The Jersey City news., 1902-11-08

firms are manufactured ON the premises.
The output for the year 1901 is not up
to the average, several establishments
having canned no tomatoes because of
their scarcity and high price during the
season. The number of establishments
reporting is forty-six; five less than were
operated during the season of 1900.
These five are vegetable Gamers exclu-
siyely, and their principal product being
tomatoes, work was suspended because,
as before stated, of the limited supply of
that vegetable.
Twelve establishments are operated
by corporations or stock companies and
have 226 stockholders. Thirty-four are
owned by private firms having total
of tifty-eight partners. As compared with
1900, there is an increase of twenty-four
stockholders in the corporations, and a
decrease of eight in the number of part
ners in private firms. The total amount
of capital invested is $S73, 1875; that for
1900 was 1897 ,104-a falling off for 1901
of S25, 1903. The capital invested in
the corporate form of management is
$220, 1876; an average of $975.6O for each
stockholder.
The amount controlled by private
firms is $652, 100 which averages SILL
254 for each partner. The total number
of persons employed is 6,014, of whom
1920 are females. In 1898, GAPS were
employed, 4,033 of the number being fe-
males. The falling off in the total num-
Der of employees for 1901 as compared
with 1900 is Ala The total amount paid
in wages is S267, 1923, or $4,000 less than
in 1900.
INTERESTING STATISTICS.
Twenty-three establishments employ
less than 100 persons; seventeen employ
from 100 to 200; three employ from 200
to 300 and three from 3S5 to 600. Eight
establishments, employing in the aggre-
gate 1,60I persons, worked an average of
63 days at canning goods, and the bal
ance of the year on manufacturing cans.
The time employed at canning and the
wages paid for that work only is given on
table number one, it having been found
impossible to ascertain the number of
the working ferce in these factories that
have been retained through the year on
the production of cans. In the SO other
establishments the range of employment
was from 10 to $50 days, and the aver
age for all, 564 days.
This is much in excess of the time that
could have been consumed in actual can
ming operations, and is, no doubt, due to
The fact that many firms. among theip
the largest ones, have made no distinction
between the time engaged in canning
when the full force was employed, and
that which was spent in the after oper-
ations of marketing the goods, with only
a very small proportion of that number
at work.
DAYS IN OPERATION.
The number of days in operation is
thus made to appear much greater than
it really was. Thirty-fou out of the for
ty-six establishments reporting give a
number of days in operation ranging
from 10 to 60. The average time worked
in these factories, which constitute IA
per cent. of the total number, is 81 days,
which may be accepted as the average
duration of seasons work The earn
ings of the men and women employed
averaged S4453 for each individual, or
S1.43 per day for the time actually work
ed. This is an increase of q cents a
day, as compared with the earnings of
1900. The geographical distribution of
the canneries remain the same as last
year; that is to say, all but a few of the
total number are located in Salem, Cum
berland, Hunterdon and Monmouth
Counties. The comparative Importance
of the industry in these counties is in the
order in which they are named above.
The remaining establishments are found
in Cape May, Gloucester, Mercer, Union
and Ocean Counties.