steam cars,
boats and animal groups, are imported
| from abroad, and the chief country of
supply is Germany, from which the i'm
oortations in 1897 were So, 900 600 Of the
| $4,000. coo of all countries.
Germany has retained for many years
| l. i ,e I, i,,s,
Joys for the children of every country,
and ii has suffered of late years no
1iminution of the trade. The center Of
the toy interest of Germany is the town
Of Nuremberg, and the chief market of
expectation is the city of Hamburg.
Following Germany as an exporter Of
toys is France with total in year OF
about 5000 900 worth, an almost insig-
nifeant figure when compared with the
export of Germany, but which would
be even smaller but for the fact that
what are known to the toy trade as
Paris dolls" are not duplicated sue
,essfully elsewhere, and in the con
struction of them the French me-
,hanics seem to excel. To small ex-
tent the italian doll makers rival the
French, but the total importation OF
toys in 1897 from all European coun-
tries, Germany and France excepted
was less than 100000, and from coun'
tries not in Europe less than $4,000
The Germans have peculiar knack
for toy making, and another advantage
which they enjoy in the Bavarian anc
Saxon provinces, from which chiefly
soys come, is the cheapness of labor
the artists and designers receiving ST.
to $25 a week each, while the pay OF the
girls who do the mechanical work Of
preparing the toys for market varies
from 25 to so cents a day.
For the cheaper grades of toys, tha
is toys in which the chief article j
wood, the American home supply is ade
1uate. The toy-making business her
gives employment to about 1000 per
sons, of whom nearly one-third are il
he state of New York. Toys are ais
made in Massachusetts, Pennsylvani
, and New Jersey. but very few in Con
lecticut, fewer IN the west, and prac
ically none at oil in the south thoug
there is one toy factory in the state 0
! Kentucky Whatever be the conditio
of the toy business for manufacturing
is one which allows of large profits
D and which entails, sometimes, larg
q osses to the retailer,
AS articles of merchandise, toys ar
. very perishable. They break easily
D the fashion changes in them often
; they arc salable only at certain time
/. in the year, and then only in certai
= grades, and the carrying of "a lare
% stock" ertails obiig tons upon dealt
q which he finds it sometimes difficult
;. meet. rut in holiday season, under
:" po"nal 6claand the percentage
nroft IS uqe. II is argest on foreigl
mace .tcys. fact witch may accour
., for the bic importa on, one-half of ii
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