The gold leaf., 1900-06-21


Engineer, $1.43; fireman, s5 cents;
men, skilled, $1.10I; men, unskilled,
653 cents; women, skilled, 67 cent S:
unskllled, 464 cents; children 32 cents
Number Of employees, S,764, divided
as follows: Men, 1862; women, 10, :
Sl4; children, 5,30S Q.694 boys and
1,6l4 girls; S2.S per cent. of adults
read and write, and 69.4 per cent. of
children read and write Hours of
labor range from 10 to y. The total
capital stock is approximately s2O,-
5OO,O 900, not including the % mills
that are now being constructed.
OF employees in cotton and woolen
mills 81 per cent. favor 10-hour
day, a per cent. pay all wages in
ca2h, IL per cent. report increase in
wages, and 81 per cent. report fina n
cial condition of employees improved.
OF the 176 reports, 137 answer the
question, ..Do you favor compulsory
education" ?" Yes" 10 answer mo, >
and 20 do not answer.
There has been material decrease
in the mum b er of tobacco factories.
Statistics as to railroad employees
are compil ed as follows: There
are in the State $50 station agents,
whose average pay is S1.26 10; ,157
other station men, at 80 cents; 449
engineers, at $2.6St; isO tiremen, at
Sl.O4 2-5; 315 conductors, at $2.O75
712 other trainmen, at 81! cents; 26S
machinists, at s.. %; Ala carpenters,
at $1.61s; l,O14 other shopmen, at
$l.17 4S4 section foremen, at 81. 35 Is; ;
2,s22 other trackmen, at 76 cents; 373
swltch-tag watchmen. at 81 81; 270
telegraph operators, at s1.47 Al; 1,6lO
other employees, at $1.O8 2-3. Max
ing a total of 10, 9S7 railroad employees
in the State
There are 293 newspapers in North
Carolina. Seventy-two use s.patent"
matter, and the composition on Is is
by machine. There are 26 dailies,
1879 weeklies, 10 semiweeklies, 5 BIZ
weeklies. 40 monthlies, 9 semi-month
lies. 6 quartilies, l semi-annual, 5
yearlies. The politics of 139 is Dem
ocratic, l6 Republican, 81 independ-
ent, 1 Populist.
The fishing industry is the leading
one of Eastern North Carolina. The
total number of persons employed
was 12,045. The capital invested
amounted to $1,21S,459. The value
of vessels and their outfits was $151,-
375; of boats, steam flats and pile
drivers, S202,709; Of apparatus for
capture $410,811; of shore property
and working capital, $453, 564. The
yield amounted to 4,234, 257 pounds
of fishery products with value of
81, ,316,O17, an increase of over 12,-
! 600, 900 pounds since 1890. Shad con-
tinues to be the most important
species in North Carolina fisheries,
the value of which was $362,S11. The
yield of this species shows an in
crease in weight OF 3,195, ,O75 pounds,
and in value of $56,796 The next
| species in Importance, the oyster, had
value of $241, ,O99, an advance of
$65,532 since 1890. Alewives had a
value Of $127,O55 after which the
more important species were sque-
| league, worth $95,219; mullet, worth
$50, 1888; striped bass, worth $5S, ,O35 :;
| blue fish, worth $40, 1852; clans, worth
$53. .1O3, an increase of over $40, 900
since 1890.
Two interesting and important
chapters in the Commissioners Re-
port are furnished by the State Geo
logical Survey. One is entitled The
Mining Industry in North Carolina
During lS99," and is written by Mr.
j. H. Pratt, of the Survey. The other
| is ''Water Power as Source Of
Power and the Water Power of North
Caralina, and is the work of Mr.. f.
W. Myers, also Of the Survey.
knicker-'. Wonder why Cholly's so
popular with the girls? He can't
even express himself"
Bocker-''No; but his father can
pay the freiCht''