The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22
AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY
Figures From the Census Bulletin on
the Trade.
MUCH OF THE WORK is DONE AT HOME
There is Not Town Within 80 Miles Of Troy
Where Portion Of the Female Popu-
Iaticn is Not Engaged in Some
Part Of the Manufacture.

A short while ago more than half of
the necessary capital was subscribed to
establish collar and cuff factory in
Raleigh The gentlemen at the head of
the movement had made arrangements
to put an expert man from Troy, New
York, in charge of the practical opera
tions of the concern. After raising more
than half of the money necessary, the
project seems to have gone into innocu-
Gus desuetude. Cannot the progressive
men in Raleigh raise the necessary sum
and put this important industry in opera
tion this fall?
In connection with the plan of estab
fishing such a factory in Raleigh, the
Census Bulletin on the Collar and
Cuff Trade has special interest.
The report states that the statistics
included in the report were collected, as
in previous censuses, upon the schedule
used for the general statistics of manu-
features, but in view of the compare
tive Importance of this industry it was
decided to supplement the canvass made
by the enumeratorS and special agents,
and to give the industry more detailed
treatment than is given to manufactur-
ing industries in general, or than this
industry has received heretofore. The
figures given in the report concern es-
Establishments that manufacture collars
and cuffs primarily, and do not include
the returns for establishments which
manufacture collars and cuffs in cOnnec-
tion with the manufacture of shirts. The
reports show a capital of SO, ,S17 in
vested in the manufacture of collars and
cuffs in the 81 establishments in the Uni
ted States. This sum represents the
value of land buildings, machinery, tools
and implements and the live capital
utilized but does not include the capital
stock Of any of the manufacturing cor
porations engaged in this industry.
FEATURES OF THE INDUSTRY.
The value of the products is returned
at SIS, 769, 1872, to produce which involved
an outlay of $5S3,OS7 for salaries of Off
Gals, clerks, ETC.. IS, 1863 for wages;
$1,12S,SS7 for miscellaneous expenses, in
Guiding rent, taxes, ETC., and $6,011 ,456
for materials used, mill supplies, freight
and fuel. The census schedule takes no
cognizance of the cost of selling manu-
featured articles, or of interest on CAPT
tai invested, or of the losses incurred
in the business, or of depreciation of
plant. The value of the product given
is the value as obtained or fixed at the
factory. The total number of dozens Cx
shirts reported represents only such as
were manufactured in connection with
the collar and cuff industry The follow
ing presents the principal features of
the industry as returned for 1900
- III sc1,,,
$10,216,317; salaried officials, clerks, etc.
sos; salaries, $3.50, 0S7; wage earners, H.
115; total wages, IS, 65S 1863; men, 16 years
and over, 1891; wages, 81 ,115, 6S5; women
16 years and over, 14,543; wages, $4,515,-
$50; children under Is years, ISL; wages,
$27,42S; miscellaneous expenses, SLIPS
SS7; cost of materials used, $6,011, $685.
value of products, SIS, 1912.
ITS COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.
The report further states that the in
dustry became of commercial Importance
some years previous to 1850, and the
growth of the number of establishments
is shown by table in which there are
recorded 81 concerns, 81 of which are
in New York State. two in Pennsylvania
and one in Vermont. There is but one
large establishment outside the State of
New York. The following shows the
number of establishments and the en-
ployes accredited to them:
Number of factories employing under
five persons, s. to 20, s; q to so, H.
81 to 100. Z; 101 to $50, s. 251 to 500. Z
sol to 1000, g. over 1000, 5.
OF the total number of establishments,
%, or 500 per cent were operated by
firms or limited partnerships 90, or 35.1
per cent. were conducted by individuals,
and eight, or IA per cent, were operated
by Incorporated companies.
The total capital of $10,216.317, which
is represented by the industry, is divid-
ed as follows:
BulIdlngS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. L. 13, 40
Machinery, tools and implements 964, 1868
Cash and sundrieS ............. 1885, ACT
WORK DONE AT HOME.
Regarding work done at the homes of
collar workers the report contains the
following: The making by homeworkers
of some part of the collar or cuff is a
peculiar and interesting phase of the
manufacture. Since the inception of the