Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-27
PROSPERITY is PREVAILING
WASHINGTON ENJOYING AN UNUSU-
ALLY GOOD AUTUMN SEASON.
More Money in Circulation. More Husi-
ness Transacted and More
People Employed.

Washington is enjoying an unusually
good early autumn season of business and
industrial activity. and those who cater to
the community's demands for commodities
and necessities are united in the opinion
that trade is particularly good for this
period. 1t is better. indeed than any Oc
tober of past years has known. according
to numerous inquiries made by Star re-
porter and the responses thereto. These
developed that more money is in circulation
apparently than ever before at this time of
the year. as shown by the more extensive
cash transactions and the better returns
from bills and accounts. More substantial
merchandise seems to be favored by pur-
chasers as, of course, higher corresponding
prices, but most important as an indication
IS the fact that banks have been called upon
less for accommodation by business Gus
toners this October than in the same
month in any year in memory.
The army of the unemployed has also
diminished to a very substantial degree.
Such public gathering places as It'll street
and Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street
and Mt Vernon square We're the converg
ing points for hundreds of the idle four
years ago, but now one finds but small
ChaSers, at. OF course, higher corresponding
We're throngs. 1t is confidently believed
by close observers of local labor affairs,
using the term in its comprehensive sense
and including the skilled and the unskilled
that no able-bodied man who is willing to
work and prefers industry to idIeness need
be without employment in the District if
he looks for il.
tnfailing RarOmeters.
The want columns of The Evening Star
unfailng barometers of the conditions
in the world of enterprise when it comes
to the supply and demand of employment
and during the present month they have
told a story Of busy times. 1t would be
needless TO give the records for each day
hence only the three Saturday issues
of October. 1900. will be utilized for pur-
poses of Illustration
In The Evening Star of October 6 there
were printed thirty-cight advertisements of
male help wanted and forty-fve of female
help wanted. The advertisers called for
men AT So per week to advertise and intro
dGce soap and specialties. bOokkeeper ac-
quainted with plumbing supply business
: twenty paperhangers, two painters expe-
Fenced electrician, experienced china pack
ers. engineer for pumps and heating appa-
ratus. husiers TO deliver circulars. travel
ing statesmen for various lines of goods
copper plate printers. tenor and baritone
for oDera parts. seven timers. two regis
tered drug clerks, all-arOund machinst and
engineer.
Female help wanted. besides household
and domestic servants. such as cooks, house
maids and ladies maids included seam
stresses, cOpyist. waist hands dressmak-
ers' helpers and stenographer and type
writer.
The issue of October II contained also
thlTt y-eight male help wanted advertise
ments. including the demands for buffers
watchmakcrs. farmers. soda fountain boys
statesmen. timers, painters, sign writer's a
dental plate worker. twelve coat hands two
teiorS and three bushelmen. slate and tile
ronters. advertising solicitor and ten paper
hangers. There were forty-five advertise
ments for female help. including millinery
apprentices. lady bookkeeper vest hands
saleswOmen familiar with neckwear in
fants wear, jewery. sewing machine oper-
ators and girls to work vests.
Additional Indications.
Thrty-two male help wanted announce
ments in The Star of last Saturday Octo-
Der 20, included those for experienced book
keeper and typewriter. coatma kers ladies'
tailor, bushelman, expert upholsterer. ex-
perienced statesmen in various designated
branches. timers, painters paperhangers
office workers and clerks, craftsman for
patent work. janitor and butler.
Forty female help wanted ads. were for
frst-class waist hands and trimmers, sa les